Class Info

April 29th - May 11, 2023
No class on May 3rd, May 4th, or May 8th
Times: 9:00am to 6:00pm

Housing

Contact Mary Contreras for the current housing list.

Details

Rolf Movement^® Integration: The Ten Series as Skills of Perception and Coordination

Each session in Rolf’s Ten Series recipe implies perceptive and coordinative skills and goals. We wish to embody these skills so we can accurately assess and evoke them in our clients. As practitioners, we embody these skills, so our demonstrations show clients (students) a clear contrast between structurally integrated movement and movement which expresses conflicted motor control and strain. When we demonstrate this contrast, we offer clients and students a chance to grasp the idea that basic coordination can shift, and these shifts are the purpose of the work. What we call posture is an example of coordination; it’s a coordinative structure.

Through experientials, exchanging sessions, group movement, and discussions you will:

• Learn to read the perceptual field of the client which is fundamental to assist people in shifting patterns of perception so they can shift their coordination.
• Gain a vocabulary of touch skills for Rolf Movement.
• Learn to evoke perceptive change so preparation to move shifts from effort to body movement intelligence.
• Learn the implied coordinative outcomes of the ten series. You will learn to embody and demonstrate these outcomes, helping your client understand the purpose of each intervention.
• Experience how physical stability relates to psychological stability.
• Learn how somatic movement education includes skills helpful to autonomic regulation.
• Refine your capacity for presence and rapport--essential ingredients for holistic change.
• Learn how to translate the Tonic Function Model into common sense language to explain how and why Rolf Movement fosters lasting change.
• Learn how to use Rolf Movement to support people’s professional and personal lifestyles.
• Practice language skills for cueing and tracking the client’s sensory experience.
• Experience self-care and playful exploration to cultivate enjoyment and renewal.

Why become Rolf Movement^® Certified?

Rolf Movement Certification Training is a distinct and complementary program to the Basic and Advanced Rolfing^® Structural Integration programs.

Prerequisites

This Continuing Education class is open to Certified Rolfers^® and practitioners of Structural Integration who have completed an IASI Recognized SI Program. This class is open to all interested movement practitioners from allied professions with instructor approval.

This workshop offers 10 credits toward the 30-day Rolf Movement Certification and fulfills the Rolf Movement prerequisite for Advanced Training. Basic Training students must have completed Phase II prior to enrolling in any of these Intensive Module Courses.

• Open to all Certified Rolfers and practitioners of Structural Integration who have completed an IASI Recognized SI Program.
• Basic Training students must have completed Phase II prior to enrollment.
• Open to Allied Professions with Instructor approval.

About the Instructors

Kevin Frank (Instructor) is a Certified Advanced Rolfer^®, Rolf Movement^® Practitioner, and Rolf Movement^® Instructor at DIRI. He has worked with the Godard-derived Tonic Function Model since 1991 and has written on this topic from 1995 to the present. Kevin advocates for an “information system” view of structural integration to help bring this field of SI into congruence with modern understanding of motor control and perceptive/coordinative processes.


Caryn McHose (Assistant) is a Certified Advanced Rolfer^® and Rolf Movement^® Practitioner, as well as a Somatic Experiencing^® Practitioner and Certified Biodynamic Cranial Practitioner. She is the collaborator for Bodystories, A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, and The Place of Dance, by Andrea Olsen, and is the co-author (with Kevin Frank) of How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning, and Body Awareness. Caryn has taught perceptual approaches to movement education for over 50 years.