What do we truly desire in life?
When I began this work 25 years ago, I wasn’t yet asking that question in those terms. My focus was practical and immediate: helping people develop a different relationship with their bodies. I had discovered Rolfing® Structural Integration and saw firsthand how profoundly it could reduce pain, restore movement, and create physical ease.
Embedded within that work, however, was a question first articulated by Ida Rolf herself:
If you change the body, would people live differently?
At the time, I didn’t presume to answer that question. I was simply curious. I had little formal experience in personal development or human evolution. What I did have was proximity—to bodies changing, nervous systems reorganizing, and people quietly recalibrating their sense of themselves in gravity. I wanted to see what actually happened over time.
As the years went on, patterns emerged.
For some clients, physical bodywork alone catalyzed deep shifts. Long-held emotional reactions softened. Mental fog lifted. Relationships and life circumstances changed without any explicit coaching or cognitive effort. For others, something different happened. Their bodies felt dramatically better—more open, more organized, more alive—yet their lives remained largely unchanged. Familiar stress patterns, habitual reactions, and entrenched ways of living persisted.
These experiences clarified something essential:
While bodywork is extraordinarily powerful, it does not automatically translate into global life change for everyone.
Hands-on work reliably alters structure, movement, and internal state. It changes how the nervous system experiences support, orientation, and safety. What it does not always address on its own is how a person makes meaning, organizes perception, or chooses action once the body has changed.
That distinction feels increasingly important today.
We live in a time of accelerated change and systemic instability. Chronic stress, cognitive overload, and decision fatigue have become ordinary conditions of life. Twenty-five years ago, personal development was often seen as optional—an enhancement for those seeking growth or healing from obvious wounds. Today, inner development has become essential for navigating complexity, responsibility, and uncertainty.
We are all being asked—whether we realize it or not—to get clear on who we are as this new world takes shape.
Bodywork can be a foundational entry point into that clarity. By releasing physical patterns from the past—biomechanically, neurologically, and energetically—it allows us to move differently, perceive ourselves differently, and inhabit a more settled internal state. The brain receives new information from a body that is less defended, more supported by gravity, and capable of fuller expression.
In that state, learning becomes possible again.
But learning does not happen automatically. It requires attention, inquiry, and relationship.
When physical change is paired with conscious inquiry—when a person is supported in noticing how perception, assumptions, and internal narratives shift alongside the body—something deeper occurs. Old emotional and behavioral patterns become visible rather than automatic. Perspective widens. Choice re-enters where compulsion once lived.
This is the terrain that Argonetics addresses.
What Is an Argonetics Session?
Argonetics is an integrative process that combines precise, low-force hands-on bodywork with guided inquiry, embodied awareness, and partnership. The work attends not only to how the body is organized, but to how a person is living inside that organization.
A session may include:
- Structural and soft-tissue work to restore ease, support, and coherence
- Attention to nervous system state and perceptual shifts
- Inquiry that helps surface habitual patterns of thought, emotion, and action
- Space to clarify values, orientation, and choice
The aim is not only self-improvement or optimization. It is clarity—clarity about what is actually happening internally, clarity about what matters, and clarity about how to respond rather than react.
As awareness deepens, behavior changes naturally. Not through force, but through alignment.
Lasting change unfolds incrementally, through small, repeated choices made from a different internal position. Over time, those choices reshape relationships, work, health, and how one meets uncertainty itself.
When perception changes, we see differently.
When we see differently, we feel differently.
When we feel differently, we choose differently.
And through those choices, we actively shape our lives.
The process simplifies as it deepens. Less internal friction. Fewer unnecessary battles. Greater confidence rooted not in control, but in self-trust. From that place, effectiveness and fulfillment arise as byproducts rather than goals.
The world is changing. We are changing.
The question Ida Rolf posed remains alive.
The work now is meeting it consciously—at the intersection of body, perception, and choice—and discovering who we are becoming as we do.
Dr. Jason Rabineau 