Pilates Workshop: Fascianating Fascia with Robert Schleip
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- London - London
- Phone: 07526 925734 SMTO
This workshop will focus on fascia as a most fascinating tissue seen through recent scientific discoveries. We will also explore recent biomechanical insights about the contribution of elastic recoil oscillatory properties of fascia in walking, running and other cyclic movement activities; including practical applications for movement education.
A highlight is, of course, the latest findings from the fascia laboratory at Ulm University. We explore new hypotheses on the relationship between myofibroblast density in fascia and systemic joint hyper-/ hypo-mobility, as well as indications on the enhancing/inhibitory effects of various chemical, nutritional and mechanical stimulations on fascial stiffness. Again with practical applications: looking at how can we have long-term effects on tissue stiffness.
Finally this workshop will explore fascia as our richest sensory organ. Specific suggestions will be made about therapeutic avenues to alter brain mapping (body image/ body schema) via proprioceptive fascial stimulation. Overall this workshop will consist of 50% theory and 50% practice.
Robert Schleip directs the Fascia Research Project at Ulm University, Germany, and is also Research Director of the European Rolfing Association. He has an MA degree in psychology and a PhD in human biology.
Robert has been a professional bodyworker since 1978 and is a certified Rolfing instructor as well as Feldenkrais teacher, plus author of several books and numerous other publications. His recent discovery of active contractile properties in fascial tissues was awarded the prestigious Vladimir Janda Award for Musculoskeletal Medicine. He was co-initiator and organiser of the first Fascia Research Congress in Boston, USA in 2007, and has just completed the latest Fascia Research Congress at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in October 2009. www.somatics.de or www.fasciaresearch.de
Date: 28/29 August 2010
Venue: NLSSM, Tottenham High Road, London N15 4RU
Cost: £210 (£75 non-refundable deposit)
To book: info@bodyworkcpd.co.uk or 07526 925734
