Dr. Brian J

About

Brian lives on the Westside of Santa Cruz with his wife and two young boys. He regularly surfs up and down the north coast and loves to play in the ocean, whether here in Santa Cruz, Mexico/Baja or Hawaii. Brian also plays soccer with a local team (Grasshoppers) and Ultimate Frisbee. He came here in late 1992 to UCSC where he captained the mens Ultimate team (1996) and majored in Linguistics. Languages are still a major hobby, having studied Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and currently Farsi (his wife is Persian). His interest in Rolfing® came after suffering a back injury while river rafting (Brian was a river guide on the Tuolomne and Merced Rivers from 1994-1999). Rolfing® returned him to full health.Brian is the owner and founder of Midline Rolfing and Integrative Bodywork. He has been practicing rehabilitation bodywork since 2001, working with distance runners and triathletes in and around the Palo Alto/Stanford area with SMI. After moving to Santa Cruz, he began working with Rod and Murray Flemming in their PT clinic working with post surgery and injury recovery clients. In 2004 Brian completed his Rolfing® certification to further expand his ability to work with pain, dysfunction and structural issues. He opened the Midline School of Integrated Bodywork, a state certified school, in an effort to teach other therapists how to effectively treat pain, injury and dysfunction. For the last 11 years, this has been his focus - to effectively fix the problems his clients are dealing with.