Continuing Education
Upcoming Structural Integration workshops for IASI-accredited practitioners.
For Structural Integration practitioners who wish to deepen not only what they do, but how they are while doing it.
After a client completes the ten-session series, what comes next? This workshop addresses the theoretical and practical dimensions of post-ten work. We look at how to assess what a client needs and how to plan individual sessions, always within the spirit of the recipe and free of its fixed sequence.
Participants will explore assessment strategies and session design, then practice hands-on with feedback. Suitable for practitioners who have completed a full basic training.
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How do we cultivate the quality of presence that allows touch to become truly transformative?
Structural Integration is more than the application of technique. It is a meeting with the living intelligence of the human organism – a dialogue with fascia as a dynamic, self-organizing matrix that continuously responds to gravity, movement, perception, emotion and relationship.
During these two experiential days, we will explore how the practitioner’s state of awareness profoundly influences the quality of touch. Drawing inspiration from Ida Rolf’s vision, contemporary fascia research, mindfulness, phenomenology and the principles of self-organizing living systems, we will investigate what it means to work with the body’s intrinsic intelligence rather than attempting to direct it.
Through mindfulness and awareness practices, subtle perception training, hands-on explorations and reflective dialogue, we will cultivate the capacity to listen through our hands, recognize the influence of trauma and autonomic regulation, and discover how presence can become the primary instrument of our work.
This workshop is an invitation to move beyond doing – to a way of practicing in which perception precedes intervention, curiosity replaces certainty, and touch becomes a co-creative process.
For Structural Integration practitioners and advanced students who wish to deepen not only what they do, but how they are while doing it.
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In Ida Rolf’s view the human legs start at the front of the lumbo-dorsal hinge with the interlacing of psoas and crura fibers. She likened this to “BEING”.
Just above the lumbo-dorsal hinge, at the back of the body, the rhomboids control shoulder and arm movements. She likened this to “DOING”.
She postulated a ‘KOAN’ for one goal of sessions 8 & 9 – to find the best possible balance between:
Psoas and Rhomboids, Lordosis and Kyphosis, Being and Doing.
The workshop will focus on how we can prepare for the investigation of this riddle in sessions 1–7 and how to incorporate these findings into sessions 8 & 9.
The following quotes from Ida Rolf’s book Rolfing – The Integration of Human Structures will guide us through the weekend.
Day 1: Psoas
“If psoas and recti are really sharing the load, any and all body movements involving flexion allow the abdominal wall to fall back. Although this seems illogical, it is nevertheless true. In normal, balanced flexion, the psoas does not shorten, does not bulge forward; it lengthens and falls back within the abdomen.”
Day 2: Rhomboids
“Normally, the job of the rhomboids (together with the serrati anterior) is to hold the scapulae in an appropriate relationship to the spine and to balance the teres. When the rhomboids lose their tone and are no longer able to balance the teres or to hold the scapulae in place, their function of supporting the shoulder girdle passes to spinal muscles.”
Day 3: Psoas/Rhomboid Balance
“The psoas (prevertebrally) and the rhomboids (postvertebrally) connect the two girdles to the spinal vertical. The connection must be stable, yet sufficiently flexible to allow movement by the girdles while retaining a substantially undisturbed vertical. Rhomboids are central to the activity of the shoulder girdle, psoas to adequate functioning of the pelvic girdle. The focus of rhomboid-psoas balance is at the lumbodorsal junction, which is what gives this area its unique importance in body mechanics.”
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Pay with PayPalIn Ida Rolf’s view the human legs start at the front of the lumbo-dorsal hinge with the interlacing of psoas and crura fibers. She likened this to “BEING”.
Just above the lumbo-dorsal hinge, at the back of the body, the rhomboids control shoulder and arm movements. She likened this to “DOING”.
She postulated a ‘KOAN’ for one goal of sessions 8 & 9 – to find the best possible balance between:
Psoas and Rhomboids, Lordosis and Kyphosis, Being and Doing.
The workshop will focus on how we can prepare for the investigation of this riddle in sessions 1–7 and how to incorporate these findings into sessions 8 & 9.
The following quotes from Ida Rolf’s book Rolfing – The Integration of Human Structures will guide us through the weekend.
Day 1: Psoas
“If psoas and recti are really sharing the load, any and all body movements involving flexion allow the abdominal wall to fall back. Although this seems illogical, it is nevertheless true. In normal, balanced flexion, the psoas does not shorten, does not bulge forward; it lengthens and falls back within the abdomen.”
Day 2: Rhomboids
“Normally, the job of the rhomboids (together with the serrati anterior) is to hold the scapulae in an appropriate relationship to the spine and to balance the teres. When the rhomboids lose their tone and are no longer able to balance the teres or to hold the scapulae in place, their function of supporting the shoulder girdle passes to spinal muscles.”
Day 3: Psoas/Rhomboid Balance
“The psoas (prevertebrally) and the rhomboids (postvertebrally) connect the two girdles to the spinal vertical. The connection must be stable, yet sufficiently flexible to allow movement by the girdles while retaining a substantially undisturbed vertical. Rhomboids are central to the activity of the shoulder girdle, psoas to adequate functioning of the pelvic girdle. The focus of rhomboid-psoas balance is at the lumbodorsal junction, which is what gives this area its unique importance in body mechanics.”
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Pay with PayPalThree days to explore the first three hours of the “journey that has a heart”, the Recipe by Dr. Rolf. Breath into the back, into the foot that meets the ground like a snowflake descending from the sky, into the space just behind the viscera. We will see the pelvis begin to open to movement to accommodate the Vertical Line, that field in which gravity sows lightness. The first three hours in which the sails of the sleeve begin to take the wind of the core to navigate the ocean of consciousness.
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Pay with PayPalIn our modern world, sitting has quietly become the main way many of us spend our days. As SI practitioners, part of our role is to help people sit well – with more ease, awareness, and balance.
In our sessions, we often include sitting work on the bench as part of the closing phase, and in the advanced series, working with a seated client becomes even more essential.
This workshop invites you to explore a single sitting session as a Post-10 option. Could sitting be a blueprint for overall balance? Perhaps it can – just as every position or movement we practice mirrors our whole-body organization. Here, we’ll narrow our focus to the conversation between body and gravity while sitting – and this, by the way, goes far beyond simply knowing where your sitz bones are.
Through guided practice and observation, you’ll sharpen your eye, refine your touch, and discover what can be accomplished for someone in just one sitting session. You’ll also learn how this work can:
Reimagine what’s possible – one seat at a time.
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Pay with PayPalThree days to explore the first three hours of the “journey that has a heart”, the Recipe by Dr. Rolf. Breath into the back, into the foot that meets the ground like a snowflake descending from the sky, into the space just behind the viscera. We will see the pelvis begin to open to movement to accommodate the Vertical Line, that field in which gravity sows lightness. The first three hours in which the sails of the sleeve begin to take the wind of the core to navigate the ocean of consciousness.
Please include your name and the workshop name in the payment reference.
Click below to pay via PayPal. PayPal will take you to our payment page.
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