Friday, October 20
9-10:30 a.m.

Looking at fluids as a system allows us to bring a different awareness and perhaps shift our perception of their role in our bodies. This presentation will include the updated information that was revealed by ICG Fluoroscopy imaging that includes the complete architecture of the fine lymphatic structures. Discussion on:
1. How do fluids really move through our bodies?
2. How far into or out of our bodies do we find fluid?
3. What is the essence of fluid?

Preparation for virtual attendees: space for movement

Elizabeth Olivas has been an Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy since 2004. The material in this presentation has developed out of her own class OB: Fluids Fascia and the Lymphatic System. It includes updated information on the effect of ICG Fluoroscopy's imaging on our understanding of the architecture and function of the Lymphatic System and the movement of fluids in our bodies.
1994 Certification in Manual Lymph Drainage by the Dr. Vodder School, Walschee, Austria
2000 Certification as a Registered Practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy
2001 Certification as a Registered Advanced Practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy
2004 Certification as a Registered Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy

Friday, October 20
12-1:30 p.m.

I will go over the nuts and bolts of coordinating, the benefits and work involved, and how the principles apply to the role of the coordinator. I want to offer people the tools for creating and sustaining an Ortho-Bionomy® community. I believe the Society needs more coordinators and this is a crucial component in expanding our Ortho-Bionomy numbers. It also eases the financial burdens of travel on students to have Ortho-Bionomy classes closer to home.

Preparation for virtual attendees: none

Erin Long grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, CA. She comes from a musical family and studied violin from the age of 5. She has a Bachelor and Masters degree in Violin performance from The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music respectively. Erin discovered Ortho-Bionomy® in her own healing process. The long hours of sitting as a professional violinist, decades of running, and the general accumulation of life impacted the health of her low back. Ortho-Bionomy gave Erin relief from her chronic pain and provided stability to her structure. It is now her passion. In 2014 Erin shifted her professional emphasis to the study of Ortho-Bionomy. Erin’s sensitivity, creativity, and receptive nature help her adapt to clients and students alike on their own path of discovery and the wondrous healing power of the body. Erin is an Instructor and Advanced Practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy.

Saturday, October 21
9-10:30 a.m.

Develop consciousness of the Phases through using skills and tools including recognizing the vibrations of the Phases using figure eights and the perceptions of the eyes, to give a sense of belonging in the relationship between the Ortho-Bionomist and client. This also includes other human and animal relationships in their lives.

Preparation for virtual attendees: a table and partner

Debby Benson is a SOBI Registered Advanced Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy. She began Ortho-Bionomy in 1995, has had a thirty-year career in education and is currently an accredited mediator with the NSW Department of Communities and Justice for ten years.  Debby has been esoterically trained and has been studying since 2000 in this field.  Debby completed the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Touch Skills four modules with Kathy Kain in 2018 and 2019.

Debby is known for her clarity, intuition and ability to negotiate with and assist people to find their own pathway through their Ortho-Bionomy learning. She has taught Ortho-Bionomy classes across the USA, New Zealand, and Australia. Debby is well-known for developing new techniques.  She is especially known for the three-dimensional psoas release, spirals through the levels of the aura and her work with safety and trauma.

She was on the Board of the Society of Ortho-Bionomy Australia and the inaugural Chairperson of Ortho-Bionomy Australia over a fourteen-year period.  Debby spent five years on the Board of the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International,  including eighteen months as the President. Debby understands the policies and training programs of these organisations and can help anyone through any challenges. She embodies the principles of Ortho-Bionomy and Debby has the ability to teach them to anyone in a light-hearted and easy way.

Saturday, October 21
2:30-4:00 p.m.

Touch work in somatic therapy is a quiet, non-moving, listening touch that is used for regulating adverse states of the nervous system from the effects of accumulated stress or trauma. Dynamic Somatic Touch (DST) integrates the skills of Ortho-Bionomy®, osteopathy, Somatic Experiencing and Focusing, and uses various micro-movements to support a quicker and more complete resolution of the nervous system. Positive effects can range from trauma recovery to syndrome resolution to chronic intractable mysterious pain resolution. In this introductory, you will learn the basics of DST to practice on yourself and transfer to your work with clients.

