Training Courses
Workshop 1: Balancing The Diaphragms
by Julie Hammond & Fiona Palmer
10th – 11th July 2023
“A global approach to pelvic health”
Julie and Fiona both have a passion in Women’s Health and collaboration between health professionals as well as treating Women’s Health problems through a global lens. They both have over twenty years of clinical practice experience and combined their thoughts to develop Balancing the Diaphragms.
This two-day workshop will introduce you to the concept of the five diaphragms and understand how all these areas are linked. You will dive into the anatomy of each of the diaphragms. Focusing on the relationships between the diaphragms and how you cannot treat one area without thinking about these relationships. A pelvic floor problem is never just a pelvic floor problem, and how other factors need to be looked at when working with pelvic floor pain and dysfunction. Within this workshop, you will look at the importance of collaboration between Health professionals for client-centred therapy and the need for integrated multimodal treatment protocols.
This workshop is recommended for health professionals who want to know more about global strategies and understand the connection between these important areas.
It is suitable for manual and movement therapists, looking at the latest research and relevant anatomy, how to translate this research into clinical practice through movement, self -release and manual therapy.
This workshop will take you through the anatomy of the 5 diaphragms as well as experiencing the links between these structures. You will leave with:
- An understanding of communication between the diaphragms
- An experiential sense of the structures
- Movement education for your client’s self-care
- Posture analysis on how these diaphragm’s support each other
- The importance of starting positions for client treatment & homework
- Manual techniques for each of the diaphragms
- A love and clear understanding of the anatomy of the diaphragms
Workshop Details:
Dates: 10th – 11th July 2023
Time: 9am – 5pm
Venue: TBC
Fees: S$700 before 1st April 2023, S$850 thereafter
Contact: Diego Chia
WhatsApp: +65 87185274
Email: info@mindnmovement.com.sg
Click HERE to register!
About The Teachers:
Julie Hammond lives in Western Australia with her husband and 3 children. She is Director and lead teacher of Anatomy Trains Australia & New Zealand and has been a bodyworker for the 22 years. She is a certified Anatomy Trains Structural Integration practitioner, organised the first Australian Fascia symposium in 2020 and cofounder of Balancing the Diaphragms. She has a passion for women’s health and due to her love of anatomy, she has participated in many dissections. With a special interest in the feet, pelvis and jaw and is fascinated with the connection between each of these parts of the body and the influence they have on each other. She is currently looking at the connection between pelvic floor health and arch support, or lack of, and how she can help women improve the function of the pelvis from the ground up. She is currently studying medical science.
Fiona Palmer has been a movement therapist for the last twenty-five years, and bodyworker for more than twenty years. Her client base of rehabilitating after injury, surgery, childbirth has become her passion. Fiona’s background is in clinical Pilates, pelvic floor dysfunction and low back pain. She runs a busy clinic in Clare’s small bustling town in Suffolk and runs an online Pilates and hypopressive breathing and postural exercise business. She is an Anatomy Trains teacher allowing her to share her passion for anatomy and the body.
Fiona has found that a more “holistic” or global approach seems to offer more significant benefits in the long term. The links between the diaphragms became more interesting when she started introducing hypopressive exercise into her exercise programme.
Workshop 2: Born To Walk
by James Earls (https://www.borntomove.com/)
2nd – 4th November 2023
“Freedom of Movement”
Overview
Walking is one of the most common daily functions, but one of the least understood biomechanically. To understand anatomy the therapist must first understand function.
In this course, we analyze the mechanics of efficient gait, looking at the chain of movement events from the feet to the spine and into the shoulders. Upon completing this course you will have the tools to understand true, real-life movement and how to correct faulty patterns.
Based on the well-researched and well-received text of the same name, this workshop is designed to help the therapist understand functional anatomy. In this workshop we analyze the mechanics of efficient gait, looking at the chain of movement events from the feet to the spine and into the shoulders. We explore how gravity and momentum work in concert with joints and the fascial and myofascial tissue to improve proprioceptive communication, muscle firing, and collagenous tissue recoil.
You will come away with the tools to investigate, analyze and intervene in non-pathological walking. We will explore the many ways in which collagenous tissues assist movement efficiency and then learn how to build a personalized movement program to improve your clients’ gait.
This course helps you:
- Assess your client’s postural and movement patterns with greater accuracy
- Analyze the normal motion of the spine
- Understand the connections and correcting mechanisms between the pelvis and
the feet - Assess the feet and their role in shock absorption
- Relate textbook anatomy to your client’s actual movement patterns
- Apply Myofascial Slings & Robert Schleip’s Fascial Fitness in function
- Effectively identify and correct your client’s faulty movement patterns
Workshop Details:
Dates: 2nd – 4th November 2023
Time: 9am – 5pm
Venue: TBC
Fees: S$1150 before 1st July 2023, S$1300 thereafter
Contact: Diego Chia
WhatsApp: +65 87185274
Email: info@mindnmovement.com.sg
Click HERE to register!
