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0.00 Total: $ 0.00 $5300 USD
Please note: Tuition does not include accommodation, meals, or transportation.
Location
TBD SãoPaulo BRAZIL
Summary
Housing
Our coordination team will provide support with local logistics and lodging options for international students.
Details
Rolf Movement™ Training – Brazil (2026–2027)
International Certification Program
The Brazilian Rolf Movement™ Training is a 225-hour course that will take place over two-modules and two online meetings between modules for integration, supervision, and continued faculty contact.
That will be a professional certification program designed for Rolfers® and eligible movement practitioners seeking to deepen their perceptual, relational, and clinical skills within the Rolfing® tradition.
This contemporary movement curriculum emphasizes embodiment, sensory awareness, tonic function, haptic perception, phoric orientation, peripersonal space, the therapeutic relationship, attunement, and non-formulaic clinical reasoning. Rather than teaching predetermined movement protocols, the program cultivates perceptual intelligence, presence, and the ability to collaborate with the client’s lived experience.
Module 1 withLucia Merlino / Paula Mattoli focuses on theoretical foundations, embodied investigation, perceptual organization, and the design and facilitation of group explorations. Module 2withPedro Prado/Lael Keen/Alfeu R/Yeda B/Angela Lobo/José Garci emphasizes clinical application, individual movement education, therapeutic dialogue, and the development of a structured 5-Session Rolf Movement™ Series, which may be used following the 10-Series or as a standalone introduction to Rolfing®.
Eligible participants include Certified Rolfers®, Phase II Rolfing® students from any country, graduates of IASI-approved training programs, and Certified Rolf Movement™ Practitioners seeking renewal or continuing education.
Primary teaching language is English, with selected portions in Portuguese and translation provided as needed.
A minimum number of participants is required. If this minimum is not reached 6 weeks before the start of the workshop, the workshop may be cancelled.
Primary Contact (Please include email and telephone number, including country code.) infobrazil@rolfing.com.br
+55 11 99671-9161
Registration Contact (if different from the primary contact).
Please include email and telephone number, including country code. https://bit.ly/rolfmovement
About the Instructors
Lucia Merlino
Lucia has been a movement educator for 30 years and her career is linked to the performing arts, dance, and somatic education. She coordinates supervision groups and has taught Rolfing® IE and Rolf Movement™ training courses and workshops in São Paulo, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires. She holds a PhD in Arts from UNICAMP and a Master's degree in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP. Inspired by her extensive studies with Hubert Godard, her research relates body awareness to metaphors, understanding the imaginary as an agent of transformation and incorporation of the changes proposed by Rolfing® IE.
Rolfing® Instructor: Units 2 and 3.
Rolf Movement™ Instructor.
Paula Mattoli
Paula works in the field of Semiotics and Arts. She has been a Rolfist since 1995 and instructor at ABR since 2005. Throughout her career, she has studied Rolfing® with Robert Schleip, Lael Keen, Pedro Prado, Monica Caspari, Vivian Jaye, Hubert Godard, Jan Sultan, Jeff Maitland, Tessy Brungardt, and Sally Klemm. She studied Visceral Manipulation with Liz Gaggini, Craniosacral Therapy at the Milne Institute, Matrixworks (group dynamics) with Mukara Meredith, and Somatic Experiencing® with Peter Levine. She is currently deepening her studies in the psychobiological dimension of Rolfing®, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and psychomotor development psychology through Lizbeth Marcher's Bodynamic system. Founding member of NAPER 1998, where she continues to participate as a supervisor.
Rolfing® Instructor: Units 2 and 3.
Rolf Movement™ Instructor.
Coordinator and Instructor of the Therapeutic Relationships course.
