Core Support for Cranio-Hyoid Function with Tom Myers
This 2-day workshop for manual therapists is designed to support work in the cranio-facial, cervico-hyoid, and glossal complex. All these structures involve intricate and ancient reflexes at the entrance to our organism, with airway, nursing, swallowing, speech, and other consequences.
These structures also lie at the top of our Deep Front Line, a continuity of myofasciae from the tongue to the inner arch. The neck-throat-jaw complex is therefore functionally central, but structurally it perches above the ribs, spine, and pelvis. For change in the tongue or the airway to be long-lasting, it must be supported from below.
To put it negatively: So much good work on the throat and jaw comes to nothing for lack of integrated support from below.
Two skills at the heart of this workshop
- BodyReading: Assess the body pattern at and below the hyoid complex to identify adjustments that offer increased support for change—especially the superior and inferior ribs, the mid-dorsal hinge, lumbopelvic stability, and the diaphragm.
- Fascial release techniques: Learn techniques drawn from osteopathy, physiotherapy, and the Rolfing tradition.
This course is a practical intensive. Familiarity with anatomy is assumed. Please come prepared to give and receive manual therapy from pelvis to jaw.
