How the Rolf Movement Practitioner Certification Works — The 30-Day Requirement and Choosing Where to Train

Published 2026/08/24
Modified 2026/08/29
Author Hidefumi Otsuka
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Introduction

The Rolf Movement certification training is a thirty-day program, set up separately from the Rolfing basic training. When you complete all of it, you are certified as a Rolf Movement Practitioner.

This article is for anyone considering whether to take that training. It sets out what the certification requires, and where you can take it.

I completed the thirty days myself with the European Rolfing Association (ERA), between July 2017 and December 2019, and was certified there. What I learned during those years is written up separately (On the Path to Becoming a European Rolf Movement Practitioner — The Road to Certification).

This article is not about the content of my own learning. It is about the system: how the Rolf Movement certification training is put together.

One caution. The training system is still changing with the times. The number of days required, the order of the courses, and the eligibility rules have all been revised before, and may be revised again. For current information, please check the official website of the association you are interested in.

The Organizations in This Article

Let me first set out the names of the field and the organizations that appear here.

Structural Integration (SI)

This is the general name for the whole field that Ida Rolf founded. Rolfing is one form of SI, and the name “Rolfing” is a registered trademark of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute. Work in the same lineage goes under different names depending on which school certified the practitioner.

Dr. Ida Rolf Institute (DIRI)

Founded in 1971 in Boulder, Colorado, this is the central organization for Rolfing education and certification. It is now based in Lafayette, in the same state. It used to be called the Rolf Institute, so when this article deals with past events, it uses the name of the time, “Rolf Institute.”

European Rolfing Association (ERA)

This is the association of European Rolfers, with its office in Munich, Germany. Its educational arm is Dr. Ida Rolf Institute Europe (DIRI Europe). If you are certified through ERA, you are automatically registered with DIRI as well.

In this article, I write “ERA” when referring to the association or the organization, and “DIRI Europe” when referring to the courses or their documents.

Japan Rolfing Association (JRA)

This is the association of Rolfers in Japan.

IASI (International Association of Structural Integrators)

This is the international body of SI practitioners, Rolfers included. It sets educational standards for the field and accredits training programs that meet them. Among the eligibility conditions discussed later, “a graduate of an IASI-accredited school” refers to someone who has completed a training program accredited by this body.

One more thing to explain in advance.

There are lineages within SI that are separate from DIRI. Schools carrying the name and the tradition of the Guild for Structural Integration — the name Ida Rolf herself first gave her work in 1967 — still exist in both Europe and the United States. “Rolf Movement” is a registered trademark of DIRI, and its certification system belongs to the DIRI lineage. Schools in the Guild lineage do not offer a Rolf Movement certification course.

What this article covers, then, is not the system of the whole SI field. It is the Rolf Movement certification system within the DIRI lineage. How DIRI and the Guild came to take different paths is written up in a separate article on the history.

What Rolf Movement Is

ERA presents Rolf Movement as a program that opens up the possibilities of Rolfing from a different standpoint.

Rolfing works mainly on the structure of the body through hands-on technique. Rolf Movement engages the client by looking at the body’s function and movement. Approaching the body from movement adds another standpoint to the structural work of the hands.

ERA gives five reasons why movement education has been expanded: orientation to gravity, perception, coordination, expressivity, and regulation of the nervous system. These have turned out to matter in producing lasting change in posture and function, and that is the background to the expansion (ERA’s official page).

ERA goes further, and writes that Rolf Movement is what distinguishes Rolfing from other Structural Integration practices. It connects ongoing findings in neuroscience and in the study of movement patterns to Ida Rolf’s legacy.

Touch with a Different Purpose

There is an important difference here.

The touch used in Rolf Movement has a different purpose from the hands-on technique used in conventional Rolfing. What it aims at is better organization of the body while the body is moving. It is less a hand for changing fascia itself, and more a hand for giving the body new information through movement.

That said, work on the fascia does not disappear. ERA states clearly that fascial work grounded in Ida Rolf’s thinking is one of the means a Rolf Movement Practitioner uses.

A Rolf Movement Practitioner therefore takes on both standpoints: working on the structure of the body through hands-on technique, and working on perception and the coordination of movement.

What It Sets Out to Change

Kevin Frank, a Rolf Movement Instructor at DIRI, describes the purpose of this course more concretely than ERA’s official wording does. Rolf Movement is a specialty within Rolfing, and it emphasizes education in perception and coordination in order to free the body from movement patterns based on effort and shortening. Its main means is changing how the body prepares to move — that is, pre-movement. How you prepare to move accounts for a large part of whether you can change a movement pattern that resists being changed.

