Continuing Education Workshops for Rolfing^® Practitioners

International
Australia
Brazil
Europe
Japan

Rolf graduates can now take part in trainings
offered at The Guild. View their website.

Audrey McCann at aubbicus@yahoo.com

Amy Parent James at bigislandrolfing@gmail.com or (808) 345-7854

Description:
The Advanced Training teaches ways to work beyond established protocols and to design sessions to meet individual clients´ needs. Students will reinforce and deepen their basic structural integration skills through exploration of recent developments in our work and refinement of touch.

Sally´s Advanced Training will emphasize:

• Principle-based decision-making.
• An integrated and holistic approach to the mobilization of major articulations within the Rolfing context.
• Evaluation of the whole person through the structural, geometric, functional, psychobiological and energetic taxonomies.
• A broad spectrum of touching, including indirect and energetic techniques, that permits more ease and greater precision.

Sally Klemm has practiced Rolfing® Structural Integration and craniosacral work in Hawaii since 1986. Because Sally values each student´s unique inner learning style, her students gain self-knowledge as well as technical knowledge, and emerge as more efficient, effective and empowered practitioners.

Gael Ohlgren trained with Ida Rolf in 1969. In her practice, Gael engages the client in her creative weaving of functional insights into the fabric of structural change.

Lael Keen joined the Rolf Institute Faculty in 1995. Lael seeks to help clients to address the patterns that limit not only their bodies, but their entire beings.

Phase I: Sun, May 23 - Tues, May 25, 2010 (3 days)
Phase II: Fri, September 17 - Mon, September 20, 2010 (4 days)
Phase III: Fri, April 15 - Mon, April 18, 2011 (4 days)
Phase IV: Fri, September 16 - Sun/Mon, September 18/19, 2011 (3 or 4 days, TBD)

11 Rolf Institute Elective Credits
3 Rolf Institute Cranial Sacral Credits
98 CEUs

For questions about the class and to register: Rebecca Lisak, 267.235.4759, rolfmovement@gmail.com

For information about Rehoboth Beach: Nick Gurnas,  (302) 684- 0 316 rolferde@mac.com

Description:

This certification program will be conducted in 4 phases of 3 and 4 day classes. Students will leave with an intimate understanding of the cranial rhythm and tides. Certification from The Colorado Cranial Institute will be awarded upon completion.

This program will include:

• How to decompress the cranial suture to release tension and offer balance to the cranial membranes
• Feeling the cerebral spinal fluid around the brain and its movement throughout the body
• How to influence the cranial and sacral nerves
• Palpating the bones and membranes of the cranium
• Feeling the movement of the brain, the spinal cord, the sacrum and the ventricles of the brain
• A wide variety of lifts/releases and over 15 fluid techniques
• How to treat various injuries and pathologies, such as migraines, TMJ syndrome, trigeminal neuralgia, whiplash and tinnitus

It is assumed that people attending class intend to complete the entire certification training. It may be possible, space permitting, to take just one phase. However, the class size will be kept small. Please clearly articulate if you do not plan to complete the entire program, so priority can be given to those who wish to earn certification.

September 10,11, 12, 2010 / 9AM– 6PM.

3 Manipulation / 21 CEUs

Registration: Jim Jones, Director of Education, jjones@rolf.org , (303-449-5903 x105). For information regarding workshop and housing contact Aaron Bjorndal (780 984-7390) bjornhawk@yahoo.com or Valerie Berg , vberg03@comcast.net (505-341-1167.

Description:

This class will simplify the manipulative and functional work we can do with anyone of any age who is losing the mobiility and contra lateral movement in walking that leads to a feeling and look of aging.

The class will cover the analysis, anatomy, manipulation and functional piece of 3 basic patterns that break down in our vertical moving bodies. The feet, the pelvis and the cervico-thoracic juncture will be integrated into a 3 series that can help prevent an aging posture, function and feeling. No matter what a person's age, many of our clients come in with an "aged" look and headed for worse. This creates a straightforward and efficient way to work with loss of mobility and movement in general for everyone. Students will leave with a deeper understanding of the integration and relationship of the lordoses , movement patterns and fascial restrictions that limit our expression and activity.Youth is mobility. Growing old is not set in stone.

Valerie Berg has been a certified Rolfer since 1988. She is also a Rolf Movement Practitioner, Faculty Member since 2003. Her work is influenced by Hubert Godard, Yoga and Dance.

