Join us in Maine for an amazing lineup of in-person workshops for manual therapists and movement professionals of all backgrounds!
Anatomy Trains is carefully complying with local public health guidelines to ensure a safe and healthy experience for our students this summer, and we are thrilled to invite you back to our beautiful campus on the coast of Maine!
Thank you for your interest in attending Anatomy Trains’ inspiring summer program. We have been running infection free manual therapy certification programs in Structural Integration in 2020/21, and our intention is to continue to provide a safe and healthy experience for students, teachers, and all involved, following Maine CDC and DHHS guidelines. Maine currently has the highest percentage of population vaccinated, and the lowest COVID infection rate in the United States. To continue to reduce the risk of infection we are requiring all students to provide proof of vaccination as a pre-requisite to attend our 2021 Maine based summer program.* As of May 24th, 2021, Maine no longer requires vaccinated individuals to wear masks indoors.
*We will consider medical exemptions to this policy on a case by case basis, accompanied by a letter from a physician.
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2021 Summer Courses in Maine
BodyReading 101 + 102 with Tom Myers
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Jul 12 – 13, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $550.00
Open to both manual therapists and movement professionals.
Take your postural assessment skills to the next level!
Ida Rolf said, “seeing is touch at a distance”. Understanding skeletal relationships within the body is the first step in helping our clients unwind movement and postural patterns that are causing pain, dysfunction and keeping them from optimal movement. “Touch is seeing up close” being able to accurately palpate bones to determine relationships is key in our ability to accurately describe those relationships.
Moving Into, Through, and Beyond Trauma with Tom Myers
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Jul 14 – 16, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $750.00
Getting Unhooked: Strategies for Resilience with Tom Myers
Traumatic experiences – large single events and small repeated ones – hook into all the body systems, creating limitations and ‘no go’ areas. Bodywork, breath work, and intelligent movement create a pathway to discover, process, and resolve these patterns and their psychophysiological effects.
Tom Myers Movement Immersion 2021
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Jul 18 – 20, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $1,800.00
Includes 2 exclusive dinners with Tom Myers
This small group intensive allows a deep exploration of your particular movement patterns, as well as the chance to explore movement as a physiological event. See how whole body systems interact. Develop your ability to visually assess posture, gait, & functional movement. Explore tools from Tom’s encounters with Feldenkrais and developmental movement sequences. This class has a lot to offer any teacher of movement – awareness based, health-based, or performance-based.
Max capacity: 12 students.
Understanding and Working with Osteoporosis with Dr Meredith Stephens
Teacher(s): Meredith Stephens
Date(s): Jul 23 – 24, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $550.00 $450.00
Early bird price held until June 23, 2021
Osteoporosis affects over 200 million people worldwide. It is estimated that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men will suffer an osteoporosis related fracture in their lifetime. Fractures are a major cause of pain, disability and death. Often our clients know very little about their condition, are confused about what they can do for themselves and are afraid that they may fracture. As first line health workers, we are in an optimal position to educate clients and help them make informed decisions about their osteoporosis.
This small group workshop combines short lectures and lots of practical lab experiences
Understanding and Working with Scoliosis with Dr Meredith Stephens
Teacher(s): Meredith Stephens
Date(s): Jul 25 – 26, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $550.00 $450.00
Early bird price held until June 25
Scoliosis isn’t just a spinal issue, it is a total body pattern! Each pattern is unique and requires an individualized approach to make lasting changes in the body.
In this exciting new program, we will discuss the three-dimensional nature of scoliosis, its etiology, diagnosis, progression, and treatment. Special focus will be given to idiopathic scoliosis and adult degenerative lumbar scoliosis. We will also discuss a three-dimensional treatment approach to create a stronger, more lengthened, and neutral alignment through customized exercise. This foundational course will focus on BodyReading to identify scoliosis patterns and basic postural corrections, breathing techniques and exercises to begin realigning the body.
Bonework: Integrating Bone Fascia with Sharon Wheeler
Teacher(s): Sharon Wheeler
Date(s): Jul 29 – Aug 2, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $800.00 $700.00
Early bird price held until June 29
Note: This course is intended for manual therapists of all backgrounds, including, but not limited to, structural integrators.
The groundbreaking information presented in this workshop is the result of Sharon’s inquiry into the fascial plasticity of bone. There are two major areas of study in this workshop: Bone Change and Bone Rolling.
