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ERA Basic Rolfing Training Intensive 2023-2024

• Level 1 part 1: March 24 - April 3, 2023 (€1740)
• Level 1 part 2: July 31 - August 22, 2023 (€3480)
• Phase 2: October 16 - December 7, 2023 (€7290)
• Phase 3: February 19 - April 10, 2024 (€7200)

Total Cost: €19710
Instructors: Nicola Carofiglio, G. Hesse, Kathrin Grobelnik, & Rita Geirola
Language: English

Gerhard Hesse is a Certified Advanced Rolfer® (1984) and a Rolf Movement® Practitioner (2005). He is an Instructor at the International and European Rolfing® Faculty.

Gerhard runs his own practice in Vienna, Austria. Being a member of the International Life Science Faculty he also teaches anatomy classes having previously organized and taught dissection courses at the Anatomical University of Vienna for Rolfers and Osteopaths.

Before Rolfing
Gerhard graduated from the University of Mainz in Germany. Having studied Ethnology, he traveled to Africa and then to India where he stayed for months learning Yoga. It is here that he met Baghwan Shree Rajshneesh and took part in many workshops at his Ashram, including being introduced to Rolfing® by Robert Schleip.

Inspiration to train in Rolfing®
My first Rolfing sessions changed the way I perceived the world and how I perceived myself in the world. It became easier to walk around: less exhausting, and with much more joy. So I decided to do Rolfing Training. I also wanted the opportunity to work with humans in a process-oriented way, guaranteeing a life-long learning process.

“I enjoy witnessing the growth of us all – me and my students – as we deepen our understanding of the structural-functional relationship and gain self-awareness as to how we live in gravity and the importance of using this force in a good way and not fight against it".

Teaching Method
As an Anatomy Instructor, I believe that a good understanding of anatomy is fundamental for the client relationship as it helps you to identify where to work. It also helps with the structural-functional relationship. I also place tremendous value on ‘touch’. Good Rolfing sessions depend on our touch – ‘to touch means: let yourself be touched’ this quote from Hubert Godard has guided me throughout my years of becoming a Rolfing Instructor.

“It is also about listening – and in listening there is no doing but following the clients’ body and giving suggestions to the tissue and the mind. These, together with a solid handicraft and an open heart, are at the center of my teaching”.

Kathrin Grobelnik has been a Certified Rolfer® since 2007, Certified Advanced Rolfer® since 2012, and Rolf Movement® Practitioner since 2013. She is a member of The Rolf Institute and a Basic Rolfing® Instructor. For the past 28 years, Kathrin has also taught Chinese martial art “Wing Tzun” in her studio in Leipzig.

Before Rolfing
Kathrin graduated in 1995 from Martin Luther University in Halle / Saale with a Diploma in Process Engineering and worked for ten years as an engineer and a department manager. Inspiration to train in Rolfing® “Right from the beginning, I was impressed with the work and the approach of Rolfers, particularly the way Rolfers think in large-scale contexts and deal with the physical fundamentals such as gravity, tension, leverage, etc. I was familiar with these concepts already of course from my previous work as an engineer. However, applying these abilities to the human body really opened up a whole new world for me. Our body perception can significantly influence our posture, our movements, our emotions, and therefore, our entire presence and well-being. The Rolfing experience and the conscious sensing of the body immediately struck me and still inspire me to this day. Being able to support people, to help them find a better relationship with themselves, to feel at home in their own bodies, and to take their feelings seriously… This makes me happy and really drives me. It is so good to see the changes and developments in my clients and to see this reflected in their happy faces.”

Teaching Method
“It is all about relationships…. It is about setting segments of the body and tissues in relation to each other. It is also about establishing an open and trusting relationship with others. To become a good Rolfer, you need to balance a strong intuition with a sharp mind… and to really care about people and want to support them.”