September 19-21, 2010 9:00 AM--5:30 PM

3 Movement Credits

Rober Rex, e-mail--robert_rex@gmavt.net, (802) 453-3895

Description:

The pelvic girdle is a structure rich in connections and functions that covers the territory between the psoas origin and the feet. An investigation of the pelvic girdle in movement is necessarily an investigation into the dynamics of walking and support, at many levels.

In this workshop the student will learn to:

• recognize how the client’s orienting preferences affect all the joints in the lower limb and through functional interventions to affect these orienting preferences.
  
• See and correct imbalanced patterns of movement in the arches of the feet.
  
• Promote integrated functioning through the “toe hinge” ankle, knee and hip joints.
  
• How to help the client functionally balance the relationship of hamstrings and quadriceps.
  
• Explore how the movement of walking activates the joints and connective tissues in the lower limbs and how to diagnose and optimize this movement.

September 24 - 26, 2010, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

3 cranial credits or 3 manipulation credits

www.rolfingcenter.com/students-ce

Additional info: Thomas Walker rolfingcenter@mac.com

Description:

The purpose of this 3-day workshop  is:

1) To develop the listening and contact skills needed to perceive the various rhythms of
inherent motion.

2) To apply this perception to a broad range of techniques commonly used in Structural Integration practice. 

3) With these techniques you can:
- Palpate inherent motion as force of self-organizing and wholeness.
- enhance integration
- work more efficiently and effectively with less effort
- resolve layers of dysfunction and disorganization within bones and in the ligamentous bed
-learn to bring the body’s resources to injured tissue allowing fascial interventions to be easier and longer lasting

The class is open to all Structural Integration practitioners, fulfills the cranial requirement (3 credits) for the Rolf Institute's Advanced Training and 24 hours of Category 2 requirements for IASI continuing education.

Thomas Walker has been a certified Rolfer for 23 years and is a member of the Rolf Institute faculty. He has used Craniosacral therapy in his Rolfing practice since 1993 and has more than 800 hours of training in Biodynamic craniosacral therapy. Because Structural Integration usually works with segments first to then integrate the whole, Thomas initially found it difficult to integrate the wholeness first perspective of crainiosacral training into the Rolfing paradigm. Discovering biodynamics taught him that wholeness is expressed in the body through inherent motion. By orienting toward wholeness the body’s segments become able to integrate in an easier, less forceful way. He now weaves crainiosacral perspectives into all of his Rolfing teaching. One of his clients, an osteopath who was initially a Rolfer, has stated that, “If I had learned how to Rolf like this, I never would have become and osteopath.”

October 15-17, 2010, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

3 RISI Cranial credits / 24 CEUs

www.rolfingcenter.com/ce

Additional info: Thomas Walker rolfingcenter@mac.com

Description:

The purpose of this 3-day workshop  is:

1) To develop the listening and contact skills needed to perceive the various rhythms of
inherent motion.

2) To apply this perception to a broad range of techniques commonly used in Structural Integration practice. 

3) With these techniques you can:
- Palpate inherent motion as force of self-organizing and wholeness.
- enhance integration
- work more efficiently and effectively with less effort
- resolve layers of dysfunction and disorganization within bones and in the ligamentous bed
-learn to bring the body’s resources to injured tissue allowing fascial interventions to be easier and longer lasting

The class is open to all Structural Integration practitioners, fulfills the cranial requirement (3 credits) for the Rolf Institute's Advanced Training and 24 hours of Category 2 requirements for IASI continuing education.

Thomas Walker has been a certified Rolfer for 23 years and is a member of the Rolf Institute faculty. He has used Craniosacral therapy in his Rolfing practice since 1993 and has more than 800 hours of training in Biodynamic craniosacral therapy. Because Structural Integration usually works with segments first to then integrate the whole, Thomas initially found it difficult to integrate the wholeness first perspective of crainiosacral training into the Rolfing paradigm. Discovering biodynamics taught him that wholeness is expressed in the body through inherent motion. By orienting toward wholeness the body’s segments become able to integrate in an easier, less forceful way. He now weaves crainiosacral perspectives into all of his Rolfing teaching. One of his clients, an osteopath who was initially a Rolfer, has stated that, “If I had learned how to Rolf like this, I never would have become and osteopath.”

US $1,250.00 or US$ 950. There is a discount of $300 offered for early registration with a non-refundable deposit of $450 by August 15, 2010.

