Rolfing® for Certified Bodyworkers
Certified Bodyworkers who qualify as Rolfers™ enjoy a
more rewarding career
Once you train as a Certified Rolfer® you will:
- Have the skills to dramatically improve functional movement and performance
- 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
Explore our Rolfing® Courses for Certified Bodyworkers below:
The Rolfing® Structural Integration Certification Program
For Transfer Students
About the program:
- This program is 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®, Rolf Movement® sessions, and more.
The Rolf Movement® Integration (RMI) Certification
Rolf Movement® training gives practitioners:
- A deeper, holistic understanding of how bodies function in gravity.
- An understanding of the Rolfing Ten-Series® logic, framework, and exercises.
- How to support the client’s body awareness and ability to integrate changes to their environment.
The Advanced Rolfing® Certification Program
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.
Why Study Rolfing® Structural Integration?
If you are certified in massage therapy, movement therapy, or another form of bodywork therapy and are 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 manual therapy can reverse this process and restore ease and range of movement, realigning and balancing the body through the lengthening and repositioning of 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!
Rolfing® Programs for Certified Bodyworkers -
Learning Pathways
Pathway for Certified Bodyworkers
(non-SI qualified)
- Certified bodyworkers who have not yet completed structural integration
training are eligible to apply for the accelerated Rolfing® Structural Integration Certification and the Rolf Movement® Integration Certification. - Both courses are complementary and can be completed in any order.
- After certification, practitioners may take Continuing Education Courses (CER).
- Completion of the Advanced Rolfing® Certification will make you eligible to use the Certified Advanced Rolfer™ trademark.
Continuing Education for SI Certified Practitioners
Pathway for SI Certified Practitioners
(from an IASI-approved training program)
- Earn the Rolf Movement® Integration
(RMI) Certification to become eligible to
use the Rolfing® trademark. - Take Continuing Education Courses
(CER) and Advanced Training (AT) to
deepen your skills. - Complete Advanced Training to become
a Certified Advanced Rolfing®
Practitioner (eligible to use the Certified
Advanced Rolfer™ trademark).
Rolfing® Students Benefit From Supervised Clinical Practice
Students enrolled in the Clinical Application of Rolfing® theory benefit from the opportunity to put all they have learned in the training into practice. The students perform Rolfing Structural
Integration and Rolf Movement® Integration sessions on two community clinic clients. Working under their Rolfing instructor's supervision, the students develop relationships with their clients, assess their clients' actual and perceived needs, and create and execute personal treatment plans.
Rolfing students report that the individualized attention they receive from instructors in the clinic, plus the "real-world" nature of this client contact, is often the high point of their Rolfing training at the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute and is essential in preparing them to be successful, professional Certified Rolfers®.
Are you ready to help your clients enjoy a better quality of life? Would you like to benefit from
Rolfing training and the opportunity to treat Rolfing clients in community clinics under expert supervision?
Have Questions? Contact Our Admissions Team
We look forward to welcoming you to the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute!
If you need help to find the right course or have any questions regarding your application,
please contact our admissions department.
Admissions Team:
Phone: (303) 449-5903 X106
Email: admissions@rolf.org