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We are excited to release our 2026 course schedule and look forward to starting the new year with you! With more In-Person locations and continued online options we hope you are able to add a few missing pieces to your puzzle in the year ahead!

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We had such a great time in Brentwood, MO last weekend learning about patho and non-patho compensatory Left AIC patterns and positions. Position and Perspective were the “P” words of the weekend, with nearly all of us getting an enhanced perspective on the relationship of the position of the pelvis and femurs. Ron reminds me often that Myokinematic Restoration is a class about relationships, and the amazing people of this class made me appreciate the relationships of people as I made new friends while relating the importance of the position of our pelvis as it relates to performance.

We had stellar hosts at St. Louis City Fitness with the Mother/Son super star team of Marcia and Justin with their amazing colleagues Anne, Debbie, and Emilee. They all helped me relate Myokinematic Restoration to Gyrotonics and Pilates and gave me a new perspective on how restoring position and patterns can be implemented within their gym.

Major League Baseball was well represented with Chris, Adam, Wade, Josh, and Sam in attendance. The Cardinals, Athletics, and Reds are amazingly lucky to have a relationship with these fantastic fellas to provide their perspective on the body in order to reduce pathology and improve performance.

Kelli, Lauren, Josh, and Alena represented smaller outpatient Physical Therapy clinics and were an absolute joy to have in class. It was their first PRI course and they will now doubt bring their new perspective of patterns and positions back to their communities which will likely facilitate an enhanced relationship with their patients and clients.

Ambrose was absolutely Lovely to have in class and was our PT student representative. He was introduced to PRI at his PT school, which is fantastic to hear that a PRI perspective is being related to students at the beginning of their career.

St. Louis is known as being the gateway to the west, and this was certainly a class that provided a gateway to build relationships and change perspectives and patterns. Thanks for hosting St. Louis City Fitness!!

– Craig Depperschmidt

Like their beloved LA Dodgers, repeat World Series Champions, the Henry Mayo clinic has become a dynasty host site for PRI courses. MVPs John Adam, Julie Barker, PT, and Thomas “TJ” DiPrima, PT, ensured a comfortable space for a weekend of learning. We had an All-Star group of attendees, including fellow faculty and ace pitcher Kasey Ratliff, PRC, – who shared many insights in the clinical application of this complex material – and Cody Gillis, PRC, Jarrett Kolich, PRT, and Locatelli “Loc” Rao, PRC.

Two dentists in the audience, Sarah Phillips, DDS, and Ramin Partovy, DDS, served as designated hitters, increasing production and depth to our discussions on the dental implications on patterned cervical and cranial position. Your perspectives were greatly appreciated!

Rounding out the line-up were our avatars: Glen Gomez, DPT, Daniel Loub, CSCS, Tara O’Brien, DPT, Brandon Partovy, DC, David Shamash, CPT, and Wendy Honoka Shiva, DPT. They served as real-life examples of how overactivity of one side of the temporo-mandibular cervical chain of muscles assists the nervous system in upright management and navigation of the environment. Our atlas and lumbar spine orientation trigger a cascade of accommodative positions of the remaining spinal segments. With every step, forces are directed into the cranium, coalescing at the spheno-basilar junction and redistributed throughout the cranium.

As we know, our left cortical and right hemi-diaphragm dominance hold us in right stance. When alternation of our brains and bodies is limited – e.g. we sit too long and don’t shift enough – the spheno-basilar junction becomes patterned in its position. The most common pattern is the left sidebend position which, in turn, directs the temporal, sphenoid, maxilla, and mandibular bones. Over time, morphological changes in appearance takes hold, with mal-occlusion, and mal-neurological processing driving symptomatology, like TMD and headache pain, disc herniation, etc. The stage is now set for a pathological cranial position – right torsion – beget by trauma. Along with movement retraining, intervention by optometrists and dentists is critical in the management of these individuals.

Thank you to all attendees for your many questions and comments and diligence in mastering the cervical tests and techniques, with the left lateral pterygoid closing out the game. Looking forward to seeing you all again at future courses!

What an exciting opportunity to travel to Munich Germany for the latest offering of the Human Evolution course! I felt so honored by the folks at Lindebergs Academy with their gracious hospitality, amazing facility and yummy German treats.

We had a great group of attendees from not only Germany, but also Denmark, Italy, and China, as well as Michigan. It’s hard to imagine digesting the content of any PRI course in another language and this group really seemed to connect to the concepts presented. In fact, we had intellectually enriching discussions about the concepts of crawling, sensory processing, tonic neck integration, clockwise and counterclockwise sense and motion, and the sequential development of the glutes, to name a few.

