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. To continue to reduce the risk of infection we are requiring all students to provide proof of a negative Covid test within 24 hrs of the start of class as a pre-requisite to attend our 2022 Maine based summer program.
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2022 Summer Courses in Maine
ZOGA Movement Introductory Workshop
Teacher(s): Wojtek Cackowski
Date(s): Jun 18 – 20, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $600.00
Early bird price held until May 18th, 2022
ZOGA Movement Introductory Workshop
Presented by Wojtek Cackowski
ZOGA: Zoga is a stretching and strengthening practice based on yoga asanas using Anatomy Trains Structural Integration principles. Zoga is specifically designed to increase the freedom of glide between myofascial layers of the body.
The human body is designed to move from our center of gravity into all available directions. Zoga includes all these possibilities in assessment and therapy.
Manual Neurovascular Release (NVR) Part 1 – Neck, Upper Thorax, and “Roots of Arms”
Teacher(s): Kieran (Kier) Schumaker
Date(s): Jun 21 – 23, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $600.00
Early bird price held until May 20th, 2022
Manual Neurovascular Release (NVR) Part 1 – Neck, Upper Thorax, and “Roots of Arms”
Presented by Kier Schumaker
Ready for a transformational shift in the way you practice your craft?
In the Manual Neurovascular Release course series, you will learn how to work strategically with the vascular system to release hypertonic muscles that are shortening the myofascial tracks, distorting posture, and limiting movement. You will also learn to free up peripheral nerves, cranial nerves, and dural restrictions to improve structural balance and function.
Manual Neurovascular Release (NVR) Part 2 – Lower Thorax, Pelvis, and Hips
Teacher(s): Kieran (Kier) Schumaker
Date(s): Jun 24 – 26, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $600.00
Early bird price held until May 24th, 2022
Manual Neurovascular Release (NVR) Part 2 – Lower Thorax, Pelvis, and Hips
presented by Kier Schumaker
In the second Part of the Manual Neurovascular Release course series, you will continue working strategically with the vascular system to release hypertonic muscles that are shortening the myofascial tracks, distorting posture, and limiting movement. You will further develop your skills and strategies for freeing up peripheral nerves, cranial nerves, and dural restrictions to improve structural balance and function.
BodyReading 101 + 102 with Tom Myers
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Jul 8 – 9, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $450.00
Early bird price held until June 8th, 2022 - *5 spots left!*
BodyReading 101 + 102
presented by Tom Myers
“The art of seeing into someone is an old and intuitive one” states Tom Myers, author of BodyReading: Visual Assessment and the Anatomy Trains. This Master Class offers an effective tool to map soft tissue patterns seen in bends, tilts, shifts, and rotations, and once the assessment is completed, how to create a strategy to shape the change either through manual therapy or movement.
Moving Into, Through, and Beyond Trauma with Tom Myers
Teacher(s): Tom Myers, Melanie Burns
Date(s): Jul 11 – 13, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $650.00
**Course full. Please email info@anatomytrains.com if you'd like to join the waitlist.**
Moving Into, Through, and Beyond Trauma with Tom Myers, assisted by Melanie Burns
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.
Please note that this is not a therapy session for those with trauma, but a professional course for those who deal with trauma.
Tom Myers Movement Immersion 2022
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Jul 15 – 17, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $1,800.00
**Course is limited to 12 people**
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.
Balancing the Diaphragms
Teacher(s): Julie Hammond, Fiona Palmer
Date(s): Jul 19 – 21, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $650.00
Early bird price held until June 19th, 2022
Balancing the Diaphragms
presented by Julie Hammond and Fiona Palmer
Julie and Fiona both have a passion in Women’s Health and collaboration between health professionals as well as treating Women’s Health problems through a global lens. They both have over twenty years of clinical practice experience and combined their thoughts to develop Balancing the Diaphragms.
This three-day workshop will introduce you to the concept of the five diaphragms and understand how all these areas are linked. We will dive into the anatomy of each of the diaphragms. Focusing on the relationships between the diaphragms and how we cannot treat one area without thinking about these relationships.
The Embryo in Us: The Human Coming into Form
Teacher(s): Jaap van der Wal, PhD
Date(s): Jul 22 – 25, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $700.00
Early bird price held until June 22nd, 2022
The Embryo in Us: The Human Coming into Form
presented by Jaap van der Wal, with special guest Tom Myers
The workshop explores human prenatal development from conception forward. Learn how the shaping of the body (morphogenesis) expresses essential attributes of the development of the both the matter and the spirit of the human being. The scientific method of phenomenology creates a synthesis between modern embryology and holistic anthropology.
