I would like to give you an idea of what we do at the Movement and Healing Center and what donations of time and resources have helped us achieve.
We provide support in terms of hands on training/problem solving for families where one person is in need of rehabilitation and traditional health care has provided all that is doable in that paradigm, i.e., a child was introduced to adapted skiing as part of their functional training process using Feldenkrais ® after a stroke.
A child was taken to a hot pool to enjoy the benefits of Watsu (Evaluate and explore movement facilitation to unlock limbic - fight or flight - breath patterns/movement and invent functional weight shift responses with the assistance of the water).
We are also proud to have applied for and implemented a 4-year Feldenkrais ® Practitioner-Training Program (3 segments per year - 10-15 days per segment) accredited by the Feldenkrais Guild ® of North America.
Our hope and goal is to make neuro-orthopedic facilitation/training strategies available for all persons who can benefit. The goal is to maximize learning and create functional independence after illness or injury. Another way to say this is - living life fully from the beginning to the end. Your help is greatly appreciated by these children, adults, therapists and their families.
Osa Jackson Schulte, Ph.D., P.T.Bones for Life ® I, II, III, IV
Developed by Ruthy Alon/inspired by work of Moshe Feldenkrais
THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE FOR 2008 PATIENT PROFILE
Changes in the adult physical therapy patient population:
Many patients cannot use therapeutic exercise/gait training that assumes patient can demonstrate neutral spinal posture in supine, sitting or standing so ADD NEW TREATMENT STRATEGIES!
New tools are needed to normalize resting limbic activation, breathing, muscle tone, posture, agility and coordination and allow learning of functional adaptive patterns.
Try Bones for Life ® on yourself and “sense” the positive difference.
You can take the classes for health enhancement or to eventually teach Bones for Life ® as a part of physical therapy.
FREE introductory classes:
Call for dates 586-484-0549
Therapeutic Exercise:
Done at a workable pace and it creates progress
Bones for Life ® I-IV offers specific adaptations in working with the patient who has limbic activation (acute and or chronic). What are the facts about limbic activation? With injury, illness, perception of pain, fear and other related emotional responses, the human brain can go into the “fight or flight” state. The limbic strategy increases the flexor, adductor and internal rotation tonus in the muscular system, and creates many and varied changes in such areas as vision, mental focus, digestion, heart and lung function to maximize the chances for survival. The patient can have a primary diagnosis of a hip replacement, fracture of a vertebrae or an ankle and the limbic responses will have a similar expression.
The Bones for Life ® program has 150+ strategies. Each strategy will be introduced to explore the restoration of functional bony loading and a state of natural ease. For example, one idea that flows throughout the four segments is to slowly invite the release of the “head forward posture” and the related shift in skeletal loading that occurs all the way to the feet. The exploratory exercises are offered in a group and 1-1 in a self paced and gentle manner. A 1-1 demonstration of the exercise will summarize how to adapt the exploration to maximize functional application for activities of daily living. The agenda for each day is guided by the functional responses of the participants in the class.
The Bones for Life I ® is the introduction into a unique combination of neurological facilitation strategies combined with therapeutic exercise and self cuing and mobility training. The patient/client is asked to grow mastery at “compassionate self observation” so as to create a pleasant and interesting learning experience. The goal is to create strategies for problem solving our own agility, balance, breathing and coordination so you can adapt when injury or illness occurs and create a life that works.
Educational Objectives:
Bones I
1. To demonstrate a self assessment of breathing, posture, balance and flexibility and identify a target for the learning experience (goal setting/self assessment of mastery/ability to receive + feedback).
2. Verbally describe the integration of the key principles of self paced learning by watching and describing the behaviors in another student as they perform the activity.
3. Demonstrate 3 specific strategies to explore the shift from head forward posture to a normative spinal resting state.
4. Demonstrate 3 strategies for reinforcing neutral head orientation during upright activities.
5. Describe differences in foot function when limbic activation is present and 3 strategies for supine and/or standing wall exercises to facilitate natural forefoot push-off/natural heel strike.
6. Demonstrate 5 strategies to support natural breath response with exertion (spinal elongation).
7. Demonstrate 5 strategies to support discovery and utilization of the neutral pelvic angle of inclination at rest and with ADL/IADL.
8. Describe 3 strategies for having breath support action by allowing 3 dimensional breathing during various activities.
9. Demonstrate 3 strategies for supporting spinal accessory motion during arm activities in various postures.
10. Demonstrate 3 strategies for enhancing self observation and problem solving habits of “overwork”.
Bones II – strategies that maximize functional arm use for ADL/IADL.
Bones III – strategies for creating functional complex arm/leg activities and support spinal elongation (ie. walking an incline, stairs, falling, running, twisting, turning)
Bones IV – chair exercise strategies that capture the essence of concepts presented in Bones I-III
CEU: Approved for physical therapists - Florida PT Assoc.
Program Director and Lead Instructor: Osa Jackson Schulte PhD, PT, GCFP/AT, Bones for Life ® Trainer, studied personally with Moshe Feldenkrais and Ruthy Alon. Osa is a Specialist in Aging and received the Clinical Excellence Award from the Section on Geriatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association. She has organized 3 Feldenkrais ® Professional Training Programs and has published several articles on the application of the Feldenkrais Method ®/Bones for Life ® to performance enhancement as well as physical therapy and rehabilitation of adults and senior citizens.
Location:
Colombiere Conference Center,
Housing: Dormitory housing @ $40/night + cafeteria + golf course. Directions: I-75 to exit 93, turn south on Dixie Hwy, turn right onto Big Lake Rd and proceed until sign for Big Lake Road points left away from highway-go left and in 100 yards turn left into Colombiere, go up to main building/free parking in the front.
Tuition: $25 per hour or $399 if you prepay for course by 1st class.
Internship/review/mentors: $15 per hour, $150 per day, or $200 if prepay.
Registration: Please print this page and then mail or fax completed form and payment (check, credit card info or money order) to:
Movement and Healing Center/Osa
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For additional information,
call 586-484-0549
or fax 248-922-1951