The stairwell in the academy was the perfect place to experience kinesemiotic forward and backward stair climbing, not to mention additional sensory afferentation.

Munich is 6 hours ahead of our east coast home in North Carolina. I was thrilled to find out that Munich turned their clocks back one hour on Saturday night (after day one of the course) and that extra sleep was so welcomed. Upon return to NC, another hour was granted with daylight savings the following weekend! How lucky! However, I’m still not sure what time it is as I write this a couple days later.

Being that far from home, my partner and I had to stay to explore a bit. The trip was enriched with a delightful hike to the base of the Austrian Alps in Innsbruck. Though the descent proved to test my eccentric fitness… (turns out I have none). I left Austria with an amazing case of the DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness), which in direct German translation means “muscle cats.” Whew… my cats were mad!

On to Bolzano, Italy where we enjoyed some shopping and delicious Italian fare. After a gondola ride to the base of the elusive Dolomites due to the clouds, for another hike, we had to go to the South Tyrol Museum of Archeology to see “Ötzi, The Ice Man”. Ötzi is believed to have been killed in combat of some sort more than 5,300 years ago at the age of 40, during the copper age. Because of the cold climate, his body was well preserved, and these intact remains were found in 1991 by some hikers. The museum showcased research results of his physiology, gut, tools, and DNA for education. It was not at all surprising to see that his x-rays revealed more compression in his right hip than his left hip, VERY wide dental arches, and a more compressed right apical rib cage than his left. The photo depicts an approximation of what he might have looked like. You gotta love science!

A BIG THANK YOU to my gracious hosts Daniel Müller, Eckhart Acker (the best chauffeur in Germany!), Sonja Voracek, and Regina Frank for taking such good care of me and for hosting a yet another PRI course. Also thanks to PRC’s Nadja Himmelseher and Tracey Blain for your valuable contributions to the conversations. It will be a trip we will remember forever. So grateful for you all and for this memorable trip.

I had such a great time in Lincoln October 24th and 25th. We had a fantastic crew in person to help demonstrate manual and non-manual techniques in order repattern rib cages and pressure flow. There was a very attentive audience from around the world online with stellar questions to facilitate the flow of the class and stimulate discussion about rib cage and pressure management. Canada, Germany, Taiwan, and states from around the country were represented online.

Some PRI celebrities were online with us as well! Danielle Phillips in Louisville, Kentucky and Jennifer Bullock outside of Telluride, Colorado. We were fortunate to have them there to drop some of their PRI knowledge and experience!

Laura and Emily were a superstar mother / daughter PRI duo that were such a joy to have in class. Laura was a fantastic primary demonstrator for our manual techniques and was a classic example of a Superior T4 syndrome individual. I am excited to be at the beginning of Emily’s PRI journey!

We were lucky to be graced with Joshua’s soothing Texas voice, as well as his amazing PEC thorax. It was fun to see my friend Lauren and her big smile throughout the weekend, hopefully this complimented Myokin nicely for you, Lauren!

Kyle was a joy to have in class, not only to talk bikes, but to discuss how this class has evolved and improved from when he took it 10+ years ago. It was good to hear from him what he remembered from 10+ years ago and how information on patterns, pressure, and perspective changes over time.

At the end of the class, I found out that I will be able to hang out with Samuel again next month in St. Louis. Looking forward to it, Sam! I am excited to hear how he takes his PRI knowledge back to the Reds. World Series 2026 for Cincinnati!

What a joy it was to be in Lincoln this last week. Thank you to everyone online and in person for being such a fun audience. I am very grateful I get an opportunity to talk about something I am passionate about for two days. My hope is that this will assist individuals from multiple disciplines around the world to understand the importance of a rib cage and air pressure biomorphology.

– Craig Depperschmidt

Last weekend, I traveled to Annapolis MD with my husband Chris to teach Myokinematics of the Hip and Pelvis. Now that we are officially “empty nesters”, he is always willing and able to come along to help me during labs and provide a different perspective to PRI application. For those who don’t know, Chris is an athletic trainer and strength coach with a special interest in golf rehab and fitness. The course attendees were mostly new to the science of PRI. This is not at all strange for this course and it is a great place to start learning PRI. We discussed concepts of cortical dominance and forward locomotor movements as well as how to control their sympathetic nervous systems, get into proper position of both their legs in AFIR and AFER.

This group of attendees included PTs, PTAs, chiropractors, massage therapists and a physician from Walter Reed! I love how PRI continues to reach out into multiple arenas of clinical practice and disciplines. Thank-you to Ray for being a great host and giving us an amazing dinner recommendation for Saturday night. Annapolis is beautiful and the crab cakes at O’Leary’s were delicious. When in Rome!

