ABOUT
Certified Rolfer & Licensed Massage Therapist,
Napa Valley CA
In 2014, as a newly trained massage practitioner, studying for a kinesiology degree, I read about Rolfing® and how transformative it had been for highly trained athletes. I asked around the community of massage therapists and bodyworkers, and found that people only thought about Rolfing as this excruciatingly painful modality that requires a pleasure for pain…
Though this may have been culturally apt for the times to fit the age old mantra of “no pain, no gain”, my curiosity led me to seek a practitioner in my area to see what the commotion was all about. Although it felt diiferent from traditional bodywork, my experience was one I could not compare to any massage I’ve ever had. I felt more noticable shifts in my body and left feeling way more fluiudity in my movement, and re-aligned…
After having gone through my ten series and many post ten advanced Rolfing® sessions, I’ve noticed a shift into how I feel in my body. I now have a sense of ease in movement and a striving towards wholeness through my own embodiment. I feel doing what I do is a wonderful gift. As a Rolfing® practitioner, my curiosity and interest to learn keeps growing as I learn greatly from each client, wherever they are on their path…
MISSION
Provide more options for physical health and wellbeing. By actively supporting individuals to achieve a naturally vertical alignment of the whole body connection using the Rolfing Structural Integration system. I help my clients to realign and reorient themselves within the field of gravity. My goal is to help you feel better, increase your breathing capacity, bring more freedom in your movement, and assist you conserving your energy.
VALUES
AUTHENTICITY: To acknowledge the fact that everyone’s experience is unique. Although we may experience the same life events, our experience is individual.
SELF-ACTUALIZATION: The realization of one’s highest potential. The drive to achieve one’s goals, and to be fulfilled in life.
LOVE: One word with many meanings, yet is transcendent and powerful.
CURIOSITY: There are no answers without questions. Through inquiry we can come to know each other better, and ourselves more.
LAUGHTER: Totally medicinal!
ADVENTURE: Life is about the journey, not the destination. May the challenges we face be the sand that brings forth the pearl.
VERTICAL PATH ROLFING
Jordan Shaffer received his Rolfing Certification at the end of 2022, and lives in Napa California. In addition to being a Rolfing® practitioner, Jordan is a Certified California Massage Therapist with more than a decade of experience in various bodywork modalities including Myofascial Release, Manual Lymphatic Drainage, Esalen® Deep Bodywork, and many others.
Today people are realizing they have options to live without misalignment and discomfort from chronic stress. At Vertical Path Rolfing, the aim is to help individuals build a deeper sense of their embodied Self, bringing more awareness to their inner landscape and help in awaking a better relationship to the gravitational field.