September 23 - September 24
Do you want to have x-ray hands? Our Anatomy of Touch course is a hands-on learning experience and palpation course designed for bodyworkers, physical therapists, and movement teachers to deeply understand the anatomy they touch and the mechanics of how touch works, thus leading to better client outcomes and more successful practices.
We created this anatomical palpation course for professionals in the field of manual therapy to combine our years of anatomy expertise and manual palpation skills. Hands-on study of the body in the cadaver lab will accelerate your understanding of the body and improve client outcomes. This course is suitable for bodyworkers, manual therapists and movement teachers of all experience levels.
In this course we will utilize multimodal learning techniques to teach human anatomy with special consideration for the needs and understanding for manual therapists and movement teachers of all learning styles. We will lecture, teach from plastinates, show cadaver prosections and palpate living human anatomy.
We will answer questions like: “What is a knot?’’~“What is fascia?”~“What am I really touching?”~“How is it all connected?”
Lectures will be on anatomical structures, the physiological implications of touch, location and structure of endangerment sites as well as common injuries/pathologies. Students will learn from anatomical images and plastinates, 3D models made from real human anatomy from the makers of BODY WORLDS, then be taken into the cadaver lab to see dissections of relevant structures.
This course will include students palpating structures on each other so they can immediately apply what they learn. By the end of this course, participants will have an improved understanding of the physiology of touch and the anatomy of what they are touching when they work on their clients thus making their techniques both safer and more effective.
We are grateful to our donors as they are truly our greatest teachers. We honor their generous gift to benefit the lives of others as a lasting legacy we are proud to carry forward.
Your Instructors:
Monica Fong, MS, LMBT
Monica is our Academic Programs Manager and in-house anatomist for Experience Anatomy. Her extensive background includes working as a licensed massage therapist focusing on prenatal clients and athletes. She also taught yoga and functional strength classes for several years honing in on alignment-based practices and working to refine specific functional movements. Monica also does medical illustration, her keen eye and attention to detail comes through in her beautiful dissections and deep understanding of the human body. She loves investigating the variations within the human body, applying anatomy to movement-based practices, and exploring new perspectives on anatomy. Her passion for anatomy comes through in her teaching and you will feel inspired to learn more about the human body after attending her programs.
Fauna Moore, LMBT
Fauna is our Academic Program Specialist and her favorite place to be outside of the lab is at the front of a classroom. Fauna has been teaching hands on anatomy for over a decade. She also has a background in ashtanga yoga and 20 years as a bodyworker. Fauna is a pro at helping others understand how anatomy relates to everyday life. Her inspired teaching style keeps learners interested and engaged while also making complex concepts understandable. She has done extensive work dissecting fascia, and was a founding member of the Fascial Net Plastination Project creating the first full body fascia plastinate in partnership with BODY WORLDS, The Plastinarium and The Fascia Research Society.
General Schedule for Course
Day 1 – Back and Upper Limb
- 9am-10am – Orientation + Anatomy of Touch
- 10am-11am – Slideshow/Plastinate intro to Back, Head/Neck
- 11am-12pm – Lab time – Prosection/Cadaver Study
- 12pm-1pm – Palpation/Application/Clinical Relevance
- 1pm-2pm – Lunch
- 2pm-3pm – Slideshow/Plastinate intro to Upper Limb
- 3pm-4pm – Lab time – Prosection/Cadaver Study
- 4pm-5pm – Palpation/Application/Clinical Relevance
Day 2 – Front of Torso and Lower Limb
- 9am-10am – Anatomy of Endangerment Sites
- 10am-11am – Slideshow/Plastinate intro to Chest and Abdomen
- 11am-12pm – Lab time – Prosection/Cadaver Study
- 12pm-1pm – Palpation/Application/Clinical Relevance
- 1pm-2pm – Lunch
- 2pm-3pm – Slideshow/Plastinate intro to Lower Limb
- 3pm-4pm – Lab time – Prosection/Cadaver Study
- 4pm-5pm – Palpation/Application/Clinical Relevance
CE’s: 14 hours
NCBTMB and YA Approved CE Provider
Are you ready to REGISTER?
Due to the nature of this course, we require that all participants are 18+.
