Event Description
This Continuing Education class is open to Certified Rolfers and practitioners of Structural Integration who have completed an IASI Recognized SI Program.
Dr. Ida P. Rolf has said about head and neck work:
“If we establish a spanning polarity between the top of the head and
the base of the sacrum in relationship to the directional span to the
gravity field, we have a new kind of structurally integrated man.”
“There is no more important hour than the seventh: to relate head to sacrum through the spine.”
“The face is just the other side of the neck.”
“When you work on the neck, your fingers are closer to the controlling structures in the body than at any other time.”
Orienting ourselves to the environment and rooting ourselves to the ground helps us use gravity as an ally.
Our ability to orient ourselves in the external environment is possible
when the head is appropriately supported and free to move.
The flow of gravity also occurs when the visceral and neural components
of the head and neck are well integrated with the rest of the body.
These are the main goals of classical session #7.
- Deepening and refining techniques for neck and head work
- Practicing intra-oral work to differentiate between visceral and neural space in the head
- Exploring alternatives to in-mouth work to respect client boundaries
- Enhancing skills for "neck work" as part of the Ten Series
The workshop will include lectures, demonstrations, and practical exchange between students.
About the Instructor
The workshop is taught by Pierpaola Volpones, Certified International Advanced Rolfing
® Instructor, Rolf Movement
® Instructor, and Life Science Instructor.
“Practicing as Rolfer® has been my full-time profession since I graduated in 1986 and still Rolfing it is my main interest. Teaching
Rolfing is also my passion; I completed the teacher training in 2005.
Since then, besides my Rolfing practice in Italy, I teach Basic and
Advanced Rolfing and Rolf Movement trainings and workshops.”
Pierpaola Volpones has been a member of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® since 1986. She first trained as Rolf Movement® practitioner and then became a Rolfer® in 1988. She was certified as a Rolfing and Rolf Movement instructor in 2005 and an Advanced Rolfing Instructor in 2021.
