Briah Anson
Certified Advanced Rolfer®
Certified Rolf Movement® Practitioner
A lifetime of pursuing passions and pioneering this healing work
Throughout Briah Anson’s life she has been a pioneer. Her key strength is her breadth of experience with integrated care modalities coupled with her commitment to enriching every client, person or animal with whom she works.
This calling began in Costa Rica where Briah grew up pursuing and becoming a highly trained athlete, ballet dancer, and nationally competitive swimmer, tennis player, and golfer (four-time Junior National Golf Champion of Costa Rica). At age seventeen, she set the Costa Rican women’s Olympic javelin record.
Briah received her BA degree from Oakland University and an MA in Counseling and College Student Personnel from Penn State University. She was a member of the Dean of Students’ staff at Penn State University, Colorado College, and the University of Minnesota, Morris.
Today, Briah is a Certified Advanced Rolfer® and a Certified Rolf Movement® Practitioner with over forty years of experience. She is the author of Rolfing®: Stories of Personal Empowerment (1998) and Animal Healing: The Power of Rolfing® Structural Integration (2011), as well as the producer of a children’s video, Growing Right with Rolfing® (1996).
Continuing her evolution as a healer, Briah completed her training and certification in 2001 as a practitioner of Frequencies of Brilliance- a form of energetic body work- with Christine Day. Briah has dedicated herself to the exploration and interface of how Rolfing and Frequencies of Brilliance alter both the structure of her clients as well as their emerging consciousness. To date, she has received over twenty years of Frequencies of Brilliance training.
Further adding to her holistic approach to Rolfing, Briah has completed 750 hours of training at the Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy in Minnesota. This homeopathic training deeply informs her Rolfing practice. More recently, Briah has incorporated the Erchonia® Violet and Red Laser (EVRL) into her healing work. The EVRL uses Cold Laser Therapy which helps with cell tissue regeneration and is a very effective healing modality in combination with the work of Rolfing SI.
Briah is a member of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® and the International Association of Structural Integration®.
What is Rolfing?
Rolfing is a two-way process for reorganizing and integrating the human body
Ida P. Rolf, PhD
(1896-1979)
Biochemist Ida P. Rolf, a 1916 Barnard graduate, was a 20th-century wellness thinker who developed a holistic system of soft-tissue manipulation and movement education known as “Rolfing,” which is still practiced around the world today. After Barnard, Rolf pursued a Ph.D. in biological chemistry at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and secured a position researching organic chemistry at the Rockefeller Institute in New York.
Rolf’s prolific research and publishing took her to work and study biochemistry in Paris, mathematics and physics in Zurich, and homeopathy in Geneva. Upon her return to the U.S., she explored several different healing techniques — such as osteopathy, chiropractic medicine, and yoga, the Alexander Technique, and more — and began teaching her ideas on the concept of structural integration in the 1940s.
Structural integration, also known as Rolfing, grew out of Rolf’s longtime practices in wellness and holistic health. Rolf died in 1979, but she left a long legacy in alternative medicine. The Dr. Ida Rolf Institute in Colorado continues to train practitioners, called “Rolfers,” in her system. Today, according to the Rolf Research Foundation, structural integration has more than 4,000 practitioners and is taught at 17 schools around the world.
Biography by https://barnard.edu/news/you-oughta-know-ida-p-rolf-class-1916
