Introduction to Neurovascular Release for Structural Integration

We are delighted to welcome Kirstin Schumaker to Australia for the very first time, with her Introduction to Neurovascular Release for Structural Integration workshop, as part of the Anatomy Trains Summer School!

Learn neurovascularly informed myofascial techniques that look and feel like regular structural integration. Differentiation techniques that you learn in this course are nuanced specifically for freeing the neurovascular tracts. This work has a certain precision to it that makes it particularly effective for fine-tuning structural balance -- it's great for athletes, and for every client who needs that extra nudge to help them emerge more fully from their old structural pattern. Adding these skills to your library of SI techniques will improve your sense of layer palpation, you'll gain new strategic approaches for classic problems, and you'll elevate your work to a new level of mastery.

This class will prepare you for further study in the NVR-SI certificate program, but whether or not you choose to continue your advanced studies in this class series, the new skills and understanding that you gain in this intro course will significantly change the way you approach SI. In this three-day course, expect to learn something new for each session in the classic SI series or the ATSI series.

Techniques learned in this class will help you to address persistent issues such as forward head posture, chronic pain and instability related to spondylolisthesis, discomfort and thoracic movement limitations related to scoliosis, asymmetrical gait, and pelvis and lower extremity related sources of chronic low back and hip pain.

Appropriate for both seasoned practitioners and new practitioners. New graduates may take Part 1 right after being initially certified as a structural integrator. (Part 1 will immediately enhance the series work that you are beginning to practice.) Seasoned practitioners will love the way this enhances their current practice, whether or not they are still doing series work. If you have already begun studying cranial, visceral, and/or neural work, this class and the rest of the course series will help you to fill in the gap on the spectrum of touch between subtle, light-pressure, osteopathic-style work and the broad, deep touch of classic SI. (Even though I enjoy working very subtly with neural and dural details, I also love to work in the middle range of the touch spectrum with a broader touch.)

About Kirstin:

Kirstin Schumaker, BCSICM, graduated from the KMI program in 2005. Since then she has studied with four independent neural and visceral manipulation teachers, each of whom has shaped her palpatory understanding of the nerves. She is grateful for their significant influence on the development of her own style of “neurovascularly-informed” structural integration (SI) work. Since 2012 she has been teaching nerve mobilization to her colleagues, helping them to differentiate myofascial layers while keeping the nerve and artery pathways in mind, thus giving structural ease to the neurovascular system while working on achieving the greater goals of SI.