Format

At the heart of the European Guild's basic training program lie the principles and structural techniques expressed in Dr. Ida Rolf's series for ten Structural Integration sessions, without additions or modifications from other modalities.
The International training is conducted in a modular format of 3 modules.

Module 1 in Warszawa - 20 days
• Muscular, Skeletal and Fascial Anatomy
• Biomechanics and Structural Integration
• Physiology and Biochemistry of Fascia
• To analyze and interpret human structure and movement and devise coherent strategies for manipulative interventions to make improvements in the structure
• How to conduct yourself in a therapeutic relationship
• Self-care with exercises to become a competent SI practitioner
• The Anatomy and Theory of the Basic Ten Series

* Summer Break Home Study and Practice with Zoom Call Supervision *

Module 2 in Vienna - 20 days
• Practice of the Basic Ten Series by the practitioners on each other

* 2 Months Home Study and Practice with Zoom Call Supervision *

Module 3 in Prague - 20 days
• Supervised practice of the Basic Ten Series by each practitioner on three external models

Homestudy
• In addition to this students need to expect at least 500 hrs. of home study and practice.

Aleš Urbanczik's SI journey started in 1993 with his Basic Training.
Peter Melchior and Emmett Hutchins, Ida Rolf's very first instructors, were his teachers and inspirations.
He has a spiritual background in Zen-Buddhism and was ordained a Zen-Boddhisatva in the French Temple of 'La Gendronnière'
He has been practicing and teaching HathaYoga for 30 years and, based on Dr. Rolf's principles, he developed his unique teaching style he calls "RolfYoga"..
Aleš's work has stayed true to Dr. Rolf's original teachings and he believes that these concepts need to be explored more deeply rather than altered.
He is the co-founder of the European Guild for Structural Integration and teaches EGSI‘s Basic Trainings in the Czech Republic, the UK and Austria.

Grzegorz Jedrzejewski PhD teaches and conducts research in the Health Sciences Department, Opole University in Poland.  He is a member of the European Guild for Structural Integration, the  International Association of Structural Integrators, the  Polish Association of Structural Integration, and the Fascia Research Group. Grzegorz has conducted funded research on the physical and  psychological efects of Structural Integration, including  projects that examine its effects on the physology of pelivic floor and foot disorders. Trained in a wide variety of manual therapy techniques Grzegorz maintains a private practice  of Structural Integration.

Adam Polański graduated from both The Guild for Structural Integration and The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration in Boulder. He is also a Rolf Movement™ practitioner. He did his Advanced Training with Neal Powers in 2018. Adam holds university degrees in physiotherapy and physical education. Adam is the co-founder of the Polish Society for Structural Integration. He runs a private practice in Warsaw and teaches the European Guild's Basic Training in Poland. Structural Integration is his main field of explorations - especially the traditional 10 sessions Basic Series. He is involved in research on Structural Integration under the umbrella of the University of Opole.

I was born in 1974 in Zurich and began my professional career as a typographer. After some further training, I became self-employed at the age of 25 and worked in my own studio until 2013.
At about 18, I started practicing yoga because I had severe back pain. Unfortunately, that did not help me either – rather the opposite was the case! In 1999, I met Aleš Urbanczik for the first time, who accompanied me through my first 10-session series in Structural Integration! I still remember one of his first sentences well... "Yes... we urgently need to work on your feet..."! I thought, that can't be! I have back pain, what does that have to do with my feet?
I learned an incredible amount in this process, during which, in addition to the classic 10 sessions, we also optimized my yoga practice. I learned a completely new way of thinking and dealing with my body.
Fascinated by the fact that I could work on my own body, I began practicing RolfYoga intensively. It took a few years before I myself started teaching yoga. At the beginning of 2014, I then traveled with my family to the USA to do my training in Structural Integration. I attended the Guild for Structural Integration and studied in Salt Lake City, Utah, with Amber Leigh Burnham and in Kauai, Hawaii, with Emmet Hutchins. After some workshops with various teachers such as Neal Powers, Sharon Wheeler, David Davis, and Mary Bond, I completed my Advanced Training in Prague in 2018, led by Neal Powers and Aleš Urbanczik.
Since early December 2014, I have been working in my practice in Wilchingen, where I also teach RolfYoga and live together with my husband Cosmas and my children Nalu and Miro.

I am a practitioner of Structural Integration. I enjoy getting to the bottom of things and discovering new possibilities and paths.
I have loved movement, dance and sports since I was young, so I became an aerobics instructor in high school, later taught Pilates and yoga, taught classes at my studio, at conventions and educated future instructors.
Twenty years of instructing and over-exercising took a toll on my body, and there came a time of injuries and surgeries. I understood and experienced firsthand that a certain level of tissue damage and created imbalances cannot be "fixed" with exercise and massage alone. Classical physiotherapy did not help me either... Only Structural Integration allowed me to experience again (and maybe for the first time in my life) a feeling of lightness and flexibility in my body, but also in my life. I understood that changes in the physical body go hand in hand with changes in other levels of human existence. So it was an obvious choice for me to enrol in the two-year training and become a Structural Integration Therapist. I am still learning, but for the first time in my professional career I have lost the need to seek out other methods and other courses, my training now only deepens a method whose meaning, reach and depth never ceases to fascinate me.
I enjoy and find the work fulfilling, it is beautiful to watch the small and large miracles that happen during client meetings. I meet many interesting people. I am grateful to be able to offer others the opportunity to more truly and deeply experience their human potential.
I am currently working as an assistant in the Structural Integration training and I am enjoying it very much.

Dario Di Lorenzo graduated as a Structural Integration practitioner with Emmett Hutchins in 2011 and in 2014 he completed the Advanced Training with Emmett Hutchins and Neal Powers. He’s fully dedicated to SI in his private practice in Milan, by organizing SI trainings and CE class and by being on the Board of the European Guild. He’s assisting in EGSI's Basic Training in Milano and he’s the co-creator of the 'Timeless Elegance of the Recipe' event.