Tom Myers & Karin Gurtner – Simply Profound: Fascia in Movement
Introducing Simply Profound
Is your bodymind tired of sitting and watching endless zoom lectures? Let’s move together! Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains and Karin Gurtner, author of Anatomy Trains in Motion, offer this webinar as an embodied experience of fascia in movement, using a dynamic 90/90 Spiralling Twist as the centrepiece. This seemingly simple movement provides access to how the two Spiral Lines interact, how the Arm Lines are integrated, and how the Deep Front Line can be “unwound”.
It is a “simply profound” Slings Myofascial Training exercise that is neither Pilates, yoga, Gyro, dance, etc. yet it can be incorporated into all modalities. Because of its adaptability, it is also an ideal complement for bodywork sessions that utilise movement to extend the therapeutic benefits and provide tools for self-efficacy. You will leave this interactive webinar with a lived experience of enlightened fascial movement that you can use in your own practice, teaching, or coaching, guided by these two master teachers.
About the Author:
Tom Myers studied with Drs. Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller, and with a variety of movement and manual therapy pioneers. His work is influenced by cranial, visceral, and intrinsic movement studies he made with European schools of osteopathy. An inveterate traveler, Tom has practiced integrative manual therapy for over 40 years in a variety of clinical and cultural settings.
Tom is the author of Anatomy Trains (2020, 4th ed), co-author of Fascial Release for Structural Balance (North Atlantic, 2010, 2017), co-author of Anatomy Trains in Motion Study Guide (2019), author of Body3, The Anatomist’s Corner, Structural Integration: Collected Articles, and BodyReading: Visual Assessment and The Anatomy Trains, and has also written extensively for Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies (Elsevier).
He has also produced over 20 online learning courses with Anatomy Trains, and others in collaboration with various body-oriented professional groups. Tom lives and sails on the coast of Maine in the USA. Tom and his faculty conduct professional development courses and certification in Structural Integration worldwide.
Karin Gurtner, Founder and educational director of art of motion Academy, is the developer of Slings Myofascial Training, an integrative movement concept which includes Anatomy Trains in Motion. She has created a Contemporary Pilates curriculum, produced several comprehensive online learning courses, and highly successful webinar series, along with a broad variety of practice videos. Her publications include the Anatomy Trains in Motion study guide, co-authored by Thomas W. Myers, as well as the Slings Essentials book and Slings in Motion Blend manual for embodied learning.
Karin believes that knowledge should be shared generously to foster independent thinking – and that complex information needs to be delivered within a clearly defined and practical context to be embodied and ‘embrained’ alike.
Professionally, she sees herself as a resource-oriented movement activist, personally, as an ambassador for creative living. Bringing movement intelligence and her love for functional anatomy to the table, Karin inspires people around the globe with her work and inclusive approach to education.
With the aim to maintain the essence of the Pilates method, Karin developed an extensive Contemporary Pilates curriculum that values modern movement science and recognizes our changing needs – throughout life and as a society.
After reading Tom Myers’ Anatomy Trains book early 2000, she started working on what has become Slings Myofascial Training, an advanced education concept for structural integration through movement. It has taken Karin a good 8 years to structure and integrate seemingly indescribable experiences, observations and thoughts into a comprehensive curriculum that is experience-proven, science-informed and ignorance-conscious – well-rounded, yet in process.
During her Anatomy Trains Structural Integration (formerly KMI) training Karin met Tom and ever since have had the privilege to learn from and work with the brilliant man. Anatomy Trains in Motion is her interpretation and practical application of Tom’s work in the realms of body-minded movement.
As for Karin’s ‘daily life’ – after living near the ocean in sunny Western Australia for over a decade, she moved back to centrally located and no less beautiful Switzerland. For now, Berne is her home for about 5 months of the year. The other 7 months Karin travels the world to share knowledge as truthfully and generously as she can, to strengthen independent thinking and the embodiment of complex concepts.
