Applications to Digestion

This class clarifies and details the normal physiology of digestion and explores what goes wrong when pathology is present, addressing many common digestive ailments. Learn to work with the fascial architecture of the GI tract and accessory organs of digestion to create long-lasting change. All metabolic processes are explored and enhanced to bring balance to the digestive system. You will practice organ tonifying and mobilization, nervous system calming, fascial releasing, breath work, and circulation enhancement related to the digestive organs.

Applications to Digestion students learn to…

• Access the parasympathetic nervous system to assist digestion
• Mobilize the stomach and duodenum
• Drain the gallbladder
• Distinguish and delaminate the mesentery from the small intestine to support the hepatic portal system
• Decongest the entire large intestine
• Help clients understand the relationship between stress and digestive system function
• Intelligently discuss how the major organs of digestion work together

The Digestive System series is immensely important for modern healthcare practitioners. Knowing how the digestive system works and becomes compromised will inevitably change the way you eat, work with the body, and talk about the interrelationships of the metabolic processes with your patients.

Instructor: Marty Ryan, LMP 
Course length: 2 days
CE hours: 16 hours

Applications to Digestion must be paired with Palpatory Anatomy of the Belly: Digestive System.