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Rolfing® is a trademark of the Rolf Institute registered in the U.S and other countries
The Rolf Movement™ Certification is a 225-hour international professional program that qualifies practitioners as Certified Rolf Movement™ professionals, expanding perceptual, clinical, and relational capacities within therapeutic practice.
The curriculum emphasizes embodiment, sensory awareness, tonic function, haptic perception, phoric orientation, peripersonal space, therapeutic relationship, attunement, and non-formulaic clinical reasoning.
Rather than teaching predetermined movement protocols, the program cultivates perceptual intelligence, presence, and the capacity to collaborate with the client’s lived experience.
This certification is designed for:
Upon completion, participants will be recognized as Rolf Movement™ Practitioners, with international certification.
The training develops refined somatic perception, functional coordination, clinical presence, and movement–gravity integration, expanding the scope and depth of therapeutic practice.
The Brazilian Rolf Movement™ Training is a 225-hour course organized as follows:
This is a professional training program designed for eligible Rolfing® and movement practitioners seeking to deepen perceptual, relational, and clinical skills within the Rolfing® tradition.
Each 15-day module is divided into three 5-day teaching units, taught by two co-faculty instructors per unit.
Lucia Merlino, Pedro Prado, Alfeu Ruggi, and Angela Lobo
Paula Mattoli, Lael Keen, Yeda Bocaletto, and José Garcia
Lucia has been teaching movement for more than 35 years through performing arts, dance, and somatic education. She completed Rolfing® SI and Rolf Movement® certification trainings in São Paulo and Buenos Aires. In addition to her training programs, Lucia teaches workshops and facilitates supervision groups for practitioners.
She holds a PhD in Arts from UNICAMP and an MA in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP. Her extensive study with Hubert Godard has been a profound source of inspiration for her work. Her current focus examines the transformative power of metaphor in shaping bodily awareness, and the role of imagery in supporting integration of somatic change.
Paula works in the fields of Semiotics and the Arts. She has been a Rolfer since 1995 and an instructor at ABR since 2005. Throughout her career, she has studied Rolfing® with Robert Schleip, Lael Keen, Pedro Prado, Mônica Caspari, Vivian Jaye, Hubert Godard, Jan Sultan, Jeff Maitland, Tessy Brungardt, and Sally Klemm. She trained in Visceral Manipulation with Liz Gaggini, Craniosacral Therapy at the Milne Institute, MatrixWorks with Mukara Meredith, and Somatic Experiencing® with Peter Levine. She currently deepens her studies in the psychobiological dimension of Rolfing®, PTSD, and developmental movement psychology through the biodynamic system of Lizbeth Marcher. Paula is a founding member of NAPER (1998), where she continues to serve as a supervisor.
Coordinator and Lead Instructor for the Therapeutic Relationship program
Pedro is an Advanced Rolfer™, faculty member of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute®, and a leading international voice in the psychobiological perspective within Structural Integration. He has worked for decades in training Rolfers®, contributing significantly to global theoretical and clinical development.
Lael Katharine Keen comes from a family of Rolfers. Both her mother and stepfather trained with Ida Rolf, and she grew up in the Rolfing® community in the 1960s and 1970s.
She has been a Rolfing® Instructor since 1995, a Movement Instructor since 1998, and an Advanced Rolfing® Instructor since 2016. She is a founding member of the Brazilian Rolfing® Association.
Lael is also an Advanced Faculty member of Somatic Experiencing®, and co-founded the Brazilian Association for Trauma. She has taught Ki-Aikido for decades and holds a 6th-degree black belt. She is also trained in Anthroposophic Art Therapy and Biographical Counseling. The anthroposophic view of the fourfold human being deeply informs her clinical approach.
She completed Bates Method Vision training in 2018 and integrates sensory perception and visual orientation into her movement and therapeutic work.
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