Vision, Breath, and Orientation: The Key Eements of Movement Integration
With Carol Agneessens
March 21-24, 2012
Boulder, CO

Vision, breath and orientation are the essential elements of integrative support and whole body sensing.

In this five-day movement workshop, participants will explore the integrative functions of vision and orientation as a way of deepening the somatic understanding of: WHERE AM I? Through experiential inquiry, body-centered meditation and specific movement interventions, we will study the vestibular system as it interrelates and sustains peripheral vision, expands perception and relaxes stressful breathing rhythms. The functional neural relationships of these key elements will be presented through lecture and slides with the intention of cultivating embodied awareness. Participants will broaden their sensory experience of the imminent role vision plays in enriching our sense of self, orientation to others and our relationship to the world around us.

Cost: $750 ($625 for Rolf Institute members)

Carol Agneessens, MS. has been practicing the art of Rolfing and movement for over 30 years. She serves on the faculty of the Rolf Institute. The study of embryology, is integral to the understanding of an individual's movement patterns.

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Perception, Touch, and Structural Change: Engaging the Client Across All Taxonomies
With Carol Agneessens and Ray McCall
August 4-8, 2012
Boulder, CO

This is a five day course exploring modes of perception, qualities of touch, and strategies of intervention.

To do a holistic session, it is necessary to work with our modes of perception. In this workshop, we will explore shifting one's perceptual orientation and the subsequent implications for intervention. The workshop will include lectures, demonstrations, practicums and session exchanges.

Cost: $750

Carol Agneessens, MS. has been practicing the art of Rolfing and movement for over 30 years. She serves on the faculty of the Rolf Institute. The study of embryology, is integral to the understanding of an individual's movement patterns.

Ray McCall has 33 years experience as a Rolfer. As a RISI Advanced faculty member he teaches basic, Advanced and Continuing Education classes both in the States and abroad. His particular interest is the energetic taxonomy and how change occurs: how we more fully become and express who we are.

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Interoception: The Primordial Roots of Sensation, Tonus and Gesture
With Carol Agneessens and Hiroyoshi Tahata
October 9-13, 2012
Santa Cruz, CA

Interoception is the ability to read and interpret sensations arising from your own body. "The more viscerally aware you are – the more emotionally attuned you are." (Blakeslee)

In this 5 day training, students will discover the primordial roots of interoception by delving into the science of embryology. Embryology illustrates the integrative flow of development and underscores the somatic truth of connectivity and wholeness.

A kinesthetic experience of the first developmental movement – yield – engages parasympathetic signaling of the autonomic nervous and allows for a deep settling into a state of sensory awareness. Three major neurological centers will be explored through movement, guided meditation and neurological study: the reflective brain, the centering heart and the instinctual belly.

Each of these centers is deeply rooted in a 'midline' relationship. By attuning ourselves to the energy and information flow emanating from these centers we can evolve our own perceptual acuity, instinctual knowing and depth of listening through touch. As we cultivate whole body presence in relation to our client and surrounding space, a greater sense of safety is transmitted within the treatment session as well as sustainable results.

In this module, participants will cultivate a whole body-feeling sense of:

• the embryological development of the neural matrix
• the first developmental movement – yield – engaging and setting autonomic tonus
• gamma touch: supporting receptive listening by the practitioner
• engaging the spectrum of tissue qualities: from defended to porous.
• kinesthetic discovery / awareness of coherence between self-other and surrounding field integral to the transformational process

Open to SI practitioners, body workers, movement professionals, and their clients
Cost: $750

Carol Agneessens, MS. has been practicing the art of Rolfing and movement for over 30 years. She serves on the faculty of the Rolf Institute. The study of embryology, is integral to the understanding of an individual's movement patterns.

Hiroyoshi Tahata, a Rolf movement instructor from Japan, has developed a unique approach to engaging and transforming limiting structural and functional patterns through his work with the movement of yield.

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