Academy of Wholistic Manual Medicine

Learn to Evaluate and Treat the WHOLE person!

Wholistic Manual Medicine is the ability to use our hands to evaluate and treat the whole person; body, mind, and spirit. We don’t “diagnose” or provide external “cures”.  Rather, we look for tightness or hardness of the tissues and, with our hands, we facilitate the release of the tension that was preventing normal flows. The body then begins to heal.

The body is a living record of its history, good and bad, functional and dysfunctional. With our hands we can find the “imprint” of traumas, and facilitate its release, which allows for the self healing mechanisms to take over. The body then heals itself. Wholistic Manual Medicine is founded in the profound acknowledgment of the body’s tremendous inherent ability to heal and the science of how that happens.

Both structure (body, the anatomy) and function (its actions and outcomes) are evaluated in a sixty second screen which tells us where to look closer in the body and whether or not functional aspects (mind, behavior, metabolism, genetics, environment etc.) are prominent.  We learn to “scan” the areas of interest discovered in our 60 second screen to find the key, or central area of hardness that requires release!

We look for asymmetries of position, motion, and pressure. We then balance these pressures to stimulate a body response which alters, in fact exaggerates these asymmetries to a logical end point, which is known as a (relative) “still point”.  As we hold these asymmetries in the exact fashion and follow the changes, the release suddenly occurs, the tissues soften, and the breath comes in.

CORE CURRICULUM: The Wholistic Manual Medicine (WMM) Core Curriculum is taught in either 6 weekend classes or 3 extended sections. We start with the basic approach to evaluation and the process of release, and then learn to apply these to muscle, then fascia, viscera, then bone and finally the cranium. The structure of the classes is such that the simplest principles and techniques are mastered first and in a step wise fashion the more complex aspects easily fold into the students level of skill and understanding. Throughout the course, the student is provided direct and simple information that is understandable and immediately applied in lab for concrete results and reinforcement of principles.

Each class teaches proficiency in the evaluation and treatment of specific tissues, their corresponding aspects of mind and the body’s self-healing homeostatic systems. The simplest tissues are covered first and more complex ones follow, with each class serving as a prerequisite for the next. Once the basic level is grasped, successive “levels” are gained in “quantum leaps”. Once finished, participants will be able to evaluate and treat the whole person.

ADVANCED CLASSES: These are intended for graduates of the core curriculum and deepens ones understanding of the basic levels and introduce the student to the next higher levels of release: Advanced Cranial III (Whole wave), Source, Advanced Aqua Healing I-IX, Putting It All Together, Jumping levels, Upper, and Lower Extremities.

REVIEW CLASSES: These classes are intended for students who previously attended any of the above classes and are looking to deepen their skills and refresh their memory of key concepts.

INTRODUCTORY CLASSES: These are available to all students and are both an introduction to Wholistic Manual Medicine and offer unique insights and tools for the manual practitioner: Introduction to Wholistic Manual Medicine, Tools for the Immune System, Ethics, and, Resonance Procedures, create your own technique, clinic days.

Any class can be repeated, and because each class is taught wholisticly, the student will gain insights, skills, and likely jump levels in their understanding and practice of Wholistic Manual Medicine.