Anatomy Trains, in partnership with Puerto Rico Massage and Bodywork Institute, is pleased to present When the Body Speaks: Fascial Patterns and the Emotional Body with Anatomy Trains author Tom Myers!
This skill-building workshop is for Movement Professionals and Manual Therapists, Trainers, Massage Therapists, Rehabilitation Specialists and Yoga / Pilates teachers.
This workshop builds your skills in seeing and palpating skeletal relationships – The key to effective whole-body training and treatment strategies!
No one lives a stress-free life. The question is: how to handle it in a health-enhancing manner, rather than having it slowly break down your resilience. Resilience is a state of the body that reflects into your state of mind. New understandings of how our whole systems act and interact gives us new methods of self-regulation and energy management.
This course is designed to build your own resilience, and help you recognize the signs of distress and growing resilience in your students, patients, or clients. Where is your shoe nailed to the floor? Deep grief, trauma, long illness, a constant frustration– all of these can sap your resilience. Structural, physiological, and psychological health are all related – and all work through elasticity and plasticity – in the nervous system, the chemical system, and the myofascial system.
Using the breath, stretching, awareness meditation, and focused attention, we will explore the limits of the neural, biochemical, and fascial ‘whole-body’ systems: how to make stress work for you, what to do to lessen distress, increase balance, and have the most resilient system you can have.
We’ve heard of IQ, and most of us have heard of EQ – Emotional Intelligence – but what about KQ – Physical Intelligence? Understand plasticity in the body on a global level to make the best use of our organismic responses to life situations.
Where to stay: www.puertoricomassage.com/
We suggest you stay in Ocean Park. Is located walking distance from a beautiful beach, in easy walking distance from Calle Loiza, a lively street, with a good weekend nightlife, restaurants, cafes, food trucks and good local food cafes.
Puerto Rico is a tourists friendly island, and as a US territory, no passport or visa is required for US nationals. In San Juan, almost everybody speaks or understands English as a second language.
Places to visit while in the area:
Old San Juan
Puerto Rico’s capital San Juan is one of the oldest and cutest colonial cities in the America’s, and truly beautifully preserved.
Rain Forest
Located in Puerto Rico’s Northeast Region, El Yunque National Forest is the only tropical rainforest in the National Forest System. At nearly 29,000 acres, it is one of the smallest in size, yet one of the most biologically diverse. Come experience the breathtaking scenery, clear mountain rivers, and outdoor recreation opportunities year round.
Luquillo Beach
One of the most beautiful beaches in the North Shores of the island. Is close to El Yunque Rain Forest, so after visiting the Rainforest, you can see the sunset while swimming in the warm waters of the ocean.
