Course Outline

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MODULE I:

A) ORIENTATION
B) PRESENCE, NEGOTIATION, PALPATION, PERCEPTION & THE CONCEPT OF “THE INHERENT TREATMENT PLAN”
C) GENERAL CRANIAL MOBILIZATION (within the CRI & Long Tide)


1. Venous Sinus Technique
2. Occipito-Atlantal Decompression
3. “Spider Walk”

- Occipital-Mastoid Decompression
- Simultaneous Sagittal & Lambdoidal Sutural Decompression
- Simultaneous Coronal-Sagittal (anterior aspect) – “Metopic” Sutural Decompression

4. Simultaneous Facial Sutural Decompression
5. “Around The Clock”

- Classic Temporal Hold
- Temporo-Zygomatic Sutural Decompression
- Pterion Decompression
- Parietal Lift

6. Nasio-Ethmoid-Frontal Decompression (“Nose Pull”)
7. Transverse Intracranial Membranous Decompression (“Ear Pull”)
8. Frontal Lift (General Facial and Simultaneous Falx and Spheno- Basilar Decompression)
9. Reciprocal and Synchronous Temporal Rocking (RTR and STR)
10. TMJ Decompression (Extraoral)
11. Sacrum and Lumbo-Sacral Decompression
12. CV IV and EV IV

MODULE II:

SPHENO-BASILAR/MEMBRANOUS RELEASES (within the CRI & Long Tide)


1. Flexion – Extension
2. Right and Left Side Bending Rotation
3. Right and Left Torsion
4. Right and Left Lateral Strain
5. Superior and Inferior Vertical Strain
6. Decompression
7. Spheno-Basilar “Stacking”
8. Cranial Distortional Patterns and their organizing fulcra (within the cranial-sacral system and within the broader perceptual field of the full body and “biosphere”).

MODULE III:

INTRAORAL/ TMJ RELEASES (within the CRI & Long Tide)


1. Maxilla/Palatine/Sphenoid Relationship

a) Right and Left Torsion
b) Right and Left Shear
c) Compression – Decompression

2. Maxillary-Palatine-Vomer-Sphenoid Release
3. Intermaxillary/Palatine Decompression (External/Internal Rotation– Flexion/Extension)
4. Zygoma Release
5. Lateral Pterygoid/Temporalis/Masseter Releases
6. “Oral Diaphragm” Release (Floor of Mouth)
7. Medial Pterygoid Release
8. Individual Teeth (inertial fulcrum releases)
9. TMJ Decompression (Intraoral)

MODULE IV:

WIDE PERCEPTUAL FIELDS & FASCIAL PLANES AS ACCESS TO INERTIAL FULCRUMS


1. Horizontal Planes

- Pelvic Diaphragm
- Respiratory Diaphragm
- Thoracic Inlet
- Oral Diaphragm
- Tentorium Cerebelli & Falx Cerebri
- Joints (extremities)

2. Longitudinal Planes
3. The Matrix Web & Primal Midline Orientation

MODULE V:

BIRTH TRAUMA (a possible template for future somatic and psychodynamic trauma)


1. Pre & Peri Natal Somatic Trauma Concepts & Experiential.
2. Pre and Peri Natal Psychodynamic Trauma Concepts and Experiential

MODULE VI:

A PERCEPTUAL DEEPENING AND BROADENING
Experiential exercises designed to take the tissue (neuro, vascular, fascial, muscular, osseous) and CRI//Long Tide awareness you’ve begun to experience to a much broader and deeper perceptual and therapeutic level.

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