Rolf Movement Integration

Why become Rolf Movement^® Certified?

Rolf Movement Certification Training is a distinct and complementary program to the Basic and Advanced Rolfing^® Structural Integration programs.

Expanding movement education reflects the increased role that an understanding of gravity orientation, perception, coordination, expressivity, and nervous system regulation plays in determining lasting shifts in posture and function. Further, teaching Rolfers^® to understand, embody, and articulate these perspectives serves the greater DIRI mission to educate the world about Rolfing Structural Integration. Rolf Movement Integration is still a young field but one that distinguishes Rolfing from other brands of structural integration. Rolf Movement Integration links ongoing discoveries in the study of neuroscience and motor patterns to the legacy of Dr. Rolf.

Prerequisites

Rolf Movement Certification is open to all SI practitioners from an IASI-recognized SI program. This class is open to all interested movement practitioners from allied professions with instructor approval. This workshop offers 5 credits toward the 30-day Rolf Movement Certification. This class fulfills the Rolf Movement requirement for Advanced Training and earns 37.5 NCBTMB Continuing Education Hours. Rolfing® SI Training students must have completed Phase II before enrolling in any of these Intensive Module Courses.

• Open to all Certified Rolfers and practitioners of Structural Integration who have completed an IASI Recognized SI Program.
• Open to Allied Professions with Instructor approval.
• Rolfing® SI Training students must have completed Phase II before enrollment.

About the Instructor

Juan David Vélez has been practicing as a Rolfer^® and Rolf Movement^® Practitioner since 1995, first in his native Colombia, and for the last ten years in Portland, Oregon. Juan David is guided by the belief that mastery is the place where logic, knowledge, and intuition converge. As a practitioner, he combines a rigorous scientific understanding of the discipline with an open-minded, intuitive approach.

As a teacher, Juan David builds a strong framework of the science, theory, and philosophy of Rolfing^® Structural Integration, and encourages students to investigate and master these concepts through play and personal exploration. Juan David has a particular interest in neuroplasticity, the seemingly limitless ability of the brain to change the body and to respond to the body by changing itself.

In his spare time, Juan David enjoys painting and ecstatic dance, a good cup of tea, and a serious game of chess.