Workshops of the 40th International Symposium of Traditional Osteopathy of Montreal

Philippe Druelle, D.O., will present for the first time an extensive course on organ and visceral health. The systemic activity of each individual or group depends on its ability to produce its own energy, or bioenergy, that animates the specific functions of each viscera. Interactions with the musculoskeletal system and the brain are multiple. By putting these relationships back into action, we help restore health, psychoemotional balance, and good homeostasis.

Health settles in an organism at peace with itself, when the interactions are numerous, and the body can adapt to its needs, functions, and environment. Philippe Druelle will develop relationships between our inner world and our environment, which always finds the best solution to adapt. We will present the different kinds of energies in our body, their sources, and ways to stimulate them. As A. T. Still said: “The role of the osteopath is to revive suspended forces.”

Definition and summary of the different interactions between the organs and their systemic activities. The notion of filter, illustration with the definition and function of the chakras according to Tibetan medicine. Role of the vagus nerve in balancing our inner world with the environment, the pain, the fight against inflammation, and the immune system.

A map of our body's hypervascularization and hypovascularization areas, based on the nature of our emotions and stress, is presented. Approach to solutions in osteopathy to restore vascular balance.

Definition of energy production mechanisms in the body. The role of the heart and the systemic activity of the brain. A presentation on all the links between the heart, the brain, and the organ cells. A vision of the current science and tradition. Similarities and progress.

• Position, mobility, and vitality. The triggering factor, the cause(s) of the dysfunctions, and the person’s physical and emotional terrain. The connection between an organ and its nervous and vascular surroundings.
• How do we assess toxicity at the physical, emotional, and social levels, and how do we measure impacts and their effects to build the care plan? Evaluation of the nature of patient involvement in recovery.

• Normalization of the dura mater. Its action and bioelectricity, electromagnetic fields. Its importance in the self-regulation and bioelectricity of the spinal cord. Influence of the dura mater and the sympathetic ganglia.
• Theory of William Smith, D.O., on vital energy and bioelectricity. Normalization of the plexuses and sympathetic ganglia.
• Work in P1 on the tissue matrix, in P2 on the dynamics of fluids and liquids, and in P3 on electromagnetic fields and forces. Structure, vital energy, and information.
• The laws of Martin Dale, D.O., viscero-somatic, and somato-visceral dysfunctions. Normalizations and adjustments of the groups, starter vertebrae, and associated viscera. New techniques.
• The energetic role of the ribs and sympathetic ganglia. Normalizations of Alan Stoddard, D.O., on the high, medium, and low ribs.
• Joint bioenergy, stability and dynamics, and mobility.
• Practical applications on the sacrum and C0-C1-C2.
• The work of the vagus nerve and the posterior fossa, the brainstem. Reference to the 12 anastomoses of the vagus nerve with the brain, the V and VII, and their functional dynamics with the brain. Practice on areas of the vagus nerve vulnerability. The Cannon-Böhm area. Practice.
• How to stimulate the vagus nerve +++
• The role of Adamkiewicz's artery and chronic abdominal problems. Problems with marrow vascularization and physiological consequences. Influence on the chronicity of symptoms and bioelectricity. The wave motion in relation to embryology in the spinal cord, according to Anne Wales, D.O., and vitality.

The MIND concept, according to Andrew Taylor Still. Who wisely manages the motor of life? How did Still work? Practice on the viscera area.

The work of parenchyma and the importance of fluid and liquid dynamics (William G. Sutherland).

• Practical application. The cerebral parenchymas, mainly the brainstem and the ventricles. The periventricular areas and the vagus nerve.
• The work of the lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys, and pancreas parenchymas. When we treat one parenchyma, all parenchymas benefit. How do we stimulate the organs' energy?
• Target organs and emotional shocks. Practice in removing imprints.
• The role of the heart and the blood supply. The quality of blood. The heart-brain relationships.
• The health of organs and viscera according to bioenergy
• Resonance with universal energy, through fluid and liquid dynamics, to begin with, and consistently through our actions (William Gartner Sutherland, Alan Becker, and Anne Wales). New developments and dialogue with the source. Technique of parenchymal dynamization.
• Clinical applications to use fluid dynamics at the mechanical, biodynamic, traditional, and emotional levels of the patient. Practice on emotional imprints.
• Somato-visceral and viscero-somatic regulation in adults and children in the abdominal region. Interactions with the brain, the thalamus, and the limbic system. Practice.
• Action at the organ level, especially the heart, mesentery, and uterus, and their interactions with the brain. Practice.
• The organs' health and bioenergy, the notion of generators.
• The influence of emotions on the health of viscera and on joint mobility +++. Process description and solutions to return to normality.

