Dear Ortho-Bionomy fans,
After hounding me (some of you) for many months to put my Spine & Extremities Basic classes tapes on DVD, I have finally done it! I’ve outdone myself this time by adding more techniques I’ve learned from other ortho-bionomists since the videotapes of 2004-2005.
New is the piriformis, teres major and minor, general muscle release technique for any muscle in the body, and new bone trauma techniques for fracture history, even with pins, wires, plates intact where there is still pain/discomfort/disability/non-healing.
Now you can access any of the areas of the body directly by choosing the area you want to review on the DVD menu. (no more endless fast forwarding or fast reversing for those who haven’t trashed their VCRs yet. Now you can trash them!)
Basic Courses
The purpose of the Ortho-Bionomy Basic Courses (Basic Spine and Basic Extremities) is to teach the participants how to induce spontaneous relaxation in the musculature and ligamenture of the spine, pelvis and extremities.
This is effected by a series of very slow, pleasurable, simple movements always in the painfree direction, accompanied by breath relaxation techniques that create such an overwhelming safe experience for the client that they tend to relax not just their conscious control, but subconscious control over their structure. The innately self-corrective musculoskeletal reflexes are thus gently awakened and induced. The client restores their own structure back to as close to normal as they are able to. There are no contra-indications to its employment, even in the most severe cases of spinal pain/disease, testifying to its gentleness. Emphasis is on creating relationship with the client that makes the correction more of a dance/conversation that "happens"between them as opposed to a preconfigured plan by the practitioner.
Basic Spine
The Spine Course includes the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, coccygeal and pelvic segments. Special attention is given to additional postural muscle releases, including the iliopsoas, piriformis, and quadratus lumborum.
Basic Extremities
The Extremities Course includes the release of the ribs, shoulder, including frozen shoulder, clavicle, scapula, elbow, wrist and fingers with emphasis on the tennis elbow and the carpal tunnel syndromes. In the lower extremities are included the hip sockets, knees, ankles, feet and toes with emphasis on knee sprains, sprained ankles , dropped metetarsal, longitudinal arches and the bunion correction.