3 manipulation credits, 3 movement credits and 4 elective credits

Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Lael Katharine Keen, e-mail: lael@fastlane.com.br (please put Breathing Workshop in the title of the e-mail) telephone: (55) country code (48) city code 3237-7184

Description:
According to the world average, the human being breathes 25,920 times per day. The repetitive movement of the breath is one of the most influential elements that there is in both human structure and function. In this 10 day workshop we will explore the breath from many different points of view.

We will learn to interact with the breath in ways that do not involve willing or forcing—working with acts of attention and allowing as opposed to acts of tension.

Topics Covered

• Physiology and Biomechanics of Breathing
• Specific Non-Functional breathing patterns and their effects on structure
• Trauma and the Breath
• Orienting and the Breath
• Core Stability and the Breath
• Interventions that aid structural work and interventions that touch into the functional and world view layers of the client’s body/being.

440€, Early registration: € 420
(To qualify for early registration you have to send registration and down payment (€ 150,-) before 10 April 2010.)

Leipzig, Germany

Kathrin Grobelnik at Tel: +49 341 8709914 (in Germany 0341 8709914)
e-mail: kathrin.grobelnik@chisao.de

Description:

SourcePoint Therapy

• is a simple energy healing approach intended to support and enhance whatever modalities you are using as a practitioner or receiving for the benefit of your health.
• works with points in the human energy field that connect the physical body directly to the universal blueprint of health.
• teaches and uses a body scanning technique that locates energetic blockages in the body that obstruct the information of order, balance, harmony and flow inherent in the universal energy from manifesting in the physical body.
• is simple to learn and to use and has profound effects on the healing process as it reconnects the body and its energy fields to the fundamental information of health.

In these 2 Workshops we will explore an integration of the goals of Dr. Rolf’s work, and an energetic approach, which is simple, accessible, and effective. The approach, SourcePoint Therapy developed by Bob Schrei, aligns and relates a person’s physical body to the energetic blueprint that Dr. Rolf referred to in her book, “Structural Integration”. Utilizing a body scanning technique, we locate blockages, and discontinuities, which result in global patterns of dysfunction and compensation. Also, the scan informs the questions: “Where do we start”, “where do we go next” and “When are we done.” This information enables a practitioner to reliably optimize the strategy of a session, be it a basic ten series or a non-formulaic advanced series. Workshop participants will exchange a non-formulaic sessions.

Bob Schrei is a Certified Advanced Rolfer with 23 years experience and the co-originator of SourcePoint Therapy with his wife Donna Thomson. This energeticand hands-on healing system is the culmination of forty years of their explorations in consciousness, energy and healing combined with Bob’s extensive bodywork experience and personal study in vibrational medicine, sacred geometry, shamanic healing and Zen meditation. He is an artist with degrees in architecture and fine arts and a lifelong interest in the exploration of structure at every level of manifestation. From 1970-1985 Bob was a student and teacher at the Rochester Zen Meditation Center. As a former Zen teacher Bob brings a unique perspective to the field of manual therapy and energetic healing, helping his students to develop sensitivity to the subtleties of working energetically and to bring a heightened awareness to their practice of Structural Integration.

Ray McCall was first Rolfed in 1975 and was certified as a Rolfing practitioner in 1978. He received his certification as an Advanced Rolfer in 1982. He became a faculty member in 1995 and teaches basic classes and workshops in both the U.S. and Europe. He lives in Boulder, Colorado and has his private Rolfing practice in Boulder and Denver. The human capacity for transformation and the possibility to access one´s creative potential are an on going orientation and focus in his work and his teaching. Ray received a B.A. with a major in Russian, English and Speech, and an M.A. in Structural Linguistics from the University of Colorado in 1966.

550,00 €

2 manipulation and 2 movement credits

Bologna, Italy

pvolpones@gmail.com
0039 - 0541 626 630
skype: pierpaola.volpones

Description:
The combined Rolfing SI and Rolf Movement Integration workshop is addressed only to Rolfers; 4 days of practical, theorical and experiential work from the Rolfing and Rolfing Movement perspective. How mis-coordination, restrictions in the tissue and psychobiological aspects can create discomfort in the whole person.

Pierpaola Volpones is Advanced Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner.
She is certified as International Rolfing and Rolfing Movement instructor. She teaches Rolfing Basic trainings, block and modular formats.