DELVING DEEPER

SOMATIC EXPLORATIONS SERIES

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Connective Tissue: Re-weaving the Web

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The Trunk: Core and Container

This class is no longer offered.

 

Series Origin and Overview

In early 2009, Deane Juhan and Dave Campbell got together to teach a special 3-day version of a Neck, Head & Jaw - Intraoral Endorsement class in Seattle. This collaboration was well received and many participants in the class expressed a desire to have more of these co-taught workshops. Deane and Dave were pleasantly surprised at how well their teaching styles complemented each other, and at the common ground they found in their approaches to working with the body/mind.

Inspired by the success of the Neck, Head & Jaw workshop, Deane and Dave have put together a series of workshops to tour the rest of the body. The first of the series is a multidimensional exploration of a key tissue that permeates the entire body: Connective Tissue. The remaining three workshops tour major areas of the body (except the areas previously covered in the Neck, Head, Jaw class). Each workshop will include lecture/discussion/multimedia presentations, hands-on work, and movement to fully explore the subject at hand. The workshops are designed to unfold as a developing series, and also to stand alone as individual subjects worthy of in-depth consideration.

Deane and Dave look forward to these collaborations, and hope you will be able to come to one or more to create and learn with them!

These workshops are all NCBTMB approved, and will be held approximately every 3 months beginning in July, 2009. They are designed to unfold as a developing series or to be taken singly.

Part 1: Connective Tissue: Re-Weaving the Web

Research has revealed that connective tissue is an extremely dynamic and energetic medium which does vastly more than physically contain and connect our pieces and parts. This workshop will deepen your understanding and effectiveness for working with this key tissue of the body. Through lecture, hands-on work, and movement we will explore all aspects of this amazing tissue and its functions and effects in the body. For more information click here: Connective Tissue

Part 2: The Trunk: Core and Container

This workshop will explore the area of the body from the thoracic inlet to the pelvic floor, with its many layers of muscles and fascia, its many compartments, organs and tubes, its many life sustaining functions, its role as core support and anchor for locomotion, and its vulnerability to emotional and postural influences. We will consider the areas and structures individually, interconnected in sub-areas, and connected through the entire trunk and the rest of the body. For more information click here: The Trunk

Part 3: The Lower Extremity: From the Ground Up

Our feet are our direct connection to the Earth and the platforms of our complex bipedal balancing act. The price that we have paid for the immensely creative use of our arms and hands has been the great responsibility thrown upon our feet, legs and hips for support, balance and locomotion. To serve us well they need to be exquisitely sensitive, extraordinarily strong, and consciously supported in their alignment and development. For more information click here: Lower Extremity

Part 4: The Upper Extremity: Work, Play, Create

The muscles that empower the arms extend from the skull to the pelvis, attach to every vertebra and encompass the entire rib cage. They include some of the largest muscles of the body, as well as some of those that are the most prone to occupational and emotional stress. They are the source of a great deal of our creativity in the world; on the other hand they are also the cause of a wide variety of difficulties that can develop in relation to their habituated holding and repetitive movement patterns. For more information click here: Upper Extremity

About DEANE JUHAN, MA (by Jack Blackburn): www.jobsbody.com
Since the publication of Job's Body in 1987, Deane Juhan has been a strong influence in the bodywork world. He followed with Touched by the Goddess in 2000.

I first brought Deane to the northwest in 1988 and 1989 for classes he taught on Orcas island. I was surprised at how many persons traveled from afar to be there with Deane. Job's Body had created quite a stir in the world of bodywork...offering a much deeper understanding and questioning of what we were working with. Deane had gone out to the edge of anatomy and physiology and invited us all to journey there with him. Many courageous schools started requiring his book as a primary textbook.

Since then Deane has continued to break new ground and to open up new possibilities for the manual therapies. He has also been at the forefront of legitimizing the bodywork modalities to medical practitioners and the hard sciences.He continues to challenge all of us to learn much more, understand much more, and create much more than we ever thought possible.

About DAVE CAMPBELL, BA,LMP,CTP www.bodylightbooks.com
Dave Campbell is a licensed massage practitioner and an instructor of kinesiology and cadaver anatomy at the Spectrum Center School of Massage in Lake Stevens, WA since 2001. He has been in practice for over 20 years and has an enduring fascination with the intricacies of the human body, mind, and spirit. Dave maintains a full-time practice in Bellingham, WA, specializing in Trager Work and Craniosacral Therapy, augmented by a variety of other gentle neuromusculoskeletal release techniques.

Dave is the author and illustrator of the book Mastering Muscles & Movement: A Brain-Friendly System for Learning Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Kinesiology. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California and is a certified Trager® practitioner. A former key engineer at the Fairchild Research Labs in Palo Alto, CA, Dave developed his brain-friendly approach to teaching muscles and movement based on years of experience in the study of human perception, artificial intelligence, and graphic representation of scientific information.