Introduction to TensegrityU: Practitioner Skill Building Retreat

Name: Introduction to TensegrityU: Practitioner Skill Building Retreat
Start: 2024-10-03
End: 2024-10-07
Location: TensegrityU

Dr. Ida P. Rolf began to get curious about how the body keeps the score back in the 1930’s. Her belief in the infinite potential for change in the human organism led to our current excitement around fascia and neuroplasticity, and launched a revolution in the connection between body and psyche. She devoted her life to developing a method of therapeutic touch that helps shed limiting, habitual layers and invoke the highest potential of the individual, and our species. She believed, like we do, that integrated beings create integrated relationships; integrated relationships create integrated communities; and integrated communities create an integrated world.

Intro to TensegrityU is our survey course in Rolf Structural Integration, Gestalt Relational Process, and the Feldenkrais Method. This course is designed for experienced practitioners and beginners alike, and participants will come away with skills in bodywork, somatic psychology, and therapeutic touch that will be immediately useful to clients, friends, and family.

In this course participants will:

Learn the principles of Rolf Structural Integration
Develop tools for contacting fascial layers and ability to differentiate through touch
Explore the relationship between gravity, fascia and alignment through embodiment and movement explorations – including Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement (ATM) lessons, meditation and grounding practices, and sunday morning dance
Learn tools of Gestalt Relational Process and therapeutic touch to increase presence and awareness and integration of ourselves and our clients
Investigate how the body is influenced by the principles of entrainment, co-regulational, developmental stages, emotional anatomy, biotensegrity, and neuroplasticity
Craft bodywork sessions for each other using the tools from the course

The course takes place in a beautiful retreat setting with walking trails located 5 minutes from downtown Nevada City and 20 minutes from the Yuba River. Retreat house and Classroom onsite. No need to drive anywhere once you land.

3-Day Workshop

8/2 Friday 5-8pm, 8/3 Saturday 9-6pm & 8/4 Sunday 9-6pm

Space limited to 24

Taught by Kate Flore, Tim McNeely, and guest teacher Kevin Dockery.

Scholarships available, please contact kate@tensegrityu.com to inquire

Hourly Schedule

Fri 3/22

5pm – 8pm

Sat 3/23

9am – 6pm

Sun 3/24

9am – 6pm

Date

October 3 – 7 2024

Expired!

Cost

$600.00

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Location

TensegrityU

Nevada City, CA

Instructor(s)

Kate Flore

Other Instructors

Tim McNeely

Kevin Dockery

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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. Kate can be reached at kate@tensegrityu.com.