Integrative Fascial Release with Steven Goldstein

How can you afford not to learn these transformative skills? Work with less effort and achieve greater results with Steve Goldstein.

Integrative Fascial Release (IFR) workshops provide manual therapist/massage practitioner with skills and techniques that utilize direct compressive and indirect osteopathic autonomic nervous system methods for the release of myofascia. After a long absent from Sydney, Steve is now back delivering 3 of his best workshops in 2011.

IFR Level One- Sydney,  June 4-5th, 2011

IFR Level Two- Sydney, July 9-10th, 2011

IFR Level Three- Sydney, August 6-7th, 2011

Each level delivers 16 hours of instruction over a Saturday and Sunday from 9 AM to 5 PM.

Cost $495 / Early Bird Registration $450

Save for Three Workshop Package: Levels 1, Level 2 & Level 3 Cost $1200

To register goto http://www.fascialrelease.com/registration-forms  Or contact Steven Goldstein Phone: 0402 068 658 Email: myofascia@optusnet.com.au

Courses Objectives

Participants will:

  • Obtain an understanding of myofascial treatment methods and modalities and how these methods/modalities are utilized within the scope of Integrative Fascial Release

  • Obtain a basic understanding of the concept of Myo-fascial anatomy and structure , plus signs and symptoms of fascial contracture.

  • Obtain an understanding of the most current evidenced based research concerning the field of connective tissue including the neurobiology and neurophysiology concerning recent myofascial theories.

  • Practice technique application skills in relation to myofascial releasing.

  • Palpate and understand various tension lines of myofascial restriction.

  • Palpate and experience the release of various tension lines of myofascial restriction.

  • Obtain a basic understanding of the physiology of how the Autonomic Nervous System’s discharge facilitates soft- tissue release.

  • Begin to value the effects of myofascial release as a result of client feedback and personal experience.

  • Experience a level of competence while performing passive release of transverse planes, superficial fascia, and facial unwinding of local soft-tissue restriction.

  • Understand the principles of imagery and kinaesthetic movement in relation to supporting the occurrence of active myofascial releases.

  • Identify some level of value in relation to the use of imagery and kinaesthetic movement as a support technique.

  • Understand the concepts of passive positional release and practice techniques in passive positional release.

  • Understand the concepts, practice technique and experience engaging barriers to joint range of motion and/or fascial restrictions that limit range of motion.

  • Palpate and practice myofascial-releasing techniques from a side-lying position.

  • Understand concepts, practice palpation of spiral and rotational barriers to the extremities and the torso of the body

  • Begin to develop personalized adaptations of techniques that integrate material to his/her own personal experience, style and professional practice.

About the Instructor

Steven Goldstein, an American émigré to Australia in 1999, resides in Melbourne, Australia, where he holds a Bachelor of Health Science in Musculoskeletal Therapy and Bachelor of Arts in Education. He is an innovative massage educator instructing his unique blend of direct myofascial, indirect osteopathic releasing methods and somatic approaches known as Integrative Fascial Release internationally since 1995.

Steven chaired the Australian Association Massage Therapists AAMT Education Subcommittee from 2004 -2o10 and chaired the Internal Course Advisory Committee for Musculoskeletal Therapy Degree at Endeavour College of Natural Health 2005-2009. Steven will delivering his IFR Foundations or Intermediate workshops to manual therapists and physiotherapists Poznan, Poland; and in London to osteopaths, physiotherapists, manual and remedial therapists in March-April 2010. He is delivering Fibromyalgia: Clinical Approaches for the Manual Therapist at the Scottish Massage Organization conference in Edinburgh, Scotland in March 2010. And also is presenting IFR Introductory workshop to the ACPEM Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Energy Medicine conference near Radstock, England in April 2010.

IFR Level One (Days 1 & 2) Syllabus

 

Day One

MODULE 1 ONE INTRODUCTIONS & INFORMATION

Introductions and Information about Integrative Fascial Release

References:

Hellerwork: The Utimate in MyoFascial Release: Donna Bajelis

Myofascial Release Textbook Michael Shea

The Scientific Basis for Energetic Healing Movement & Bodywork James Oschman

The Endless Web, Fascial Anatomy & Physical Reality R.Louis Schultz

Anatomy Trains Thomas Myers

Neurobiology of Fascial Plasticity: Robert Schleip

  • MyoFascial Treatment Methods: Autonomic, Movement and Mechanical
  • Properties of Connective Tissue-Fascial Anatomy
  • The Nervous System: Conscious Control, Muscle Guarding, Unconscious Patterns of Muscular Holding / Movement
  • Expressions of the Autonomic Nervous System and Autonomic Exhaustion

 

MODULE 2 TWO ASSESSMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF SKILL IN THE PALPATION OF FASCIA

  • Fascial Palpation Exercises: Plastic Body Wrap
  • Contra-Indications
  • Visual Standing Assessment
  • Visual Walking Assessment
  • Skin and Joint Assessment
  • Checklist for Palpating MyoFascial Restrictions

 

