Course Title: Rolfing Advanced Training
Course Location: Albuquerque, NM
Course Date(s): Part 1 / October 19, 2023 - November 3, 2023 (off 10/21, 10/22, 10/28, & 10/29) Part 2 / February 15, 2024 to March 1, 2024 (off 2/17, 2/18, 2/24, 2/25)
Course Time: 08:30 AM - 04:30 PM MST
Course Instructor(s): Tessy Brungardt & Valerie Berg
Organizational Host: Dr. Ida Rolf Institute®
Registration Fees: $7,427 ($7,352 Tuition + $75 Admin Fee)
Registration Process: Visithttps://www.rolf.org/advanced_training_for_non-rolf.php to view pre-requisites and then contactAdmissions@rolf.org.
Registration/Point of Contact Email Address: admissions@rolf.org
Registration/Point of Contact Phone Number: 303-449-5903
IASI CE Credits: 0
Course Description: Non-DIRI Members can view Training Details, including Pre-Requisites, athttps://www.rolf.org/advanced_training_for_non-rolf.php.Advanced Training is a 168-hour course that takes place over several weeks. Designed for the experienced practitioner, the Advanced Training further develops, refines, and enhances a Rolfer's practice through a deeper examination of the diverse aspects of the work. The goal is to pave the way to become a more responsive, skilled, and effective Rolfer®. Course content includes a broad range of topics related to conceptual, perceptual, relational, and manual skill sets.The course presents a client-centered approach that uses a Rolfing® Principles-based process to form evaluation, strategy, and intervention based on Rolfing Taxonomies (Structural, Functional, Psychobiological, Energetic, and Geometric). Rather than following the Basic Training's ten-series progression, Advanced Training teaches practitioners to evaluate clients individually and develop individualized treatment strategies.At the heart of the client-centered approach lies an inquiry into each Rolfer's self-awareness and perception of others. The goal is to nurture each practitioner's ability to accurately perceive and respond to clients visually, relationally, and through purposeful, accurate touch. Developing perception is a life-long process that leads to the deliberate and appropriate use of self, precise interventions, and the ability to evaluate and track the effects of the work.Exploring course material through lectures, practicums and instructor demonstrations, participants learn to design a principle-governed Advanced Series of Rolfing sessions. Each practitioner gives and receives a supervised non-formulaic series with a fellow classmate and provides an additional series with a classroom client. The purpose of demonstrating, exchanging sessions, and working with clients is twofold to learn, strategize and perform a principle-governed series and to address the integration needs of each practitioner.
Instructor Bio(s): Tessy Brungardt received her BA in Environmental Biology in 1976 from New College in Sarasota, FL. In her studies and following career she enjoyed exploring the interface of observing the natural world and the science of how things worked. Once she was introduced to Rolfing® Structural Integration in 1979, she was inspired to take this exploration into the human realm. She became a Certified Rolfer® in 1985 and a Certified Advanced Rolfer in 1988. Tessy completed her Rolf Movement® Certification in 1994. She also became certified to teach for the Rolf Institute in 1994 and became an Advanced Instructor for the Rolf Institute in 2002.Valerie Berg trained in 1987 with Peter Melchior and Nicholas French. She is a big proponent of teaching the classical Ten-Series to beginning students, as this is where a lot of our thinking and development occurs that takes us deeper into the work. The nuances and advanced work come later developing out of knowing the territory of the ten series work. She worked in Guatemala for five years in the '90s and was exposed to the trauma of war and violence thus began studying Peter Levine’s trauma work. Valerie developed a workshop called Structural Aging which came from feeling the results the first time she was Rolfed® at 25 years old. The joy of moving our bodies with freedom and no pain is what gives us the sense of being alive and young, not our age. Over the years she has focused on all the patterns that break us down to make us feel or look old.She has been teaching for 20 years and received her bachelor’s degree in Education and Modern dance. She is also a Rolf Movement Practitioner trained by Hubert Godard.She has been practicing full-time in Albuquerque, NM for 32 years and now travels to San Diego and has a part-time practice there.