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I am back in clinic treating after being online this weekend and my client asked, “so what did you do at the weekend”. Well, actually, I spent two evenings narrating a livestream dissection while watching the amazing Todd Garcia uncover the anatomy of…

Over the last year or so, I have written six blog posts, each relating to one of our ‘Structural Essentials’ workshops which as a whole, we call ‘Part One’. There are three major parts to the training to become an Anatomy Trains Certified Structural In…

Our shoulders and arms can perform great feats of strength and athleticism, and yet they also enable us to paint, dance and help us express our inner selves. I personally owe a lot to my own arms and shoulders, they have allowed me to work, to learn, a…

This topic resonates personally for me. My late father incurred a very serious spinal injury in the 1970’s, and I grew up seeing the effects of extreme spinal pain and inhibited movement. It’s possible that experience has played a key role in the devel…

I love my industry and see the good we can do in clinical practice, but I also grow tired of the constant bickering and see the divide between health professionals. And how somehow you have to be part of a camp; neural, fascial, musculoskeletal, pain s…

Breath is an obvious part of everything we do, yet many of us are always trying to catch it in some way. Its very nature is elusive, you cannot hold or grasp breath? Yet we can contain and literally embody it, so much so that we have an apparatus that…

When my wife and I travel, we do as most people do; we look at the tourist attractions and marvel at them, but we also like to get away from the areas that draw the throngs of people and go investigate what lies beyond. It was slightly different in lat…

We all know the respiratory diaphragm is the main muscle of respiration, but it is a coordinated event with other structures in the body, in particular the pelvic diaphragm. Anybody who has attended my workshops knows that I like to think of the respir…

Image by Anna Satmari –   A few days ago, while standing in a long queue for the checkout in my local supermarket, I noticed so many different packs of adult liners on offer for incontinence problems for men and women. Clearly there is a lot of de…

At some stage or other, we have all probably had a foot issue of some kind. They are a hard-to-ignore kind of pain, due to the role they play in our everyday movements. Imagine, (some reading this may not need to) if every step on either foot brought p…