This course focuses on good foot and leg support through: The 3 (or 4) arches of the foot, how they act in walking and standing, and

• The balance of support the arches receive from the long muscles of the calf, and
• Unwinding rotational compensations in the foot, the tibia-fibula complex and the knee.         

Monday 8.30am – 4.30pm     Cost $95.00

Muscles of the Pelvis

This course sheds light on the pelvis – the keystone of human architecture – by organizing the 20 or so muscles of the pelvis into three fans. Get specific with sensitivity. Highlights include:

• The abductors on the side of the thigh
• The deep lateral rotators and pelvic ligaments
• The adductors and ischial ramus, with connections to the pelvic floor, and
• The psoas complex.

Monday 8.30am – 4.30pm    Cost $95.00

Anatomy and Therapeutics – Thoracic Spine

This course focuses on ribcage and thoracic spine mechanics, and includes:

• The anatomy and physiology of the breath
• Various therapeutic views of the ‘normal’ breath
• Techniques for abdominal fasciae, ribs, vertebral rib joints, and mediastinal visceral tissues, scalenes, and lumbar muscles,
• Techniques for facilitation of the ‘breath wave’ into the front, back, and sides, as well as into each ‘quadrant’ of the rib cage.

Tuesday 8.30am – 4.30pm      Cost $95.00

The Tensegrity Spine

 This course examines the spine as a tensegrity truss – how the bones float within the myofascial balance. Assessment and techniques for freeing and balancing the spine address:

• Anterior and posterior curvatures – lordosis and kyphosis,
• Side bends,
• Rotations (and counter-rotations),
• Guy-wires on both the front and the back of the spine, and
• Balancing trunk spinal work into the cervical spine and sacrum.

Tuesday 8.30am – 4.30pm     Cost $95.00

Neck, Shoulder, and Thorax

The shoulder rests on the thorax and hangs from the neck. Most long-term shoulder dysfunctions need to consider all three elements in the ‘cure’. In this course, we combine techniques from the breathing workshop and the arm workshop to take a comprehensive look at how to resolve malalignment of the shoulder complex balanced in our upright posture.
Techniques include:

• Rib cage tilts and repositioning
• Scalenes and head-neck positioning
• Shoulder pivots and the balance between stability and mobility in the shoulder
• The shoulder ‘X’ – the underlying muscles that create shoulder stability

Wednesday 8.30am – 4.30pm     Cost $95.00

Shoulders and Arms

In this driving day and computer age, the arms get unique usage these days. This course travels from the shoulder to the hand on the Arm Lines, giving techniques for every station along the way.
These include:

• Releases for each joint of the shoulder
• Soft-tissue techniques for shoulder muscles
• Elbow and upper arm muscle releases
• Lower arm extensor, flexor, radial, and ulnar releases
• Wrist and hand work

Wednesday 8.30 – 4.30pm     Cost $95.00

The Neck and Jaw

This course focuses on key areas of the neck and jaw complex, including:

• The sub-occipital muscles,
• The laminar groove and deep cervical muscles,
• The muscular wires off the front of the neck – anterior scalenes and colli muscles,
• Intra-oral work for the hyoid complex, the tongue, and the floor of the mouth, and
• The jaw muscles, TMJ, the palate and facial muscles

Thursday 8.30am – 4.30pm     Cost $95.00

Running concurrently from Monday October 13^th for 10 weeks