This view connects with Ida Rolf’s own words. ERA opens its description of Part 1 by quoting her: “Put it where it belongs and ask for movement.” ERA explains that this one line points to the importance of the body preparing itself ideally for each movement it makes.

Who Takes It

Rolf Movement is an educational approach that deepens bodily awareness through movement. It can therefore be combined with many movement disciplines — yoga, Pilates, dance, sports, martial arts.

The backgrounds of the people who take the training vary widely. Some come from dance, music, sports, yoga, or martial arts. Others come from fields with no connection to any of these. The backgrounds differ, but an interest in how the body moves is common to all of them.

There is also more than one way to use the certification afterward. Many practitioners bring the Rolf Movement standpoint into their conventional Rolfing sessions and widen the scope of their work. Others offer Rolf Movement individual sessions and workshops as something separate.

Rolf Movement can also be taken by a client who has finished the Rolfing ten-series and wants to explore the body further. At the same time, ERA explains that it is useful as a stand-alone approach for people who have not had Rolfing at all.

Which Lineage ERA Places at the Center

If you are choosing where to train, it is worth knowing how ERA describes the origins of Rolf Movement, and which lineage it places at the center.

What Ida Rolf kept asking was how a human being can use the body, given the three-dimensional network of fascia. The goal was a body that stands upright easily and naturally, supported by gravity. According to ERA, her exchanges with Moshe Feldenkrais and with many other movement researchers of the time influenced how she developed Rolf Movement.

The inquiry Ida Rolf began was then carried further by many Rolfers. The one ERA singles out as a breakthrough is the approach developed by Hubert Godard.

ERA explains that Godard’s model of Tonic Function was built from his exchanges with other movement teachers, from many years of wide experience, and from recent research findings on the function of connective tissue.

In its Rolf Movement education, then, ERA places Godard’s theory and approach at the center. As the following sections show, Godard’s lineage is not all there is to Rolf Movement. But to study at ERA is, in essence, to take up this lineage. That is worth knowing before you choose where to train.

Where This Training Came From

In the article I wrote about the Rolfing basic training, I barely touched on its history. With Rolf Movement, the origins cannot be passed over. There is a reason for that.

Hands-on Rolfing has a shared backbone: the ten-series. Wherever you study, and with whomever, you learn the thinking and the order of that series. So even without knowing the history in detail, you can read the course description and understand what the training will teach.

Rolf Movement has no single shared form of that kind. There are several theoretical streams, and where and from whom you learn changes where the weight of the content falls. As the next sections show, the backbone of ERA’s education is Hubert Godard’s model of Tonic Function. But that is not all of Rolf Movement.

To understand where these differences came from, you have to look back at the history.

Rolf Movement education carried one difficulty from the start. Kevin Frank, a Rolf Movement Instructor, sets the problem out this way.

Ida Rolf brought together a new way of seeing the body into a single body of work. But she had a hard time teaching what she understood to others, because no language for it existed beforehand.

Almost no one could recognize what a well-organized body looks like, let alone define it. Fewer still could put into words how the coordination of a body had changed. What was needed was a new language, and new hallmarks for grasping that organization. Rolf Movement work, Frank suggests, began as an attempt to supply this missing dimension (Structural Integration, June 2012).

The several theories and approaches that came afterward can all be read as answers to that same problem. Godard’s theory is no exception.

To understand his thinking not as one technique among many, but from the standpoint of what question it was trying to answer, you first have to know how the question arose.

Structural Awareness, which Dorothy Nolte began in 1962. Rolf/Aston Structural Patterning, which Judith Aston developed from 1971. Aston’s departure in 1977. The forming of Rolfing Movement Integration between 1978 and 1980. Then the split in the organization in 1989, and the divergence in curriculum that followed.

This flow of history is written up in a separate article (Where Rolf Movement Came From — A History from Ida Rolf to the Present).

I would suggest reading it before you choose where to take Rolf Movement. What changes according to where and from whom you learn becomes visible once you follow the history.

There Is More Than One Theoretical Tradition

The most important point to understand when deciding where to study Rolf Movement is that it draws on more than one theoretical tradition.

The Rolf Movement taught at ERA is grounded primarily in Hubert Godard’s model of Tonic Function. The five elements listed earlier—orientation to gravity, perception, coordination, expressivity, and regulation of the nervous system—all belong to this tradition.

