COURSE DESCRIPTION

Training for therapists who want to learn how to work on the skull, which can very effectively influence its shape and existing asymmetries.

Instructor

Barbara Rogowska, M.A.

This training is intended for therapists who want to learn how to work on the skull, which can very effectively influence its shape and existing asymmetries.

Through gentle and precise rotational and balancing movements, the therapist creates tension changes within individual fascial layers. These changes influence the relationships of the bony elements and their internal stresses and deformations.

Ida Rolf worked on the skull in one of her Structural Integration sessions with Sharon Wheeler, her direct student. She developed this work into a gentle deformation of head asymmetry in children. The seventh session is the centerpiece of the ten-session Structural Integration process.

The main session outline comes from Dr. Rolf, with some interesting bone-altering techniques developed specifically for the skull by Sharon. These bone-altering techniques are direct; you can expect significant structural changes from them.

Other specialized cranial techniques include holds for the mandible, zygomatic arch, orbits, and surrounding the Atlas/Axis relationship.

We will also work with the nose, ears, and other structures at the front of the neck.

Participants will participate in the session under the supervision of an instructor and will have the opportunity to work with an external model.

During the training you will learn:

• detailed anatomy of a given area – short and intense presentations showing the most interesting perspective on anatomical structures supported by autopsy recordings, palpation anatomy, presented in an interesting and understandable way,

• postural analysis – you will learn about common movement and postural consequences – you will learn how to see and read the intricacies of individual patterns

• myofascial release techniques – each technique is demonstrated with
  understanding and accurately "feeling" it so that it can be used immediately after returning
  with training for everyday therapeutic work
  

The training includes:

• information about the sources of knowledge on which the training was based

• theoretical part in the form of illustration and detailed discussion

• working with an external model using learned techniques,

• discussion and the opportunity to share observations and good practices

• test your skills during practical exercises,

• recommendations and tips for self-education after completing the training

PROGRAM

Day I

1. Introduction to the concept of working with the skull.

2. Anatomy: bones of the neurocranium and viscerocranium.

3. Palpation of the skull.

4. Palpation skills exercises.
   

Day II

1. Structural integration of the skull.

2. Exercises in techniques for working on the bones of the braincase.
   

Day III

1. Viscerocranium and temporomandibular joint, anterior region of the neck.

2. Working on the bones of the cranium.

3. Intraoral work: examination and therapy.

Day IV

1. Working on external models.

2. Integrating therapeutic techniques.

3. Specific problems of the neck and skull region.

4. Questions and answers.