I returned this past weekend from a tremendous weekend of learning with an authentic group of learners in Colorado where Pelvis Restoration was on tap. I had the pleasure of being hosted once again by Jonathan Pope and his team at Train Rogue/Ethos Colorado Training Facility and I was reconnected with my friend Craig Deppershmidt, DPT, PRC as well as newly certified Karen Stillahn, PT, DPT, ATC, PRC who combined to provide a luxury PRC tag team during labs, much appreciated by all in the course. From LMT to OT to PT to DC to ATC to CSCS, this group of movement scientists brought it!

This course was packed with great discussions about LAIC and a bilateral AIC pattern that can lead us to using a PEC pattern to overstabilize a system that can lead to pain and/or pathology. We had thorough discussion of inlet and outlet function, urogenital diaphragm function related to position and relative order of operations for allowing anterior pelvic diaphragm function. We dove deep into how special tests correlate with one another to give a thorough, layered assessment of position, the pattern involved, compensation for said pattern, and pathology if present. From there, this group was keyed in on great clinical application of developing appropriate PRI facilitation programs to oppose the respective patterns identified, with inhibition components implemented when needed, with specificity attained with special tests. Pelvic and thoracic diaphragms were center stage.

We enjoyed a good discussion and lab series with case studies in the fold, with treatment appendix reference and application being the focus of discussion late. This group was engaged, focused, with great clinical questions and facilitation of discussion by Craig, Charles Fairbanks, Margaret Randolph, James Park and others. Thank you Kyler Crouse, Ellen Kindelsperger, Jonathan Pope, Sharon Petty, Nathan Olson and others for your time and assistance during lab demonstrations.

Thank you all for a weekend that flew by, so engaged with this lively, friendly group that I forgot to take any group pictures! Colorado intense! Thanks again to all.

This past weekend I had the pleasure of returning to ATI Physical Therapy in beautiful Everett, WA just outside Seattle. Betsy Baker Bold has been serving PRI as a hub in the greater Seattle area for many years and we at PRI were once again welcomed into her clinic at ATI with open arms for a learning adventure, this time for Myokinematic Restoration. With Erin Rajca, DPT, PRC to assist with lab and Agnes as the backdrop screen for the projector, we had a high quality environment to take in some high quality PRI movement science. Meg Tyner, DPT, ATC, CSCS from New York earned the rockstar award for her ~3,000 mile journey to Seattle!

Matthew Krings, PT, Jaclyn Stoerzbach, DPT, Diane Wiggin, PT, and Stefanie Wren, PT among many others provided thorough and insightful questions regarding asymmetrical polyarticular chains of muscle and how to integrate these and other PRI principles into practice. Thank you Hollie Young, PT, Jonathan Losch, SPT, Michael Murphy, DPT, OCS Kyle LaLiberte, ACSM EP-C, Alexa Degel, DPT and others for your help during the various lab demonstrations of manual and non-manual techniques throughout the course designed to attenuate and balance normally asymmetrical laterality of an AIC pattern.

On Sunday morning we woke to what I understand to be a relatively large snowfall for the area. This group of attentive, enthusiastic learners not only arrived early, but stayed engaged throughout and added to course content with well-considered discussion throughout. This Instructor thoroughly enjoyed dialogue regarding origins of pathology due to compensatory patterns as well as discussions of what, when and how to address post-operative patients with the same symptoms before and after procedures using PRI principles for AF and FA movement.

Thank you again Betsy, Erin, Agnes and the whole crew I learned with this weekend--and Tuline Kinaci, ATC for reminding us all that our traits are as habituated as they are innate. Once again, Seattle wowed me.

This past weekend I enjoyed, and loved, my time with nearly forty movement scientists in the city of brotherly love. I enjoyed having a tremendously diverse group of professionals, from personal trainers like Aven Johnson, OTR's like Wing Chin, Exercise Physiologists like Bryant Aguilar, Pilates Instructors like Susan Milosky, Inpatient Neuro PT's like Christopher Carroll, PTA's like Dustin Friesen, Associate Professor/ATC's like Nicole Cattano, and PT's like Matt Hinsey and Jessica Jennings. My time in Philadelphia and nearby suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ hosted by Jon Herting and TTR Performance was a great experience, my first at this location. Jon and his team allowed me to be dialed solely into the task of introducing nearly 30 PRI hatchlings to the science!

This weekend was especially unique because we were honored to have lab assistants Jon Herting as well as Takashi Onuki, MS, ATC, CSCS, PES, PRT, PRI coordinator in Japan and budding PRI Instructor. I had the opportunity to hang with this future faculty member and daddy of daughters who brought a great teacher's perspective that I was able to appreciate and learn from. Thanks Takashi!

Through this course, we discussed the normality of asymmetry, the group of "amigos" that we use to oppose a right lateralized system, with some great conversation and discussion via an interactive group of professionals about how to implement PRI principles from the "it's all neural all the time" hemiparesis client to the "it's game on all the time" competitive athlete setting. Thank you Elizabeth Young, Ken Guzzardo, Brian Dougherty, Ray Carr, Connor "CJ" Conway, Anthony Blubello, Tara Amato, Ryan Wolff and Courtney Pierre for your assistance with demonstration of PRI techniques and treatment strategies! You all made the course real! Thank you Zach Mitchell, Colin Kidwell and Rushi Shahiwala for keeping a steady flow of good questions for discussion flowing. Lastly, thank you "table Jay", Jennifer Bolster, Jimmy Jo among many others for enjoying a laugh here and there during the course.

Overall, much was learned, and much brotherly (and sisterly) love was doled this weekend. Thanks for everything Jon and the Philly crowd!

Last weekend I had my first opportunity to speak to a group of movement professionals in the Behrakis Building at Northeastern University. Katie Delude and the team at Northeastern came highly regarded, and I learned why. Katie covered the lead role, Mike helped me with wifi codes and Kyle with integrating into the projector and sound. Thanks to the Northwestern team for pitching in!

This weekend was a rather large group of folks ranging from CSCS to LMT, to ATC to PT to SPT and strength coach, so I was blessed to have high quality lab instructors during our many lab sessions--hats off to Anita Furbush PT, PRC, Michael Mullin ATC, PTA, PRC and Donna Behr, DPT, PRC for giving us 'numbas' as instructors during lab. Great focus from both the class and the PRC instructors during lab time!

This weekend we discussed the inlet and outlet of the pelvis from many perspectives, the engineer and the welder perspectives in particular, as both have merit. "Best to be both" as contemporary movement science is concerned in relation to application integration of inlet and outlet position, stability and dynamic functional ability.

Thank you Benjamin Abbott, Sam Hammer, Edilio Flores, Payal Patel, Meghan Johnson, Adam "Slippery" Babcock, Katelyn Yerardi among others for their volunteering during various different components of lab time. Being able to watch and sense the course material makes the whole experience notably more effective on several fronts. To Michael Camporini, Joseph Erdos, Lori Rose and many others, thank you for your engaging, timely questions about varying components of the course as we covered rich content.

A lively group of engaging and passionate movement professionals made last weekend in Beantown at Northeastern noteworthy. High quality across the board!