MODULE 3 THREE PALPATING AND LOCATING MYOFASCIAL RESTRICTIONS

Areas to which fascia adheres:

  • Bony prominences
  • Musculotendinous junctures
  • Muscular boundaries and layers

Passive Techniques for Locating Superficial Fascia:

  • Use of Two Point
  • Three cardinal planes of skin motility to assess superficial fascia
  • Schleip; High Leverage Points in the Myofascial Net
  • Myers: Anatomy Trains
  • Paoletti: Fascial Chains
  • Schultz: Endless Web-Body Straps

 

MODULE 4  FOUR

SEQUENCE 1A   TWO POINT TECHNIQUE FOR PASSIVE TRANSVERSE PLANE DIAPHRAGM RELEASES

  • Two-Point Technique for Deep Transverse Planes of Fascia.
  • Cranial Base
  • Pelvic/Urogenital-Lumbar-Abdomen
  • Respiratory-Solar Plexus
  • Thoracic Outlet-Inlet
  • Hyoid
  • Cranial Base

 

MODULE 5 FIVE: SEQUENCE 2 SIDELYING STATICS

DIRECT TECHNIQUE: STATIC COMPRESSION FOR THE HIGH LEVERAGE POINTS

Sidelying Position

  • Greater Trochanter
  • Serratus Anterior
  • Shoulder/Scapula/Thorax

SEQUENCE 2A   SIDELYING  SLEEVE RELEASE: SUPERFICIAL FRONT & BACK LINE

Sidelying Position

  • Adductor Midline Release
  • Superficial Front Line Sleeve Release
  • Superficial Back Line Sleeve Release

 

Day Two

REVIEW DAY ONE MATERIAL

MODULE 6 SIX SEQUENCE 1 B

INTEGRATING TWO-POINTING FOR LOWER EXTREMITY JOINTS

Treatment Protocol for Pelvis

  • Lower Extremity Two Point: Inguinal, Knee & Ankle
  • Protocol

o   Sacrum or Illiac Crest / Umbilical

o   Sacrum / Ischial Tuberosity

o   Inguinal Crease / Ischial Tuberosity

o   Patella / Politeal Fossa

o   Ankle / Calcaneal / Talus

o   Ankle / Lateral & Medial Malleolus

FASCIAL ANATOMY FOR LOWER EXTREMITY

  • Pelvic restrictions: Rotational Releases
  • Fascial Sleeves: Understanding twists and patterns of rotational restrictions within the sleeve
  • ‘Twist in the Sleeve’

MODULE 7 SEVEN LOWER EXTREMITY LEVERS FOR HIP & PELVIS

SEQUENCE 3A LOW EXTREMITY LONG LEVERS

  • Protocol

o   Long Levers-Straight Leg

§  Femoral Long Lever Neutral

§  Femoral Rotations

§  Engage Ease position first

§  Superficial ‘Twists in the Sleeve’

SEQUENCE 3B LOW EXTREMITY SHORT LEVERS

  • Protocol

o   Short Levers-Bent Knee

§  Two Positions:

§  Foot on table

§  Foot off table

  • Golgi Tendon Organ Release for Hamstrings & Rectus Femoris Musculature

 

Module 8  Eight

Differentiate direct mfr from indirect ‘fulcrum’

Direct MFR: Engage Superficial Fascia with Static Compression

  • Initiate parasympathetic effect with Two Point
  • Engage downward compression barrier
  • Assess direction of bind or ease
  • Assess & engage superior/inferior bind or ease direction
  • Assess & engage medial/lateral bind or ease direction
  • Assess & engage rotational medial/lateral bind or ease direction

STACKING WITH THE 3D PLANAR FULCRUM (GIAMMATTEO) -TWO POINT

  • ‘Stacking’: engaging multiple barriers in 3 planes/vectors through demonstration of technique.

Fulcrum

  • 4 directions of compressive force are now occurring

o   Engagement of superficial fascia

o   Superior/inferior sagittal plane

o   Coronal plane clockwise/counterclockwise

o   Transverse plane medial or lateral directions

  • Do not release ‘fulcrum’, resist the urge to follow tissue.
  • Maintain fulcrum
  • Apply fulcrum to the sacrum
  • Application examples to the rest of the body

MODULE 9 NINE  MIDLINE AXIAL & BILATERALS RELEASES

SEQUENCE 4A  SUPINE: AXIAL MID-LINE RELEASES

Myers Superficial Back Line Releases

These are underhand static compressions

  • Lower scapular area
  • Upper scapular area
  • Myers Superficial Front Line Releases
    • Fingertips re-enforced at Pubic Symphysis
    • Palm at Sternum
    • Palm at Pectoralis Major/Minor
    • Combination of the two lines
    • These SFL/SBL Sleeve precede Bilaterals

REVIEW SEQUENCE 2A

SIDELYING  SUPERFICIAL FRONT & BACK LINE RELEASES

Sidelying Sleeve Releases

  • Adductor Midline Release
  • Superficial Front Line Sleeve Release
  • Superficial Back Line Sleeve Release