Who Hubert Godard Is

According to ERA’s official profile, Godard became a Certified Rolfer in 1986. From 1988 he was involved in research at the National Cancer Institute in Milan, and in 1990 he was appointed director of the department of dance and movement analysis at the University of Paris.

His original field was chemistry. He took a degree in it and worked briefly as a chemist. But what he was truly passionate about was dance.

While dancing, Godard noticed that certain movements were very difficult for him. With the help of a doctor, he practiced various techniques, and found he could actually change the way he moved. From that experience, he says, came his interest in understanding how human movement works.

What he studied is listed as osteopathy, the Feldenkrais Method, the Alexander Technique, the Mézières Method, classical dance, and psychoanalysis.

For Godard, encountering Rolfing was a turning point.

Receiving Rolfing opened a way for him to understand how the body organizes itself within gravity, and how that affects a person physically and psychologically. Through it, he says, he could take the knowledge and techniques he had learned separately and see them again from one shared standpoint.

Where Tonic Function Came From

Godard has described how he came to his inquiry into Tonic Function. What formed him, he says, was the experience of teaching dance.

Give students the same movement task, and how they dance changes according to the words you use and the story you tell in the studio. Godard’s inquiry began when he noticed this.

Why should a difference in words change movement? Working on that question, Godard first arrived at the idea that space supports the body.

Following the history of modern dance further, he identified two streams: one in which movement is organized upward from the floor, and another in which it is organized by lifting the chest. He also recognized that the way he himself perceived and organized space was directly connected to patterns of contraction in the body and to the conflicts they produced.

From this inquiry, Godard came to place a central question at the heart of his understanding of movement: how does the body respond to gravity—to its own weight and to its orientation in space? (Caryn McHose, interview with Hubert Godard, Contact Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2006).

The starting point of Tonic Function, then, was a simple observation: the way an instruction is worded can change how a person moves.

This overlaps with the origins of Rolf Movement described earlier. There was no adequate language for describing the coordination of the body or how that coordination changes. A new vocabulary and new points of reference were therefore needed. Godard’s inquiry offered another answer to that problem.

Space Is Experienced Differently Across Cultures

Godard states plainly that how space is used and experienced differs from culture to culture.

Growing up in Japan and growing up in the American Midwest, he says, give very different relationships to space. In Japan, people live close to one another, yet each person can hold a large kinesphere. The physical space is narrow, but the space the body experiences is wide. In the American Midwest, according to Godard, the relationship is reversed.

A kinesphere is the personal movement space around a body, extending as far as the limbs can reach. What concerns Godard here is not measurable physical size. It is how the body feels space, and how far it experiences space as belonging to it.

Godard also refers to perspective in painting. In Western culture, the perspective that converges toward a vanishing point has been treated as the legitimate one. It is at the same time, he says, a metaphor for the hierarchy of society. In Japanese painting, by contrast, he notes that the vanishing point is often placed behind the viewer.

This matters for anyone thinking of taking Rolf Movement training, wherever they come from. The theory of Tonic Function includes the standpoint that space is experienced differently across cultures. Japan is one of the cases Godard takes up explicitly, and the American Midwest is another.

The theory taught at ERA, in other words, does not hold up one cultural standard of how a body should organize itself in space. That culture changes how a body feels space and how it moves is already within the reach of the theory, and the teacher in front of you carries a sense of space as much as you do.

Streams Outside ERA

Godard’s lineage, though, is not all of Rolf Movement.

Look at the faculty teaching at DIRI in the United States, and some — Kevin Frank, Per Haaland, Aline Newton — come from Godard’s stream, while others were certified in Rolf Movement by different teachers, or come from somatic psychology, craniosacral work, and other backgrounds. Even within DIRI, the theoretical and practical backgrounds of the faculty differ.

Brazil has the dual certification course designed by Monica Caspari (1953–2019), in which both Rolfing and Rolf Movement are studied. It is a program that treats structure and movement, two sides that support each other, as one body of work.

Caspari held that every human being is organized in relation to space and gravity, while how each person experiences that relation differs from one to another and is shaped by culture as well. During her life she taught in Brazil, and also in Germany, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Argentina, and across the United States.

