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The DeRose Method is a Method for High Performance and an increased quality of life to its practitioners. The DeRose Method uses techniques and concepts to deliver its proposition. These techniques and concepts are taught at certified DeRose Method institutions with the view for its practitioners to use them in their day to day life to achieve the best performance and highest quality of life. The DeRose Method can be defined as a philosophy of life.

Origin
Writer and educator Luiz Sergio Alvares DeRose, referred to simply as DeRose, founded the DeRose Method in France, yet he began the work of establishing his methodology in the 1960’s living in South America. His Method is now taught and practiced all over the world in cities such as Paris, London, New York, Roma, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Lisboa, Porto, Rio and São Paulo, among many others.

The DeRose Method is an approach to high performance and quality of life that educates and empowers members to make lifestyle changes necessary to achieve their goals. The method’s principles are taught through techniques and concepts that made internationally renown. Official DeRose Method entities are independently owned and are schools. At these schools there is a wide range of topics taught such as self improvement, concentration, stress management, human relationships optimization, breathing techniques and even education of dogs -- among many others as can be seen in the diagram below:

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When Professor DeRose started teaching in the 1960s, there was an initial focus on the techniques. DeRose spent 24 years traveling to Europe and India to develop and conclude the research which served as the foundation for the techniques. In the process DeRose created a system by which to communicate and teach these techniques. In the next 25 years, the focus shifted to the concepts which formed the foundation of how individuals interact with each other and became the key differential of the DeRose Method. Together, the techniques and the concepts are the two pillars of the DeRose Method.

Techniques
The techniques are taught by certified instructors, and are renown for being powerful and artistic. Regular technical classes are divided into a few formats: the Introductory and SwáSthya (also known as Advanced) are the first two. In addition, there are other activities at the schools which are focused on training a specific technique or on spending more time exploring a combination of techniques.

The introductory class (where beginners are introduced to the DeRose Method) consists of organic physical techniques, purification techniques, breathing techniques and relaxation. The classes follow a standardized structure that will mobilize the spinal cord, and act upon the nervous, endocrine, respiratory and circulatory systems. The class emphasizes the development of self-dependence, giving students the tools to apply what they learned in their daily lives.

It is important to note that, different to many other Methods and Techniques which are focused on curing some ailment or on being some form of therapy, the DeRose Method has always been categorical that its market segment is for healthy people looking to improve their performance.

The class that follows the Introduction to the DeRose Method is called SwáSthya, which is a more advanced class. It is an extremely complete practice, composed of eight techniques. As a result, the practice of SwáSthya provides an increase in health and vitality, strengthening the biological structure, and developing concentration.

During the class the instructor will teach the general rules of practice and how to link sequences choreographically. Aiming to improve the self sufficiency of its practitioners and explaining why these techniques can be so useful in their day-to-day.

The eight techniques of a SwáSthya class are:

1. reflexological gestures;

2. energetic interchange;

3. vocalization of sounds and ultra-sounds;

4. expansion of bio-energy through respiratory techniques;

5. purification activity for the mucosa;

6. organic body techniques;

7. relaxation technique;

8. concentration, meditation and more expanded states of awareness.

Concepts
The concepts are arguably the most unique and important part of the DeRose Method.

Whilst the techniques work on improving your individual performance, the concepts are the part of the Method which can guide on how to maximize your relationships. They are the aspect of the DeRose Method which will allow you to make good on your potential to achieving true high performance.

If we analyze great leaders, great sportsmen, personalities -- what we will find in common is that they had a way of moving through life which inspired others. They behave in a way which leads other people to want to be near, to share the joy and help achieve the success. The common threads are the concepts by which these people live, their determination, ethics, friendship, politeness, discipline, honesty and enjoyment of life which is so inspiring.

The concepts are a very delicate aspect to teach. One way is to lecture others using tales and stories to symbolize and illustrate the concepts. Another is to learn by example.

In the development of the DeRose Method and in our constant improvement, we have understood that teaching by example is more effective and pleasurable. This is why everything you will do at the DeRose Method, outside of your technical classes, will be opportunities for us to be exposed to concepts which will lead you to success and high performance.

The DeRose Method as a Profession
A few practitioners of the DeRose Method become so engaged with the DeRose Method that they decide to take it up as a profession. Practitioners who wish to follow this path enroll on a vocational course which has a minimum duration of 18 months to learn who to teach the DeRose Method and how to have success in the profession as an independent entrepreneur. Once this initial course is complete the instructors embark on the next stage of the course, an internship at one of the certified schools, in which the instructors hone their skills in practice.

It is only after the instructors have gone through another 12 months of training that they are then awarded a certificate of Instructor of the DeRose Method. In order to maintain this certificate the instructor is then required to undertake yearly examinations (of theoretical and practical nature) conducted by the Federation of their country. If the Instructors are successful in the examination, the teaching certificate is extended for a further 12 months. If the Instructors fail to be examed, they lose their certificate and are no longer allowed to teach. These yearly examinations are mandatory for every Instructor and Teacher and are a powerful tool in ensuring the quality of the DeRose Method across the world.

One of the important concepts of the DeRose Method is that of entrepreneurism, in which its Instructors, Teachers and Professors operate as small independent businesses and become responsible for their own financial success.