Ortho-Bionomy

Associate Training Program

The San Francisco School of Massage is pleased to offer – in conjunction with the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International® – the Ortho-Bionomy Associaite Training Program.

Why Ortho-Bionomy?

Ortho-Bionomy can change the dynamic of your services, from trying to “fix” your clients to instead supporting and facilitating their healing. In Ortho-Bionomy, clients actively participate in their own recovery and healing. Practitioners perform a gentle, non-invasive form of body therapy that works with chronic stress, injuries and pains or problems associated with postural and structural imbalances. These gentle positions, combined with self care techniques, facilitate changes in the client’s stress and pain patterns. With Ortho-Bionomy, we recognize the client’s pattern, find the position of comfort, exaggerate the position of comfort, and in turn support the body’s self-correcting reflexes.

Using Ortho-Bionomy can increase the scope of your practice and draw a wider client base. Because there are no contraindications to Ortho-Bionomy, you can use this modality with clients for whom massage is contra-indicated. Additionally, as Ortho-Bionomy sessions can be done with clothing on, you can draw clients who have trauma and/or body issues and are more comfortable clothed.

BENEFITS OF THE ASSOCIATE TRAINING PROGRAM:

• You will be able to use the trademarked word “Ortho-Bionomy®” on your business card, brochures and any written marketing literature.
• You will be trained in working with body structure, unwinding, and energy.
• You will receive an Ortho-Bionomy session from a registered practitioner so can feel in your own body what a complete session feels like.
• You will get one-on-one feedback from on your work from a registered practitioner.
• You will have new and different effective pain relief tools to offer to your clients. This can allow your skills to stand out from other therapists in your area.

TO COMPLETE THE ASSOCIATE TRAINING PROGRAM YOU MUST TAKE:

• Two – Phase 4 Classes
• One – Phase 5 Class
• One – Phase 6 Class
• One – Ethics and Emotional Issues Class
• Two – Other Ortho-bionomy 16 hour Elective Classes
• Give a Feedback Session with an Ortho-Bionomy instructor
• Receive a Session from an Ortho-Bionomy instructor
• Maintain an annual membership with the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International Inc. www.ortho-bionomy.org

UPCOMING CLASSES AVAILABLE AT THE SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MASSAGE:

Spine & Pelvis- Phase 4

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Releases for the:

1. Neck
2. Thoracic
3. 1st Rib
4. Psoas
5. Lumbars
6. Ilium Rotation
7. Sacrum

Upper Extremities- Phase 4

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Releases for the:

1. Shoulder
2. Scapula
3. Elbow
4. Wrist
5. All the bones of the Hand

Subtle Physical and Energetic Techniques- Phase 5

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Bridging the gap of the body and the mind, the physical and the emotions, and the conscious mind and the nervous system, allows our work to go even more deeply within our clients and ourselves. This Class utilizes unwinding, following and blending.

Lower Extremities- Phase 4

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Releases for the:

1. Knee
2. Patella
3. Femur Head
4. Ankle
5. All the bones of the Feet

Advanced Energy Techniques- Phase 6

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• Learn to make contact with more of your client’s essence: Physically, Emotionally, and Energetically.
• Help your clients discover even deeper places of quietness and relief that will surprise them and you.
• Fine-tune the energy of your own body in order to release your client’s tensions.

Isometrics (TBD)

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Certain holding patterns or contractions need more of an ‘active’ approach in order to release them. The client may need to exert themselves to fully feel their patterns or contractions and release them. This is where the ISOMETRICS Ortho-Bionomy® Freedom Through Resistance Class comes in.

Ethics & Emotional Issues

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We will journey into the experiential discovery of how being clear within our body, emotions, and energy allows our clients to have deeper releases and lets us be better practitioners.
You Will Learn To:

• Establish and maintain your own boundaries and grounding with appropriate flexibility.
• Practice where in our body we feel our center and core, how we can get thrown off center, and how to return to center in a more strong and solid place with integrity and respect.
• Know your skills, limitations, and blind spots.
• Embody the work in and out of session.
• Develop a response within yourself that maintains your core philosophy.

All Ortho-Bionomy classes taken at the San Francisco School of Massage will be taught by Jim Berns CMT, Registered Ortho-Bionomy Advanced Instructor & Senior Practitioner.

Jim Berns is an Ortho-Bionomy® Registered Advanced Instructor and Senior Practitioner. He has been trained directly by the founder, English osteopath, Dr. Arthur Lincoln Pauls D.O. Jim is co-author of ORTHO-BIONOMY A PRACTICAL MANUAL(North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA). This training book has sold over 10,000 copies. Jim was given the “Excellence in Massage Education Award’ by the AMTA-CA (American Massage Therapy Association California Chapter) for his excellence in teaching and sharing his knowledge. Jim has been using Ortho-Bionomy since 1980 and has taught internationally. He has been a certified Massage Therapist since 1979 and is a registered California instructor in massage therapy. Jim has lectured to and trained over 7,000 health practitioners in his career. Jim brings to his 32 years of teaching detailed information, a compassionate heart and a “unique” sense of humor.

To learn even more about Ortho-Bionomy and the Ortho-Bionomy Associate Training Program, please visit the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International – www.ortho-bionomy.org

All classes will take place at the San Francisco School of Massage & Bodywork, 475 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.