The Anatomy Trains Structural Essential series, is a set of intensive soft-tissue technique courses divided into functional regions. Combining movement and manual techniques for the most efficient and long-lasting results, and using the latest research on the interaction between skeleton, muscles, joints, and fascial proprioceptors, this series of workshops will take you to a new level in therapy.
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Structural Essentials #1
The Arches and Legs
Underpinning all of our structure is the foot’s interaction with the ground, imbalances here clearly have consequences further up the body. Effective arch balance can be essential for easy and graceful walking, pelvic stability, low back efficiency and even head and neck support. The feet and legs are literally the foundation for the rest of our structure and this workshop will analyze the bones of the feet and how they conspire to help or hinder the arches. We will look at the forces coming from the leg muscles and create strategies to help maintain better mechanics by dealing with myofascial restrictions and imbalances.
The Knee and Thigh
A complicated hinge in the middle of two long levers is perhaps not the best of designs – but this “elbow designed by committee” is an excellent work of engineering. The knee joint mediates forces coming down from the hip and up from the foot and still allows a wide range of movement in all but the frontal plane.
Objectives
- How to differentiate your analysis of the foot and legs from the rest of the mechanical chain, giving an accurate reading of their skeletal relationships
- How to assess and then provide good foot and leg support through the three (or four) arches of the foot
- How the arches act in walking and standing and their relationship to the pelvis and the AT lines
- How to balance the support the arches receive from the long muscles of the calf
- Effective strategies to unwind rotational compensations in the foot, the tibia-fibula complex and the knee.
- Learn how the structures of the knee and thigh co-operate to achieve this and learn to recognize some of the structural dysfunctions that can occur.
- BodyRead the various imbalances which can occur
- Learn to balance the common rotational movements of the knee
Certified Structural Integration Practitioner
Continuous Education for Manual- & Movement professionals
Anatomy Trains, Structure & Function -ATSF is a 3-day class, where we get to know you and you get to know us. Follow up with our six regional anatomy workshops. Kick off at Bergen Body Work is on the 20th-22nd of September 2024. Familiarity with the Anatomy Trains lines and concepts, is key to getting the most from the Structural Integration Training.
Part 1: Structural Essentials, We take a deep dive to the local areas of the body learning MFR and strategies for one area at the time:
- Arches and the Legs 3 days – 17th- 19th of January 2025
- Fans of the Hip 3 days – 27th-29th of June 2025
- Abdomen, Chest & Breath 2 1/2 days – 12th-14th September 2025
- Tensegrity Spine 2 1/2 days – 7th-9th November 2025
- Shoulders & Arms 2 days – 17th-18th February 2026
- Head, Neck & Jaw 2 days – 18th-19th April 2026
Part 2: Structural Strategies – 3 sessions building on each other. In the second phase, students apply the assessments and techniques from Part 1 to practice a 3-series protocol of Structural Integration with clinical practice on outside models in a 10-day program. Scheduled on the 22nd of June until 3rd of July 2026. (27th and 28th are days off)
Part 3: Structural Integration – 12 series The third phase, 2 x 15-day classes is where students are taught and tested in the full 12-series program of Structural Integration. Graduates from this program are certified to practice Anatomy Trains Structural Integration and join the International Association of Structural Integrators (IASI). Date and place is still to be confirmed.
*Requirements before entering the final part 3: You will make contact with a certified Si Practitioner to receive your own personal 10 or 12 series Structural Integration.
Information about Anatomy Trains courses worldwide: www.antomytrains.com