Ortho-Bionomy® is a highly effective and comprehensive system of natural healing that has its roots in Osteopathy and Martial Arts. This deep, gentle work relieves pain and restores natural alignment, function and balance with more ease, immediacy and lasting effectiveness than you might have thought possible, even when other modalities have ceased to be effective.
Ortho-Bionomy goes beyond other bodywork modalities because it is not done "to" anyone, rather it works "with" you and with your body's innate intelligence. All healing is self-healing that happens within the body. Ortho-Bionomy Practitioners learn how to engage innate self-correcting, self-healing reflexes, affecting a release of tension from the inside-out and according to the body's knowledge of itself. Remember, your body arose from the merging of two cells of two people into one cell; from one cell into an incredible physical, mental, emotional, spiritual life form. Ortho-Bionomy activates that innate intelligence. All of the techniques are completely safe and promote deep relaxation and healing in a way that only the body can do from within itself, for itself.
Change and well-being come from within.
This unique system uses comfortable positioning,
gentle contact and relaxing movements to stimulate your
body's innate self-regulating and self-balancing ability to
unlock muscular and ligamentous tension and restore natural
alignment of the joints. Additionally, Neuro-lymphatic Reflexes help balance and
restore function to the endocrine system. This relieves pain, increases
flexibility, fluidity and range of motion, speeds recovery
from injury and the effects of stress, heightens bodymind
awareness, restores structural balance, and promotes
well-being. When the body is structurally balanced, as founder Arthur Pauls stated, "your
body works better, you think better, you feel better."
Ortho-Bionomy
goes beyond bodywork and reminds us how to be more at ease in our live and in our
bodies, physically and energetically. The system is
taught and recognized worldwide for its simplicity,
gentleness and long-lasting benefits.
Discover for yourself how Ortho-Bionomy can benefit
you.
- Relieve pain gently, safely and deeply, without causing pain.
- Release sensitive (trigger and periosteal) points
with little or no effort.
- Develop sensitivity to the body's healing pulse.
- Get better results with less effort; reduce fatigue
and burnout.
- Experience the ease and effectiveness of Ortho-Bionomy.
- Help yourself and others with Postural Re-education, Self-Care and Chapman's Neurolymphatic Reflexes for overall well-being.
- Take classes and put new skills to work for you the
next day.
- Therapists, you can prolong your career by working with ease.
In a session, the practitioner uses movement and positioning that create comfort, as well as
energy flow, touch and gentle compression into the joints to
activate the body's innate self-correcting reflexes. No forcebul
manipulations are used. Natural alignment and balance
reemerge, as accumulated stress and tension are released.
Your body's self-balancing relfexes are an integral part of
the nervous system and your ability to move and adapt to
life's changing circumstances. Ortho-Bionomy is a gentle
process of neuromuscular re-education that increases
physical and personal awareness in the process of restoring balance, working on all levels of body, mind and spirit. Relaxation often continues to deepen after the session
ends.
Home exercises may be suggested to further aid in
relieving pain and restoring balance and function throughout
the body, empowering clients to engage their own
self-healing abilities. People speak of experiencing a deep
sense of relaxation, a lighter feeling throughout the body
and a release from mental chatter. Those with chronic pain
(including Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain) are often
amazed at how easily their tension melts, muscles soften and
pain dissipates.
Ortho-Bionomy means "the correct application
(ortho) of the natural or scientific laws of (nomy) life
(bio)." The system includes techniques that work with
physical and energetic reflexes, postural re-education,
self-care and neurolymphatic reflexes that rebalance the
endocrine system. Techniques combine extremely well with
other modalities and classes may be taken individually.
There is a complete 500-hour professional Practitioner
Training Program for those who want to learn the complete
system and a 520-hour Senior Practitioner Program.
Arthur Lincoln Pauls, D.O.(England), was a Judo
Instructor for ten years before studying Osteopathy. He was
searching for a way of correcting injuries and imbalances
that worked with the body's natural healing ability and the
natural laws of movement and structure. While training in
Osteopathy he was introduced to the concept of comfortably
positioning the body in a way that eases the tension and
discomfort associated with structural lesions and pain. He
experimented with the concept for many years. In time, he
developed a complete system of techniques, or ways of
working with the body, that activate the natural
healing reflexes using, not only position, but movement,
balance, energetic or proprioceptive balancing and more.
(See Description of Workshops.) From his understanding and
integration of the principles of movement and health through
structural alignment, arose Ortho-Bionomy. For nearly three
decades he taught Ortho-Bionomy in the US, Europe and
Australia. He spent his later years in Southern France,
working and teaching right up to his death in 1997.
Study Ortho-Bionomy. No previous training is
required to take a workshop or begin a training program. Many clients enroll in the Self-Care workshop to help themselves at home in between appointments, or take other classes to learn how natural healing works and to help friends and family. Others take classes as a refreshing complement to their 9 to 5 "day job" to make a career change. Bodyworkers, including many Massage Therapists take classes for continuing education and to get better results with less effort, often prolonging their career.
There is an Associate Training, a Registered Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner Training
Program as well as Instructor Training in Ortho-Bionomy®. Each program builds on understandings gained in the previous program and the training is designed to give students a
thorough understanding of the principles and philosophy of
Ortho-Bionomy with extensive hands-on training and experience in workshops and supervised clinical practice.
"Upon reflection, it was a wonderful weekend,
Ann. I learned so much . . . about Ortho-Bionomy and
about myself. And I am still feeling really good -- in my
head (from the session I had with you). Thank you for
your gifts and thank you for your beautiful presence."
"The workshop more than paid for itself in terms of
client benefit. "
"The ability to slow down and focus on the fine tuning
was absolutely wonderful. . .Wonderful, wonderful,
wonderful. Thanks, Ann. What a glorious weekend."
"Clarity, pacing, content. . . truly superb. Ann is a
superb educator and a natural. . . and I've taken a lot
of workshops with a lot of instructors. The course was
well-orchestrated -- a symphony that continues to
evolve."
"The course exceeded expectations! Excellent dynamics,
energy and focus, excellent instruction. . . . A
fantastic workshop! Thank you for sharing from the
heart!"
