Proprioceptive Releases

for the Neck and Shoulders

Jim Berns 4-24-2014

What is the body telling us it needs in order to respond back to balance?

By bringing awareness through the proprioceptors, we learn to listen, observe, and palpate the body to give it an experience of what it is doing. This will activate the self corrective reflexes of the body to bring itself back to balance. Based on the osteopathic principles in Ortho-Bionomy®, we will use specific positions and movements to recognize the held pattern and rebound it back into a more comfortable state of fluidity and ease.

This hands-on training will include feedback from other participants and the instructor.

Specific objectives include learning:

• Which osteopathic principles to use for specific problems

• How to identify the direction a contraction needs to release

• Painless, gentle, easy on the practitioner, and fast release techniques for the neck and shoulders

• Neurological integration techniques that allow the body to stabilize the release

Jim Berns is a Registered Ortho-Bionomy® Advanced Instructor and Senior Practitioner. He has been trained directly by the founder, English Osteopath, Dr. Arthur Lincoln Pauls D.O. Jim has been a Registered Instructor and Practitioner since 1980, and has taught Ortho-Bionomy® internationally and throughout the United States. Jim is co-author with Kathy Kain of the book Ortho-Bionomy A Practical Manual (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, Ca.) which has sold over 15,000 copies. Jim's private practice has had many successful referral cases including post-surgery work, accident cases, emotional trauma, peak performance, and pain management. Jim brings together into his trainings the understanding of details, being in touch with our own compassionate heart, and his “unique” humor.