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Rolf Movement Integration - Enhancing Coordination: Shifting From Conceptual To Perceptual
Course Title: Rolf Movement Integration - Enhancing Coordination: Shifting From Conceptual To Perceptual
Course Date: 5/5/2024 - 5/19/2024
Course Instructor: Per Haaland
Per Haaland is a Certified Advanced Rolfer®, Rolfing® Instructor, and Rolf Movement® Instructor. Per received his basic Rolfing® training in 1989 and completed his advanced training in 1994. Studies with Hubert Godard and Kevin Frank shape his understanding of structural integration as interactive somatic education, highlighting perceptual and coordinative processes. Per’s inclusive teaching style enables practitioners to easily and confidently expand their skills into Rolf Movement applications.
Course Start and end times: 9:30am to 6:30pm PST
Course Type: hybrid
In Person location: Santa Cruz, CA
Course Description: This course offers tools based on the tonic function model to help clients achieve improved body stability and enhanced coordination through enhanced perception and sensory awareness, evocative language, and mindful movement education strategies. Students will practice using simple props (such as walking sticks and TheraBands) and guided movements (such as having clients push their feet against the wall) to help clients form new neural pathways. Students learn to guide clients through specific movement sequences that clients can adopt as valuable self-care practices. Topics covered: What does normal stability look and feel like? How do anatomical structures contribute to stabilization? How do we include self-care in our work with clients? How can we help clients learn to discern and value non-effortful stability? Experiential Exercises Students will be guided through exercises for deepening their own body awareness. Therapeutic Techniques Students will pair with classmates to learn and refine sophisticated movement integration sequences. Opportunities to practice evocative language and directional movement prompts will help students gain confidence in using this interactive, dynamic, and creative style of structural integration. Detailed, step-by-step written guides will be provided for easy recall of all information presented. Lectures and Group Discussions Through lectures and group discussions, student’s understanding will be strengthened in areas of movement theory, anatomy/physiology, and neurology of movement and coordination (including Hubert Godard’s Tonic Function Model and Gracovetsky’s Spinal Engine theory).
Contact info:
Samantha Sherwin
ssherwin@rolf.org
303-449-5903