Midline and Ignition
Osteopathic Foundations, 4B
Highlighting and deeply exploring
Central Stillness and its implications
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, 4B

Highlighting and deeply exploring Central Stillness and its implications

Dates: January 29th to 31st, 2025
Location: Dijon, France

This class will be taught in English with French translation.

We are only as functional as our relationship to midline. It is our orientation to ourselves and our surroundings and is intricately related to ignition on many levels. The ignition needs to be functioning so the midline can feed the whole and in turn the midline feeds the ignition. It is reciprocal. This relationship of feeding and being fed from the Central Stillness, the ignition and the Ocean will be explored in interactive lectures and hands on practicals.

In addition, understanding that the midline is a central function rather than an anatomical structure and how segmentation and function of neuro, visceral, muscular and vascular elements occur in relation to midline will also be addressed.

Suggested Prerequisites
BioBasics, Potency, potency and the fluid in the fluid, Seams, Stillness & Segmentation, Midline & Ignition, Phases I-IV or equivalent, The Brain and the Tide, Basic Cranial course given by the Cranial Academy, SCTF or international equivalent, Anatomy 101, Anatomy 102.

Course Fee: €850.00

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