January 21-23, 2026

Dijon, France

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This class will be taught in English with French translation

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With injury, the tissues can become "stupid" i.e. lose their sense of orientation. The therapeutic forces can divert around the injury for compensation. The tissue, fluid, and potency fractionate. The fluid body, metabolics, and relationship to growth and development shift (even in the adult).​

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This course will explore the developmental axis' of the extremities, both local and in the whole, and the Stillness connected to the Ocean which feeds the midline(s). Power points will be taught in the light of matching the tone and texture of the whole and suspending the Stillness of the midline. The embryologic origins of the upper and lower limb buds reviewed with detailed slides. Practical applications will be given and carefully defining what is a lesioned electrical field in the bone and exremity (RTP). Basic Osteopathic principles will be reexamined, such as spinal levels for facilitation. In addition, we will begin to step into the Health and how the perfect and imperfect state relate to each other.

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Experimental movement of the joints in the extremities will be done. How compensatory patterns in the arms and legs can affect the neck and back and will be addressed. There will be detail discussion of normal movement patterns of the extremities, so that injured movement patterns do not return to better enable Osteopathic lesions to heal.

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Suggested prerequisites:

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Osteopathic Foundations Steps 1-5, Phases 1-V, BioBasics, Cranial Academy basic cranial course, Sutherland Teaching Foundations basic course or international equivalent.

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

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