‘Timing’ means something a little different to all of us. Some look at time as it relates to acceleration, movement through space (speed), or muscle activation to name a few. But these biometrics often dominate the actual relationships at hand. These relationships are exactly what we at the institute spend our time reflecting on throughout the year. The best time to introduce a new technique, the amount of time needed to achieve a full exhale, the amount of time spent in one hemisphere, the best time of year to host a specific course, the timing of speaker availability to teach said course, the last possible time that the manuals must be shipped to host sites or your homes…….. and the time goes on.

In cyclical fashion this yearly passing of our daily expenditure of time, ends in 4 days, 30 hours or 1,800 minutes of Advanced Integration discussion. Reflecting on exactly how we spend our time rotating, reaching, reacting to, respiring, repositioning and hopefully resting, throughout our daily lives. The biometrics of it all are covered in depth, building upon the concepts discussed the days and months before. And by the last day, in the final hours, it is always hard to believe how fast our time together really occurs.

That’s the thing about time, it may seem daunting, sometimes nonexistent, or even endless at ‘times’, but until it has passed, until we are able to sense something new at its conclusion, we have no comparison, no metric, of how much of it was truly spent. As our time this year and every year concludes, it is this event that provides us as a PRI community with the sense of our time, being well spent, on and for, others in our lives.

Thank you to all of you who have spent time alongside us this year. And to our faculty who dedicate much of their time to help you, and us, fulfill ours. We look forward to spending renewed time with you all in the year ahead and are excited about the many opportunities available to do so.

May this time of year bring you and your loved ones, peace, rest and well-being.

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This course outlines the functional cortical predominance that exists in all humans because of our inert need to move our “self” and our body forward. Our predominance precedes dominance, as our errors precede our successes. Our consciousness predominates our interest. And our brain hemispheric predominance predicts our natural asymmetric anti-gravitational behavior. This is a ‘introspective’ course. A course built off of research and examination, and appraisal of my own mental and emotional processes of human locomotion self-analysis.

Introspective courses can be difficult, very difficult to understand. Locomotor movement is not a simple act. And to fully appreciate how we displace ourselves, we need to relate the ascendency associated with visuo-spatial peripheral flow, chest decompression and compression behind vertical and horizontal displacement and predomination of handedness to the prevalence of unilateral ground control. I can appreciate anyone, who tells me they do not understand what this sentence just meant. But that is exactly what I hope to clarify in a course such as this, by relating concepts of displacement with movement, forward movement, that we all are programmed to do.

I believe, I have taught this course, six times, maybe, not sure. I feel like I have taught it 400, 4000 or more, times. Because I teach humans, guide humans and mentor humans on how to displace themselves to safely and subconsciously move themselves forward. Moving ourselves from our place of rest or position, or submerging ourselves, body or part of our body in a volume of space which would otherwise be occupied by gas in that space, requires progressional displacement of both air/space in and around our body. As obscure as this may sound, it is this acceptance of displacement by our visual optic regions of our brain, that gives us the freedom, the control and the orientation we use to move forward on our feet, through binocular, bi handed and bi lateral chest alternation of displacement.

Immediately after teaching this course I received two emails from course attendees, who said they “got it” and appreciated the course so much, because of this scientific based introspection. This course, in my opinion, helps us understand how important the upper extremities are when we move forward with chest and visual space suppression and displacement, for locomotor placement of the ground we are supported by and for locomotor placement of the environment we are moving through.   

I would like to thank all of the attendees who were willing to reschedule this course because of my, and the PRI staffs, acquisition of COVID a few weeks earlier. I also am very grateful for Julie Blandin PT, ATC, CSCS, PRC and Mark Ragusa DPT who attended the course in person and helped with their acknowledgement and feedback of instructional material. It always helps so much to have someone present in the room when giving virtual courses.  

And finally if you are hesitating to take this course in 2023, talk to someone who has. It should broaden your perspective on the visual, hemi-chest and upper extremity influences on the legs you use to move you, or your patients forward. I will only be teaching this course two times next year, May 5-6 and Nov 3-4. And both will be livestream. Thank you for taking the time to read this review.