Tucson CE courses at Cortiva May 2009

Melting the Atlas and Axis
May 16, 2009 / 9:00am - 5:00pm / 7 hours / $140

View Patrick Moore's 2003 Atlas Axis article from Massage Therapy Journal at http://meltingmuscles.com You'll receive the 2008 version (simplified and expanded) by email as soon as you register - please read in advance of class. Learn to invoke the brain to relax the obliquus capitis inferior and superior muscles that rotate the atlanto-axial joint and sidebend the occipito-atlantal joint. Sound complex? Because we begin simple and add small steps, your hands easily digest the maneuvers. Halfway through the day you'll be surprised to notice your hands happily performing the new technique. Because we work in revolving pairs throughout the day, you'll be profoundly relaxed after receiving this gift from your classmates. Your conscious brain will remember the complex steps your hands learned, when you read the included e-article again after the class.

Touching The Brain
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May 17, 2009 / 9:00am - 3:00pm / 5 hours / $105

Required Advance e-Reading: If I Only Had A Brain Injury by Laura Bruno, Cell Talk by John Upledger pp. 129-179, and view 20 min video by Jill Bolte Taylor. Once only the most skilled Osteopathic Doctors could actually feel and influence brain tissues. Now these healing skills may be embraced by any sincere person. You will learn:

1. to feel the motion of the brain within the cranium
2. to feel the motion of the brain stem and spinal cord within the spine
3. techniques with recipient both face up and face down
4. how the brain communicates and understands through symbols
5. how to gain the brain's cooperation and blessing so that the amused brain will forgive any mistakes and actually coach you how to heal it
6. properties of the Parasympathetic responses and Sympathetic reactions, and how to influence the brain toward choosing rejuvenation

Healing brain injury and disease is a balance of stimulating the brain from the inside and the outside. In addition to work with our hands, we will begin learning how to speak with the recipient in a way that stimulates him to reprogram and restructure his own neural pathways.

Instructor: Patrick Moore - Patrick's love for science, nature, and spirituality was apparent from an early age. In Oregon he camped every weekend for four years including two 50-milers and Order Of The Arrow. In 1977, he attended the Silva method of distance healing, which he repeated ten times for 320 hrs by 1987. He completed a degree in Math from Whitman College in 1984 and taught Math at Western Washington University and Mountain View Middle School. Patrick received five Tibetan attunements, including Medicine Buddha from Jigdal Dagchen Sakya and Chenzezi (compassion) from the Dalai Lama in 1992. He attended the legendary Brian Utting School of Massage from 1992-94 in Seattle and since has completed over two thousand hours of continuing education in Cranio Sacral, Osteopathic Techniques, Medical Massage, Healing Energy, and Therapeutic Relationship. You can read more of Patrick's essays at Ezine Articles and Melting Muscles. Patrick hosts an ongoing literary reading called Monsoon Voices with his wife, Traci. They recently moved to a secluded NW Tucson home with a guest house where Patrick provides services and is working on a novel. http://www.cortiva.com/locations/tucson/continuing-education/