Kevin Frank is a Certified Advanced Rolfer and Rolf Movement Instructor, in practice since 1987. He teaches movement (perceptive/coordinative/expressive) in the context of structural integration, and in the context of other somatic professions. His work is sourced in study with Hubert Godard, and perceptual and embodiment practices with Susan Harper, Emilie Conrad, and Caryn McHose. Previous to becoming a Rolfer, Kevin helped found and build the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry and Retreats in Springwater, NY, and previously studied and worked at the Rochester Zen Center.

Kevin is the co-author (with Caryn McHose) of How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness, and Kevin is the author of numerous articles on perceptive and coordinative dimensions of structural integration which can be found at www.resourcesinmovement.com under “Article Archive.”

       Perceptive Core Stability

          September 9-15, 2011

A 6-day course to consider how perceptive and coordinative dimensions of structural integration offer reliable answers to issues of core stability. An experiential course to consider: 1. theory about how the body naturally learns stability in response to demand; and 2. skill building practice in movements and perceptions that reinforce and refine the goals of the structural integration series. Stabilization will be considered in table work, seated and standing work, self-care exercises using common exercise bands, as well as use of Pilates reformer and combination chair.
 

Perceptive Core Stability Workshop
Elements

• “Core stability” is an expression of human developmental process based on the experience of security we receive from early childhood.
• Core stability is interrupted when we voluntarily or involuntarily “over-ride” our normal responses to demand. This can happen from overwhelm or due to how we are taught. Over-ride leads to efforted responses that become habitual.
• Structural integration is a way to revive normal stability response in the body so that tonic muscles/primary stabilizers are recruited before phasic muscles/secondary and tertiary stabilizers. For stability, timing is very important.
• The fascial mobilization  aspect of structural integration, helps the body remap itself—so that the body can return to more normalized coordination in which primary stabilizers turn on before secondary and tertiary ones.
• We need to support normalized coordination in other ways as well (besides fascial mobilization). We can, for example, evoke perceptions that help revive the body’s maps. We can practice coordination, in specific ways that allow the body to remember normalized movement. Perception and coordination need to become a natural part of the SI process, on the table, sitting, and standing, walking, and in the tasks of daily life. We can also learn, and learn to teach, self-care exercises that mirror the work in the ten-session series.
• Self care exercise is not about strengthening muscles as much as it is strengthening (rebuilding) the mapping. It is more of a software, rather than hardware question, (although with better software the hardware (muscles, fascia, bones, joints etc.) will become healthier.)
• Perceptive core stability is an experiential course to understand why structural integration works; and why core stability programs often fail to help people with musculo-skeletal complaints—fail to rehabilitate people from injuries and surgeries.
• Perceptive core stability is clarification of a cardinal rule of SI: when our body encounters a demand, it gets longer rather than shorter.
• Perceptive core stability helps us learn to use perception to remap the body and the “action space” so the “movement brain” can make efficient and pleasurable choices to meet daily demands.
• Each day of the workshop will involve theory, perceptive movement, and application to the fascial series.
• Each day of the workshop is about helping you understand how you learn. This is important because our job is to help others learn things that are new and often somewhat intimidating. Our job is to help our clients feel successful in their learning process.

 CE Credit: 42 Hours Type 1 IASI CE 6 Days Rolf Movement Credit (6 Days Credit toward Rolf Movement®
Integration Certification.)

Cost: $900 ($750 Rolf Institute members)

Housing: Course is residential at lake shore property in rural NH. Housing available for $45 per person/night.
Private B & B/Motel accommodations available nearby. www.visitsquam.com 
(September 12^th is a day off.)                                                        

For information: kkfrank@earthlink.net or call 603 968 9585

To register: Deposit of $375 payable to Resources in Movement, and send to
                    Resources in Movement,
                    5 Franks Lane,
                    Holderness, NH 03245

Embodying Rolf’s Structural Integration Recipe

August 22 - 28, 2012

A 6 Day Course to verify Rolf’s insights regarding “normal” body posture and expressive dimensions in gravity. Rolf’s10 session recipe builds a step by step restoration of competent function, through differentiation of the body’s sensory and motor maps. Fascial work, an essential dimension, often obscures the inherent functional goals that each step highlights. How do we evoke the hall marks for each step of integration in the absence of fascial manipulation? And how do we help our selves (and our clients) bring alive structural integration as integrated movement? In this course we learn to feel and teach the natural truth of the structural integration series as perceptive/coordinative experiences.  

CE Credit: 42 CE Hours IASI Type 1. 6 Days Rolf Movement Credit
(6 Days Credit toward Rolf Movement® Integration Certification)

Cost: $900 ($750 for Rolf Institute members)

Housing: Course is residential at lake shore property in rural NH. Housing available for $45 per person/night.

Private accommodations available nearby.      (June 10 is day off)

For information: kkfrank@earthlink.net or call 603 968 9585

To register: Deposit of $375 payable to Resources in Movement, and send to:
                    Resources in Movement,
                    5 Franks Lane,
                    Holderness, NH 03245

Orientation, Perception, and Resonance: Skills that Speak to the
Psychobiological Dimensions within the Structural Integrative Process

August 22 - 28, 2013

A Six Day Course in which we experience orientation as a fundamental skill for bringing presence, safety, and depth to somatic work. This course is an opportunity to notice moment to moment perceptual shifts through exercises that build a quality of shared awareness and sustained presence. Our biology is pre-wired to orient to gravity and to build a map of body and space. We will learn to consciously sense the orienting dimensions within us; and we will learn how orientation supports the structural integration process and helps our clients meet practical and relational challenges in their lives. We will also examine how orientation and perception underlies posture and pre-movement. This course will involve extensive time in partnered sense perception tracking and reflection, as well as stability exercises that provide daily self care.

CE Credit: 42 CE Hours IASI Type 1. 6 Days Rolf Movement Credit (6 Days Credit toward Rolf Movement® Integration Certification)

Cost: $900 ($750 for Rolf Institute members)

Housing: Course is residential at lake shore property in rural NH. Housing available for $45 per person/night.
Private accommodations available nearby.  (September 9 is day off)

For information: kkfrank@earthlink.net or call 603 968 9585

To register: Deposit of $375 payable to Resources in Movement, and send to
                    Resources in Movement,
                    5 Franks Lane,
                    Holderness, NH 03245