Workshop 3: Functional Bodywork
by James Earls (https://www.borntomove.com/)
5th – 7th November 2023
“Freedom of Movement”
Overview
Working with clients as they move provides endless possibilities for assessment and improvement in real time. No longer do you have to ‘assess, treat, and re-assess’ – you can do it all at the same time.
Clients seek bodywork because they want to reduce their symptoms and improve their performance – we want to help with both at the same time.
Functional Bodywork allows the practitioner to work with motor control, joint and soft-tissue issues with the same technique – the client is simultaneously assessed, treated and re-educated with pain-free interventions.
Previously known as ‘Born to Move’, the Functional Bodywork workshops blend functional movement principles with hands-on manipulation of the soft tissue to give you completely new and exciting assessments and treatment strategies for your clients.
You will learn how to manipulate client positioning and movement to create predictable reactions through the client’s system. The client can be worked on in whatever position is most appropriate for their pain pattern, their strength and balance, or according to the needs of the treatment plan. By the end of the 4 days of training, the therapist will know exactly how to create movements that support the client’s goals.
Not only do the workshops give you a full range of treatment principles but it also gives you an immediate sense of true functional anatomy. The body’s natural tensegrity, its ‘kinetic chain’, or it’s ‘chain reaction’, however you wish to word it, is all felt, assessed, and worked with directly during treatment. We do not make up ‘anatomy stories’, limit you to ‘anatomy models’, or follow one school of thought – in this workshop the client’s system and its movement are the only references.
What is Functional Bodywork?
Functional Bodywork (FB, formerly Active Fascial Release/AFR) has been developed by James Earls, blending his understanding of myofascial and functional movement principles with hands-on manipulation of the soft tissue to create a variety of therapeutic effects.
James trained with Tom Myers, the originator of the Anatomy Trains model, and studied functional movement principles with Gary Gray and David Tiberio of the Gray Institute. Functional Bodywork aims to bring the best of both these models together to give you an immediate and effective treatment tool.
Functional Bodywork combines elements of motor control theory with a neuro-myo-fascial approach to identify, treat and finally re-educate the client’s movement patterns. Blending guided movement with various soft tissue engagement protocols has created a method that addresses the body as a whole and acknowledges the roles of the body’s various tissues and their interrelationships.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding and applying essential principles – touch, layering, movement
- Applying different movement drivers to create different effects and knowing when to use them
- Knowing how to create tissue length versus separation and when to apply each
- Combining structural and functional assessments and making sense of how they interact
- Building on the principles listed above to develop global and local movement strategies and knowing when to use each based on the combined structural and functional assessments
Further Highlights Include:
A full repertoire of interventions for the upper body includes quadratus lumborum, obliques and intercostals, multifidi, and shoulder girdle muscles. Bringing the protocols together to assess and understand the full body connections.
Who Should Attend:
The workshop is designed for massage therapists, physical therapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, and those wanting to add an extra dimension to their treatments. While anatomy and pathology will be acknowledged during the 3 days of training, time is too short to teach basics, so a reasonable understanding is expected to allow for a rapid progression and focus on techniques.
Workshop Details:
Dates: 5th – 7th November 2023
Time: 9am – 5pm
Venue: TBC
Fees: S$1150 before 1st July 2023, S$1300 thereafter
Contact: Diego Chia
WhatsApp: +65 87185274
Email: info@mindnmovement.com.sg
Click HERE to register!
About the Teacher:
James Earls
James Earls is a writer, lecturer, and bodyworker, specializing in Myofascial Release and Structural Integration. In recent years he has concentrated on blending movement with manual therapy to create a new approach, ‘Active Fascial Release’.
Increasing the understanding and practice of manual therapy has been a passion of James’ since he first started practicing bodywork over 25 years ago. Throughout his career, James has traveled widely to learn from the best educators in his field, including Thomas Myers, Art Riggs, and Gary Gray. James worked alongside Tom Myers to co-author “Fascial Release for Structural Balance”, a definitive guide to the assessment and manipulation of fascial patterns. James’ vision of what manual therapy could look like in the 21st century led to the founding of Anatomy Trains UK and Ultimate Massage Solutions in the early 2000’s.
James is now concentrating on finding new approaches to understanding how to apply movement and myofascial principles to bodywork.
Having helped build the reputation of Anatomy Trains for Tom Myers through the UK, Europe, and worldwide, James now teaches a range of his own courses and is a regular lecturer at conferences and workshops around the globe. Renowned for his relaxed and humorous style, James is a popular presenter whose subject is applicable to a wide-ranging audience that includes osteopaths, physiotherapists, massage therapists, and movement therapists.
James has collaborated with some of the top researchers in bodywork and fascial theory and has been involved in a number of projects involving research into fascia, movement, and treatment modalities. James’ blend of movement and fascial understanding led to the publication of his well-received “Born to Walk”, an introduction to the interconnected mechanics of the body.