Complementary Therapists/Practitioners

Anatomy Trains®

Myofascial Meridians

for Manual Therapists

29th & 30th September 2012  Birmingham UK

Times:  9am – 5pm

Teacher: Mike Doxey

 Assistant: Marie Steadman

One short course………..                                 Long lasting results for you!

Set your anatomy knowledge free! Thomas Myers’ Anatomy Trains® weekend intensives are holistic, fun and very useful. Completely transform your view of myofascial anatomy and expand your ability to assess your clients’ posture and movement.

Anatomy Trains is a revolutionary map for analyzing soft-tissue patterns, and developing strategies for unwinding these patterns via various forms of manual and movement intervention. The Anatomy Trains concept moves beyond mechanical “cause and affect” actions of muscles to the integrative relational connections of real-life functional movement.

Anatomy Trains offers skills that hands-on therapists, regardless of their modality, can use to see their clients more clearly and work more effectively.

Workshop Format: The workshop is split into roughly equal time on 1) lecture/presentation of the concepts and the lines, 2) BodyReading™ and postural  analysis, and 3) fascial plane and myofascial plane techniques from Tom’s KMI Structural Integration and movement education library.

This course helps you:

• BodyRead your client’s postural and movement patterns with greater accuracy and integration.
• Gain access to effective treatment strategies for resolving postural distortions, which may occur some distance from the obvious site of pain or limitation.
• Enable you to make distinct changes in your clients’ structure in a few short moves.

Course Objectives:

• Understand basic properties and connected nature of fascia, and tensegrity applied to fascia and human movement.
• A succinct and relevant introduction to geometry/character of the connective tissue, and the topology of fascial planes
• Be able to identify and trace the 6 major and 6 supplemental fascial meridians along which movement, tension, and postural distortion travel
• Be able to BodyRead™ postural patterns based on analysis of Anatomy Trains lines
• Apply knowledge to construct a bodywork session appropriate for the specific pattern of each client.
• This course also serves as a prerequisite for entry in the KMI 500-hour Certification Training.

Learning Environment:

• Illustrated lecture
• Open inquiry atmosphere; questions encouraged; high degree of vitality and humour
• Participants will exchange palpation and practice BodyReading (visual assessment) on one another under supervised analysis of instructor and assistants.

Places are still available on this course, details of costs are:

Booking options:

1) Online – visit  www.lhmeridian.co.uk to pay via PayPal

2) By downloading & printing a copy of the booking form (PDF format).

Cheques should be made payable to ’Meridian’ 

AT Manual Course Booking Form3 – Birmingham September 2012

 For further details or queries contact pauline@simplyholistictherapies.co.uk

 MIKE DOXEY

The movement of the human body is something that Mike has been passionate about since childhood. Mike comes to this form of bodywork with extensive experience as fitness professional and Body Controlled Pilates teacher. He has been in private practice since 1990. Through his background in professional football, cycling, triathlon, yoga and Pilates, Mike has developed his natural intuitive awareness & understanding of the workings and movement of the human body.

Fascinated by the integration of movement and manual therapy, Mike studied with Tom Myers, and having completed his KMI training, has expanded his one to one practice. With his work as a Pilates teacher, he has found that incorporating structural integration, and particularly the KMI approach, has completely changed how he looks at the body, making the two arts very powerful in enabling the individual to make optimum use of their body. Michael’s practice is based in London & Brighton.

For more information about Anatomy Trains and Myofascial work visit – www.anatomytrains.com.

  MARIE STEADMAN – TEACHER ASSISTANT

Marie Steadman has been a practicing massage therapist in Leicestershire for the past 17 years, starting in Aromatherapy and in later years predominately Sports massage. She graduated in Structural Integrationfrom KMI in 2010, then subsequently in 2011 went on to take KMI Teacher Training and now is working towards becoming a Certified KMI Teacher.

       

Lorraine Horton and Julie Linton – Co-Directors

Meridian Professional Training in Massage and Natural Therapies

News and information

The Simply Holistic Therapies main website will be updated over the next few months, plus on-going information posted within this on-line newsletter.

Things to look out for - details informing you of new therapies on offer and any changes and developments to the complementary therapy services offered by  Simply Holistic Therapies.

So what’s new at the moment?

Exciting new partnership venture……

Simply Holistic Therapies is working in partnership with Meridian Professional Training in Massage to bring Continuing Professional Development (CPD) workshops to Birmingham for  Complementary Therapists/Practitioners. Look out for more details coming soon.

CPD Workshops for 2012

Are you a Complementary Therapist or Therapy Practitioner looking for interesting Continuing Professional Development (CPD) workshops to enhance your exisiting skills?

Up-coming workshop – Anatomy Trains® – Myofascial Meridians for Manual Therapists – 29th & 30th September 2012, Birmingham UK

It’s early days so please check out future posts for other updates on what else will be on offer within this newsletter page or click onto CPD Workshops under Categories.

Any queries regarding CPD workshops contact:

Pauline Miller

CPD Co-ordinator/Holistic Therapy Practitioner

Email: pauline@simplyholistictherapies.co.uk