Training Your Touch 2: Following the Fascia with Randall Gibson

Are you ready for the next step in refining your skills? After a quick overview of Training Your Touch: Advanced Palpation Skills (Which is NOT a prerequisite for this class), we will palpate and assess physiological rhythms in the body. Then we begin evaluation of the fascial body at various listening points to identify stress or dysfunction. Topics will include osteopathic concepts that help explain our therapy methods, and how to apply those concepts as myofascial techniques to specific areas and joints. I believe that understanding the relationship between concept and technique is one key to optimal results. The second day begins with grounding and centering to refine our perception. Then we mindfully assess tension patterns and fascial pulls in the lower extremities, upper extremities, and torso. By applying what we have learned to different layers of tissue, we will literally be “following the fascia”. Finally, we pull everything together to practice assessment and treatment in groups of three.…