Limbs, Midline and Motion
Osteopathic Foundations, Step 6
Elizabeth Caron D.O.

Announcing a new series with Dr. Caron of biodynamically inspired work called Osteopathic Foundations with related undergraduate OsteoBasic courses.

Osteopathic Foundations will be a series of 10 courses designed to take the practitioner through Osteopathic principles: biodynamic, biokinetic, the work of Rollin Becker, and motion via stillness. This series is designed for reviewing basic Osteopathic principles, at all levels, and incorporate them into everyday hands-on practice. This form of traditional Osteopathy will include detailed study of anatomy and embryology from the work of Drs Eric Blechschmidt and A.T. Still. Students will come to understand that embryologic movements are the healing forces for growth and development throughout life and how the Ocean and Tide help incarnate this process.

Dr. Caron was directly mentored by Dr. James Jealous for the last 25 years of his life. She also has been mentored by one of Dr. Rollin Becker’s principle students, Jacque Duval, D.O. In addition, she studied with Ann Wales D.O., and extensively with Dr. Hugh Ettinger a longtime student of Dr. Wales. These are all direct lineages from Dr. William G. Sutherland.

Furthermore, Dr. Caron will incorporate her extensive background with movement into the series which comes from her years as a professional modern dancer and a student of multiple movement techniques including Klein, Alexander, Feldenkrais, and Pilates. These concepts will be incorporated to help support the changes made with Osteopathic treatments. Previous movement and compensatory patterns can inhibit the full incarnation of an Osteopathic treatment. One of the goals in this course series is to address these movement patterns and ensure that normal motion is supported with our movement and posture.

This is original work- incorporating biodynamic, biokinetic, traditional Osteopathy, and movement- brings into light the true self unhindered…the emergence of originality.

Osteopathic Foundations, Step 6
Using principles from Phase VI

This class will be taught in English with French translation.

With injury, the tissues can become “stupid” i.e. lose their sense of orientation to the stillness in the developmental midline being fed by the Ocean. The therapeutic forces can divert around the injury for compensation. The tissue, fluid and potency fractionate. The fluid body, metabolics, and relationship to growth and development shift (even in the adult).

This course will explore the developmental axis’ of the extremities, both local and in the whole, and the Stillness connected to the Ocean which feeds the midline(s). Power points will be taught in the light of matching the tone and texture of the whole and suspending the Stillness of the midline. The embryologic origins of the upper and lower limb buds reviewed with detailed slides. Practical applications will be given and carefully defining what is a lesioned electrical field in the bone and extremity (RTP). Basic Osteopathic principles will be reexamined, such as spinal levels for facilitation. In addition, we will begin to step into the Health and how the perfect and imperfect relate to each other.

Experiential movement of the joints in the extremities will be done. How compensatory patterns in the arms and legs can affect the neck and back will be addressed. There will be detail discussion of normal movement patterns of the extremities, so that injured movement patterns do not return to better enable Osteopathic lesions to heal.

Course Registration: Sheila Brennan, DO, sheila75006@gmail.com or https://www.s-o-f-a.fr/