Chuck Carpenter : Rolfing NY/NJ

Who Is Chuck?

Chuck Carpenter is a Co-Director of The School of Integrative Therapies and the lead instructor of the Structural Integration Certification Program. After studying Political Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, he attended The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration in Boulder, Colorado, and became a Certified Rolfer® in 1988. He continued his studies there, and achieved his position as a Certified Advanced Rolfer® in 1990. During his time at the Rolf Institute, where his instructors had been trained directly by Dr. Ida P. Rolf, he studied with some of the finest instructors in the bodywork profession, such as:

Jan Sultan, Senior Instructor at the Rolf Institute
Tom Myers, founder of Kinesis Myofascial Integration, author of Anatomy Trains
Emmett Hutchins, founder of the Guild for Structural Integration
Jim Asher, founder of the Colorado Cranial Institute
Jeffrey Maitland, Senior Instructor at the Rolf Institute, author of Spinal Manipulation Made Simple and Spacious Body: Explorations in Somatic Ontology

Over the next several years, as he developed his private practice in New Jersey, he was a part-time Assistant Instructor at the Rolf Institute in Boulder, and traveled to Europe to further his bodywork education. He studied Visceral Manipulation with Jean-Pierre Barral, and Cranial Sacral Therapy at both the Upledger Institute and the Colorado Cranial Institute. As he started a family, he stayed closer to home, enjoying a thriving private practice and various instructional opportunities. He has offices in New Jersey and Manhattan.

An active member of the Rolf Institute, and the newly formed International Association of Structural Integrators, Chuck has developed our Structural Integration Training Program dedicated to the teachings of Dr. Ida P. Rolf. His superior style of touch honed over more than 15 years of private practice, and his clear explanations of the anatomical and physiological processes involved in SI provide our students with the opportunity to learn from a true craftsman in the bodywork field.