In this rendition of myokin we explored the history of the management of hip instability and using the Hruska Adduction Lift score as a evaluation tool to help progressions of treatment. The group was small enough that we had a lot of time for questions and demonstrations of both facilitation and inhibition techniques. Myokin is a special course and often a great way for new clinicians to cut their teeth on an area of our anatomy that was familiar. It was fun to discuss how many clinicians were noticing asymmetries in the patients and now that had a PRI lens to go back to help their patients and clients.

I look forward to seeing these faces in future courses!

– Jennifer Poulin

I have taught Cranial Resolution for several years now and although I have witnessed more than a few individual ‘Ah ha’ moments throughout each rendition, it wasn’t until I taught it at FuncPhysio in NYC earlier this month that I sensed a truly significant collective one. It seems, from the questions and comments that were being exchanged throughout the weekend, that the entire group, which was dominated by ‘cranial newbies’, were grasping the underlying (tertiary) concepts in a clinically relevant way. And even someone who had attended the course several times before stated that they “now understood the paradigm itself so much better.”

These comments indeed make me proud, since I admit that I have spent a monumental amount of time trying to understand, scientifically support and figure out a way to palatably deliver the comprehensive material that Ron Hruska collected and organized while developing this Cranial Resolution Course. However, I do not believe that my delivery is the main reason people are “finally getting it.” I think I am simply lucky enough to be teaching it now, at this moment in time when the world, especially those in the PRI world, have been primed and are ready to accept how the physical, physiological and psychological realms integrate and evolve with one another. Between the way the primary, secondary and other tertiary courses (and an extensive number of PRIVY episodes) have introduced and progressively developed neurological concepts, explored the role of perception, discussed the need to empower gravity, etc, etc, they have piqued the interest and made the concepts that are more systematically covered in Cranial less foreign.

The primary and secondary courses focus on patterns and teach “physical” re-positioning techniques to get people to change them, whereas Cranial Resolution simply focuses more on the physiological changes that occur the moment you have someone ‘breathe in through their nose’ in that new position. When teaching, it is fun to watch people suddenly gain a whole new appreciation for that sentence and understand why it is repeated in every single non-manual technique. The earlier courses do such a good job of laying out these concepts so that Cranial Resolution can take it to the next level.

The other tertiary courses address how we use occlusal, visual, vestibular or vocal referencing to recognize and/or change our (psychological/behavioral) sense of self. This sense of self, however, is a product of how we cranially resolve tension throughout our entire system to filter sensory input and/or afferentation. Understanding the predictable influence paired sensory inputs can have on a person’s autonomic response can be empowering. It is such a joy to watch course attendees suddenly understand WHY they may want to temporarily put a cone in someone’s hand, foam in someone’s shoe, something between someone’s teeth, a hat with half the visor cut away on someone’s head to block a dominant superior visual field or put cotton in someone’s nostril or ear.

What I got to see in NYC earlier this month was Cranial Resolution remove some of the “magic” of PRI and replace it with science. That being said, the course still had its share of magic, especially on day two when a 4-hour Hispanic parade passed along the street below FuncPhysio, pulsing Latin rhythms through the entire facility while Neal Hallinan, the PRI king of Latin rhythms was sitting in the front row. Me and my right cranium couldn’t help but smile.

I also want to give a big shout out to Yohei and all the great folk at FuncPhysio. What a bright, warm, and welcoming group of individuals. They could not have been more helpful (like when my computer stopped working with their system) or more receptive. Thanks.

– Jennifer Smart

Pelvis Restoration went to Albuquerque, NM this past weekend where we explored the influence of dominant human asymmetrical patterns on inlets and outlets. Driving to the course the second morning I was greeted by a view of a half dozen hot air balloons illuminated by the rising sun. Albuquerque is known for its hot air balloons, with the balloon festival the week prior involving hundreds of balloons in “mass ascension”.

An appropriate metaphor for our weekend spent delving into pelvic position and the integrated function of respiratory and pelvic diaphragms. Much like the balloons harnessing pressure and gas to travel skyward, the “roof and floor” of our core need to synchronously manage pressure to deal with asymmetric patterning and safely navigate the space around us.

While the balloons don’t have septums dividing chambers into two sides, our bodies most definitely do. We explored our ability to manage the asymmetry between chambers and the impact this has on the freedom to achieve “mass ascension” synchronously of a respiratory and pelvic diaphragm.

The views, the weather, and best of all, the group in the room were outstanding throughout the weekend, a big thank you to an engaged and interested group of attendees. Our “basket” for the weekend was Presbyterian Healthplex, comfortable and accommodating, much thanks to our hosts.

