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. Yelp Fans-Yelp uses a computerized algorithmic method to post customer reviews, which means not all of our client reviews stay current on their site, so keep reading to see all of our reviews.

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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Anna B.
San Francisco, CA

“After a week of ridiculous work hours, I felt like someone had sucked all the air out of my chest – I felt like a collapsed balloon. And that is not a good feeling.

I was also about to leave for a long- needed vacation – but the thought of getting on a plane feeling like I was made of crushed rib bones was entirely unappealing.

Enter Jenny. I don’t quite know how it all works, but from an end-user experience, it was like she found specific points on my body that, when addressed (sometimes gently, sometimes more forcefully, but never painfully), found space. Found Space – it was like she was helping my muscles find the permission they needed to open.

After a bit more than an hour on her table, I was standing straighter, breathing more openly, and – weird as it may sound – it was more effort for my body to try to make the pain than it was just to relax.

I’ve done a lot of body work, but this was my first Rolfing experience (recommended by a friend). I’m curious to try more when my schedule allows.”

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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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Dear Soken!
Jennifer is amazing.  She walked us through using muscles over which I honestly didn’t know I had conscious control.  All in the upper and middle back, just where I need it.  Thank you for the opportunity.
LW, San Francisco

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Once you have gone through the 10 series of Rolfing when you need work you really know that your body needs work.

I feel so fortunate that I got post 10 [work] from Jenny.  I chose to get 3 sessions to address some troublesome spots in my right arm, rib cage, and in my low back. After the first session the pain and tightness in my right arm and rib cage was completely gone and my lower back was also greatly improved.  By the 3rd session I was feeling “like new” again.  My right arm, my working arm was pain free and my lower back was pain free.  All of which allowed me to move forward and progress in my life and in my work

…Jenny has a special skill that allows her to communicate with your body and find out just where the body needs her skills most.  She is able to be specific in her work, therefore being able to do work exactly where work is needed…  Her particular set of skills has really given me renewed vitality in my body.

Thanks Jenny… In gratitude for your work.

Harriet Olmstead
Phoenix, AZ

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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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The class was great!  I learned a lot!  Having back issues, I was hesitant to enter into the yoga world, but after doing so with Jennifer’s class, I feel confident to continue, and deepen my explorations of yoga.  Jennifer was very observant, wonderful with answering questions and giving constructive feedback, and made sure that her students “got it” before moving onward each class.  The structure of the class and the flow of the class-series was good too, I would go to each class intrigued and excited to learn.  I appreciate Jennifer, Soken, and all those at Bodhi Heart Rolfing for making it available.

-MM, San Francisco

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Peter R.
Berkelely, CA

“I had my first session of a ten-series last week with Jenny. It was fantastic! I felt reborn in my body afterwards. I quickly became more aware of where my body was holding tension, especially where left and right sides were asymmetrical, especially around the shoulders.

She’d work out blocks in one area and the tension would move. It was fascinating – like pieces in a puzzle – you put two in and one comes out. She’d follow the sensation using varying degrees of pressure and at other times do a sort of energetic scan a few inches from my body to find the next point of contact.

By the end of the session, the pieces fell into place. My shoulders, arms, and legs felt so much more free and “normal” than they did at the start (surprising, because I didn’t know how contracted they were). Actually, I’m still feeling more freedom in my body a week later.

The session as a whole felt very well-held. Jenny has an unwavering presence. Humble, warm, and deeply powerful… hard to describe in words. I left with a relaxed and freer body and more awareness of my body and its holding patterns. Looking forward to my next session!”

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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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Jennifer really paid attention to everyone’s different yoga challenges and explained the physicality of the body as it relates to the yoga poses in detail which made a deeper level of understanding possible. It helped me in overcoming weaknesses in my body and in my  yoga practice that I never really could understand before.

NH, San Francisco

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I gained greater flexibility, improved my posture, and the discomfort in my hips was lessened… Her [Jenny's] manner was one of being very sensitive, caring and concerned for my well-being… I would repeat the whole [ten series] program with her…

RS
Boulder, CO

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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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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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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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