This course is offered to Certified Rolfers® and Structural Integration practitioners and can be taken to partially fulfill the continuing education prerequisite for Advanced Certified Rolfing® Practitioner training.
The course will cover the following topics:
-Review and deepen understanding of spinal segmental biomechanics
-Review and deepen palpation skill of bony landmarks and relevant soft tissues
-Movement possibilities and limitations in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar regions
-Barrier concepts and range of motion
-The significance of transitional zones between cervical, thoracic and lumbar regions
-Increasing perception and confidence about the sacrum and sacroiliac joints
-Understanding important relationships between SI joints, pelvis and legs
-Costal vertebral relationships
-Complexities of the thoracic spine
-Cervical/Occipital relationship
-Mapping spinal patterns in three dimensions
-Perceiving the spine’s relationship to the whole body pattern
-Applying the concept of adaptability to expectations of change in the spinal pattern
-Addressing spinal patterns progressively
-Working with disc and nerve pathologies
-The spine in the context of the 10-series and post-10 advanced work
About the Instructor
Russell Stolzoff first encountered Rolfing® as a classroom client at The Rolf Institute® in 1983. The energy and freedom it brought inspired him to train as a Rolfer®. He completed his training in 1989 and his advanced certification in 1997. Russell augmented his Rolfing training with studies in trauma via Somatic Experiencing and in somatic developmental psychology at the Bodynamic Institute of Denmark.Russell began teaching Rolfing in 2000, became a faculty member in 2002, and became a member of DIRI’s Advanced Faculty in 2017. He is actively involved in research, is a past Chair of the faculty’s Executive Education Committee, and is a past member of the Institute’s Board of Directors.Russell’s enthusiasm for his practice is endless and he approaches every day with the desire to get better at his work. As a teacher, he strives to meet students where they are and impart to them knowledge and skills they can make use of.
