Ortho-Bionomy Presentation/Workshops
Ortho-Bionomy Program Courses
These classes are part of the official Ortho-Bionomy Practitioner (Basic and Advanced) Programs. Each class earns Practitioner Program credit as well as continuing education hours – including national NCBTMB (for which Instructor Linda McCrea is an Approved CEU Provider).
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ORTHO-BIONOMY INSTRUCTION
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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.”
PHASE 4 (BASICS)
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.
EXPLORATION OF MOVEMENT
Explores and follows the body’s movement patterns to enhance fluid motion between the joints and muscles, using passive and active range of motion.
ISOMETRICS
Incorporates gentle, active resistance to stimulate motor components of the nervous system in paired muscle groups, to enhance structural balance in the body.
POSTURAL RE-EDUCATION
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.]
DEMONSTRATION SKILLS
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.
SELF CARE (ELECTIVE)
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:
PHASE 5 (Heart)
Enhances awareness and includes techniques that foster self-corrective movements initiated by the client, employing observation, following and supporting subtle movement patterns.
PHASE 6 (Energy )
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
PHASE 7 (Spiral)
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:
EVALUATIONS include:
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.
Linwsw@charter.net
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)