In Japan there is the Yield technique developed by Hiroyoshi Tahata. Tahata is a Certified Advanced Rolfer and a Rolf Movement Instructor. He was already teaching in the United States by 2012, and in 2023 and 2024 he taught hara and ma-ai at ERA’s Rolf Movement certification workshops. Hara is the lower belly, and in Japanese usage it carries the sense of a center a person acts from. Ma-ai is the distance and timing held between two people, a term that comes from the martial arts.

Thinking that grew in the United States has been taken into the European curriculum, and a method developed in Japan is taught in Europe. The theory and practice of Rolf Movement have not been handed down in one direction. They have developed while moving back and forth between regions and cultures.

Gael Rosewood values what Godard brought to Rolf Movement as an exciting standpoint, with more concrete language and scientific grounding than before. At the same time, she says she does not know how well his contribution was integrated with the Rolf Movement curriculum that preceded it.

In Rolf Movement, then, where and from whom you learn changes where the weight of the content falls. This is worth knowing before you choose a place and a teacher.

What the Certification Requires

The basic requirements are the same wherever you take the training.

To be certified as a Rolf Movement Practitioner, you must complete thirty days and 225 hours of training. Completing all of it within six years of your first course is recommended.

At DIRI in the United States, up to three of the thirty days may be given to independent study or to mentoring by a DIRI Rolf Movement faculty member. Eligible courses taken with certified faculty from 2009 onward may also count toward the required days.

Eligibility Is Stated Differently in Different Documents

Eligibility needs care, because the documents describe who may attend in different ways.

DIRI’s description in the United States lists three:

a Certified Rolfer in good standing
a student who has completed Phase II of the basic training
a Structural Integrator who has completed a training program at an IASI-accredited school

ERA’s description of Part 1 lists two:

a Certified Rolfer
a Structural Integrator who has completed an IASI-accredited school

Students partway through the basic training are not included here.

DIRI Europe’s Education Overview states only that it is open to Structural Integrators who have completed an IASI-accredited school.

So for the same thirty-day, 225-hour certification course, eligibility is stated in three different forms. The Lafayette school in the United States says you can begin the Rolf Movement course partway through the basic training, while ERA’s description reads as though it is, in principle, for certified Rolfers and Structural Integrators.

I would suggest asking the association you want to train with directly about whether you are eligible.

One note on names. The stages of the basic training used to be called Phase I, II, and III; they are now Level 1, 2, and 3. “Completion of Phase II” in DIRI’s description corresponds to completion of Level 2 under the current system.

Two Routes to Certification

How do you complete the required thirty days? There are broadly two ways.

Accumulating Workshop Credits

The first is to take a number of workshops and build up the credits little by little.

You take courses of three to five days, each on its own topic. There is no set order, and you can join the rotation of courses on offer at any point.

The Japan Rolfing Association gives a fuller explanation of why this format is used.

Learning Rolf Movement does not advance in a straight line through fixed stages. It deepens by touching the same themes again and again. The process is less like acquiring one skill at a time, and more like living in a different culture and gradually growing accustomed to it.

The training is therefore divided into short workshops. The interval before the next class gives you time to try what you have learned in actual sessions, and to make it your own understanding.

In practical terms, this format has three advantages.

The first is that a class taken for continuing education can later be applied toward Rolf Movement certification credits. A class you took before you had any thought of certification may count toward the requirement afterward.

The second is that credits transfer between associations. You can combine classes taken with different associations and in different regions to make up the thirty days.

The third is that you are away from home and work for only short stretches. You can work through the training over several years without stopping your practice for long.

On cost: completing the thirty days mainly through classes given in Tokyo by teachers based in Japan is estimated at roughly 450,000 to 600,000 yen. The figure varies with the region, the number of teachers, and whether teachers are invited from overseas.

Taking the Three Parts Intensively

The other way is to take the training intensively, in blocks. ERA uses this format.

ERA divides the thirty days into three Parts. Each Part is ten days, and each can be booked separately. The order is in principle free, and you may complete the course over several years. In its description of Part 1, though, the faculty recommends taking Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 in that order. Complete all three and you are awarded the Rolf Movement Practitioner certificate.

The official documents say each Part is offered every twelve to fourteen months. The actual schedule published for 2026 and 2027 has Part 1 in October 2026, Part 2 in March 2027, and Part 3 in July and August 2027 — intervals of four to five months.

The same description also calls it an intensive format in which the three modules are taken over about a year.

So the official documents do not agree on how often each Part is offered, or how long the whole course takes. As a later section shows, the content and order of the Parts are themselves in transition at present, and there are several places where the documents have not caught up with the changes. This appears to be one of them.

