Sylvan's Lecture on Fascinating Fascia was just as the title states, fascinating! His passion for the subject definitely came through. Having not given the subject of fascia much consideration before, I can now see how fundamental it is our sensory system and how important it is to ones overall wellbeing, if properly understood.
Sylvan's delivery of the lecture provided a wealth of information and insight. He involved the audience and explained things in terms that anyone can understand and gave a practical example which is so often missed but brings home the message. The lecture has spring boarded me to enrol on a massage course to then move on and review fascia release. More please! Lorraine La Mare I just experienced my 1st lecture from the WCCS, it was the ‘movement as medicine’ lecture by Paul McCambridge.
Paul started with an outline of the lecture, he mentioned it would be an interactive lecture, so I was not sure what to expect. The idea was that we would learn the concepts of the lecture so much better through experience of movement and interaction. We were introduced to the concepts of movement as medicine, one of the 1st concepts to grasp was how to rest correctly (and guess what, It didn’t involve sitting on a chair). We were shown natural resting poses and encouraged to sit on the floor in these poses. Paul kept a fluid flow of ideas and concepts that were backed up with solid evidence based research. The session included many other practical elements, like the overhead squat as an assessment, and learning the correct ideology behind stretching... as well practicing as a few stretches ourselves, (which I was hopelessly bad at) Paul encouraged us to work with our bodies and how to progress the stretch. There were many interesting videos that amazed the group, demonstrating primal patterns of movement and the progression of movement through our evolution. I think the most interesting for me was the theory behind the ’squat’ as an ideal resting pose. (What many folk the western world has lost the ability to do.) Paul linked everything back to chiropractic and health and it was a shame that the seminar came to an end. There was a lot of ground covered and a broad scope of ideas introduced. It gave plenty of food for thought and I left feeling like I wanted to research and find out more. Thanks to Paul, May all of the other participants and also to Larisa, Julie and the WCCS team for putting on an enjoyable evening. Looking forward to the next one. Jonas Cunningham 2nd Year Mchiro student at McTimoney College of Chiropractic. |