Philippe Druelle will present a synthesis of solutions to preserve the interrelationships between the brain and the organs while taking emotions, the way patients care for their lives, and evolution into account.

A lot of practice will be done on the structures and parenchyma at the P1, P2, and P3 levels. According to the philosophy of Rollin Becker, D.O., bioenergy will be described and used to relieve dysfunctions and pain while also restoring the breath of life. “The goal of our practice is to allow the breath of life to come back in this area.”

This seminar offers a great synthesis and numerous solutions to relieve your patients. Not to be missed.

Philippe Druelle, D.O., has been practicing and teaching osteopathy for 40 years. Founder of several campuses in Canada and around the world, he has written 26 didactic manuals.

He has participated in the development of three university bachelor's and bachelor's plus master's programs in osteopathy. He was the founder of the Fondation Canadienne pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche en Ostéopathie (FCERO), which has been dedicated to young children with disabilities for over 40 years. Philippe Druelle has initiated humanitarian missions in Peru and Pakistan and has participated in the development of the five-year program for health professionals at the Católica Santa María University in Peru. He has conducted several research studies at the Sechenov Institute in Saint Petersburg, on the impact of ventricular techniques on the brain's systemic activity with Professors Yuri Moskalenko, Ph.D., and Alexander Chepolvanikov, Ph.D., at the Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory. He has given numerous seminars in more than 15 countries, and his favorite areas are brain dynamics, therapeutic methods in pediatrics, the work with the breath of life, bioenergy, osteoarticular adjustments by energetic impulse, the central chain, visceral dynamics, etc. He was also a pioneer in the field of clinical methodology in osteopathy.

We are very pleased to have with us Harry D. Friedman, who will be sharing his knowledge in a very useful area to effectively relieve our patients. He has prepared an excellent program for the symposium, a course focused on the practice of functional techniques by William L. Johnston, D.O. His seminar is important for our practice, as these methods treat the whole at the same time as the affected segment. A dedicated speaker, his course will allow each participant to successfully relieve patients using the methods of William L. Johnston, D.O., which are precise and easy to implement. Harry is considered a great expert in this field, and it is a course not to be missed.

His course was very successful in Toronto and we are honoured to have him in Montreal.

This course will have two objectives, quality of palpation and patient problem-solving.

Disruption or segmental dysfunction reflects imbalances within the system as a whole that can be palpable in response to functional motion demands from the whole body. When treated in light of these functional interrelations, entire motor chains of primary and secondary disturbances are resolved in a single treatment procedure.

In this course, participants will learn palpatory testing procedures for identifying primary motor system disruptions and dysfunctions and their resolution using functional treatment methods. Body regions will each be presented in a different section of the course, each one uniquely considered in light of its functional and anatomical relation to the rest of the body. Treatment approaches taught will generally employ an indirect technique, bringing tissues into a state of dynamic balance and ease to affect optimal treatment response.

After a conceptual re-framework explaining how functional palpation and diagnosis are different, a 48-point osteopathic screening exam will be demonstrated and performed using a standardized record-keeping format. Regional and segmental motion tests will be presented with an emphasis on active “responses” of the tissue to passive motion testing “demands”. Unique mirror image expressions of dysfunctional complexes will be appreciated and applied. Specific attention will be directed at the thoracic cage and its three mobile columns posteriorly and its two mobile columns anteriorly. Cervical spine diagnosis and treatment will also be covered.

Harry Friedman will cover additional body regions including the lumbar spine, sacro-pelvis, and upper/lower extremities. Clinical applications will also be discussed and presented. Comprehensive, step-by-step, illustrated course manuals will be provided.

At the end of this workshop, what will the participants be able to achieve?

• Understand the functional methods in osteopathic medicine concept according to William J. Johnston, D.O., FAAO.
• Perform screening, scanning, and segmental tests as screening and problem-solving tools throughout the body.
• Appreciate the palpation sense of easy neutral and its application in osteopathic technique.
• Incorporate many, sometimes far away, body regions in the application of osteopathic technique.
• Assessment and resolution of disturbances in motor program reflexes between different regions of the body.
• Incorporate seven planes of movement into a treatment procedure: three rotaries, three translational, and one respiratory.
• Apply functional assessment and treatment approaches to all body regions to relieve pain and dysfunctions.

