This course offers practitioners gentle palpation and alignment techniques using different types of palpation and one of four visceral manipulation techniques. Indirect and direct mobilizing techniques will be outlined as well as the concepts of myofascial release, functional release with exaggeration of the ease of the tissue according to Dr. Sutherland and Dr. Hoover as well as basic concepts of visceral manipulation according to the classical and biodynamic teachings. Basic can be used for assessment, mobilization, and integration of the bones, muscles, tendons, nerves, ligaments, vessels and fluids from a mechanical volumetric approach. Fluidic biodynamic applications will also be taught to help patients shift sheers imprinted on the body due to trauma. 

This is also an ideal course for practitioners who are looking to refine their skills in offering therapy to the body as a functional unit. It offers practitioners tools to apply to their patients to help reset the system after physical trauma. In addition, it gives practitioners the ability to open the structures without imposing high-velocity impacts. Practitioners who complete the course will leave with skills that will offer therapy to the entire system and will understand the concept of palpating the molitilty of the organs/visceral, the initial movement established during embryological development.

It is a profound course of listening.

Hour One:

Brief lecture “The Rule of the Artery as Absolute” outlining on the traditional Osteopathic teachings about the importance of blood flow into the tissues according to Dr. Andrew Taylor Still. Structural, Fluidic, and Electromagnetic Bodies defined. The four different classical approaches to VM according to the traditional Osteopathic philosophies will be outlined.

Hour Two: We will ask the “viscera” to rise, ask “what does it need” (direct or indirect work), and palpate the difference between the three bodies.

Hour Three:

Palpation techniques of the bone vs. fascia, viscera, nerves and blood vessels will be demonstrated and practiced to give practitioners the opportunity to recognize this in their practices.

Close of course: How to begin work online with patients as an advocate.