Role: CE Workshop Teacher, Teacher
Certified Rolfer®, Certified Rolfing® Instructor, Certified Advanced Rolfer®, Mentor, Rolf Movement™ Practitioner
Jörg Ahrend-Löns is Certified Rolfer® (1991), Certified Advanced Rolfer® (2002) and Rolf Movement™ Practitioner (2005). He has been a member of The Rolf Institute since 1991 and is a Faculty Member of the International and European Rolf Movement™. He was involved in setting up the first Rolfing® Modular Training in the German language.
Since 2012, Jörg has been an International Rolfing Instructor, running his own practice in Göttingen, Germany.Jörg has studied with different teachers including Peter Melchior, Didier Prat, Hubert Godard, Jean-Pierre Barral, Michael Salveson, Jan Sultan and Peter Schwind.
Jörg graduated as a Physiotherapist in 1982 from the University of Göttingen. In the subsequent years he worked in the department of orthopedics at the University Medical Centre Göttingen (UMG), followed by 6 years of teaching at UMG’s School of Physiotherapy.
After my education as a physiotherapist there was still an open question: what is “behind” function, movement and pathology? When I first heard the term of “Structural Integration” I immediately was curious and inspired. Experiencing my first Rolfing sessions was an eye-opener. From the very beginning it was clear to me that Rolfing would change my way of working with people. The idea of a structure which connects everything to everything – the fascial net – and the way of touching people in different layers was fascinating to me from the very start.
“To help clients to find their own voice, their own perception of body and mind has parallels to what I perceive when students find their own way of communicating through touch”
Rolfing is theoretically based on four main principles – support, adaptability, palintonicity (in German: Spannkraft) and closure. I like to play with these principles to make them vivid and tangible in my practical work and in teaching as well. They are important key-stones which give orientation and reference for our work.
