Anatomy in the 4^th dimension

Understanding real life movement for better clinical outcomes

Treatment protocols are outdated, rigid inventions for the average person…who does not exist.

Textbook anatomy is flawed – the rote memorisation of discrete body parts in a two-dimensional, gravity- and force-free environment, poorly equips us for the complexity of the real life human in motion.

Trying to understand movement in the real world, by putting the pieces of the body back together again, is like doing a jigsaw without the box and expecting to be able to step into the scene.

To understand movement we need to start with movement.

Join us for a FREE WEBINAR to empower you to reach the best clinical outcomes with every client, every time.

In this webinar you will learn practical, clinically relevant tools to take away and use today, as well as hear about ways you can deepen your understanding through our programme of workshops and webinars in 2023-24 and beyond.

We will use examples you will readily recognise from your own clinical practice to demonstrate Born to Move’s underlying principles of assessing, treating, and training each individual individually. As in our clinics we use a flexible framework to understand each unique client, so in our workshops we offer a practical, current, and evolving approach to movement-centred learning.

We embrace the reality that, as clinicians, we don’t have all the answers. Instead, we ask evolving questions to improve hypotheses and enhance clinical reasoning, and this webinar will be conducted along those lines. There will be presentation content, problem-solving, open discussion, and the opportunity for Q&A at the end of the session.

NEW   One-day Workshop -23 September 2023

Functional Anatomy 

Movement is complex. It is multidimensional, constantly changing, and difficult to make practical sense of.

We’re all used to hearing that ‘it’s all connected’ but we’ve never been given the means to effectively describe how. Imagine how you could change your practice if you could take control of movement. Imagine being able to describe movement in a way that honours its complexity while granting a clear vision of all the interactions involved. Imagine how your assessments, your treatments, and your exercise suggestions could all change to perfectly match the needs of the client in front of you.

The last few years have seen many new vocabularies develop to help describe the experience of movement, an essential part of being human and being in our bodies. Many schools claim tensegrity, biotensegrity, and spirals to be the basis of all human movement - which they may well be - but how do we describe that? Unfortunately, the information provided so far has been largely ephemeral, considering the system as a mysterious, unwieldy whole, and not especially helpful in providing a foundation of language for understanding the reality of human anatomy in motion. 

Compare this with the reductionist approach of traditional anatomy textbooks which we are all (rather begrudgingly) too familiar with, presenting each piece of the puzzle separately in the wild hope that we can somehow put them all together to make a working whole. Hint: we can't. As we all know, the most interesting things - and especially a human being - are far, far more than the sum of all their parts.

 After 30 years of searching for the tools, James Earls has found a way of blending the truths of movement with the truths of human anatomy. Together, they form the basis of a vocabulary that can be easily learned, is immediately understandable, and can be incredibly powerful in your quest to help humans to move more efficiently.

In this one-day workshop:

• We will use movement (not exercise!) to explore the links between language and anatomy in ways that expand your vision, and your understanding of the way humans move.
• We will re-frame words and notions you are already familiar with, giving them purpose by pulling them out of the textbooks and into real-life.
• We will bring anatomy to life, learning how to describe what we’re seeing and feeling in our own and in others’ bodies.
• And we will show you how, once you have the tools to clearly, and accurately describe movement, you can predict it, and how powerful this can be for your practice.

Arrive with your curiosity turned up to 10, ready to play, to move, and to explore -  you will leave at the end of the day genuinely inspired and ready to embrace movement in your practice with greater clarity and enhanced confidence.

James  will be presenting at the 'Natural Health & Movement Summit'

From the organisers:

NEW   One-day Workshop -23 September 2023

Functional Anatomy 

Movement is complex. It is multidimensional, constantly changing, and difficult to make practical sense of.

We’re all used to hearing that ‘it’s all connected’ but we’ve never been given the means to effectively describe how. Imagine how you could change your practice if you could take control of movement. Imagine being able to describe movement in a way that honours its complexity while granting a clear vision of all the interactions involved. Imagine how your assessments, your treatments, and your exercise suggestions could all change to perfectly match the needs of the client in front of you.

The last few years have seen many new vocabularies develop to help describe the experience of movement, an essential part of being human and being in our bodies. Many schools claim tensegrity, biotensegrity, and spirals to be the basis of all human movement - which they may well be - but how do we describe that? Unfortunately, the information provided so far has been largely ephemeral, considering the system as a mysterious, unwieldy whole, and not especially helpful in providing a foundation of language for understanding the reality of human anatomy in motion. 

Compare this with the reductionist approach of traditional anatomy textbooks which we are all (rather begrudgingly) too familiar with, presenting each piece of the puzzle separately in the wild hope that we can somehow put them all together to make a working whole. Hint: we can't. As we all know, the most interesting things - and especially a human being - are far, far more than the sum of all their parts.

 After 30 years of searching for the tools, James Earls has found a way of blending the truths of movement with the truths of human anatomy. Together, they form the basis of a vocabulary that can be easily learned, is immediately understandable, and can be incredibly powerful in your quest to help humans to move more efficiently.

In this one-day workshop:

• We will use movement (not exercise!) to explore the links between language and anatomy in ways that expand your vision, and your understanding of the way humans move.
• We will re-frame words and notions you are already familiar with, giving them purpose by pulling them out of the textbooks and into real-life.
• We will bring anatomy to life, learning how to describe what we’re seeing and feeling in our own and in others’ bodies.
• And we will show you how, once you have the tools to clearly, and accurately describe movement, you can predict it, and how powerful this can be for your practice.

Arrive with your curiosity turned up to 10, ready to play, to move, and to explore -  you will leave at the end of the day genuinely inspired and ready to embrace movement in your practice with greater clarity and enhanced confidence.

Special Events

NEW   One-day Workshop -14 October 2023

Understanding the Human Foot & Pelvis

with James Earls & Owen Lewis

While each will have its moments of glory, the day is about more than either the foot or the pelvis in isolation. It is a day of bringing anatomy alive to generate a deeper appreciation of both areas and how they interrelate with the rest of the body.

Throughout the morning and the afternoon, as well as journeys into the detail of the foot and the pelvis, James and Owen will keep bringing the conversation back to where each part fits in the wider picture of human movement in the real world, where gravity, momentum and ground force reaction influence every action we take.

You will get hands-on, learn new vocabulary, and practice new assessments, but most importantly you will build a greater picture of how the body really moves.

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