Tom Myers – Fascial Release Technique
Description of Fascial Release Technique:
The Fascial Release Technique video series is 6 hours of direct instruction in myofascial and fascial technique from Anatomy Trains author Tom Myers. Ease postural compensations and restore natural myofascial balance. Tom Myers has been honing these techniques over many years of teaching worldwide to many different professions.
Direct from our ‘practice studio’ to you, this series is the first time that Tom will be teaching his standard and advanced techniques over the internet, a substantial jump in the technology of webinars. You can ask questions, see the techniques up close, and link specific common postural problems to the techniques being taught.
Originally aired on 6/13 and now available as video on demand.
What you’ll learn in Fascial Release Technique:
Session 1
Fascial Release Technique:
- Are you contacting the fascia? How to know the ‘feel’ of fascial work
- Use of tools: fingertips, palm, knuckles, forearm, elbow
- Body positioning for best results (for you and for the client)
- The three I’s: Intention, Invitation, and Information
- The three D’s: Finding the right depth, direction, and duration
Session 1 will include techniques drawn from the library of Structural Integration – pioneered by Ida Rolf as updated by Tom – to illustrate the points above. Practice the rest of the organized technique videos in the ‘frame’ established in this first one.
Session 2
Opening the Breath and Shoulders:
- Techniques for easing the Superficial Front Line and the breath
- Opening Arm Line myofascia at the front of the shoulder to correct slump and shoulder immobility
Session 3
Balancing the Feet and Legs:
- Opening the ‘neuromyofascial web’ on the foot
- Balancing lower leg tonus to support the arches
Session 4
Freeing the Hips:
- Techniques for hip flexors
- Balancing the deep lateral rotators
Session 5
Shoulder Stability:
- Grounding the Scapula
- Balancing rotator cuff
Session 6
Integration:
- Settling the sacrum
- Easing the spine
About Tom Myers
Tom Myers has practiced integrative manual therapy for over 40 years in a variety of clinical and cultural settings. Tom is the author of Anatomy Trains (2020, 4th ed), co-author of Fascial Release for Structural Balance (North Atlantic, 2010, 2017), co-author of Anatomy Trains in Motion Study Guide (2019), author of Body3, The Anatomist’s Corner, Structural Integration: Collected Articles, and BodyReading: Visual Assessment and The Anatomy Trains, and has also written extensively for Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies (Elsevier).
He has also produced over 20 online learning courses with Anatomy Trains, and others in collaboration with various body-minded professional groups. Tom lives and sails on the coast of Maine in the USA. Tom and his team deliver professional development courses and certification in Structural Integration worldwide.
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