Holderness, New Hampshire USA
Resources in Movement
Presents
A 5-Day Course:
Tonic Function
and Experiential Anatomy:
A Perceptual and Coordinative Approach to Structural Integration
Holderness, NH
June 18-22, 2004 $600
Instructors: Kevin Frank and Caryn McHose
Structural Integration changes function and coordination by shifting automatic reflexes and physical structure (body schema), and by shifting the conscious and sub-conscious body map (body image). Dr. Rolf’s work addressed both body schema and body image and thus set structural integration apart from conventional manual therapies.
In this class we will consider body reading, table work, and coordinative exercises in the context of body schema and body image. We will make shifts of perception in strategic anatomical relationships. We will consider how function is influenced by four structures: physical, coordinative, perceptual and meaning. We will look at structure against the background of contralateral gait, where extremities and girdles are part of a whole body dynamic. We will use contralateral gait to illustrate the origins of appropriate spinal stabilization. And we will see how gravity orientation affects everything to do with movement and sensory perception. Tonic function is the name Hubert Godard has given to his articulation of Dr. Rolf’s vision—a gravity response model of human integration.
Rolf Institute CE credit.
Reasonably price housing available on site. See “Cloverly Cottage” at
www.resourcesinmovement.com
Also nearby accommodations at
www.squamlakeschamber.com
Contact:
info@resourcesinmovement.com or
call 603 968 9585.
To register, send $100 deposit to:
Resources in Movement, RR 1 Box 195, Ashland, NH 03217.
Balance due 5/18/04.
Kevin Frank is an advanced certified Rolfer and movement practitioner. He has taught a number of Rolf Institute CE approved courses and presented at Rolf Institute annual meetings. He is a long time student of Hubert Godard and assists Godard in some of his classes. Kevin has also studied extensively with Susan Harper and assists her in the Em’oceans and Sensations Trainings.
Caryn McHose developed the experiential anatomy course at Middlebury College. That course is the basis of the book, Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy. She has taught creative movement for over 35 years and has taught for Tom Myers’s Broad Reach of Bodywork and for the Rolf Institute’s Foundations of Bodywork Course. Caryn is an active student of Hubert Godard’s and Susan Harper. She co-founded the RK training program in perceptual skills for bodyworkers in Burlington, VT. Caryn’s other sources for her work include: Biodynamic and Energetic Osteopathy, Visceral Manipulation, Somatic Experiencing and Bonnie Cohen. In addition to teaching she has a private practice in perceptual body therapy.
Kevin is the author of: “Tonic Function, A Gravity Based Model for Structural and Movement Integration,” “Wave Motion and the Fluid Matrix,” “Seeing the Ground of a Movement: Tonic Function and the Fencing Bear,” and “Tonic Function and Contralateral Gait: Working with Coordinative Structure.” Kevin and Caryn are the co-authors of “The Evolutionary Sequence, A Model for an Integrative Approach to Movement Study.”
These articles are downloadable at
www.resourcesinmovement.com (Click on “Article Archive”)