April 3, 2010, Hearing Muscles Melt 3: Atlas and Axis; 6 hr, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, $110.00 includes e-book by Patrick Moore. (This class was formerly called, Melting Atlas and Axis), please register through Cortiva Tucson
View Patrick Moore's 2003 Atlas Axis article from Massage Therapy Journal. You'll receive the 2008 version (simplified and expanded) by email as soon as you register—please read as much as you can 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? We begin so simple you'll be yawning. We add small steps so that your hands easily digest the maneuvers. Halfway through the day you'll be surprised to notice your hands happily performing the complex technique. Now, I guarantee your hands will learn to release the atlanto-axial joint, but if you want to remember it, you'll have to read the e-book either before or after the class, or both. We'll work in pairs throughout the day, and you'll be so relaxed you may want to call someone to pick you up after class. We won't be disrobing for this class but we'll need to reach your neck so wear a shirt without a collar. Please bring one bottom sheet. Thanks.
April 4, 2010 Hearing Muscles Melt 7: Unwinding Atlas and Axis, 5 hr, (prerequisite Hearing Muscles Melt 3: Atlas and Axis, offered the day before, or teacher's permission, 623-670-0442) 10:00 am to 4:00 pm $95.00, includes e-handouts. please register through Cortiva Tucson
For those who know the atlanto-axial joint and Obliquus Capitis Inferior muscle, this course covers assessing and treatment using the aid of cranial muscle motion. Slow motion muscle contraction guides you into the safest, most comfortable treatment position. The more you listen to slow motion muscle contraction, the more it tells you. This is a relaxing day spent giving and receiving very nurturing work. Following slow motion muscle contraction is sedating for the recipient and very interesting for the giver, as you feel you are having a conversation with a different part of the person. This ultra-gentle work can unravel serious neck injuries. We will not disrobe but please wear clothing without a collar that gives good exposure to the neck. Please bring one bottom sheet, thanks.
Instructor Biography[T1] : Originally trained as a math teacher and construction surveyor, Patrick Moore first received training in the Atlas and Axis from Rich Phaigh, www.onsentherapy.com in 1994 including a 40-hour internship in Eugene Oregon. To this technique Patrick added craniosacral technique learned from Bruno Ducoux, D.O. from
May 1, Tendinitis : Removing Scar Tissue, 6 CE hr, includes e-book, $110.00, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. please register through Cortiva Tucson
Tendinitis responds well to treatment for scar tissue. There are two problems with scar tissue--first, it solidifies into a lump that creates pain. Second, scar tissue is weaker than the original tendon tissue. If the person lays low, he may only feel pain when the weather changes. But if he is active, the scar is likely to tear again the moment he contracts with 90% of his strength or endurance.
Removing the scar tissue resolves both problems.
Removing scar tissue is simple: the secondary effects of ice do most of the work, which is explained in my free tendinitis article online. The only difficult part is finding the exact site of the scar, which is smaller than a grain of rice. That's why we need six hours of class time so we can practice finding these common tendon scar sites: subscapularis, infraspinatus, supraspinatus, extensor digitorum, flexor digitorum, the plantar fascia, pectineus, TFL and the patellar tendon.
An important part of healing is to redirect the person's perspective. Hope, visualization, metaphor and expectation, research has shown, dramatically influence the immune system. Learn to enlighten clients that 100% restoration is possible and likely!
Tendinitis is like a frayed rope that has been patched with fiberglass and polyester resin. Ice is like a lure that attracts macrophages. The increased blood flow washes away the scar tissue like erosion in a creek bed.
Please wear clothing that allows access to the head of your humerus (tank top) and knees.
June 19, Touching The Brain I--Calming Fight-or-Flight, Cerebellum and Amygdala, 5 CE hr, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, $95.00, includes e-handouts with active links to books and slideshows online. please register through Cortiva Tucson
The brain guards against anything it considers a risk. Guarding takes many forms including muscle tension, raising blood pressure and heart rate, and seeing people as competitors. By placing your hands alongside the amygdalæ, or behind the cerebellum, and slowly drawing your hands off the head, sort of suctioning the skull away from the brain, you give the brain the sensation of more space. When there is plenty, nobody needs to fight. Giving the brain more space allows it to find a better balance. The brain parts each operate differently and have different values. If they can cooperate better physically they are likely to cooperate more in their operations.
Massage therapists, especially those who have been practicing for years, have developed sensitivity in their hands. This is not energy work; hand sensitivity gives you the sense of brain tissue behind the bones of the cranium.
I ask each student after the class if you feel you are well prepared to touch the brains of others outside class… so far every graduate has said yes. It is a simple technique that has dramatic results. You will feel the brain tissue as if it is in your hands. Some in the class will feel actual twists or other changes in the brain tissue as it returns to a better balance.
The amygdala and cerebellum guard in different ways. Once inside the head we will address these organs to switch the fight-or-flight nervous and hormonal stimulation back to rest-and-digest. Experts like Brian Utting have said that the 50 most deadly diseases all stem from staying too long in the "fight or flight" mode. Hands-on therapies are perfect for returning brains back to natural settings, which will restore immune response and all other processes in the healing process.
Please bring one bottom sheet for the massage tables. We will not be disrobing, only expanding our heads J.
June 20, Touching The Brain III-- Touch Triggers Brain to Perceive Other As Self, 5 CE hr, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, $95.00, includes e-handouts with active links to books and slide shows online. No prerequisite. please register through Cortiva Tucson
Brain researchers recently published in Scientific American that a person's brain will interpret seen touches to an artificial hand as if his own hand were being touched, when his other unseen hand is touched in a similar manner. We will repeat the Ramachandrans' "Phantom Hand" experiment in class using a plastic hand.
How is this relevant for bodyworkers? Perhaps the most unusual (and rare) effect of massage is when the giver and/or recipient forgets that they are two separate beings. The giver may feel she has direct infuence over the recipient's limbs or muscles, as if they were her own. The recipient allows the giver to "take over" his limbs or muscles.
We will do a second experiment in which another class member's hand is used instead of the plastic hand, and then interview the givers and recipients. When one brain adopts another limb as its own, is this an illusion? What else could be happening?
Course includes:
- lecture: brain's perception of touch
- two touch experiments using plastic hand and a living partner's hand
- plenty of time for feedback, questions, and group discussion
- When would you not encourage shared perception (discussion of boundaries)?
Patrick Moore taught math in high school, college, and middle school. A lifelong learner, he stays abreast of new research in superstring theory, the holographic brain, and quantum biology, especially as these relate to healing. In his youth, Patrick had many blows to the head from motorcycle injuries, skiing, football, and fisticuffs. His small blows added up to two decades of depression and difficulty. He was treated by Laura Bruno, medical intuitive and author of If I Only Had A Brain Injury, for two years. Laura also provided Patrick individual training in the techniques of brain injury healing. Patrick's massage training was at the legendary Brian Utting School of Massage in