This workshop is two and half days. It will give you the tools and techniques to open the breath and free the abdomen and chest. Anatomy and body reading with functional tests are included helping you identify the structures needing work. Techniques for this area are also covered.

22 + 23 + 24 March 2019 | £525*

TENSEGRITY SPINE

This course examines the spine as a tensegrity truss – how the bones float within the myofascial balance. An integral part of structure, we all know the agonizing effects of incorrect mechanics when it doesn’t work and often fail to appreciate the wonderfully adaptive job it does when the vertebrae are allowed to float.

We look at the actions available at each of the sections (lumbar, thorax and cervical) of the spine and how they may lead to certain dysfunctional patterns. By putting the spine into context with the surrounding structures we can better understand the reasons for its limitations and its wondrous abilities.

Once we explain the logic pattern, the soft-tissue patterns that surround the spine, then through the assessment and learning our techniques for freeing and balancing them, you will be able to address: Anterior and posterior curvatures – lordosis and kyphosis, Side bends, Rotations (and counter rotations) Guy-wires on both the front and back of the spine, and Balancing the trunk spinal work into the cervical spine and sacrum

Free the spine by working with the bends and rotations of this area.

4 + 5 May 2019 | £455*

SHOULDERS AND ARMS

In this driving day and computer age, the arms get unique usage these days. Requiring a complex equation of stability versus mobility to balance correctly on the rib cage, the shoulders can easily be used to compensate for thoracic and cervical deviations or be the cause for them. This can lead to issues travelling down into the arms and hands, up into the neck and jaw or even into the spine and rib cage. You will learn to recognize ‘ideal’ and compensated patterns and how to tie them into the story of the rest of the body. This will allow you to see what work needs to be done to create lasting results for this area. Releases for each joint of the shoulder Soft-tissue techniques for shoulder muscles Elbow and upper arm muscle releases Lower arm extensor, flexor, radial, and ulnar releases Wrist and hand work

We gesture with our arms and they should be free to float, hug, hold, push and pull. Spend two days looking at ways to improve mobility, stability and position.

8 + 9 June 2019 | £455*

ANATOMY TRAINS STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
A three day foundation workshop covering Anatomy Trains lines and concepts, body reading and some manual techniques.

In this exciting new and more comprehensive format you will learn about the myofascial tissue and its many roles in the body.

Participants will see the fascial tissues in context and how they are interdependent with the other body systems. From there we begin to appreciate how the body incorporates the Anatomy Train Lines to create easy and graceful movement – provided they are in some form of balance and harmony; restriction or weakness in one section can have many knock-on effects elsewhere.

This workshop will show you how that happens, how to trace the lines of strain and, most importantly, some strategies to deal with them.

This is the first workshop to combine Anatomy Trains theory alongside structural and functional anatomy and analysis. It blends the concepts of tensegrity with elastic recoil for movement efficiency and illustrates how we use the Anatomy Trains as lines of force transfer.

We will address differential diagnosis to help identify motor control or soft tissue restrictions and where they may be coming from – we will show you the interdependent relationships between many of the tissues and how they interact.

5 + 6 + 7 July 2019 | £585*

HEAD, NECK AND JAW

The neck is a remarkable feat of biomechanical engineering, giving a combination of wide range of movement but maintaining a structural strength. It is often seen as the last site of compensation as it corrects for any alteration from below allowing the eyes and ears to orient to the horizon. Patterns can of course work their way in the other direction and particularly from the jaw and its many possible patterns of movement and holding. This course will focus on key areas of the neck and jaw complex to allow you to build successful strategies to ease these potential problem areas alleviating the issues working in both directions and setting the body up for a longer lasting change.