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2019 Advanced Summer Courses
Tom Myers Immersion
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Jul 8 – 10, 2019
Price: $1,800.00
Immerse yourself in a small class intensive with Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains. See how whole body systems interact. Develop your ability to visually assess posture, gait, and functional movement. Special attention to the breath in motion. Course includes two exclusive dinners with Tom.
See, Move, Feel with Aston® Techniques
Teacher(s): Judith Aston
Date(s): Jul 11 – 13, 2019
Price: $650.00
**Early bird price held until May 10, 2019
Judith Aston is widely recognized as a pioneer in the art and science of kinetics. Advance your “seeing” skills to assess how the body’s alignment creates symptoms and how the forces of gravity and ground reaction influence symptoms, explore effective movement designs, and learn Aston fascial integration technique.
Anatomy Trains in Training – 3 Day Workshop
Teacher(s): Ari-Pekka Lindberg
Date(s): Jul 14 – 16, 2019
Price: $550.00
**Early bird price held until May 10, 2019
Anatomy Trains in Training offers a 4-D neuro-myofascial approach to body movement that includes assessment & developing function and performance. Gain new and exciting tools to build and progress individualized exercises that are appropriate to any clients’ body.
Anatomy Trains in Motion – Maine
Teacher(s): Karin Gurtner
Date(s): Jul 19 – 21, 2019
Price: $550.00
**Early bird price held until May 10, 2019
Anatomy Trains in Motion is an in-depth 3-day course for movement and bodywork professionals who love integral anatomy and body-minded exercise applications that relate to real-life in all of its dimensions.
ATSI Advanced: Module 1 – Deeper Grounding
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Jul 22 – 25, 2019
Price: $750.00
** For ATSI Graduates, members of IASI, and other SIs only
Advanced Assessment, Strategy and Techniques for Pelvis and Legs, Ligaments and Deep Structures. This course covers advanced techniques for the pelvis and legs. The idea here is to free the legs and pelvic movement to create a smooth running ‘spinal engine’ in gait and performance. This is 1 of 4 modules (followed by clinical application) required for ATSI Advanced Practitioner Certification.
ATSI Advanced: Module 3 – Centered Reaching
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Jul 26 – 29, 2019
Price: $750.00
** For ATSI Graduates, members of IASI, and other SIs only
This 4-day intensive is third of the 4 modules (followed by practicum) required for ATSI Advanced certification. This course will cover advanced techniques for optimal positioning of the shoulders and arms, and their relationship to the neck and low back, aimed at functional use of the shoulders in relation to the spine.
McGill Method Level 1 – Foundation for the pain free back
Teacher(s): Stuart McGill
Date(s): Jul 31 – Aug 1, 2019
Price: $550.00
**Early bird price held until May 10, 2019
Dr. Stuart McGill is a leading expert on spine biomechanics and his methods are used worldwide to successfully treat back pain. Learn the most recent developments in function of the lumbar spine – specifically how it works and how it becomes injured, and how this is linked to pain sensitivity.
Rolling Along the Anatomy Trains
Teacher(s): Tom Myers, Jill Miller
Date(s): Aug 2 – 4, 2019
Price: $650.00
**Early bird price held until June 3, 2019
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 first collaboration – rolling through the Anatomy Trains to lighten and enlighten your body.
Tom Myers Immersion
Teacher(s): Tom Myers
Date(s): Aug 5 – 7, 2019
Price: $1,800.00
Immerse yourself in a small class intensive with Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains. See how whole body systems interact. Develop your ability to visually assess posture, gait, and functional movement. Special attention to the breath in motion. Course includes two exclusive dinners with Tom.
Integrating Scar Tissue
Teacher(s): Sharon Wheeler
Date(s): Aug 8 – 11, 2019
Price: $700.00
**Early bird price held until June 3, 2019
Integrating Scar Tissue is Sharon Wheeler’s original discovery, and one that she is continually developing and expanding on. Working with scars is like speaking a different language in the world of connective tissue. Scar tissue is very dense fascia with unique properties. Learn scar tissue techniques well enough to take them home and use them the next day in their private practices
Integrating the Cranium
Teacher(s): Sharon Wheeler
Date(s): Aug 12 – 15, 2019
Price: $700.00
**Early bird price held until June 3, 2019
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.
Visceral Mobilization: Freeing Fascial Interfaces Among the Organs
Teacher(s): Lauren Christman
Date(s): Aug 16 – 18, 2019
Price: $550.00
**Early bird price held until June 3, 2019
Learn techniques to release fascial restrictions in the following abdominal organs: liver, gall bladder, stomach, spleen, small and large intestines, bladder and kidneys. The lungs, bronchi and mediastinum are included. We’ll work with the client in a variety of positions, to give us flexibility and versatility when approaching the organs.
Myofascial Balancing for Kids: Toddlers to Tweens
Teacher(s): Lauren Christman
Date(s): Aug 19 – 21, 2019
Price: $650.00
**Early bird price held until June 3, 2019
Children are incredibly fun to work with; they are vital, mobile, and tremendously present. In this introductory course, we look at essential skills for working safely and effectively with kids ages 2-12. We ground our approach in an understanding of normal development (primarily musculoskeletal; modestly cognitive/social), and then focus each session on relating to the individual child.
Introduction to Neurovascular Release for Structural Integration
Teacher(s): Kirstin Schumaker
Date(s): Aug 22 – 24, 2019
Price: $650.00
**Early bird price held until June 3, 2019
Learn neurovascularly informed myofascial techniques that look and feel like regular structural integration. Differentiation techniques that you learn in this course are nuanced specifically for freeing the neurovascular tracts. This work has a certain precision to it that makes it particularly effective for fine-tuning structural balance — it’s great for athletes, and great for every client who needs that extra nudge to help them emerge more fully from their old structural pattern.
Neurovascular Release for Structural and Functional Balance – Part 1
Teacher(s): Kirstin Schumaker
Date(s): Aug 26 – 28, 2019
Price: $650.00
**Early bird price held until June 3, 2019
Learn a neurovascular approach to helping your client or patient who has a forward head posture and an injury history that has left lingering movement restrictions. Helpful for old whiplash injuries and problems that haven’t resolved with other manual therapy techniques.