Attention: Personal Trainers, Strength Coaches, Chiropractors, Manual/Massage Therapists, Yoga Instructors, Athletes of all levels…

Adaptive Bodywork is the secret weapon that elite health & fitness professionals use to get their clients functionally stronger while creating a body that is free of dysfunction, pain, stiffness & chronic stress…”

“GET CERTIFIED WITH THE MOST THOROUGH AND IN-DEPTH STRUCTURAL BODYWORK TRAINING ON THE PLANET…”

WORKSHOP DATE & LOCATION: 

May 20-21, 2023 @ Adaptive Bodywork HQ

(3167 St. Catherine’s St. East, Montreal, QC.)

Get Certified! Enroll Today For: 

$1000

SPECIAL ‘Early-Bird’ Pricing
Until September 17, 2022:

ONLY $750

*No prerequisites, anatomical or other, are required.*

Click here to register for the Unit I certification

Enroll Today! Course limited to the first 12 students…

12 people maximum for optimal learning experience

“Turbo-charge performance, move better and feel lighter with the Adaptive Bodywork system…”

Adaptive Bodywork is a holistic modality that stems from Structural Integration (Rolfing), Anatomy-Trains (Thomas Myers) and Functional Movement Systems (Gray Cook)…
Practitioners of Adaptive Bodywork view the body holistically and use their bodies adaptively to do the work (hands, feet, arms, elbows etc.) on a variety of surfaces (floor, table, bench, etc.)…
The work realigns and properly tensions the client’s fascial support network, laying down a new and more youthful structural architecture.
The client is engaged and participates actively and dynamically during this process.

Course Details:

“The most thorough and in-depth structural bodywork training you can get in a two day period….”

The Adaptive Bodywork Unit 1 certification is a two day, sixteen hour intensive applied practical skills workshop.

The Adaptive Bodywork Unit 1 certification includes instruction on over 50 foundation principles and techniques accompanied by a printed manual.

The Topics Included In This Course Are As Follows:

Day 1:
  •  Part 1: Introduction to our working medium – the neural myofascial continuum.
  •  Part 2: Principles and work-flow
  • Part 3: Set-up, equipment and ergonomic considerations
  • Part 4: Lower body techniques, part 1
  • Part 5: Force vectors and the fascia
  •  Part 6: Relative Conjugate Movement
  • Part 7: Lower Body Techniques, part 2
  • Appendix 1: Introduction to the Functional Movement Screen (FMS)

Day 2:

  •  Part 8: Discussion and review
  •  Part 9: Intention, contact, engagement
  •  Part 10: Upper body techniques, part 1
  •  Part 11: Upper body techniques, part 2
  •  Part 12: Integrative techniques and special applications
  •  Part 13: Principles of Structural Integration in designing a session
  •  Appendix 2: Introduction to the Modified FMS

Course Objectives:

We have identified the fundamental principles and techniques of Structural Bodywork training and have built this course around them

Students will come away being able to safely and effectively deliver the most powerful structural bodywork modality in existence – Adaptive Bodywork.

This course will provide valuable education for participants of all levels who want to supercharge their performance and help clients achieve optimized, pain-free movement.

“Aligning
health with performance
to optimize the human experience…”

At the Adaptive Bodywork Unit I Certification, You Will Learn To:

  • Improve your client’s ease of movement…
  • Help your client feel more centered and balanced….
  • ​Improve your client’s proprioception, body awareness and motor control…
  • Help your client reconnect areas lost to sensory motor amnesia…
  • Increase your client’s energy and overall resilience…
  • Help your client become the most structurally efficient version of themselves possible…
  • Offer your clients new and effective strategies for alleviating chronic pain…
  • Attack your client’s injuries at their roots to alleviate recurring discomfort…
  • Modify client’s support strategies and correct unstable curvature of the spine…
  • Prepare and optimize your client’s tissues for any form of necessary surgery…
  • Reintegrate your client’s functional movement post-operation or trauma…

Click here to register for the Unit I certification

About Adaptive Bodywork:

“Resetting the body’s fascia to restore postural health and pain-free movement, while bringing balance and ease to the whole body…”

Adaptive Bodywork is a therapy consisting of deep, slow, fascial and myofascial manipulation, coupled with movement re-education to restore tissue health and relieve pain.

The work is based on movement impairments rather than pain, and fundamental movement behaviours, rather than isolated anatomical structures.

“The goal is to unwind the strain patterns residing in the body’s myofascial system, quickly and effortlessly…”

A performance therapy that quickly and powerfully restores mobility and the associated motor patterns necessary to reinforce change…

Whether you are athletic, perform tasks with repetitive-motion at work, suffer from chronic pain or are just looking to feel more at ease in your body, Adaptive Bodywork can revitalize energy and help you thrive.

