- Cost
$5,300.00 USD
Please note: Tuition does not include accommodation, meals, or transportation.
Module 1: August 10 - 28, 2026 (Monday through Thursday) off Aug 15 and Aug 16 & Aug 22 and Aug 23
Times: 9:00am - 6:00pm (90-minute lunch), last day from 9:00am-4.30pm
Module 2: May 10 – 28, 2027 (Monday through Thursday) off May 15-16 & May 22-23
Times: 9:00am - 6:00pm (90-minute lunch), last day from 9:00am-4.30pm- Location
- TBD
SãoPaulo
BRAZIL
Summary
Housing
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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.
The two 15-day modules are subdivided into three 5-day units. Each 5-day unit will be led by two co-teachers
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 (with Lucia Merlino, Pedro Prado, Alfeu Ruggi, and Angela Lobo): focuses on theoretical foundations, embodied investigation, perceptual organization, and the design and facilitation of group explorations.
Module 2 (with Paula Mattoli, Lael Keen, Yeda Bocalett,o and José Garcia): 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 an IASI-approved SI Training Program, 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 98846-0313
Registration Contact (if different from the primary contact).
Please include email and telephone number, including country code.
https://rolfing.com.br/rolf-movement-certification-brazilian-faculty/
About the Instructors
Lúcia Merlino
Lúcia has taught movement for over 35 years through the performing arts, dance and somatic education. She has conducted certification trainings in Rolfing®️ SI and Rolf Movement®️ in São Paulo and Buenos Aires. In addition to her training programs, Lúcia also offers workshops and coordinates supervision groups for practitioners.
Lucia holds a PhD in Arts from UNICAMP and an MA in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP. Her extensive studies with Hubert Godard have been a profound source of inspiration for her research. Her current focus lies in exploring the transformative power of metaphor in shaping body consciousness, as well as examining the role of the imaginary in facilitating client’s integration of the changes made possible through somatic practices.
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.