THE EMBRYO IN US. This seminar is for those who are interested in fascia, posture and the locomotive system, but also open to philosophical questions like: What moves us, actually? Am I “moved by” … (a brain e.g.) or do I move myself? And what is the difference? All in the frame of A.T. Still’s mantra: “Man is Mind, Motion, Matter.” Special guest Tom Myers will add in short, intermittent practical sessions of his view on and the result of his digestion of the presented ideas and concepts.
Scarwork: Integrating Scar Tissue into the Fascial Web
Teacher(s): Sharon Wheeler
Date(s): Jul 27 – 30, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $750.00
Early bird price held until June 27th, 2022
Integrating Scar Tissue
presented by Sharon Wheeler
Integrating Scar Tissue is Sharon Wheeler’s original discovery, and one that she is continually developing and expanding on. There are 19 separate techniques used to integrate different qualities of scar tissue into the fascial web. Most will be demonstrated in class. They are simple to learn and easy to do.
Working with scars is like speaking a different language in the world of connective tissue. Scar tissue is very dense fascia with unique properties. Scar tissue work uses a casual, light touch – a little reminiscent of working with bread dough. Practitioners will learn these techniques well enough to take them home and use them the next day in their private practices. Scar work can fit seamlessly into an SI series or be used as a stand-alone intervention session.
Integrating the Cranium
Teacher(s): Sharon Wheeler
Date(s): Aug 1 – 4, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $700.00
Early bird price held until July 1st, 2022
Integrating the Cranium
presented by Sharon Wheeler
The seventh hour is the centerpiece of the ten session Rolfing process. Dr. Rolf once said that we do the first six sessions so we can do the seventh session, and then we spend three more sessions integrating what comes out of that seventh session.
The main pattern of the techniques you will see are from Dr. Rolf with some interesting additions from Sharon. These are all direct techniques from which you may expect large amounts of structural change. Sharon teaches this endlessly fascinating subject with detail & precision, hands on individual attention and a tendency towards invention.
Understanding and Working with Scoliosis with Dr Meredith Stephens
Teacher(s): Meredith Stephens
Date(s): Aug 5 – 7, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $650.00
Early bird price held until July 5th, 2022
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. Techniques may be used as part of a movement session or as homework in Structural Integration sessions.
Note: This course is intended for manual therapists / bodyworkers
Natural Alignment and Visceral Integration in Structural Integration
Teacher(s): Alyssa Dodson
Date(s): Aug 8 – 9, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $450.00
Early bird price held until July 8th, 2022
Natural Alignment and Visceral Integration in Structural Integration
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.
Rolling Along the Anatomy Trains
Teacher(s): Tom Myers, Jill Miller
Date(s): Aug 12 – 14, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $650.00
Early bird price held until July 12th, 2022
Rolling Along the Anatomy Trains
presented by Tom Myers and Jill Miller
Map your body’s inter-connections with the myofascial meridians of Tom Myers’ Anatomy Trains system using Jill Miller’s Roll Model Method. Craft your own tactile map using a combination of rich anatomy lectures, self-palpation with tissue friendly massage balls and novel movement explorations. Learn about fascia and its properties, along with best self-help practices cherry-picked from these pioneers’ favorite toolkits. This 3-day workshop provides you with keys to empowered self-myofascial mobilization that you can utilize in any fitness or therapeutic practice. Join these two embodiment tour guides in their exciting collaboration – rolling through the Anatomy Trains to lighten and enlighten your body.
ATSI Advanced: Module 1 – Deeper Grounding
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Aug 19 – 22, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $750.00
Course is limited to 16 students
ATSI Advanced Module 1 – Deeper Grounding: Advanced Assessment, Strategy and Techniques for Pelvis and Legs, Ligaments and Deep Structures
presented by Tom Myers
This 4-day intensive is the first of the 5 modules required for ATSI Advanced certification, although these first four modules are independent and can be taken in any order. This course covers advanced techniques for the pelvis and legs. This includes ligaments in the foot, the interosseous membrane in the lower leg, advanced techniques to free the strong knee ligaments, the septa in the thigh, deeper work with the hamstrings, and the many important pelvic ligament sin the hips and low back to free and balance the SI joint. The idea here is to free the legs and pelvic movement to create a smooth running ‘spinal engine’ in gait and performance.
This course is open to ATSI graduates, IASI members, or graduates of a recognized program in Structural Integration only.
ATSI Mentorship with Lou Benson and Kelly Chadwick
Teacher(s): Lou Benson, Kelly Chadwick
Date(s): Aug 24 – 27, 2022
Location: Walpole, ME, USA
Price: $700.00
**Early bird price held until July 24th, 2022
Please join seasoned Structural Integration practitioners and teachers, Lou Benson and Kelly Chadwick, for our first in person mentorship exclusively for ATSI graduates. You will receive insightful guidance from a combined 49 years of practice.
