AT 1.20 Advanced Training - Part 2

Instructor:
Tessy Brungardt and Valerie Berg

Organizational Host: 
Dr. Ida Rolf Institute

Credits: 
0

Registration Prices:
$6,713 (for both Part 1/Part 2)

($300 deposit + 6 monthly payments of $1068.83 beginning July, 2020)

Payment options available upon enrollment

Contact Information: 
[email protected]
303-449-5903

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Course Description:

The Advanced Training is a 168-hour course that takes place over several days. Designed for the experienced practitioner, the Advanced Training further develops, refines, and enhances a Rolfer's practice through 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, the 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 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 Biography:

Tessy Brungardt received her BA in Environmental Biology in 1976 from New College in Sarasota, FL. In her studies and career afterwards, 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 87 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 comes later developing out of knowing the territory of the ten series work. She worked in Guatemala for 5 years in the 90s and was exposed to the trauma of war and violence thus began studying Peter Levine’s trauma work. Valerie is also very interested in cultural and worldview influences on our structure and function. She has been teaching Rolfing SI for 11 years and received her Bachelor's degree in Education and dance She is also a Rolf Movement Practitioner trained by Hubert Godard. She continues to study Visceral, and Neural work as a component of her practice. She has been practicing in New Mexico for 26 years Tango dancing, yoga, hiking, sculling and kayaking keep her moving and interested in the vitality of our bodies continuing through the changes of the years. Her focus over the last 6 years has been developing ways of working with Structural Aging.