When you actually apply, you need to check the specific dates published at that time rather than the general description.

There is a clear reason for dividing the course into three Parts: so that what you experience in the classroom can be taken into your own practice before the next Part. You then return to the classroom carrying the questions and insights that came up with your clients. That is how ERA explains it.

The fee is 2,150 euros per Part, or 6,450 euros for all three. Payment by installment is available. Anyone already certified as a Rolf Movement Practitioner may retake a Part at half the usual fee.

If you are coming from outside the region, add airfare and the cost of staying there. In my case, traveling from Tokyo, I flew to Munich and back six times before completing the whole course. In estimating the cost, then, you need to count not only the fee but travel, accommodation, and living expenses on site.

The Two Routes Are Designed on Different Ideas

Both come to thirty days, but they are designed on different ideas.

In the credit-accumulation route, you combine courses that each treat their own topic. Because there is no fixed order, you can begin at any point, and you can leave gaps when you need to. Learning is described as deepening through repetition rather than advancing in a line, and that comes from this structure.

In ERA’s route, meaning is given to the order of the three Parts themselves. You first deepen your understanding of the functional side of the Rolfing ten-series, and from there move into the wider practice of Rolf Movement. That is why taking Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 in order is recommended.

Neither is better. If work or family makes it hard to leave your practice for long stretches, the route of short workshops suits you. If you can set aside blocks of time, or want to learn systematically along one line, ERA’s intensive format fits.

Where and From Whom to Learn

There is more than one place to train in Rolf Movement. Because credits transfer between associations, you can also combine courses from several regions and associations on the way to certification.

First, the overall frame. DIRI has four official licensees around the world. Each offers its own training, compatible with the training in the United States.

European Rolfing Association (ERA), Munich, Germany
Associação Brasileira de Rolfistas, São Paulo, Brazil
Japan Rolfing Association, Tokyo, Japan
Rolfing Association of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta

Credits earned in each region transfer because of this arrangement.

Europe

ERA offers the three-Part certification course in Munich. Each Part is led by a teacher and an assistant chosen from the DIRI Europe faculty.

United States

DIRI offers the training as a series of modules. You can take the modules in order, or take them individually as separate courses. The Lafayette school states that you may begin the Rolf Movement course partway through the Rolfing basic training.

The ERA Rolf Movement certification course beginning in Munich in October 2026 also appears in DIRI’s course listing in the United States.

Japan

As a Rolf Movement Instructor, Hiroyoshi Tahata offers courses that count toward certification. The requirements are the same as elsewhere: thirty days and 225 hours. Meet all of them and you can be certified as a Rolf Movement Practitioner.

There are also classes, not counting toward certification, that are open to practitioners of other methods as well as to Rolfers and Structural Integrators.

Brazil

Brazil has a long educational history, going back to the first training held there in 1991. What is offered now is the dual certification course designed by Monica Caspari, in which Rolfing and Rolf Movement are learned within one body of work.

What decides where to study differs from person to person. Studying in your own language. Not having to travel abroad. Learning from a particular teacher or a particular theoretical lineage.

As the earlier sections show, the place and the teacher affect not only cost and schedule but where the weight of the content falls. Be clear about what you want to learn, then choose.

Credit Transferability and the Relationship to the Advanced Training

Credits that count toward Rolf Movement certification transfer between associations. Whether you take a course in Japan, the United States, Brazil, or Europe, it can be built up as part of the thirty credits required.

A class taken initially for continuing education can also be applied toward Rolf Movement certification afterward. DIRI in the United States allows eligible courses taken with certified Rolf Movement faculty from 2009 onward to count toward the requirement.

Rolf Movement credits and certification relate to the Advanced Training in two ways.

The first is that they satisfy continuing education credits required to enter the Advanced Training.

At ERA, each Rolf Movement Part counts as ten Movement credits. Complete all three Parts and you have satisfied all the Movement and Elective credits needed to move on to the Advanced Training.

The second is that the window for taking the Advanced Training is extended.

A Certified Rolfer is normally expected to have at least three years of practice, and to take the Advanced Training within seven years of certification. If you are a certified Rolf Movement Practitioner, that window is extended to nine years.

This extension has a practical meaning.

I had originally planned to take the Advanced Training in 2018. The training I actually took, in Tokyo, began in 2025. Because I was certified as a Rolf Movement Practitioner, the window was extended, and I could choose the time and place that suited me.

