Manual Perception 1 (MP1) is a prerequisite class for Manual Perception 2, Physical/Energetic Interface: Neuro 1, Neuro 2 and Circulation 1, Hand Skills/Practical Integration and the Mentorship Program.
Class Prerequisites: Core Concepts
Course Description and Purpose: Manual Perception is an entirely new and original field of assessment and related treatment. The hand is trained as a tool to be used to seek and interpret information from the client’s body and to assist in engaging optimal corrective activity. Tension is perceived to collect in the therapist’s hand at different areas that correspond to tissues or systems within the body, both separately and in relationship to each other. These tensions can be specifically engaged to explore the influences of other systems and to treat the tissue or system.
The Cranial Map is learned, which is a crucial assessment tool. Practitioners will learn Cranial Mapping to locate a convergence of tension in the body. Students will utilize inhibition principles to determine the more significant of two influences. Students will note and interpret the tensional patterns in their hand on involved tissue to determine which system is related to the problem and they will learn to problem-solve treat with these tools, using the body’s self-corrective mechanisms.
Course Learning Description: Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to:
- Utilize Cranial Mapping to locate a problem in the body
- Utilize Cranial Mapping to locate and describe a restriction
- Engage two body areas at a physical/energetic interface
- Assess neural influence, circulatory influence and hormonal influence related to a problem area
- Explore the potential of the hand as a tool to aid in distinguishing types of tissue involved and
- Engage those tissues for treatment
Course Outline: Please note that time adds up to 19 hours, and allows for 5 minute a.m. and p.m. breaks. The breakdown here is a guideline. Some groups prefer to have longer breaks and shorter lunches, depending on proximity of eating establishments. Some groups prefer the option of an early start and/or shorter lunch on the final day of the course to allow for travel time.
Day One: a.m. 9:00-12:30 (3.0 hours theory, .5 hours lab)
- Lecture: Introduction and overview
- Lecture: Theory of Biovalent Ò Systems
- Lecture and Demonstrations: History and development
- Lecture: Terminology referenced in this and related therapies
- Lab: Engaging tissues at a depth and feeling tensions in the hand
- Break
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Cranial mapping
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Most sensitive area for motion in planes
- Lab: Cranial mapping for viscera and spine
- Lab: Assessing spinal problems using cranial map and most sensitive areas
- Lunch 12:30-2:00
Day One: p.m. 2:00-5:00 (1.0 hour theory, 2 hours lab)
- Lecture and Demonstrations: Manual Perception Theory - The neural line
- Lab: Feeling correlation of four major areas
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Balancing neural-based tensions with Manual
- Perception approach
- Break
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Dura and neuropeptides
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Tendons and muscles
- Review, questions and answers
Day Two: a.m. 9:00-12:30 (2.0 hours theory, 1.5 hours lab)
- Review, questions and answers
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Circulatory line
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: The heart on the neural line, atria ventricles, A/V folds
- and valves
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: The main vessels
- Break
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Peripheral vessels
- Lab: Venous/Arterial flow in the circulatory line
- Lunch 12:30-2:00
Day Two: p.m. 2:00-5:00 (1.0 hour theory, 2 hours lab)
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Lymph nodes and vessels
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Pressure related tensions
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: SA/AV nodes and conductivity
- Break
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Synapses and neurotransmitters
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Immune aspects of spleen and thymus
- Review, questions and answers
Day Three: a.m. 9:00-12:30 (1.5 hours theory, 2 hours lab)
- Review, questions and answers
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Hormones
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: The hormonal axis
- Lecture and Demonstration: The organ map
- Lab: Organ identification with the organ map
- Break
- Lab: Assisting the body’s simple hormonal issue with manual perception
- Lecture and Demonstration: Triangulation to determine more complex relationships
- Lab: Demonstration and treatment
- Lunch 12:30-2:00
Day Three: p.m. 2:00-5:00 (2 hours theory, 1 hour lab)
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Labs: Special hand relationships: soft tissue, connective
- tissue, inflow/outflow, etc.
- Lab: Comprehensive treatment
- Review, questions and answers
Total: 10.5 hours theory and concepts, 9 hours lab and skills: 19 contact hours
Course Presenters: Each of these instructors presents the class in its entirety: Frank Lowen, LMT, NCTMB; Laurie Levine-Lowen, OTR/L, LMT; Marianne McGreevy, MA, PT, Scooter LeBleu, PT, LMT; Jacqueline Faulkner, ST.
Day One: a.m. 9:00-12:30 (3.0 hours theory, .5 hours lab)
- Lecture: Introduction and overview
- Lecture: Theory of Biovalent Ò Systems
- Lecture and Demonstrations: History and development
- Lecture: Terminology referenced in this and related therapies
- Lab: Engaging tissues at a depth and feeling tensions in the hand
- Break
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Cranial mapping
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Most sensitive area for motion in planes
- Lab: Cranial mapping for viscera and spine
- Lab: Assessing spinal problems using cranial map and most sensitive areas
- Lunch 12:30-2:00
Day One: p.m. 2:00-5:00 (1.0 hour theory, 2 hours lab)
- Lecture and Demonstrations: Manual Perception Theory - The neural line
- Lab: Feeling correlation of four major areas
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Balancing neural-based tensions with Manual
- Perception approach
- Break
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Dura and neuropeptides
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Tendons and muscles
- Review, questions and answers
Day Two: a.m. 9:00-12:30 (2.0 hours theory, 1.5 hours lab)
- Review, questions and answers
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Circulatory line
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: The heart on the neural line, atria ventricles, A/V folds
- and valves
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: The main vessels
- Break
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Peripheral vessels
- Lab: Venous/Arterial flow in the circulatory line
- Lunch 12:30-2:00
Day Two: p.m. 2:00-5:00 (1.0 hour theory, 2 hours lab)
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Lymph nodes and vessels
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Pressure related tensions
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: SA/AV nodes and conductivity
- Break
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Synapses and neurotransmitters
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Immune aspects of spleen and thymus
- Review, questions and answers
Day Three: a.m. 9:00-12:30 (1.5 hours theory, 2 hours lab)
- Review, questions and answers
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: Hormones
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Lab: The hormonal axis
- Lecture and Demonstration: The organ map
- Lab: Organ identification with the organ map
- Break
- Lab: Assisting the body’s simple hormonal issue with manual perception
- Lecture and Demonstration: Triangulation to determine more complex relationships
- Lab: Demonstration and treatment
- Lunch 12:30-2:00
Day Three: p.m. 2:00-5:00 (2 hours theory, 1 hour lab)
- Lecture, Demonstrations and Labs: Special hand relationships: soft tissue, connective
- tissue, inflow/outflow, etc.
- Lab: Comprehensive treatment
- Review, questions and answers
Total: 10.5 hours theory and concepts, 9 hours lab and skills: 19 contact hours
Course Presenters: Each of these instructors presents the class in its entirety: Frank Lowen, LMT, NCTMB; Laurie Levine-Lowen, OTR/L, LMT; Marianne McGreevy, MA, PT, Scooter LeBleu, PT, LMT; Jacqueline Faulkner, ST.