What Adaptive Bodywork is

  • A superficial treatment offering instant gratification without lasting effects…
  • A ‘fix me,’ mentally checked-out approach to structural change…
  • A modality that chases pain without considering the source…
  • Passive therapy sessions, during which the client’s mind and body are disconnected and disengaged…

What Adaptive Bodywork is not

  • A superficial treatment offering instant gratification without lasting effects…
  • A ‘fix me,’ mentally checked-out approach to structural change…
  • A modality that chases pain without considering the source…
  • Passive therapy sessions, during which the client’s mind and body are disconnected and disengaged…

The Adaptive Bodywork Difference:

A movement based approach to structural integration that puts the client in control, allowing them to take full responsibility for their healing…”

Client Benefits:

  • Removes pain and restores efficient movement patterns rapidly.
  • Creates a whole new ‘frame’ underlying your posture and movement
  • Keeps old injuries from coming back and helps to prevent new ones from happening
  • Reboots the neural-myofascial connection, enhances proprioception, increases range of motion and lost mobility

“Giving health & fitness professionals a bigger tool-box of skills, so they can offer a higher level of service and help more clients…”

Practitioner Benefits:

  • The therapist remains balanced and relaxed at all times…
  • Most of the applications are done by foot, effortlessly leveraging body weight in a way that is gentle, slow and controlled…
  • A simple transfer of weight from one foot to the other effects great change without ever physically compromising the therapist in anyway…
  • ​Saves time by directly targeting only the compromised structures, while avoiding spending time in areas without dysfunction…
  • Teaches superb body mechanics that are easy for both client and therapist…
  • ​Greatly rejuvenates the body-wide connective-tissue matrix, from head to toe…
  • Help clients move better and become free of pain…

Click here to register for the Unit I certification

Why Attend?

The ultimate structural integration experience…”

Dramatically Enhance Your Posture and Structure

Resolve discomfort, release tension, alleviate pain and restore order to your body.

Create more economical and refined patterns of movement that leave you feeling more comfortable.

The body is a remarkably resilient structure, but injuries and stress can cause pain that resists
traditional treatment.

Use Adaptive Bodywork to shorten recovery time from injuries and gain a performance edge.

Assess & Address Pain at the Root of the Cause

Pain is a protective signal that alters your movement strategy to limit tissue damage.

This often leads to a cycle of further compromised movement, dysfunction and ultimately increased pain.

Adaptive Bodywork breaks this cycle by addressing the underlying fascial restrictions in the connective tissue support system.

This restores mobility which enables proprioception, motor control and pain-free movement.

Bulletproof Your Body For Greater Performance

Seeking optimal performance?
Build a sound base of support and a protective buffer of range of motion above and beyond the strict requirements of your activity, prioritizing prevention and minimizing risk.
Working at your pain and movement threshold is a recipe for injury.
Build a stronger foundation to become bulletproof.

Optimize Movement and Unlock Training Potential

Training with fascial compensations is like accelerating with the brakes on.

Learning to work with the body as an integrated system, rather than a totality of separate parts, you will create more efficient movement patterns for yourself or your clients.

Adaptive Bodywork takes athletes to the next level by achieving an ease of movement based in a solid foundation of structural support.

Get functional. Get fit.

Hone Your Skills As a Health & Fitness Professional

Build a toolkit of powerful bodywork techniques, so that you can help more people in your community…

Help clients make huge gains, effecting change at every level of their connective tissue support matrix from head to toe.

No longer will you stress about having to turn clients away or refer them out to other health & fitness professionals.

Raise your level of service and be in higher demand…

Praise for Adaptive Bodywork

Dave MacLean

“Personal Trainer & Strength Coach”

Adaptive Bodywork got me training hard again after a serious lumbar spine injury. 

 
I now use it with my personal training clients, as it allows me to work with people who I would have previously had to refer out…”

A Personal Trainer & Strength Coach Based in Vancouver, Dave has Trained and Coached Over 1,000 People Across Canada…

“After a few sessions with Adaptive Bodywork, I had to change direction.

 
There is no better way, as you grow older, to feel healthier…”

Valérie Ulric

“Owner of CrossFit Montreal”

Valérie is the Owner & Vice-President of CrossFit Montreal, the 1st CrossFit Gym in Quebec…

Dr. Sean Francis

“Owner of TowerHill Chiropractic & Kawartha Lakes Chiropractic”

Doctor of Chiropractic and certified personal trainer, Sean knows the importance of treating the musculoskeletal system to keep his clients and patients moving and feeling better…

Adaptive Bodywork helped me to move better and address some long term hip and shoulder issues I had.

 
 It has also given me a unique tool that I can offer to my chiropractic patients and fitness clients as well…”