- Myofascial properties (deeper framing than in the mainstream and on social media).
- Principles behind myofascial work.
- A myofascial map that includes perspectives from my work in Gil Hedley's dissection lab, Tom Myers' Anatomy Trains concept, and the Sinew Channels of East Asian Medicine.
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Lectures detailing the myofascial dynamic inter-relationships of the torso, thoracic region, neck, shoulder, and upper extremity.
- Layers of the thoracolumbar fascia and how to influence the rib basket and shoulder region.
- Inter-connection between the TLF, thoracic spine, cervical spine and shoulder. These relationships are usually involved in neck pain and shoulder pain.
- Scapulo-thoracic joint and how it influences the shoulder.
- Techniques for elbow pain and carpal tunnel symptoms.
- Introduction to working with hypermobility issues.
- And lots more!
Lectures are available for you throughout the course and for 3 months after it ends.
Reorienting Your Focus
Shifting your focus from individual muscles to regions of myofascially connected tissues is a game changer. With this approach, we can then work on the individual muscles and their fascia with much greater effectiveness.
This is lifelong study not a one-off. Myofascial learning is not about memorization; rather it is experience combined with reflection. Like whiling away an August afternoon by your favorite creek, as Annie Dillard says:
What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state any moment of pure devotion to any object (like the body). It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.
The nature of our online classroom prepares you to go deeper when we gather in person. By then, you'll have fed your imagination plenty of substantive compost, and that compost informs your touch once we start learning the work together. This is how we approach Listening Hands: pure devotion to the body as it is in the moment, receptiveness, concentration.
Fascia Beyond Social Media "Trending"
No doubt, "fascia" is trending. After the buzzy, sexy social media posts, we gotta bring insights about fascia to life in our treatment rooms and under our hands. For most of us, that means myofascia specifically.
There are so many ways to work with the myofascial system, not just one. It's a living system, and each of us moves through this myofascial dance in our own way, both in our own bodies and in how we use our hands to work. Annie Dillard says:
Our layered consciousness is a tiered track for an unmatched assortment of concentrically wound reels. Each one plays out for all of life its dazzle and blur of translucent shadow-pictures; each one hums every moment its own secret melody in its own unique key.
In our Myofascial Release course you'll discover a fluid approach to the work, one that mirrors the riverine aspects of the myofascial system. You'll learn a structured yet flexible process to apply the work, that mirrors the ways fascia offers integrity to the human form. The flexibility of the approach invites you--your specific you, into the work. No protocols here. No dogma, no orthodoxy. Live bodies are live bodies and they hum their own melody. We hold space for the creativity the work requires.
The Woo + A Pragmatic Framework
The course will give you a pragmatic and effective framework for applying the techniques, a scaffolding that also allows for your own insights and creativity to be a part of the work. I have learned this is where the best work comes from.
Very specifically, you'll learn approaches for:
- Shoulder pain: This is one of the more challenging symptom pictures I treat.
- Neck pain: This is its own unique category and is often involved in shoulder and upper extremity issues.
- Dysautonomia and Cervical Hypermobility: Good neck work can be important for folks that experience symptoms that fall in these categories. There are major nervous system structures within the cervical myofascia.
- Enhanced CST Results: There is no doubt that the craniosacral system and the myofascia of the neck are interrelated.
- Myofascial Stretching: for the shoulder and upper extremity.
You will find a way to approach the body that plays nicely with things you already know and trust. And what you learn will both add to those skills and offer new insights and new ways to approach some of the most persistent challenges we face in our work.
Only a few seats left this fall! Check out our website and consider taking one of those spots.
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