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’.

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

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 equal time on 1) lecture/presentation, 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 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 humor
• Participants will exchange palpation and practice BodyReading (visual assessment) on one another under supervised analysis of instructor and assistants.

Recommended Reading:

• Anatomy Trains by Thomas W. Myers
• Body3 – A Therapist’s Anatomy Reader by Thomas W. Myers

Other products are typically available for purchase at the workshops.

Movement Therapists:
Anatomy Trains workshops are frequently modified for particular audiences, such as yoga or Pilates, and these variations would emphasize the movement implications of these continuities rather than hands-on technique. Please be certain that you are enrolled in the proper format of Anatomy Trains to fit your background and experience.

This workshop explores this ‘touchy’ area with specificity and sensitivity. Come explore these muscles via palpation and manual therapy techniques for finding, stretching, opening and understanding the deep lateral rotators, adductors, groin muscles and the pelvic floor.

Highlights include:

1. The adductors on the side of the thigh
2. The deep lateral rotators and pelvic ligaments
3. The adductors and ischial ramus, with connections to the pelvic floor, and
4. The psoas complex

Each of the Body3 series is a short intensive course limited to specific anatomy and heavy on manual soft-tissue technique. Each course focuses on 15-20 core ‘templates’ for technique, which can be applied in different ways for different patterns in your clients. The course fully explains the intent and scope of each move.

Participants will come out of these courses with new state-of-the-art tools for soft-tissue release.

This course brings a depth of understanding to the inner process of body memories and how overwhelming events can get trapped in the neuro-muscular system. Follow the cycle of charge and discharge in the autonomic nervous system. Learn to track where a client is on this cycle through reading the subtle signs in breathing, skin tone, sweating, pupil dilation, etc.

Become more confident in handling the emotional issues in your practice – not be ‘playing psychotherapist’, but by becoming an observant and knowledgeable guide through the complex valleys of the soma.

Learn the ancient roots of our modern repression of emotions in the autonomic nervous system, and how the ‘fight, flight, or freeze’ process can get unhooked and released for good. Filled with practical information on stress, distress, and how to comfortably and confidently guide a client through somato-emotional release.

The workshop explores many aspects of the Physiology of Emotion through both theory and practical means, including:

– Stress, Eustress, and Distress
– The Autonomic System: Theories Old and New
– Autonomic Tuning
– Man’s Presumptuous Brain: How we stay scared
– The Arc of a session
– Tracking Autonomic Signs in Your Clients
– E-motion – the movement trapped in feeling
– How do kids and animals do it?

…. and more practically-based aspects such as:

– Breath session
– Arc demonstrations
– Tracking Breath
– Tracking skin color, tone, pilo-erector response
– Handling the release
– Following up