Testimonials
See what our clients have to say about Bodhi Heart Rolfing in their reviews and comments below, and see how deeply this work has affected their lives.
Dear Soken, Just a big THANK YOU! for the care and miracles you so generously and brilliantly gave me this past year. My hip is well and I’m moving well. I am always very aware that I would not be enjoying the way I can move pain-free if it wasn’t for you. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you and am truly grateful that I found you when I did.
H.B., Mill Valley, CA.
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My last session with Soken was much more effective for my knee than were four sessions of traditional physical therapy.
I’ll be in touch.
DB, San Francisco
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Please extend my gratitude to Soken.
I am really feeling whole again after the 2 sessions last week.
I can’t begin to thank him enough.
Eternally grateful,
SB, San Francisco
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“I LOVED my appt with Soken yesterday! I felt like I was plugged back into myself, and like I was walking straight again. He is a true healer.”
R.A., San Francisco, CA
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Soken did a miracle on me. He is amazing! My chest pain was better after one session w/ him. Now he is helping w/ my stomach. It is amazing!! I also absolutely LOVED the meditation the other night. The words from the reading really, really spoke to me. That is some good nourishment for the soul. Talk to you soon.
HW, San Francisco
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His [Soken's] work is incredible, I must say. Even after one session, I don’t really feel like myself anymore… In a good way.
Thank you!!
CD, San Francisco
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I went for a walk tonight, and I did not want to stop walking. It was a slightly odd pleasant feeling that the motion of walking felt good. I wanted to take larger strides. It’s like something that didn’t get used for a while felt like it was being used. Very cool. Just thought I would let you know that what you [Soken] are doing is making me feel good :-)
JF, San Francisco
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I could not believe how energized and recharged I was after my first session with you [Soken]. It was an AMAZING experience! I was focused and alert the remainder of the day and into the evening. I still can’t believe I’ve never heard of this technique until now. I noticed this helped with my yoga practice Sunday morning. Again, many thanks for meeting me Saturday. See you this weekend again.
DY, San Francisco
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I hope you are well-I just wanted to share, you [Soken] have an amazing way with helping and healing others-I felt it from the day I met you and can still feel it here in Kenya!!
Thank you!
KC, Kenya Africa
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My headache ended approximately Friday evening. I have been feeling really good physically. I feel like the session [with Soken] was pretty powerful. I’m not really sure how to describe it but I feel like I am somehow digesting and absorbing some internal shifts. I taught a yoga class on Saturday and it was my most positive experience so far. I was able to remain grounded in my body and stay out of my head and let the teaching come through me. It feels exactly right for this time. Thanks again.
Namaste,
SD, San Francisoco, CA
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Melissa Pritchard
Author and Professor of English
Arizona State University
“I knew little about Rolfing and had no idea what to expect.
The benefits I immediately began to receive were nothing short of revolutionary. I left each session with a new awareness of my body, of shifts in the way I carried myself, walked and generally felt. As the sessions progressed, I literally began to feel taller, more integrated, balanced, buoyant, graceful and as a result, much more peaceful and serene in how I approached daily life. It is hard to describe other than to say I felt as if I were a different body altogether, with a naturally joyful sense of the well-being I had once possessed as a child.
I have long been a student and practitioner of meditation, Hatha yoga, dance, massage, Reiki, alternate healing methods including the Alexander technique, but the work I did with Soken was new – it was subtle, profound and marvelously freeing.
I have always had one shoulder higher than the other, and had always assumed it was from carrying heavy books as a student, and my children as a mother. Soken was the first to tell me I had a mild scoliosis of the spine, and in the weeks I worked with him, I watched, as if seeing a miracle, as my shoulders leveled and became even.
My series of Rolfing sessions with Soken were an unforgettably positive healing experience. He knew how to communicate with the innate intelligence of the body, with its held memories and areas of wounding. I left each session with a sense of awe at the work he did and the gracious, respectful way in which he did it. I understood I was experiencing healing as much on the spiritual dimension as well as on the physical plane.”
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Samantha Reich
Massage Therapist
Physical Trainer at Synergy Fitness
San Francisco, CA
“My experience with Rolfing started about a month ago with Soken. It came at the perfect time. I was in need of physical and emotional release. I had had four knee surgeries in four years and after each surgery my knee had never truly healed. I felt I had something keeping me from healing, and from being able to move on from the memory and emotional connection associated with the injury.
After my first session with Soken, I felt relieved in a way that I had never felt before.
I am a massage therapist and have had hundreds of massages, but Soken’s work is unique in that it really works from the inside-out instead of the more traditional massages which address muscular imbalances from the outside-in.
I have been seeing Soken for over a month now, and I have honestly never felt better, more balanced or at peace with myself. Through his work, I have found a way to break free from old negative feelings about my knee—the pain associated with it, the memories of the actual injury—and let it all go. I have not felt this good since the injury occurred over five years ago.
Soken has a true gift for healing and helping people move emotional and physical obstacles out of their bodies and for helping to clear the mind. His work is subtle yet so powerful that I recommend him to all of my own massage clients as a complement to their health and spiritual growth.”
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Reviewed on Yelp! San Francisco, CA
I accept rather easily the clearly mechanical means of making adjustments: in this case, to rib alignment. That you were able to help me follow the subtle movements of the body to satisfactory resolution of a compromised rib really blew me away. It did, in fact, require me to take a leap of faith. That I have been able to replicate this approach on my own has really had an effect on me: it has altered my approach to massage.
So, again, thanks for helping me see this option to working with the person on my table.”
Kyle Mathews
San Francisco, CA
“Soken Paul Graf’s Work is life-changing.
A session with him is like going through a shamanic carwash that sprays soap suds and rainbows.
It will make you well in spite of yourself.
For who causes distress except the tired-out, embittered person you thought you were?
Whether your complaint is physical, emotional, psychological, mental, karmic or all of the above, Soken will straighten the score: you are beautiful, unstoppable and worthy of all joy.”
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Deva Theone Graf
San Francisco, CA
“Working with Soken really is an unforgettable healing experience.
He has helped my body move through physical pain-(sciatica and nerve pain) raw fatigue, emotional baggage and even PMS. When he touches my body, without any hesitation he finds the pain, the trauma, the hurt and gently it all starts to release.
I have had a lot of body work throughout my entire life. I value this kind of work a great deal. I mention this only because have a lot of experience in this department and Soken’s work is very unique and very effective. I find that he can do more in one session than most healers can do in five.
Recently, I saw him for very painful nerve inflammation. The nerve was causing chronic pain in my neck all the way down my arm into my hand. After ten minutes of work a mild but annoying headache cleared up and then the pain completely disappeared and the pain hasn’t come back.
The thing about Soken’s work is that it is both structural and anatomical like “old school” Rolfing and chiropractics and it is light and energetic like a lot of newer healing modalities. You just don’t find that combination out there.”
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