Osteopathic medicine. Winter diseases, an Osteopathic understanding and approach.

A fascinating travel through the understanding of applied physiology and patho-physiology in relation to winter diseases, and applied techniques workshop.

During this weekend ,Sue and Ashley will share their love for Traditional Osteopathy. This practical approach to treating coughs, viral affections, pulmonary dysfunctions... is based on Sutherland’s approach via Anne Wales with some Littlejohn influence.

This course represents a real travel through the thinking of Osteopathy.

Language English. Number of places limited, early registration advised. £300.

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An Osteopathic Approach to Winter Illnesses

On this 2-day course we will explore some of the many ways that we can access the immune system of the patient, as prevention, and  also in aiding recovery in both chronic and acute situations. In our practical work we will draw on the teaching of AT Still, JM Littlejohn , WG Sutherland and Anne Wales and also  the application of  the more recent elucidation of the role of the neuro-immune-endocine- limbic interface. While considering the immune system broadly within a historical osteopathic perspective, our particular focus will be on the respiratory system and  how we may support the release of the body from self-perpetuating cycles of illness so that the patient  is better able to express his or her full potential for health.

The Speaker - Workshop Leader:

Sue Turner

Susan Turner graduated from the European School of Osteopathy in 1979, since when she has practiced in London. At the ESO between 1980 and 2000, she taught cranial osteopathy, paediatric osteopathy and osteopathic medicine and co-founded and directed the undergraduate Children's Clinic. She has taught osteopathy in the cranial field at postgraduate level since 1986, first with the BSO and later with the Sutherland Cranial College and SCTF, also teaching throughout Europe, Australia and USA. She formed part of the founding team of the Osteopathic Centre for Children in the late 1980's, where she worked for 4 years. In 1988 she formed, with Dr James Jealous DO, the Olde England/New England Osteopathic Study Group, forging links between osteopaths in Britain and USA. Throughout the 1990's she studied, with Dr Anne Wales DO, a close student of Dr WG Sutherland, and since 1995 she has run annual courses in the approach of Dr Sutherland to the body as a whole, engaging the principle of Balanced Ligamentous Tension, also helping to establish a BLT teaching faculty in Germany. Since 1997 she has taught and coordinated the cranial and paediatric component of the ESO's 4-year osteopathy training programme in Russia. She has also taken part in volunteer complementary medicine clinics for tibetans in India. She continues to explore the extent of the breadth and depth of the application of osteopathy, to be fascinated by the mind - body interface and the potential place of osteopathy in the unfoldment and wellbeing of the whole person.

Ashley Stafford

Since graduating from the ESO in 1994 Ashley, who is also a singer and teacher, has worked enthusiastically to integrate the different aspects of his professional life. He has set up workshops (The Singing Body) for singers and osteopaths in UK, Austria and France and enjoys working alongside other singers, teachers and osteopaths to enhance understanding and awareness of the scope and benefits of osteopathy both generally and with regard to the needs of singers and musicians who are professionally and vocationally dependant upon their relationship to their physical selves.

Ashley's full-time singing career took him to major concert halls and opera houses word-wide, and led to a professorship at the Royal College of Music, a position he held for 21 years.Now working mainly in London both as a teacher and osteopath, Ashley has also practiced in Oxfordshire, Vienna and Salzburg and is now beginning to attract patients to his new home in Somerset. He recently was guest lecturer on the voice for the SCC and will be speaking and running a workshop session at the 2010 OEGO Conference in Vienna.