Name: Structure, Function, Energetic Taxonomy: Integration Beyond Anatomy - The Next Iteration in Lafayette, CO | Dr. Ida Rolf Institute Certification & CE
Price: 1800.0 USD

Summary

Class Info

April 8-14, 2027
No class on April 11th
Times: 8:30pm to 5:30pm

Housing

Contact Mary Contreras for information on housing.

Details

Course Number:		CER1.27
Instructor(s):		Ray McCall and Hiro Tahata

This Continuing Education class is open to Certified Rolfers^® and practitioners of Structural Integration who have completed an IASI-approved SI Training Program.

How Does Change Happen?

When we are working with clients, are we “making” change happen, or are we “evoking” the body’s capacity and wisdom to change itself?

Making changes involves will and doing; evoking changes involves allowing and being. Right action, doing what is best in a situation, is the appropriate, moment-to-moment balance of doing and being.

In this workshop, we will focus on evoking. We will learn how to be more present with ourselves and others so as to create the safety and space for change. We will explore ways to maintain “neutral” while working. This will increase our ability to perceive what a person wants and needs, not at the ego level, but at the more fundamental level of transformation.

In addition to developing the ability to rest in neutral while doing, we will focus on the skill of working with space, “Ma” (the space/relationship between things). The space between practitioner and client is not empty; it is a shared field. That field is alive, dynamic, and can be “conditioned” to facilitate health, well-being, and integration. We will practice ways of relating to the field so as to enhance our conditioning of the space.

If we are unable, consciously or unconsciously, to yield, we cannot release old patterns that initially served our survival but now limit our aliveness. We will explore evoking, nonverbally, a yield response in clients.

This workshop is appropriate for the newly certified and the fully seasoned. Hiro and Ray welcome you to this ongoing exploration that started for them when they taught an Advanced Training in Japan earlier this year.

“The day science begins to study nonphysical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

—Nikola Tesla

“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.”

—C. G. Jung

When you enroll in the course, you will receive a link to articles to read in preparation for the workshop.

Testimonials from Previous Participants

“My first session back, my client was in a very tender place emotionally and we did a fully energetic session and she was very grateful that we gave her system that much space. Thank you for giving me the tools to do that. I got thrown in the deep end my first day back and found I could swim.”

—Iga Mrozek

“Man are things in my life shifting since class! WOW. You and Hiro need to come with a warning label: You will not be the same when you are done with this CER class. ;-)

It’s all positive and beautiful growth.”

—Iga Mrozek

“Have been integrating the parts of the workshop in my work and life and it’s been transformational.”

—Cole Krensky

“There is so much you do and have taught me that simply makes natural sense. My practice seems to evolve naturally to similar places, hard to believe perhaps!”

—Robert Batey

“It was an amazing training!”

—Gisele Rosa

About the Instructors

Ray McCall has over 50 years of experience as a Rolfer™. As a DIRI Advanced faculty member, he teaches Rolfing^®Training, Advanced Training, and Continuing Education classes both in the States and abroad. His particular interest is the energetic taxonomy and how change occurs: how we more fully become and express who we are.

Ray trained to instructor level in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.

Hiroyoshi Tahata, Rolf Movement^® Instructor, is renowned for developing, teaching, and practicing a subtly powerful work that integrates the deepest levels of self with the informing field in which he stands. His unique approach to Spatial Somatics™ recognizes that the body is in constant relationship to the surrounding space. He has developed the concept of ‘yield’ as an approach to Rolf Movement. His articles are available to read on his website (https://yielding.work), and he may be contacted at info@rolfinger.com.

Satomi Furukawa (interpreter), Satomi is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™ and Rolf Movement Practitioner®. Her certification process included studying at DIRI, ERA, and JRA. As a professional interpreter and translator she has provided interpretation, both in Japan and abroad, for Rolfing® Trainings and Rolfing Continuing Education programs as well as other modalities, such as BodyTalk trainings. Prior to and after training as a Rolfer she managed International projects in the fields of environmental consulting and broadcasting, specializing in facilitating cross-culture communication.