Preparation for virtual attendees: none

Rouel Cazanjian, M.A., LMFT, SEP, CMT, is bodywork therapist and a somatic psychotherapist. He is an advanced practitioner and instructor of Ortho-Bionomy® since 1988 and received his degree in psychology in 2001. Along with being a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, he has extensive training in body-oriented psychotherapies, such as Focusing, Biodynamic Psychology, Walking In Your Shoes, and mindfulness-based psychology. Rouel also has specialized training in subtle hands-on osteopathic methods. In his years of addressing physical complaints with bodywork therapy and psychological issues with his psychotherapy, Rouel has slowly combined and integrated all these methods into a single system for regulating the nervous system, renegotiating trauma, treating depression and anxiety, improving health syndromes, and getting his clients’ lives back on track.

Sunday, October 22
9:30-11:00 a.m.

Can the feeling of belonging be reduced to a molecular matter of receptor sites, neurotransmitters, the interplay of agonists and antagonists? There is a larger story to be told, of networks, of relationship, kinships, interminglings and entanglements. The Phases allow us to play in the Extended Body, restoring connections with self and world, allowing new alliances. “Laws of Life” is a poetic stance, not a biological fact. “Poetics is a practice of engaging the world, in which one risks being transformed.” We will use the Phases and the principle of Reciprocity to experience some of the art of Ortho-Bionomy.

Preparation for virtual attendees: a table and partner

Richard Valasek BA Theater Arts, BS Animal Science, AD Nursing. Senior Advanced Instructor. Actor and theatrical sound designer. Cook. Husband father grandfather great grandfather. Neurodivergent. 45 years in Ortho-Bionomy. As a RN, 20 years at a major military medical center, behavioral health focused on PTSD, Addiction, and Pain Management.

Available in Whova starting October 1

Research has shown that a practitioner’s ability to hold a universal space, and feel a connection with the big picture, positively affects client outcomes. In this presentation, learn a step-by-step process, using Ortho-Bionomy principles and tools, for establishing and holding a universal space that enables clients to gain deeper releases and greater benefit from their sessions with you. Connect and align with this space as you work all day long and experience the difference in how you feel. Enjoy the same process as an embodiment meditation that can help you everyday, in whatever way you choose. You can feel more grounded and calm, find more ease in letting go of afflictive thoughts and emotions, develop your awareness and the ability to sense the world around you, and more. Two related Arthur-isms: Get out of your own way. Be who you really are.

Preparation: Paper, pen/pencil or other means of making a few notes from time to time

Ann Hoeffel, BS-Edu, LMT, CHt, CST, NCTMB, is an Advanced Instructor (2006) and Advanced Practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy. She studied with founder, Arthur Pauls, D.O., many wonderful advanced instructors, and served as Vice President for the national organization. Ann has a BS in Education from Univ. of WI- Madison and several advanced certifications in wholistic therapies, comprising over 4600 hours of training. She integrates the principles of Ortho-Bionomy with other modalities and finds the results improve, including CranioSacral Therapy, Somato-Emotional Release, Visceral Work, Color Healing, VortexHealing, Meditation and Hypnotherapy. She began teaching in 1997 and enjoys training practitioners. For fun she enjoys painting oil on canvas. Students appreciate Ann’s clear explanations, her in-depth knowledge, decades of clinical experience and playful style. Ann has maintained a private practice in Chicago since 1984.

Available in Whova starting October 1

I must confess that the feet have not been my favourite part of the body to work with—that is, until recently.  Over the last two years I have been working on an exhibition of art works based on the music of song-poet jazz singer Caitlin Smith.  Caitlin is blind, in fact since birth.  She has taught me that in her walking and, in particular, through her feet, that she comes to know her world.  From another perspective, Te ao Māori, the world of the indigenous people of Aotearoa-New Zealand, view footsteps (manea) as embodying a vital essence (hau).  

How might this relate to Ortho-Bionomy?  Arthur Pauls reminded us that “we must reject our educated belief that we know how things work before we can do them.  Plant a seed—it grows” (Pauls, p. 39).  I would like to think that this presentation might give us a chance to expand and free our ideas about Ortho-Bionomy, opening opportunities for deeper connection and awareness, and for us to celebrate and explore the notion of belonging as a source of healing in Ortho-Bionomy.  Just as my foot is part of the earth (Papatūānuku) so too is my foot not separate from the universe, but is the universe.

Preparation: space to move and a partner

Colin Gibbs is an Advanced Ortho-Bionomy Instructor and Advanced Practitioner registered in Aotearoa-New Zealand, a registered massage practitioner, and a certified Chapman's reflex therapist. He is an education consultant and a Professor of educational psychology and teacher education but more importantly is a contemporary artist who loves exploring in a creative way. Colin runs. busy practice in his Ortho-Bionomy clinic in Hamilton Aotearoa-New Zealand.