Designed with the busy manual therapist in mind, each Structural Essentials event gives you a new understanding of the relevant area. The content will outline how the structural and functional anatomy relates to many common issues as well as to the rest of the body.
Based on many new and established approaches this series will give you the skills in palpation, BodyReading and functional analysis needed for the modern multidisciplinary therapist.
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.
Designed with the busy manual therapist in mind, each Structural Essentials event gives you a new understanding of the relevant area. The content will outline how the structural and functional anatomy relates to many common issues as well as to the rest of the body. Based on many new and established approaches this series will give you the skills in palpation, BodyReading and functional analysis needed for the modern multidisciplinary therapist.
Head, Neck and Jaw
The neck is a remarkable feat of biomechanical engineering, giving a combination of wide range of movement but maintaining a structural strength. It is often seen as the last site of compensation as it corrects for any alteration from below allowing the eyes and ears to orient to the horizon. Patterns can of course work their way in the other direction and particularly from the jaw and its many possible patterns of movement and holding. This course will focus on key areas of the neck and jaw complex to allow you to build successful strategies to ease these potential problem areas alleviating the issues working in both directions and setting the body up for a longer lasting change.
Highlights include:
• The sub-occipital muscles
• The laminar groove & deep cervical muscles
• The muscular wires of the front of the neck – anterior scalenes & longus colli muscles
• Intra-oral work for the hyoid complex, the tongue, and the floor of the mouth
• The jaw muscles, TMJ, the palate & facial muscles
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:
1. Arches and the Legs 3 days – 17th- 19th of January 2025
2. Fans of the Hip 3 days – 7th-9th November 2025
3. Abdomen, Chest & Breath 2 1/2 days – 13th-15th February 2026
4. Tensegrity Spine 2 1/2 days – 17th-18th April 2026
5. Shoulders & Arms 2 days – 19th-20th April 2026
6. Head, Neck & Jaw 2 days -19th-20th June 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.
1. Arches and Legs – 3 days
2. Fans of the Hip – 2 ½ days
3. Abdomen, Chest and Breath – 2 ½ days
4. Tensegrity Spine – 2 days
5. Shoulders & Arms – 2 days
6. Head, Neck & Jaw – 2 days