Traveling to Lincoln to teach from the heart of PRI is a fulfilling trip, even caught a Nebraska volleyball win in person. The weekend flew by and this was also a reflection of how engaged and attentive the attendees both in person and virtual were during Myokinematic Restoration. We dove right into exploring the relationships between pelvic positioning, femoral orientation, and compensatory strategies upright humans exhibit during forward locomotor movement often referred to as gait. During lab demonstration, we were able to assess if the L AIC pattern was present and then further testing with the EXT drop test, the capsular integrity of the anterior hip capsule. We ended the first day with repositioning techniques to help inhibit the L AIC pattern. As an instructor, it was rewarding to hear clients begin connecting the dots between the asymmetrical human position and how the techniques can be so powerful to change position on a neurological level. Reports of “feeling lighter” or “more grounded” were reported several times during lab.

The second day we explored the Hruska Adduction lift test and its respective grading scale. We used this assessment to determine the ability for one to be able to lateralize on the left and right side as well as shift to the opposite side correctly. This test requires frontal plane integration without the over use of sagittal plane muscles acting in the transverse plane. Such an important test when treating patients and prescribing appropriate techniques. The lab in the afternoon gave us plenty of time to work through several techniques that were reflective of different grades of the Hruska Adduction lift test.

I am continually grateful for the opportunity to share PRI science. Thank you to the course attendees both local and virtual for the passion and questions on your learning journey.

– Kasey Ratliff

This past weekend I had the opportunity to assist with the 3rd iteration of the Visual Vestibular Refinement course here in Lincoln. It was great having 20 engaged learners in person to teach and discuss how the structure of the visual and vestibular system can be utilized to assist our patients who need assistance with integrating primary and secondary PRI coursework and techniques in an upright vertical position.

The ability to restore vertical stability and change binocular function through bipodal pressure sense, as well as managing bipodal stability through binocular visual refinement gets to the heart of getting PRI concepts to be truly integrated for upright function. Clinically, I hope we were able to reinforce the needs and concepts for standing upright refraction and refinement as well as how to integrate visual refinement techniques into any upright PRI program.

With each teaching of this course our ability to get this message across is more and more refined. Thanks to everyone who attended and listened including the lone OD in this class who was a gift to all of us, and I am sure will be able to continue to work with her PRI practitioner to improve patient care for their patients.

– Torin Berge

PRI has made its way to Oklahoma! Thank you Makenzi Lewis and Robert Rosser, of Mercy Health, for hosting a wonderful group of clinicians in one of the most beautiful facilities I have seen.

Every attendee was new to Postural Restoration, another first for this instructor. They hailed from Sante Fe, Dallas, and NYC, and, of course, numerous Oklahoma towns. This group brought experience with a diversity of caseloads – pelvic health and post-partum, post-surgery, post-stroke, cerebral palsy, and the whole gamut of orthopedic syndromes – and a range of treatment backgrounds – muscle energy, cranio-sacral, visceral manipulation, structural integration, McKenzie, yoga, Pilates, and sport performance and exercise. They were eager and open to learning a new perspective in the assessment and treatment of the human in front of them.

This perspective begins with understanding the diaphragm’s role as both a postural and a respiratory muscle. And the only way both roles can be achieved and performed is through establishing each hemi-diaphragm’s zone of apposition. Once this main concept is appreciated and understood, the remaining course concepts – sensing air flow within the thorax, the dominance of neuromuscular movement patterns, the neurological provinces of inhibition and facilitation, and the orientation of the upright individual – fall into place.

This course includes numerous lab break outs to assess for the presence of dominant neuromuscular patterns in one’s lab partner. We spent time explaining the why’s and how’s behind 6 manual rib techniques and twenty of PRIs non-manual repositioning and repatterning techniques. Makenzi Lewis was a great example of how a person tests with overactive left AIC and right BC chains. And Mandy Callaway and Kyle Baker gave the class the opportunity to see how an individual with superior T4 syndrome and PEC overactivity, respectively, move and breathe differently, with test outcomes that reflect these differences.

A huge thank you to the three of you, and also to Libio Carcasses, Dana Doshier, Morgan McBee, Jenny Spinella, Blyth Timken, and Jessica Vaughn, for your willingness to receive assessments and perform the techniques. As you found out, these techniques look low-key and easy on paper, but they are anything but. As one attendee exclaimed, “This is powerful stuff!”

I enjoyed spending my weekend with each and every one of you and am thrilled to have helped you start your PRI journey. Looking forward to seeing you again at future courses!

– Louise Kelley