Rolfing® for Certified Bodyworkers
Overview of Rolfing® Structural Integration Program for Certified Bodyworkers
The Rolfing® Structural Integration Certification Program is the core learning program for the discipline of Rolfing® Structural Integration, based on the foundational teachings of Dr. Ida Rolf. This comprehensive program delivers the fundamental knowledge and skills to those wishing to become Certified Rolfers™ and sets the benchmark for the high standards we hold to, for Rolfing® practitioners worldwide.
As a licensed and/or trained bodywork professional, the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® offers certification in Rolfing® Structural Integration with credit hours for a reduced study period, to duly recognize your valuable prior education and industry experience.
Here's what you can expect from our Rolfing® programs for certified bodyworkers:
Certified Bodyworkers who qualify as Rolfers® enjoy a rewarding career:
- Certified Rolfers™ have the skills to dramatically improve functional movement and performance
- Rolfers™ understand which strategies to use for correcting long-term musculoskeletal issues and improving posture
- Have the tools to ease chronic pain & stress, helping clients feel better in their bodies
- Enjoy healthier bodywork income within a fast-growing discipline
- Gain satisfaction from the long-term enhancement of client health and well-being
The Rolfing® Structrual Integration Certification Program for transfer students is the core learning program in the discipline of Rolfing® Structural Integration for bodyworkers to become Certified Rolfers™.
Rolfing Structural Integration for Certified Bodyworkers:
A program for bodywork professionals who are licensed or have extensive training in complementary therapies
The course is taught in-person and online with self-study.
You will learn the principles of Rolfing® SI, how to conduct Rolfing Ten-Series™, and Rolf Movement® sessions, and more!
The Rolf Movement® Integration (RMI) Certification complements both Foundational Rolfing® Structural Integration and Advanced Rolfing® Certification. The program empowers practitioners to guide clients towards greater freedom of movement.
Rolfers™ will learn:
- A deeper holistic understanding of how bodies function in gravity
- An understanding of the Ten Series logic, framework, and exercises
- How to support the client’s body awareness and ability to integrate changes to their environment. And much more!
The Advanced Rolfing® Certification Program will enhance your knowledge and skills as a structural integration practitioner, making you a more effective Rolfing® Structural Integration practitioner.
The Advanced Rolfing® Program teaches practitioners:
- A comprehensive approach to evaluating the whole person.
- How to systematically mobilize all the major joints of the body.
- How to design Rolfing® sessions to meet the individual needs of clients. And more!
Why Study Rolfing® Structural Integration?
If you are certified in massage therapy, movement therapy, or another form of bodywork therapy and looking to continue your education to expand your skills, Rolfing® Structural Integration therapy is for you. As a bodyworker, you are already well-versed in the healing power of touch. With Rolfing® Structural Integration, you can provide a deeper and more holistic therapy focused on the body’s connective tissue, or fascia.
When the body experiences strain, fascia—the connective tissue —thickens as a protective response. This can cause pain and lead to loss of mobility. Rolfing® Structural Integration is a manual therapy that can reverse this process and restore ease and range of movement, realigning and balancing the body through lengthening and repositioning the fascia. This form of bodywork therapy can help you get to the root of your client’s pain, discomfort, musculoskeletal and postural issues.
Rolfing® Structural Integration therapy provides long-term results so clients can enjoy relief from chronic pain, increased freedom of movement, and a better quality of life! If you are interested in helping your bodywork clients at a deeper level, Rolfing® Structural Integration is for you!
