European Practitioner Course

Name: European Practitioner Course
Start: 2025-03-01
End: 2025-03-07
Location: TensegrityU (Switzerland)

Open Table: Emotional Anatomy & Structural Integration

This 7 day course introduces “Open Table”, an approach to using the circling tradition of Gestalt Open Seat within Ida Rolf’s classic 10-series of Structural Integration to examine how what we do, feel and think influences the shape our body takes.

What role does the fibula play in our feeling of safety on the ground? How do intero and proprioception influence our spatial awareness? How is the psoas both an expression and reflection of the autonomic nervous system? How can we positively influence the human form for greater emotional, physical, and spiritual agency? These and other inquiries will be explored in Open Table, an experiential, hands-on, body workshop in which the foundations of Rolf Structural Integration, the Feldenkrais Method, and Gestalt Relational Process meet our current understanding of trauma, brain science, anatomy, somatic psychology, and human potential.

Through the lens of Ida Rolf’s gift to humankind – the 10-Series – each day of the workshop will be devoted to one of the first seven sessions of her Structural Integration “Recipe”. This will include experiences in awareness through movement, lectures on emotional anatomy, Gestalt awareness practice, case studies, and the “Open Table,” where one student receives a session from the facilitator in the circling tradition of the Gestalt Open Seat. The group becomes a safe container and participants will find themselves having their own session as they hold space for the person on the table. Echoes and reflections from the group deepen this experience once the table work has come to completion. Participants will begin to recognize trauma patterns, structural compensations, and limit cycles in the human organism, trading sessions with each other and cultivating relational process, body reading, and movement integration to complement their existing bodywork acumen.

This course is designed for those who are currently practitioners of manual, movement, somatic psychology and personal growth therapies and have an interest in developing more knowledge and skill in body reading, emotional anatomy, the tools of touching layers of fascia, and how to help clients integrate table work.

Date

March 1 – 7 2025

Location

TensegrityU (Switzerland)

Zurich, Switzerland

Instructor(s)

Kate Flore

Tim McNeely

Co-Founder and Educator

Tim McNeely began his career as an urban sociologist, and after a major trauma and near death experience devoted his life to the practice and teaching of Dr. Ida P. Rolf’s traditional 10-Series.

This process – an anatomically informed, and holistic bodywork protocol – organizes and aligns the human being in relationship to itself and its environment for maximum ease and potential. These ten sessions are Dr. Rolf’s lasting gift to humankind.

Tim believes, like the giants of the Human Potential Movement that came before him, that integrated beings create integrated relationships; integrated relationships create integrated communities, and integrated communities create an integrated world. In this spirit he chose western Nevada County as his laboratory a decade ago, and so far has taken 1% of this wonderful population through the transformative experience of the 10-Series. The impact of Dr. Rolf’s legacy there can be seen and felt.

Tim McNeely is a Co-Founder and educator for TensegrityU. He is certified through the Guild for Structural Integration, and is an Anatomy Trains (ATSI) Advanced Practitioner. He is a certified Esalen massage practitioner licensed in California. He has also trained in CranioSacral therapy and Visceral Manipulation through the Upledger and Barral institutes, and participates in anatomical dissections with Gil Hedley. He is currently studying Somatic Experiencing. Tim lives and practices in Nevada City, CA.

Kate Flore, MPH, OTR, CMP

Co-Founder and Educator

Kate Flore is an occupational therapist, educator, and Gestalt facilitator. She believes that we are all an instrument of healing – first for ourselves, and then for others and that healing is best done within a supportive community container. She began her profession researching population health disparities at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and the Altarum Institute in Washington DC. She has a master’s degree in public health, a clinical license in occupational therapy and is on faculty at the Esalen Institute.

After a decade of competitive cycling coupled with a high stress job and lots of desk work, Kate realized that her body had taken the shape of her occupations – her feet off the ground and head forward – limiting movement and self-expression.

In her recovery from an injury that left her left arm and hand without function, a combination of movement therapies (yoga, pilates, Gyrotonic), bodywork (Rolf Structural Integration and the Feldenkrais Method) and learning therapeutic touch began to re-integrate her limb. Being part of the Esalen community re-integrated her spirit. During her training at Esalen, Kate discovered the power of group Gestalt relational process, “Open Seat”, to integrate bodywork and support personal agency. Blending these modalities, she has dedicated her teachings and clinical practice to helping others find ease in body, movement, and spirit. She brings these practices to vulnerable populations including our correctional system, people with terminal illness, and children with severe disabilities. She serves on boards for Vision Walkers Collective and Compassionate Care ALS.

As co-founder and educator for TensegrityU, Kate is committed to helping support practitioners develop the eyes, hands, body mechanics, presence and professionalism needed to deliver effective holistic and client-centered work.

Kate has trained in Gyrotonic and Pilates and in the Feldenkrais Method with Harriet Goslins, Russell Delman, Jeff Haller, and Raz Ori, and Gestalt Relational Process with Dorothy Charles and Christine Price. She is a student of anatomist and dissection teacher Gil Hedley. She lives and practices in Nevada City, CA and at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.