- Cost
$1100 USD
Please note: Tuition does not include accommodation, meals, or transportation.
Our coordination team will provide support with local logistics and lodging options for international students.
- CE Credits
- 4 Credit Hour
- Location
- São Paulo SP
BRAZIL
Summary
Housing
Our coordination team will provide support with local logistics and lodging options for international students.
Details
In this workshop we shall explore theoretically and train students to the role ANS plays in the Rolfing process and ,deepen and refine the use of touch to balance the ANS in the context of SI.
The field of Structural Integration is increasingly informed by what we have come to understand about the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and how, through that system, experiences and trauma becomes embedded in the flesh. ANS responses can be accessed and modulated through specific styles of touch; and the greater our mastery of it, the more our work will support our clients’ personal evolution and transformation.
In this 4 day course, students will:
• Reflect on the role of the ANS in the establishment of patterns and in transformation
• Learn to use touch to influence the ANS in the context of Rolfing® SI
• Track the effects of touch on the person’s structure and function
• Explore the role of touch from the psychobiological perspective
• Expand their vision on Therapeutic Relationship under the lenses of the ANS
Workshop Description
• Challenges that the evolution of Rolfing® brings in the theoretical and practical levels. What does it mean to be a Rolfer™ nowadays?
• The psychobiological perspective – what does it consist on?
• The subjective dimension and the different physiological systems
• ANS – as a somatic connection to the psychobiological taxonomy
• ANS and the formation and transformation of patterns in the person
• Touch, language, resonance and the mechanics of the ANS
• Self, co-regulation and resonance in the context of the work
• Implications and applications of the inclusion of this vision into Rolfing®, theory and practice – manipulation and movement approaches
• Embodiment of theory and practice vis a vis the ANS
• Making bridges between the different taxonomies
• The role of ANS in the integration of the structure in gravity and in the environment.
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About the Instructors
Pedro PradoPedro Prado, PhD, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been instructor of Rolfing® SI for over 20 years. He is a member of the Advanced and Movement Faculties of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute®, as well as a Somatic Experiencing Instructor for the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. He is a clinical psychologist and a former professor of Somatic Psychology. His signature approach to the work, to which he has devoted his clinical practice and research, explores the bridges among the Structural, Functional and Psychobiological perspectives. Since having become a Rolfer in 1981, Pedro has introduced Rolfing® and nurtured practitioner communities in his native Brazil and elsewhere in the world. He has taught throughout the US, Latin America, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Australia.
Certified Rolf Movement™ Intructor, Certified Advanced Rolfing® 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.
Certified Rolfing® Instructor and Rolf Movement™ Instructor.
Coordinator and Instructor of the Therapeutic Relationships course.