U.S. Rolf Movement^® and
Advanced Training Class Schedule

Description:

Participants: This course is for anyone who wants to learn more about the science and art of teaching movement. Rolf Movement Integration specifically means the perceptive, coordinative and psychobiological dimensions of Rolfing Structural Integration. But the skills to teach this work are broader than Rolf Movement Integration itself. We invite to this course: Certified Rolfers interested in teaching movement, students enrolled in the Rolf Movement Certification process; Rolf Movement Practitioners; Rolf Movement Instructors in Training, Rolf Institute Faculty as well as other appropriate somatic movement professionals.

Teacher Practicum adds a new dimension to movement teacher development – a context where teachers support each other as colleagues to share insights and creativity in a safe and interested group. It’s an opportunity to improve confidence and competence with skills for somatic movement education – an opportunity for cross pollination among teachers and teachers in training and an opportunity to enrich one’s tool sets.

Practicum offers an opportunity to slow down and attend to some of the more subtle nuances and aspects of our being.  Peer to peer instruction reminds us that we learn best in an atmosphere of resonance and rapport.

Teaching movement is a multi-dimensional challenge. Embedded within movement curricula is an implicit urgency to honor the varieties of learning styles, learning histories, and learning opportunities a classroom offers. Teaching movement to a group involves additional skill sets and considerations from one on one sessions.

This workshop addresses elements of artful movement exploration. It’s a chance to practice some of these elements including:

• Body language as a part of movement demonstration
• Cultivating dimensional presence in relation to self and other
• Perceptual range: focal and peripheral
• Sensory based imagination
• Expressive creativity
• Responding to shifts in the autonomic nervous system.
• Discussion of the science behind coordination
• Observing and describing movement

Each participant has the opportunity to present an aspect of movement exploration emerging from his/her own personal passion or curiosity. The group, in turn, enjoys the chance to swim in the field of a variety of presentations and reflect on their own, internal, learning process. Feedback and reflection is based on the impact an exploration/ lecture/ or inquiry has on oneself.  Skillful assessment is, itself, a topic for our work.

Holding the container for this exploration are two experienced members of the Rolf Movement Faculty who will also present proposals about movement instruction woven throughout the course. Inside and outside the class will be time for discussion of the work in broad and specific terms.

The workshop will be held at Resources in Movement Studio in Holderness, NH by the shore of a quiet lake. It will be summer and the venue offers swimming, hiking, kayaking, and lakeside hot tubbing. Accommodations are available on site in a large summer cottage for $50 pp/night.

Kevin Frank, is a Rolf Movement Instructor, and has been practicing Rolfing SI for 25 years. Kevin is a long time student and developer of the Tonic Function model of structural integration. His study of movement has included Continuum and perceptual approaches to coordinative education. He writes articles on these topics and is the co-author (with Caryn McHose) of How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness. Articles and further information at www.resourcesinmovement.com

Gael (Ohlgren) Rosewood has been part of the Rolfing community since 1969 and contributed to the development of Rolf Movement Integration. She is an authorized Continuum™ Movement teacher, Certified Advanced Rolfer, Rolf Movement Teacher, and Emeritus faculty member at the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration. Continuum Movement has been her personal practice and inquiry since she met Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper in 1981. She travels and teaches internationally sharing her somatic wisdom.

Kevin and Gael were both inspired by participation in Susan Harper’s Continuum Teacher Practicum course. They felt that teacher practicum could play a useful role for training of teachers at the Rolf Institute. Gael proposed this to the Rolf Institute faculty who approved it as an option for teacher training.

Description:

A Six Day Course in which we experience orientation as a fundamental skill for bringing presence, safety, and depth to somatic work. This course is an opportunity to notice moment to moment perceptual shifts through exercises that build a quality of shared awareness and sustained presence. Our biology is pre-wired to orient to gravity and to build a map of body and space. We will learn to consciously sense the orienting dimensions within us; and we will learn how orientation supports the structural integration process and helps our clients meet practical and relational challenges in their lives. We will also examine how orientation and perception underlies posture and pre-movement. This course will involve extensive time in partnered sense perception tracking and reflection, as well as stability exercises that provide daily self care and offer resources for psychological challenge.

