Holderness, New Hampshire USA
Schedule
Rolf
Movement Certification Training
Boulder, Colorado
Phase
I – August 4-14 (Aug. 9 & 10 off)
Instructor - Rebecca Carli-Mills & Kevin Frank
Phase II –
October 14-24 (Oct. 18 & 19 off)
Instructor- Jane Harrington & Kevin Frank
The Role of Rolf Movement Training in Structural Integration
Movement Certification offers a reassessment of what structural integration is about. New developments in Rolf Movement make SI more effective and open new avenues for enrolling clients. What makes this so?
Structural integration promises
lasting change in postural and movement coordination. The neuroscience world
now shows why this is possible, why we can make meaningful and lasting
changes in how we stand, walk, and move through life. Neuroscientist, Wilder
Penfield discovered the humunculus in the 1930's. We now know that the brain
has many complex body maps. When our posture changes our body map has
readjusted, become more articulated and better differentiated. This is no
longer speculation thanks to functional MRI which shows us how the brain
"lights up" in various movement tasks. Structural integration addresses
change in the body map. Structural integration helps a client gain more
plasticity in his or her body map.
Fascial manipulation is one of the ways to affect the body map. By
articulating fascial planes through touch, new structural integrators are
often surprised by client change with the ten series. As we practice longer,
we notice that sometimes big changes happen even without much in the way of
fascial touch, sometimes without any touch. Or sometimes change doesn't
occur even after considerable "fascial work." Now we may become curious:
what is it that allows change in posture and coordination to occur; how is
change inhibited in instances where change doesn’t occur?
Structural integration is "structural" because it changes function
over time. Lasting changes in function constitute structural change. But
fascia is only one part of the structural puzzle and possibly more important
as an organ of communication to the body map than as a physical clamp on the
body's shape. The way we use our senses, the way coordinative routines are
established in the brain, and the manner in which we make meaning out of our
context--these structures are the more complex aspects of body map.
Coordination is not meant to be changed casually. Our survival depends on
that. But as structural integrators we want to get inside the "black box" of
the body's movement brain. We wish to learn to speak the language that talks
to the plasticity of body map. For that we need to deepen our embodied
understanding of perception, coordination, and meaning-making and learn how
to speak to the movement brain through a variety of specific skills.
The Movement Training is a journey into the movement brain to learn
more about the structures that require more than fingers and elbow to touch.
New dimensions to the ten series allow each session to find deeper
integration.
To those of you who like to get a head start, some reading
suggestions include:
Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee's marvelous book, The Body Has a Mind of
It's Own, helps you find out about emerging reasons to want to be a
movement certified structural integrator. To experience an SI movement
journey, consider, How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body
Awareness, by McHose and Frank. For familiarity with some ways that
perception can shift coordination, read Bodystories: A Guide to
Experiential Anatomy by Olsen in collaboration with McHose. To read
about how the Tonic Function model of SI illuminates some of the mysteries
of the structural integration world, go to
www.resourcesinmovment.com to read articles by
Godard, Newton, Frank, Caspari (her article on the functional recipe), and
McHose. For a comprehensive guide to new and creative approaches to Rolfing
movement exercises, get Mary Bond’s The New Rules of Posture. Mary
Foster’s book, Somatic Patterning, is a good source to understand
movement principles. For some introduction to the use of language in
relational work, read The Non violent Communications Handbook, by
Marshall Rosenberg. To understand the politics of attentional fields, check
out, The Intuitive Body by Wendy Palmer. It is helpful to have read
or familiarized yourself with Waking the Tiger, by Peter Levine.
Consider also, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, by Shunryo Suzuki—a gentle
inquiry into human consciousness.
These readings will help you prepare for four weeks of immersion
into the multi-dimensional world of Rolfing movement, but they aren’t
required. This Rolf Movement Training will nonetheless empower you with a
new vision of structural integration.
Training Set Up:
The first phase of the training is dedicated toward our own embodiment,
thus we will be working primarily with each other. During the second phase,
we will apply the concepts through sessions with outside models. Throughout
the training, various presentations, discussions, and experiential segments
will broaden our understanding of:
√ Gravity and
movement
√ Patterns of body connectivity
√ Neurological reflexive responses
√ Perceptive patterns of the kinesphere
√ Efficient movement and expressive movement
√ Teaching
through evocation and discovery without overlaying
unnatural patterns
√ Contextual movement coaching
√ Movement qualities
√ Ergonomic ease
√ Responsive contra-lateral walking
. . . . and more
We will work with resonant field phenomena, learning to enter creative
working states, which foster a rich relational context in which therapeutic
events arise.
Join Rebecca, Jane and Kevin for this 18-day inquiry into the nature of functional aspects of our work.
Upon conclusion of the class non-Rolfers will receive certificates of completion, but will not receive “certification” as Rolf Movement Practitioners.
Cost: $3,200 ($300 deposit required)
To register contact:
Jim Jones, Director of Education at
jjones@rolf.org
or 800-530-8875 x105
*In addition, completion of this training plus 75 hours of private practice with Rolf Movement clients will provide eligibility for professional membership in the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Membership in this organization enables you to use the title Registered Movement Therapist or Educator. The first three days of this class can also be taken to meet the movement CE requirement.
Rebecca Carli-Mills
Rebecca Carli-Mills is a member of the Rolfing Movement Faculty. She was certified as a Rolf Movement Practitioner in 1987, a Rolfer in 1989, and completed her Advanced Training in 1992. She also has certification in gestalt therapy from the Pennsylvania Gestalt Center. Prior to training with the Rolf Institute, Rebecca pursued a career in dance and holds a B.A. and M.F.A. degree in dance. She continues to study a variety of manipulative and movement arts. Hubert Godard and Tom Shaver D.O. have been main sources of inspiration. As a member of The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association, Rebecca is committed to the evolution of the professional field of Somatic Movement Studies. Rebecca practices in Chevy Chase MD.
Jane Harrington
Jane Harrington trained in 1979 in the first Rolf Movement class offered by the Rolf Institute. Jane was certified in the structural aspect of Rolfing in 1987 and did her advanced certification in 1992. She became a Rolfing instructor in 1998 and has been teaching Rolf Movement since 1988. Jane holds a Master’s Degree in dance and a BA in education and has done on-going study in the field of movement since 1974 . “As a practitioner and teacher, I am intrigued with the interface between our inner world and our outer reality. For me, the value of Rolfing, structural and functional, is in the finding of joy and authenticity within that interface. This requires a blend of technical skill and presence with multiple aspects of myself and another.”
Kevin Frank
Kevin Frank is a Certified Advanced Rolfer and Movement Educator. He was certified as a Rolfer in 1987. He started study with Hubert Godard in 1991. Since then, Kevin has written numerous articles on aspects on Tonic Function, movement, perception as they relate to structural integration. Kevin teaches CE courses associated with Rolf Institute and IASI, on Tonic Function. With his wife, Caryn McHose he founded Resources in Movement in Holderness, NH, a center for inquiry into perceptual approaches to movement and body/mind education. Kevin is the co-author with Caryn of How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness (North Atlantic 2006). Other sources of Kevin’s work include Continuum, Susan Harper’s Em’oceans and Sensations and perceptual trainings, Zen training and work with Toni Packer to establish the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry and Retreats in Springwater, NY.