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Blog Posts in April 2016

Team sports chiropractor for the Seattle Seahawks, Dr. Jim Kurtz, provided his facility, NW Sports Rehab for Postural Respiration last weekend located in Federal Way, WA. It was a class with more than half new attendees to PRI and a great mix of PT’s, DC’s, ATC’s and strength and conditioning professionals. Increasingly there is an interdisciplinary mix of different professions which brings a variety of perspectives and energy!

Posted April 28, 2016 at 8:45PM

Earlier this month, we hosted 90+ professionals from all around the world for our 8th Annual Interdisciplinary Integration Symposium. We were so excited to show off YOUR new PRI Headquarters building. Day one started off with Rachel Loveless, Au.D., CCC-A, who gave us a great knowledge base to build off of for the next two days off. After that Jennifer Bullock, PT, OCS, PRC shared a personal story with her and her children’s experience with Auditory Processing Disorder with great treatment recommendations. Valerie Dejean, OT gave her first talk about A.A. Tomatis and her experience in France learning from the otolaryngologist and some of the reasons that the Tomatis Method has had an incredible impact on her practice. Heidi Wise led off with how the ear determines where sound is coming from and how the visual and auditory processes are related. Our first day concluded with Rhonda Musak, a NYC based actress with her performance “Rhonda Badonda: The Adventures of a Girl with a Pain in her Brain” where she documented the struggles that she was going through before being treated by Valerie Dejean and the Tomatis Method. It was an amazing experience, and we were so luck to have found Rhonda (thorough Valerie Dejean).

Day two started off with Valerie building off her first talk and she talked about how to build a mind, the development of language and how learning and consciousness are intertwined, she also led the room in a chanting exercise. Ron Hruska talked next on Hyperacusis, Tinnitus and Misophonia, where he described that many patients who have tinnitus naturally habituate to it which is one of the reasons it can be so difficult to treat. In Ron and Heidi’s next talk; Rhythm, Resonance and Reverberation, they talked about how your body has its own vibration down to a cellular level and how rhythm helps us to breathe, effortlessly walk and rotate a rib cage. Matthew Uohara, CSCS, PRT talked about how to use sound to maximize performance, and he talked about how when he is coaching he will use specific words, consonants or vowels or the client’s name at different distances depending on what training response he is going for. Ron and Heidi finished the day with teaching the class how to correctly establish resonance usuing a kazoo and a couple of take home apps, techniques and music recommendations that they can use with their patients or clients. It was an incredible two days. We can't wait for next year! Yes, that's right.....we are hoping to do a PART II on this symposium in 2017 with the same line up as this year, so stay tuned for more details! This will be in addition to our 9th Annual Interdisciplinay Integration Symposium next April, which will have a new topic of interest that will be released in the next few months!

*Unfortunately with all the hub-bub going on with hosting for the first time in our new headquarters, we didn't get nearly as many pictures as we had hoped for, so these are just a few. We promise to get more next year!

Posted April 26, 2016 at 2:25PM
Categories: Courses

After our 2016 Interdisciplinary Integration Symposium we had a couple people who wanted to purchase kazoos that they used to establish resonance after Ron and Heidi's talk. You can now order them on our matierals page.

Posted April 22, 2016 at 3:06PM

We are now offering home studies online! Below will outline some of the things that are changing and the things that will be staying the same.

Whats changing:

  • Price: Online:$400 DVDs: $415 plus shipping
  • Manual: Online: Downloadable and Printable DVDs: Course manual will be shipped to you
  • Test: Online: You will fill out your test online and we will grade it and if you miss 8 or fewer send you a certificate DVDs: Test will be sent back with DVDs if you miss 8 or fewer send you a certificate
  • Location: International: Online only Domestic: DVDs or online

Whats staying the same:

  • Time: You will still have 21 days to complete the material
  • Content: The content is not downloadable from DVDs or online

Full details are listed on the course home study page.

Posted April 19, 2016 at 1:44PM
Categories: Courses

I am really not sure where to begin this review!  Cue up the goose pimples!  I had the privilege of teaching this course for PRI this year.  AND… the week before my family joined me in London for the week.  We saw the sites, walked the walk and took lots of pictures.  After a fun week of vacation, I sent my family home and I took the train up to Leeds to meet up with England’s first PRC Martin Higgins.  I had a Brilliant time teaching Pelvis Restoration with Martins help as my able lab assistant.  We had several disciplines and countries covered. From England, Ireland, Germany and Switzerland, these clinicians were excited to learn all about PRI!  We explored the PRI patterns of the L AIC and PEC as it relates the Pelvic Inlet and Outlet musculature and human performance.  We even found a Naan at dinner that reminded us of the Anterior View of the Posterior Abdominal wall!   I personally have a new love of Cricket, Rugby, Afternoon Tea and eating dessert before dinner!  Thank-you Martin and his lovely wife Helen for helping all of us at PRI help you grow PRI in the UK. It was truly magic!  Until we meet again… Cheers!

Posted April 6, 2016 at 9:55AM
Categories: Courses

Thank you Brittani and  EXOS for hosting Pelvis Restoration this past weekend in Frisco, TX.  Almost, half the class attendees were new to PRI!  They were excited about Postural Restoration and at least 8 of them told me they were going to another course this year and were getting other health care practitioners to come with them.  It is rewarding as a Faculty to have a class this excited about learning and not being complacent.  For those of you that have attended other PRI courses, Pelvis Restoration is about going into detail about tri-planer control of (L) AFIR and (R) AFER.  Inhibition of the correct inlet or outlet quadrant will allow for FAIR or FAER control, trunk rotation, ability to integrate floor grounding to allow the neck to “wobble.”  A huge shout out to Sayuri for you wonderful lab assistance this past weekend.

Posted April 5, 2016 at 1:10PM
Categories: Courses

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