For Osteopaths

Contractile Fields with Phillip Beach and Tania Huddart

Learn a new whole-body movement model — Contractile Fields — that will change the way you think, move, and teach.

It is remarkable that we have come so far in our biomedical understanding of the human body yet we have no coherent models that attempt to map whole-organism movement patterns. Phillip’s model of movement — the Contractile Field — attempts to bridge that conceptual gap in our understanding. The model suggests new approaches to biomechanical assessment and then sheds light on the world’s oldest medical map, the Chinese meridians.

Workshop details

Who's it for: All bodyworkers such as physiotherapists, osteopaths, acupuncturists, Pilates and Feldenkrais instructors

Date and time: Friday 2 March to Sunday 4 March, 10am to 5pm

Register and pay by: 26 February 2018

Cost: $375

What's included: Tuition and fully illustrated workshop manual

Venue: Innermost Garden Hall, 31 Lawson Pl, Mount Victoria

What to bring: Comfortable clothing, pen, paper, lunch each day

Places: 25 participants

What you will learn

The study of pattern is crucial to the understanding of living systems.

To discover the patterns of human movement, we need to turn to that most mystical of studies — embryology. We must also look back in time to how vertebrates came to move in both the aquatic and terrestrial environment.

These disciplines inform the Contractile Field model. This is a whole-organism model that describes fields of interacting contractility.

In this workshop, you will:

  • develop an understanding of human movement in terms of primary patterns of movement
  • learn how to assess tune via 'archetypal postures', with the fields acting together in a 'tuned' manner
  • learn exercises and material to change how you think and work

You may also walk barefoot in the beautiful gardens of the venue and apply your new knowledge in a functional way!

Phillip will teach the Contractile Fields model. Tania will teach movements that involve the field and the embedded sensory organ. The movements involve flexing, extending, lateral flexing, twisting left and right, and squeezing. The limbs act as both brakes and amplifiers to these movements.

About the presenters — Phillip Beach and Tania Huddart

Phillip taught osteopathic technique and rehabilitation in London for 24 years. That long experience fuelled his interest in human movement. He has taught workshops in the UK, Europe, USA, and Australasia. His workshops are popular with all practitioners who work with the human body.

Tania is a very skilled, PMA-certified Pilates Instructor and Master Pilates Instructor. She has many years of experience teaching clients and student instructors, and presenting Pilates workshops both nationally and internationally. Tania is the managing director of, and lead instructor at, Hearts and Bones Pilates Centre in Dunedin.

Register now and pay

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Do register now as places are limited and we do not accept late registrations.

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The Face and Cranium - ROTORUA

Date: May 26-27th 2018

Venue: Rydges Hotel Rotorua 

Cost: $450 OR $250 student osteopaths (limited spaces available)

CPD: 14hrs 9am-5pm 

Lecturer: Nicolas Marriette  

 

This weekend we will be focusing on techniques for the face and cranium. 

Saturday we will explore the anatomical relationship of the face and the cranium, also between the face and the cervical spine and the face and the viscera.  We will look at landmarks and practice palpation before learning specific techniques for the TMJ, the orbit and fronts-maxillary suture (in regards to the ethmoid). On Sunday we will cover headaches and migraines. Specific techniques for the individual bones of the face regarding different traumas. We will also cover the tongue, latching problems, malocclusion and teeth as well as the sphenopalatine ganglion.

We will have many assistants helping Nicolas to ensure a high level of hands on tuition. 

At the end of the weekend you should feel confident in many new or revised techniques that you can use in the clinic straight away. 

To register or for more information contact Natalie Knight This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  or (06) 8674012 

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Osteopathic Seminar in the Snow Japan

Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 January 2018

Hakuba Iwatake Snow Fields, Japan

Fee: $450 plus GST for osteopaths and $250 plus GST for osteopathic students.

 

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Hakuba Dreaming 2018 is a nine hour osteopathic seminar that will be delivered over three successive afternoons. Our mission is to provide concise clinically relevant lecture material and we have carefully selected high quality speakers from around the world to maximize the learning experience. The current line-up includes:

Incorporating pain management in clinical practice: a low back pain case study
Louise Adam, Osteopath, Australia.
 
An Osteopathic approach to treating trauma
Eileen Glover, Osteopath, New Zealand.
 
Clinical applications for treating GERD
Keiichi Hagiwara, Osteopath, Japan.
 
Managing Desk Disease – addressing the ‘what’s’ and ‘whys’
Paul Hermann, Osteopath and Exercise Scientist, Australia.
 
Advanced concepts in OMT
Michael Kelly, Osteopath, Australia.
 

Lectures will be in held in the main dining area of the Hakuba Brew Pub, 75 metres from the bottom of the chairlifts of the Hakuba Iwatake Ski Fields.
 
Accommodation is not included in the registration fee. Participants can find a full range of accommodation options at http://www.hakubaholiday.com or for help with all your travel and accommodation needs http://www.skitravelcompany.com.au.
 
For more information, please go to https://www.facebook.com/OsteopathySkiPD/ or contact Mick Kelly on 0402 295 763 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Equine and canine osteopathy

April 13th-22nd 2018

Gisborne, New Zealand

 

Stuart McGregor DO

Principal, Osteopathic Centre for Animals

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On-line

There will be 4 on-line modules consisting of musculo-skeletal anatomy of the fore limb, hind limb, neck and back including bio-mechanics, and basic pathologies. There will be suggested study followed by 4 written assignments which can be completed over 6 months.

 

Practical elements

Equine

  1. General practitioner safety considerations.
  2. Forelimb Joint mobilisation, coffin joint to carpus.
  3. Forelimb continued, carpus to shoulder.
  4. Hind limb joint mobilisation and articulation.
  5. Control and handling procedures, join-up etc.
  6. Common pathologies.
  7. Visual examination at walk and trot, lameness etc.
  8. Cervical mobilisation and articulation.
  9. Thoracic and lumbar mobilisation and articulation.
  10. Upper/Mid/lower cervical manipulation.
  11. Thoracic manipulation. Lumbar manipulation.
  12. Further manipulation.  Sacrum, Hip tug, gleno-humeral decompression, distal limb manipulation.          

Canine

  1. Full GOT for dogs.
  2. Fore-limb toes to wrist, wrist to shoulder.
  3. Hind-limb toes to hock, hock to hip.
  4. Cervical mobilisation and articulation.
  5. Thoracic mobilisation and articulation.
  6. Lumbar mobilisation and articulation.
  7. Costal mobilisation, visceral techniques.

 

Advanced CPD

The main course will be followed by two days CPD on advanced equine techniques.