The Rolf Movement Certification Program in the U.S. is offered in two ways. To receive Rolf Movement Certification, a student is required to either
The intensive modules are taught in Boulder, CO. Workshops are taught in different regions of the country.
Rolf Movement Certification Training is a distinct and complimentary program to the Basic and Advanced Rolfing Structural Integration programs.
Expanding movement education reflects the increased role that an understanding of gravity orientation, perception, coordination, expressivity, and nervous system regulation plays in determining lasting shifts in posture and function. Further, teaching Rolfers™ to understand, embody, and articulate these perspectives serves the greater RISI mission to educate the world about Rolfing Structural Integration. Rolf Movement Integration is still a young field but one which distinguishes Rolfing from other brands of structural integration. Rolf Movement Integration links ongoing discoveries in the study of neuroscience and motor patterns to the legacy of Dr. Rolf.
The Rolf Movement Certification Program is offered in different formats in order to meet the needs of students. For Basic Training students in Boulder, CO, the two-part, intensive modules can be taken during the intervals between Phases I and II and Phases II and III, allowing a student to complete certification both as a Rolfer and as a Rolf Movement practitioner. Students, who are already Certified Rolfers, may also find the intensive format more conducive to their schedule.
Rolf Movement workshops respond to the need for longer class time to accommodate the scope and depth of an expanded curriculum. Understanding movement requires thoroughness in one’s own embodiment and a personal relationship to the varieties of coordinative patterns that clients present. To meaningfully address working with embodiment, Rolf Movement Integration courses emphasize experiential learning and represent an immersion-based approach. The workshop format allows for time between segments to further embody and apply the work in one’s practice. It also shortens the time students must be away from home.
For the intensive program, students must take modules A and B in that order. If a student would rather take the workshops, s/he can begin at any point in the rotation of offered workshops. Each course deepens one’s immersion in the work, and leads to a clearer understanding of a model that contrasts markedly with conventional thinking about body function. The learning is recursive in nature, rather than linear: the process mimics learning to live in a foreign culture more than it does only the acquisition of skills. Each student as they move through their chosen progression of courses consults with his/her instructors to see how the various topics are building integrated embodiment of the work. The open, flexible format allows students to find their own continuity within the program. This may include receiving credit for approved courses taken in regions outside the U.S.
Yes, workshops can be taken for CE credit or towards certification. A Rolfer can also take classes only for CE credit and later decide to apply that credit towards Rolf Movement certification. Intensive modules can only be taken as credit towards certification.
* Additional prerequisites may apply.
Expanding movement education reflects the increased role that an understanding of gravity orientation, perception, coordination, expressivity, and nervous system regulation plays in determining lasting shifts in posture and function. Further, teaching Rolfers to understand, embody, and articulate these perspectives serves the greater RISI mission to educate the world about Rolfing Structural Integration.
Intensive Track
The Rolf Movement Certification program, offered as two 15-day, intensive modules, focuses on the ten-session framework through an embodiment training in coordinative, perceptual and expressive structures and is taught in Boulder, CO. Students must take both Module A and Module B – for a total of 30 days of credit – to be certified as a Rolf Movement practitioner.
Through a lens, based upon the Ten Series and experienced through embodied movement, students will learn theory, skills, and processes to work with client’s coordinative, perceptual and expressive structures. These are synergistic to, and essential for, highly successful and integrative fascial work. As Dr. Rolf so keenly understood, and current research supports, these structures must be addressed to evoke and maintain normal functioning and general health.
Skills explored within these somatic movement education modules:
Workshop Track
The Rolf Movement Certification Program, offered as a series of workshops, focuses on various aspects of a unified movement theory and is taught in different regions of the country. These workshops may be taken independently for Rolf Movement Continuing Education credit from the Rolf Institute. To receive Rolf Movement Certification in this delivery system, a student is required to take a minimum of 30 Rolf Movement continuing education credits/class days, three days of which can be an independent study project or mentorship, over a period of up to six years, plus attend advising sessions.
Students can enter the Rolf Movement Certification Integrative Studies Program at any point in the rotation of offered courses. Each course deepens one’s immersion in the work, and leads to a clearer understanding of a model that contrasts markedly with conventional thinking about body function. The learning is recursive in nature, rather than linear: the process mimics learning to live in a foreign culture more than it does acquisition of skills. A faculty advisor interviews each student as they move through their chosen progression of courses to assist in seeing how the various topics are building integrated embodiment of the work. The open, flexible format allows students to find their own continuity within the program. This may include receiving credit for approved courses taken in regions outside the U.S.
The Rolf Movement Certification Integrative Studies Program is a response to the need for longer class time to accommodate the scope and depth of an expanded curriculum. Understanding movement requires thoroughness in one’s own embodiment and a personal relationship to the varieties of coordinative patterns that clients present. To meaningfully address working with embodiment, Rolf Movement Integration courses emphasize experiential learning and represent an immersion-based approach.
The workshop format allows for time between segments to further embody and apply the work in one’s practice. It also shortens the time students must be away from home.
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