Kevin Frank, is a Rolf Movement Instructor, and has been practicing Rolfing SI for 25 years. Kevin is a long time student and developer of the Tonic Function model of structural integration. His study of movement has included Continuum and perceptual approaches to coordinative education. He writes articles on these topics is the co-author (with Caryn McHose) of How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness. Kevin and Gael Ohlgren were both inspired by participating in Susan Harper’s Continuum Teacher Practicum course and considered teacher practicum a way to improve the training of teachers at the Rolf Institute.

Description:

What if you could slide under the conscious beliefs to the place of your client's longings and desires for change? Imagine monitoring your client’s system while guiding them to higher levels of function and anchoring these options with more certainty and less work. Cranial Sacral work combined with Rolf Movement Integration allows us to facilitate these goals and integrate the changes that emerged in our sessions. Our focus is the support and blending of Cranial Sacral and Rolf Movement Integration. We both work in this manner and want to share these skills with you.

This workshop will teach basic Cranial Sacral skills and how to utilize them in your practice. The cranial rhythms and pulsations give us direct pathways to neural remapping and trauma resolution. We begin with the anatomy and palpation of the cranial rhythms in the axial component. The cranial rhythms are not limited to the cranium, spine and sacrum. These pulsations are expressed throughout the body and its field. Tracking and utilizing these basic tidal flows is foundational for greater efficacy in Rolf Movement Integration. This efficacy is also true with neural and visceral manipulation, which is part of our work but not the focus of this class.

Jane was certified in Rolf Movement Integration in 1980 and joined the Rolf Institute faculty in 1988, teaching Phases 2 and 3 and Rolf Movement certifications. After a leave of absence, she has returned to faculty with a fresh ideas and an expanded view of our work. She has been teaching Cranial work since 1985.

Suzanne is a Certified Advanced Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner and has been a member of the faculty at the Rolf Institute for 17 years. Her studies also include Visceral and Neural Manipulation, Biodynamic Cranial and Polarity Work. She is a Rolf Movement Instructor-in-training.

Description:

Each phase will be 6 days.

This is a residential/retreat style training. Claymont is a retreat center and provides everything for us. Classroom is there, they will cook 3 meals per day for us (vegetarian & meat).  Each of us will have a private room. You can share a room, but the cost will be the same since it is a retreat center. Cost of room and board at Claymont will be determined. Claymont really caters to all of our needs. Students in the past have loved Claymont and the trainings there. It is peaceful.

Description:

We are framing this Advanced Rolfing class to examine two questions: “What is health?” and how is it promoted?  Drawing from the homeopathic notion that health is an absence of pre-occupation and the osteopathic perspective that health is the expression of one’s originality, we will present and explore health from a Rolfing perspective. As Rolfers we are invoking our client’s ability to appropriately respond to whatever arises in their environment, be it internal or external. Dr. Rolf said that the purpose of the advanced training is "to see their (the clients') radical individuality and to tailor our work to that distinctiveness."

The 10-series, Dr. Rolf’s gift to the world, will provide a starting point for our inquiry.  A study of the internal logic, the relationships inherent in the recipe and the body, will be a review of the series from the perspective of evoking integration. Myo-fascial, neuro-fascial, viscero-fascial and cranio-fascial approaches will be presented. Structural, joint-specific approaches will be presented that include the multi-dimensional (beyond the mechanical) aspect of biomechanics. Tracking, back-work and other integrative strategies will be presented. We will draw from and synthesize our years of personal clinical experimentation; movement and functional modalities, (from other allied health fields); energetic realities; and what we have learned from those that came before us.

There are many skills, attributes and characteristics that make an effective practitioner. We will explore what we consider to be the two primary requirements: practitioner presence and the utilization of a broad spectrum of contact. A practitioner’s presence alone is  a form of contact which either invites or restricts a client’s experience and awareness. A broad spectrum of contact involves many elements: the ability to match the needs of the client; speak the language of each tissue type being contacted; balance giving and receiving information; honoring the system's response. During a session all of these elements must be negotiated moment by moment. We will access, expand and refine each student’s ability to be present with "self "and "other" to enhance the extent of change which leads to integration, holism.

