Ortho-Bionomy Presentation/Workshops
Ortho-Bionomy Program Courses
Wanted: Class Coordinators
Additional Courses
Individual Instruction
ORTHO-BIONOMY INSTRUCTION
For more information or to arrange services please contact:
Linda McCrea
OB TOUCH WORKS
24 Oakhaven Terrace
Asheville, NC 28803
828-298-5154
704-968-2145
| In the Community |
| PRESENTATIONS: We will provide
a one-two hour informative talk and demonstration for your group, colleagues,
club, or association in the Asheville and Charlotte areas at no charge.
This presentation will include an overview and description of Ortho-Bionomy,
key principles and concepts, and demonstrations of sample self care exercises
that illustrate the key concepts. Please contact us to book a presentation. |
| WORKSHOPS: “Self Care” workshops,
programs, or series may be tailormade and scheduled for community groups,
schools, and/or businesses. For options and rates, please contact us.
|
| For Course or Continuing Education
Credit |
| PRESENTATIONS: Informative talks
with demonstrations (as above) are also available in conjunction with
scheduled classes “on the road.” |
Foundation classes provide information on history, philosophy, and key concepts.
Demonstrations and guided practice include respective structural positional
release techniques for the skeletal-muscular system throughout the body.
Explores and follows the body’s movement patterns to enhance fluid motion between
the joints and muscles, using passive and active range of motion.
Incorporates gentle, active resistance to stimulate motor components of the nervous system in paired muscle groups, to enhance structural balance in the body.
Focuses on the mechanics of imbalances and the resulting effects on the structure
and function of the body, providing specific techniques for restoring more effective
body movements.
ETHICS & EMOTIONAL ISSUES
Addresses appropriate and professional responses to emotions that may arise during a session, and reviews guidelines for professional conduct. [This Provider’s course satisfies current national (NCBTMB) requirements.]
Provides information on using appropriate languaging with the general public and/or professional practitioners about Ortho-Bionomy, including demonstration techniques and description of key principles.
PRACTITIONER TRAINING SEMINAR
Addresses issues and questions that arise in individual practice and training, including opportunities for discussion, feedback, and coaching regarding challenging clients and cases.
ELEMENTS OF A SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE
Explores the business side of setting up and building a bodywork practice, communicating with clients and other health professionals, keeping records, defining scope of practice, and marketing strategies.
Demonstrates specific exercises for use by both client and practitioner, to release structural imbalances and personal discomfort, as well as home care exercises to integrate changes experienced within a session.
INTEGRATING ORTHO-BIONOMY & MASSAGE (ELECTIVE)
Incorporates the release positions, movement exercises, and isometric techniques of Ortho-Bionomy with other forms of bodywork.
STUDY GROUPS (NON-CEU CREDIT)
Tailored to students’ needs, providing opportunities to review and practice learned techniques, receive clarification about Ortho-Bionomy principles and concepts, and gain insight in specific, confidential client cases.
These classes are also part of the official Ortho-Bionomy Practitioner (Basic and Advanced) Programs. They are currently taught with or by an Advanced Instructor, and may include:
Enhances awareness and includes techniques that foster self-corrective movements
initiated by the client, employing observation, following and supporting subtle
movement patterns.
Helps participants to access and track sensation and energetic perception in
themselves and in their clients, acknowledging the inter-relationships among
energetic, emotional, and physical levels.
Employs
a specific pattern to assist with self-corrections providing a non-forceful,
elegant way to
promote change and integration.
CRANIAL
Applies
Ortho-Bionomy principles to feeling energetic patterns in the cranial
system, allowing the recipient to enhance balance through self-correcting
reflexes.
VISCERAL
Explore
this internal community finding relationships and balance among organs,
with vertebrae, and related emotional connections.
CHAPMAN’S NEUROLYMPHATIC REFLEXES
Presents a system of identifying and stimulating osteopathic reflex points to
facilitate lymphatic drainage and balancing of the body organs.
The following activities are part of the official Ortho-Bionomy Practitioner
programs, designed for individual student/instructor interaction. Fees for these
sessions are based on the instructor’s hourly rate. To schedule your individual
instruction hours, contact us.
TUTORIALS include:
- Ortho-Bionomy sessions received from, and given to a Registered Instructor.
- Private discussions regarding your Ortho-Bionomy practice and/or training.
- Review of required documented sessions and/or other practitioner program requirements.
EVALUATIONS include:
- Sessions given to Registered Instructor(s) for written evaluation and feedback.
- Ortho-Bionomy demonstration to a group observed by or videotaped to a Reg. Instructor.
Classes with this Instructor may be scheduled in your area. In exchange for
arranging, advertising, and hosting classes and the instructor, you can receive
tuition-free classes and/or sessions, as well as a % of class income. Interested?
Please review the
Guidelines
and contact us.
- See “CLASS SCHEDULE”
page for current class listings and contact information. Contact
us to schedule classes in your area.
- Contact “SOBI” for O-B Practitioner Program information
- 800.809-3747
or e-mail office@ortho-bionomy.org.
- Download O-B “Practitioner Handbook” from www.ortho-bionomy.org
Introductory class provides overview of Ortho-Bionomy philosophy and key concepts.
Demonstrations and guided practice sample techniques of positional release,
movement and/or isometrics. With instructor's permission, this class may serve
as prerequisite in lieu of "Phase 4 Basics" for Isometrics, Posture and Phase
5.
PHASE 4 (ESSENTIALS)