2023 IHG - Walk with Power Walk with Ease

Is your walking layered on top of dysfunctional movement or pain, magnifying rather than resolving problems or advancing your health? In this module, you will discover how the 'gates of mobility and stability' within your gait unlock a pathway from your foot to the pelvis to deepen your understanding of how an organized single-leg stance during movement successfully carries over into more challenging tasks that require a smaller base of support, like walking, turning, reaching, and climbing as well as, the potential to improve your overall well-being.

Reconnecting a person to their natural capacity for feeling, thought, and action, this module restores better alignment within the ankle, knee, and hip joints inviting movement coordination and the collaborative functions of the skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems.

Some aspects of walking can only be discovered when you explore your spine, ribs, and breath. These fundamental components of our torso movements, encoded in our gait, allow us to restore lost function and reduce the risks of future musculoskeletal issues.

Some of our most robust habits, behaviors, and dysfunctional movement patterns reside within the torso. We need to become aware of their presence. This change requires looking closely and carefully at ourselves to recognize which behaviors and movement patterns carry us forward and which hold us back.

In this module, you discover that the fundamental pattern of walking exists within every layer of spinal movement. Spinal vertebrae vary in their form and functional contribution to walking. Whole-body integration allows the nervous system to choose healthy gait patterns freely.

We will also compare your definition of your body's midline to your brain's interpretation of the midline. This process demonstrates that we can strongly influence the nervous system to choose efficient and effective torso movement patterns, supporting the availability and quality of spontaneous weight shifts demonstrated by the organic change or the relocation of our center of mass. These are foundational in walking.

Through immersion in experiential learning, you will realize how the breath, pelvic girdle, and shoulder girdle synergistically and biomechanically impact the torso and rib joints. Subjective partners of power and ease begin to arise within your walking gait.

Your walking gait impacts everything you do, from bathing, styling your hair, and toileting to completing household tasks, playing sports, and enjoying recreational activities.

When we recognize the difference between efficient versus effective walking, we reshape our growth mindset and assumptions. In this module, we awaken the awareness of how our arms, neck, jaw, and eyes collaborate to strongly influence the nervous system's basic operations to transform our walking gait.

We aren't trying to change behavior by inserting a new behavior. Directed experiential movement experiences will engage our neurological system in a non-threatening, low-risk environment to influence efficient feedback loops. These feedback loops will produce positive adaptations in the musculoskeletal system. Consistent and novel repetition of these movements will restore a more accurate path of neuroplasticity.

When we increase our self-awareness of the fundamental movement patterns in the neck-head complex, we understand how the nervous system quickly makes decisions based on safety, protection, and musculoskeletal efficiency.

Carol A. Montgomery is the founder and owner of Montgomery Somatics, private physical therapy and somatic education center dedicated to initiating paradigm shifts in healthcare, wellness, and movement.

She holds a master’s degree in Physical Therapy and is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and a Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence. She has extensive education and training in Gestalt and Integrative Psychotherapy. Her postgraduate training in orthopedic and manual medicine contributes to her rich understanding of the biomechanical underpinnings of human movement

Montgomery has over 30 years of teaching experience with the public, professional healthcare providers, and physical therapy students.

Cynthia Allen has been working in wellness practices, healthcare management, and organizational consulting for over 35 years. In 2001, she became a Certified Feldenkrais practitioner and, more recently, a Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence. She is the creator of Feldenkrais Awareness Summits and other online programs designed to help people move better, feel better, think better and live better. She is a partner in Future Life Now along with her husband in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has taught as adjunct faculty at Xavier University and collaborated with Drake Hospital Rehabilitation’s Physical Therapy Department and Integrative Learning Center. She has provided programming for many hospitals, medical practices, and corporations including Procter and Gamble.

Each module is a stand-alone class that offers information and knowledge integrated through experiential somatic platforms such as the Feldenkrais Method, Bones for Life, and Functional Somatic Mobilization. Take one module, or for a better experience toward improving your pattern of walking, register for all three of these live online courses. This series will take you beyond the traditional way of learning and studying the mechanics of how we walk. It will transform your self-care, health, wellness, and rehabilitation.

How is this course different from Gait for Wild Human Potential?
Not just a new name, Walk in Power - Walk in Ease, we also changed the format of the class. Three modules, each 10 hours, are delivered in 2-hour increments for five weeks.

This format allows the participant time to digest and integrate the cognitive and experiential learning needed to engage our nervous system in a non-threatening, low-risk environment to influence efficient feedback loops. These feedback loops in the nervous system will produce positive adaptations in the musculoskeletal system.

Consistent and novel repetition of these movements will restore a more accurate path of neuroplasticity. We aren't trying to change behavior by inserting a new behavior.

We also expanded the hours of the course from 20 to 30. AND after reviewing the last 13 years of our movement explorations, we selected the best of these explorations (and added some new ones) to deepen your understanding of how to experience an organized single-leg stance skillfully and powerfully.

These movement explorations successfully carry over into more challenging tasks that require a smaller base of support, like walking, turning, reaching, and climbing, as well as potentially improving your overall well-being.
What are the professional learning objectives?
You can access the professional learning objectives by copying and pasting this link into a new browser window.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13RSFZ-dai2SeqAxttv12-0BKnTEnzPdJ?usp=sharing
Do you offer continuing education credits?
Every state has its governing body and process for CEU approval in all professions. However, there are mandatory documents that are consistent between states. We provide participants with these documents to manually enter and upload into your state’s online monitoring program. Or, if you are not required to upload, we suggest you download and print out the documents so that they are available in case you are audited by your state, as you will need all of the elements for proof of course participation. Please inquire about your specific organization and state before registering for the class.
How do I contact you if I need help?
Send an email to support@integrativelearningcenter.org. We will get back to you as soon as we can.
Can I get a scholarship?
We offer partial scholarships. Please read ou;r scholarship policy by copying and pasting this link into a new browser window
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You will find the link to apply inside our policy towards the bottom. But do read it first.

Is this course online or in person?
This course is online. We will meet using the Zoom platform so if you are used to that already, it will be very easy. If you aren't, it will take about 5 minutes to download the free Zoom software the first time. And then after that, you will just click the link we provide to you, turn your camera on (if you want to be seen) and join in.
What if I can't make a class?
We have replays! Within 48 hours, we will get the replay up on our course platform and you can catch up at your convenience. You can even do the entire course on replay if you like.
How long will I have access to the replays?
There is no time limit. You can and we think you will go back to the replays over and over again.
What Is your refund policy?
We do not issue refunds for this course. So please consider carefully before you sign up if you are ready to take it.

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