We all have the good fortune to cross paths with some excellent health practitioners, both personally and professionally. Increasingly their websites are sharing some useful information we can apply in our work. Some people I have come across over the years have given me great insights and helped me think outside the little Pilates box we sometimes get ourselves into.
Try Phil Latey, Osteopath for example. I first came to know Phil as a patient of his when pregnant, then rediscovered him in the Pilates context during
my Pilates Graduate Certificate at Uni Technology Sydney in 2003. Phil provides education programs for manual therapists and bodyworkers and works from his practice in St Leonards, NSW. His site offers a collection of papers for purchase. This collection of 23 papers, published by Phil between 1979-2000 includes titles such as: “Complexity and the Changing Individual”, “Feelings, Muscles & Movement”, “Osteopathic Philosophy, Principles and Practice”, “Placebo – a study of Persuasion and Rapport”, “Sense & Nonsense in Manual Therapy”.
A practitioner I haven’t met but who has certainly influenced my thinking is Tom Myers. Toms’ website is absolutely chockers with articles, video clips and forum discussions and more. Well worth a look.
Anatomy Trains is the book you may know of. ” The Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians is a unique new map of the fascial connections through the muscles that leads to new understanding of the connectivity in the body, and directly to new therapeutic strategies, especially for long-standing compensatory patterns in client stance and movement.” This site uses multimedia technology to show you the real life dissected anatomy trains with Tom talking you through the progession of the train through the body. That’s a first!
Tom also introduces kinesis myofascial integration. The KMI approach is to free the binding and shortening in these connective tissues, what we refer to as the “fascial network”, and to re-educate the body in efficient and energy-sustaining (as opposed to energy-robbing) patterns. He offers training courses but as yet hasn’t visited our shores. He is offering the chance to sponsor his workshops in your home town, so if you are interested in that see more at this ‘sponsor’ link.