What Is Changing Now

The Rolf Movement certification system and its curriculum are still under review. The required days have increased, and the content and order of the Parts have changed. Here are the main changes that can be confirmed at present.

From Eighteen Days to Thirty

Before 2009, the Rolf Movement certification course was eighteen days. It is now thirty.

The reason given for the expansion is the five elements described earlier: orientation to gravity, perception, coordination of movement, expressivity, and regulation of the nervous system. The days were increased so that the course could support lasting change in posture and bodily function.

The Order of the Parts Has Been Switched

ERA’s three Parts are currently arranged like this.

Part 1: the functional aspect of the ten-series
Part 2: leading groups
Part 3: designing a three-series

Part 2 and Part 3 used to be the other way around, with the design of a three-series learned first and leading groups learned last.

The change is not yet reflected in every document. On ERA’s course page, the order shown in the list does not match the order in the text. The description of Part 2 begins “in this last Part,” and the description of Part 3 begins “in this second Part.” DIRI Europe’s Education Overview gives yet another order.

So three documents published by the same organization each show a different order. The curriculum is in transition, and the documents appear not to have kept up.

Related to this, the description of Part 2 says in effect that Rolf Movement Practitioners certified under the old curriculum are also encouraged to learn the group teaching that has come to be emphasized. That is the background to the arrangement letting certified practitioners retake a Part at half the usual fee.

How Many Are Certified

According to DIRI Europe’s Education Overview, about 25 percent of the Rolfers belonging to ERA hold the additional Rolf Movement certification.

Gael Rosewood makes an interesting observation about the background to this figure.

Historically, to take the whole picture, we struggle with questions about manipulation versus education. There is still a split between students who want the functional/educational part and those students who want to learn hands-on manipulation but not movement.

The tension between hands-on work and movement, between manipulation and education, present at the very beginning of Rolf Movement, remains today in a changed form.

A Course Separate from the Basic Training

Rolf Movement is not built into the Rolfing basic training. It is set up separately, as a certification course that adds the standpoint of function and movement to Rolfing practice.

In DIRI Europe’s diagram of the curriculum, Rolf Movement Training appears as an independent column, between Level 3 certification and the Level 4 Advanced Training. It is also placed in a separate frame from continuing education.

This has not changed.

The Rolfing basic training does of course include Movement subjects. Level 1 has nine days of Movement, and Level 3 covers how to bring active movement into the Rolfing process.

But these are Movement education carried out as part of the basic training, and they are not the thirty-day Rolf Movement Training. To be certified as a Rolf Movement Practitioner, you have to complete those thirty days separately from the basic training.

Conclusion

The basic requirements are clear. Thirty days, 225 hours, with completion within six years of starting recommended.

What is complicated is the choice of where and from whom to learn. Rolf Movement has several theoretical streams, and the region and the teacher change where the weight of the content falls. Eligibility, the order of the Parts, and how often each is offered are also stated inconsistently across documents. Those differences are what this article has looked at in detail.

Before you decide, I would suggest contacting the association directly. Whether you meet the eligibility requirements, and how often the course you want is offered, are often not clear from published information alone.

If you are considering whether to take the Rolf Movement certification training, and where and with whom, I hope this article helps you decide.

References and Links

European Rolfing Association, “Rolf Movement™ Training” (rolfing.org)
European Rolfing Association, “Rolf Movement™” (rolfing.org)
European Rolfing Association, “Functional Embodiment of the 10 Rolfing Sessions – Part 1 of Rolf Movement Training” (rolfing.org)
European Rolfing Association, “Hubert Godard” (rolfing.org)
Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® Europe, “Education Overview” (September 2025 edition, rolfing.org)
Dr. Ida Rolf Institute, “Rolf Movement” (rolf.org)
Dr. Ida Rolf Institute, “About the Institute” (rolf.org)
Japan Rolfing Association, “Continuing Education” (rolfing.or.jp)
Kevin Frank, “Rolf Movement® Integration: An Historical Overview through an Interview with Heather (Wing) Starsong and Gael (Ohlgren) Rosewood,” Structural Integration, June 2012
Heather Wing, “Evolution of Rolf Movement® Integration,” 1982 (published alongside the above)
Caryn McHose, “Interview with Hubert Godard: Phenomenological Space,” Contact Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2006
Pedro Prado and Heidi Massa, “Remembering Monica Caspari,” Structure, Function, Integration: Journal of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute, Vol. 48, No. 1, March 2020