About
Ulf Tölle
Coach for Movement & Health
Complementary Therapist
Health Scientist
I’d love to support you in Zurich (other locations in Switzerland & online available), in-house at your office, your workplace or online. I have 35 years of experience and together we determine the state of affairs, the goals to achieve and the direction of our collaboration. Then we get down to work.
N.B. Together with my partners at the Institute 4-Health, we support departments, corporations and organizations on their way to peak health.
What can I do for you?
Health & Movement
Freedom & ease of motion, be it after a full day’s work… or after a whiplash accident
Performance Coaching
Movement Matters: CEOs, athletes, artists – we all want to improve our performance…
Sports Motion Mastery
Helping athletes to close the gap after medical treatment ends – getting back to full training
Courses Online
My courses will help you to turn your knowledge into practical understanding
My Skills
Health & Movement
Performance Coaching
Rehabilitation after Injury
Expert-Examiner
Working with Groups
Work Experience
Complementary Therapist, RKZ – Back Pain Clinic in Zurich
November 2004 – Present
Since 2004 I am working as a complementary therapist in the office of Dr. H. Holdener MD mainly with the Alexander-Technique. I am helping his patients to cope better with chronic and recurring back pain or after an accident with whiplash trauma.
CPD for Physiotherapists, Porto Alegre, Brazil
1998 – 2007
After my early courses at the University UFRGS in Porto Alegre a physiotherapist asked me to create a course directed at physiotherapists. This course actually hit a spot and for the next 10 years
I was busy creating different versions and levels of that course to serve that community.
Associate Professor Alexander-Technique, University of Music, Stuttgart
October 1987 – September 1997
In my decade in Stuttgart of individual and group work with instrumentalists, conductors, singers and actors, I had the privilege to help students realize how they employ their body, what sound they achieve and how the two interconnect. And the way they use their body impacts also their personal health and their ability for peak performance.
Education
Personal Health Coach, University of Basel Advanced Studies
September 2021 – June 2022
As a Personal Health Coach (PHC), I can achieve targeted health-related behavioural changes with my clients. “Exercise is Medicine” – evidence-based knowledge and best practice models in the area of non-communicable disease therapy and prevention are at the core of my expertise as well as Intervention strategies for exercise and sports, nutrition, stress regulation, and competencies for conducting fitness and health assessments.
Complementary Therapist with Federal Diploma, OdA KT & BBT
September 2006 – January 2018
In Switzerland Complementary Therapists can obtain an expert qualification in their area of activity. The advanced federal diploma of professional education and training is awarded if this exam is passed.
I am someone who has participated in this field from the very start.
Master of Public Health, Universities Basel, Bern & Zürich
September 2004 – May 2011
In 2010 the Swiss Universities Basel, Bern and Zurich conferred on me the Master’s Degree in Public Health. For my thesis, I ran a scientific study (a pilot) on movement rehabilitation after whiplash.
Alexander-Technik ITM Education, Y. Kuperman / Basel – Don Weed D.C. / Zürich
1983–86 and 1993–97
Altogether I dedicated 7 years to the study of the Alexander Technique and completed trainings courses in two different traditions Since then countless professional trainings in this and related areas.
Music / Degree in Education, Hochschule für Musik und Theater / Hamburg
September 1979 – February 1982
I received my degree in Education 1982 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg (University of Music, Hamburg).