The Tail End: Working out from the Sacrum and Coccyx with Sharon Wheeler
Teacher(s): Sharon Wheeler
Date(s): Aug 3 – 6, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $750.00 $650.00
Early bird price held until July 3
Note: this course is intended for manual therapists of all backgrounds, including but not limited to, structural integrators.
The Tail End of the body seems to receive a generous number of accidental impacts. And these impacts can distort the relationship between the bones and distort the actual shape of the bones in the region; the sacrum, coccyx, pelvis, and femur. Many thanks to the equestrian who inspired this workshop.
Deeper Ground: Restoration and Vitality for the Female Pelvis with Tom Myers
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Aug 7 – 8, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $550.00 $450.00
Early bird price held until July 7, 2021
Note: this course is intended for manual therapists.
Explore the rich depths of the pelvis with bodywork, movement, and self-experience, with Anatomy Trains author Tom Myers. The pelvis is the cradle of life – learn to navigate this foundational area with confidence.
Proper pelvic balance is vital to health of the spine, organs, and sexual expression – a big part of ‘emotional intelligence’. Sexual trauma, the wounds of childbirth, and the challenges of pelvic surgery are our primary focus. (Note: most of the techniques in this workshop also apply to men. There is no teaching or practicing internal work in this course.)
Natural Alignment and Visceral Integration in Structural Integration
Teacher(s): Alyssa Dodson
Date(s): Aug 13 – 14, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $550.00 $450.00
Early bird price held until July 13
Presented by Alyssa Dodson
This two day introductory course presents two central ideas based on the work of Liz Gaggini, Rolfer ®. Natural Alignment is not the same for all bodies. There can be significant differences in the preferred alignment for different structures. This can most easily be seen as a difference in the preferred position of the two girdles. Understanding and assessing each client’s unique Natural Alignment helps practitioners refine their integration skills and adds a new way of looking at how each client relates to their “Line” or orientation in gravity.
Manual Neurovascular Release (NVR) Part 1 – Neck, Upper Thorax, and “Roots of Arms”
Teacher(s): Kieran (Kier) Schumaker
Date(s): Aug 15 – 17, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $700.00 $600.00
Early bird price held until July 15
The Manual NVR techniques in Part 1 are for release of the neurovasculature of the neck, chest, and “roots of the arms,” including brachial plexus, dura, vagus and phrenic nerves, internal thoracic artery, vertebral and carotid arteries, and arteries to shoulder muscles and lungs.
Manual therapists who have attended Kier’s NVR Online webinars (introducing a movement-based, self-treatment version of Neurovascular Release) have been eagerly waiting for the return of Kier’s manual NVR courses. Whether you have already experienced those webinars or not, this course will be transformative for your manual practice.
Embryological Development of Visceral and Pharyngeal Fasciae with Dr Frank Willard
Teacher(s): Dr Frank Willard
Date(s): Aug 20 – 21, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $550.00 $450.00
Early bird price held until July 20
Join renowned lecturer Dr. Frank Willard for this fascinating tour of embryology and development of fascial structures from the cranial base to the pelvic floor. Dr. Willard will review cervical, thoracic, abdominopelvic and mediastinal fascial development,
ATSI Advanced Module 2 – A Deeper Breath
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Aug 22 – 25, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $850.00 $750.00
**This course is open to ATSI (KMI) graduates, IASI members, and other SI school graduates only
Advanced Assessment, Strategy, and Techniques for the Low Back, Torso, and Ribs
Presented by Tom Myers
This 4-day intensive is second of the 4 modules required for ATSI Advanced certification. This course will cover advanced techniques for optimal positioning of the rib cage, as well as the primary and accessory muscles of breathing.
Learn advanced myofascial and movement techniques to produce an even breath ‘wave’, through work with the thoracic spine and their connection with the ribs and rib heads.
ATSI Advanced Module 4: The Upper Pole – Techniques for Skull, Jaw, Neck
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Aug 27 – 30, 2021
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $850.00 $750.00
**This course is open to ATSI (KMI) graduates, IASI members, and other SI school graduates only
Advanced Assessment, Strategy, and Techniques for the Skull, Jaw, Neck and Spine
Presented by Tom Myers
This 4-day intensive is the final of the 4 modules (followed by a practicum) required for ATSI Advanced certification. This course will cover advanced techniques for optimal positioning of the head, neck, jaw, and spine.
