CURRICULUM
VITAE
Allan Kaplan
Certified Advanced Rolfer™
Rolfing®
Structural Integration
Board Certified Structural Integratorcm
WA State Licensed Massage Practitioner (LMP)
#4384
Education
1980 B.A., Oberlin College, majors in
Geology and Japanese Studies.
Teaching Experience
2007 - present Visceral Manipulation
Teaching Assistant for the Barral Institute.
2002 - 2005 Visceral Manipulation Teaching Assistant with
Didier Prat D.O.
1996 Rolf Institute®-approved
class, “Listening To Tissue: Incorporating Indirect
Technique Into Your Practice.”
1995 Rolfing Basic Training at the Rolf Institute.
1994 Rolfing Basic Training at the Rolf Institute.
Rolfing
Education
1999 Advanced Training.
1994 Advanced Training lecture audit.
1992 Post-Advanced Training.
1991 Advanced Training.
1988 Basic Training.
1987 Basic Training.
1977 Comprehensive Studies Program.
Continuing Rolfing
Education
1998 Visceral compartmental relationships
in Rolfing.
1997 Visceral compartmental relationships in Rolfing.
1995 Visceral Rolfing concepts.
1991 Advanced Cranial Rolfing concepts.
1990 Emotional Release in Rolfing.
1990 Advanced Rolfing concepts.
1989 Advanced Rolfing concepts.
1988 Advanced Rolfing concepts.
1988 Rolfing private practice mentorship.
Visceral
Manipulation studies with Didier Prat, D.O.
2005 Thorax, Whiplash (teaching assistant
and coordinator).
2004 Urogenital System (teaching assistant and
coordinator).
2002 Digestive System (teaching assistant).
2001 Thorax.
2000 Urogenital System.
1999 Digestive System, Advanced Studies.
1998 Urogenital System, Thorax, Advanced Studies.
1997 Digestive System, Thorax.
Observation sessions in Dr. Prat’s office, near Lyon,
France.
Visceral
Manipulation studies with Jean-Pierre Barral, D.O.
2003 Peripheral Nervous System (with
2-day intro by Peter Schwind).
Canadian College of
Osteopathy, Vancouver, Canada
2002 - 2007 Five-year program including
visceral and cranial manipulation.
Studies
with Alain Gehin, Dr. Etiopathy
1999 Cranial and Visceral manipulation
studies.
1998 Cranial and Visceral manipulation studies.
1994 Cranial and Visceral manipulation studies.
1993 Cranial manipulation studies.
1992 Cranial manipulation studies.
Studies
with Michael Lipelt, D.D.S.
1992 Visceral manipulation studies.
1991 Cranial manipulation studies.
Technical Editing
& Translation
2002 – present Technical
Editor/Translator, Eastland Press, Seattle
Eastland Press is a publishing house specializing in books
on osteopathy, manual therapy, and oriental medicine,
founded by Daniel Bensky D.O. It has published the English
editions of the books of Jean-Pierre Barral D.O., John
Upledger D.O., and Blandine Calais-Germain, among others.
I have done editing for the English translations of the
following:
• Calais-Germain, Blandine, The Female Pelvis,
Eastland Press, 2003.
• Calais-Germain, Blandine, Anatomy of Breathing,
Eastland Press, 2006.
• Calais-Germain, Blandine, Anatomy of Movement
(revised edition), Eastland Press, 2007
• Paoletti, Serge, The Fasciae, Eastland Press, 2006.
• Barral, Jean-Pierre, Visceral Manipulation II
(revised edition), Eastland Press, 2007.
• Liem, Torsten, Cranial Osteopathy, A Practical
Textbook, Eastland Press, 2009.
• Helsmoortel, Jerome, et al., Visceral Osteopathy:
The Peritoneal Organs, Eastland Press, 2010
Other
Experience
2000 - present Snowboard Instructor, US and Canadian
certifications.
1989 - 1997 Rolfing Cascades Regional Chairperson.
1976 - present Practice and teaching of Aikido;
4th
degree black belt (1994).
1984 - present Practice of T’ai Chi Yang and Chen
styles; Chi Gung.