Ray McCall has been practicing the art of Rolfing SI for 35 years.  He teaches, in the States and abroad, basic and advanced Rolfing classes and continuing education workshops. He was first attracted to receiving Rolfing because of the transformational potential of the work.  That transformational potential has remained his focus in both his private practice and his teaching. His current curiosity is exploring the phenomena of the energetic taxonomy and how to integrate it with our more traditional “physical body only” orientation. His goal is to enable and empower himself and others to continually become more “who they are”.

One of his most favorite things is to teach with Jon Martine.

Jonathan Martine has been in private practice since 1992. During this time he has practiced in Chiropractic offices, Physical Therapy clinics, a Pilates studio, a medical based pain management clinic, and various integrative health practices. This experience has offered a useful perspective on the vast potential of complementary approaches to health and personal transformation. He finds it valuable to see how Rolfing SI and structural integration fit into the larger health field and identify the unique offering Rolfing SI holds. Jonathan continues his study of Rolfing SI and allied health fields to serve his clients and students and to share the "stories" that science holds. He is fascinated with these "stories" as they may clarify aspects of the mystery of transformation; while holding strong to the magic that occurs when the practitioner and client are present and aware of the environment in which we live. 

Description:

Ida Rolf told her early students to "follow my Recipe for 5 years or until you think you know what you are doing."  This advanced training is designed to consolidate the training of a Rolfer. We will use Dr. Rolf's recipe, and the values expressed there as a reference point, and a context for the class. We will work with you to integrate what you bring to the training from your own explorations. Our objective is to deepen your understanding of the work, and to refine your application of technique to become more economical and specific to the clients needs. One primary objective of the advanced class is to explore the nature of Rolfing SI to the extent that new information you learn will strengthen your practice and not dilute it.

As the early 10 series is a universal template, and useful to the widest range of body types, the advanced work is client centered and is applied specifically to meet the needs of the individual.  We will learn how to develop non-formulistic single and multiple session interventions.  There will be a high focus on the biomechanics of normal joint function, and specific techniques taught to release the common motion restrictions that interfere with normal function.   We will use the Rolfing Structural and Functional Taxonomies, Jan's Internal External model, and Hubert Goddard's Tonic Function seeing models.  This course organization will refine your ability to "see" the characteristic posture/structure signature of the body in motion, and enable you to derive meaningful information about intervention strategies. You will learn to teach your clients to use the work thru specific Rolf Movement directives, given both during the session, and homework for the client to continue with, post session.

While we have many learning objectives for this class, the primary one is that you the student take deeper ownership of the work, and carry on the investigation we are all involved in as a partner and a peer.

Jan Sultan’s initial encounter with Ida Rolf was in 1967 as her client. In 1969 he trained under her, and after having assisted several classes, was invited by Dr. Rolf to become an instructor in 1975. After further apprenticeship, Dr. Rolf invited him to take on the Advanced teaching. He currently teaches Basic Trainings, Continuing Education, and Advanced Trainings for the Rolf Institute. He feels strongly that his responsibility as an instructor goes beyond simply passing on what he was taught, to include the refinement and coherent development of the ideas and methodology taught by Ida Rolf.

Lael Katharine Keen comes from a family of Rolfers™. Both her mother and step-father trained with Ida Rolf and were members of the Rolf Institute Faculty before her. She has been on the Rolfing® Structural Integration and Rolf Movement® Faculty for the Rolf Institute, since 1994 and and is founding member of the Brazilian Rolfing Association. She is an also a practitioner and teacher (at the Advanced level) of Somatic Experiencing (Dr. Peter Levine’s innovative approach to treating post-traumatic stress through the body) and has been teaching Somatic Experiencing for the Foundation for Human Enrichment since 1998. She is a founding member of the Brazilian SE Association (SE Brasil) and a senior member of the Brazilian faculty. Lael also holds a 5th degree black belt in Ki-Aikido and has taught and studied Ki-Aikido most of her adult life. She lives in the south of Brazil with her husband and daughter.