Dr. Harry D. Friedman is a fellow of the American Academy of Osteopathy, a specialist who employs a multidisciplinary approach to pain management and integrative wellness medicine. He graduated from the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1988, did a rotating internship at Michiana Community Hospital in South Bend, IN., and did a combined residency in osteopathic manipulative medicine and family medicine at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine from 1988 to 1990. He received board certification from ABSPOMM in 1991. He is a member of the Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California.

Dr. Friedman teaches internationally and has helped establish osteopathic programs around the world. He is the co-founder of the San Francisco International Manual Medicine Society (SFIMMS) and has written numerous books on osteopathic technique, including Functional Methods and a set of four instructional teaching manuals on counterstrain, myofascial, functional, and cranial approaches in osteopathic manipulative medicine (www.sfimms.com).

He lives in Santa Cruz, California, and enjoys painting and jazz music.

In most anatomy texts, the cranial nerves are shown as twelve separate nerves, with little information on the anastomoses between the nerves and the upper cervical spine. This workshop is designed to show the pathways and roles of the cranial nerves and the interrelationships of the neural pathways. This is important when treating cranial nerve pathology since the neighboring nerves may also be involved in your treatment protocol.

In this workshop, you will study the anatomy of the cranial nerves, their pathways, from the brain to the cranium and neck, and ways for treating different nerve pathologies. This will include conditions such as Bell’s palsy, burning mouth syndrome, trigeminal neuritis, and tinnitus.

The history-based assessment protocol for the nerves will be discussed, and an example assessment sheet will be given to the participants. The causes of cranial nerve injuries will be reviewed, and treatment plans will be designed. Manual techniques of stimulating, stretching, and flossing nerves will be taught and practiced with partners.

On the fourth day, Anne Hartley will do demonstrations with patients who have had cranial disorders like burning mouth syndrome (BMS), trigeminal neuritis, and concussions with visual problems.

You can refer your patients by contacting the Symposium coordinator by email or at 514-342-2816, ext. 242.

• The anatomy of the cranial nerves
• The pathways of the nerves through the cranial bones’ foramen and soft tissues of the cranium and upper cervical spine
• Assessing the pathology of the cranial nerves with thorough history taking
• The anastomoses of the cranial nerves to neighboring nerves and the cervical plexus
• The causes of nerval pathology of the cranial nerves
• The protocol for the treatment of cranial nerve pathology

• Treat the cranial nerves with stimulation, stretching, and flossing of the cranial nerves
• Open the foramen that the cranial nerves pass through
• Regain mobility and free up intraneural and extraneural adhesions
• Release myofascial trigger points in the muscles that are served by the cranial nerves
• Release adhesions and fixations in the fascia surrounding the cranial nerves
• Regain the mobility of a cranial nerve by activating motions of the neighboring nerves

Anne Hartley is a prominent Canadian athletic therapist (Hall of Fame, Emeritus), osteopathic manual practitioner, retired teacher of athletic therapy (Professor Emeritus Sheridan College), and author. She is well known for her publications and manual therapy lectures and workshops. She has lectured and run workshops extensively in Canada, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and Europe. She has been a member of Canadian medical teams for several Pan American games, paralympic, and international games. Anne still maintains an active clinical practice. She is a graduate of the Canadian College of Osteopathy with a diploma in Osteopathic Manual Practice and a diploma in the Science of Osteopathy.

While puberty opens the doors to fertility, and the path that can lead to motherhood, this training will propose axes of osteopathic monitoring of the woman, during these different life cycles, and their links with emotions.

Therefore, the focus of these days spent together will be on the woman’s health and the child growing inside her. We will approach hormonal physiology with an original presentation of the "endocrine temperaments" described by Bernard Darraillans, D.O. The difficulties of becoming parents will also be discussed, with a review of the medical and osteopathic elements essential to know to increase couples' fertility.

The importance of early fetal-maternal interactions will be detailed, including the impact of physical and chemical information, as well as sensory and emotional information, on the baby's development. We will then revisit pregnancy and birth, including the early stages of human psychology.

An osteopathic approach to the accompaniment of the woman, mother, and baby to be born, with the influence of emotions, an indispensable part of our humanity, will be presented to you during this training.

• The physiology of fertility with osteopathic monitoring axes, especially in cases of emotional stress.
• The impact of different endocrine disruptors on fertility and fetal development.
• The influence of the mother’s emotional environment on the baby’s brain circuits.
• The osteopathic support for a physiological delivery with osteopathic solutions in the event of fetal malposition.
• The birth from the newborn’s perspective, neurosensory development during pregnancy, including the early “stages of human psychology” as developed by Bernard Darraillans, D.O.

• The psyche of emotions, the early psychological stages of the unborn child.
• Indications and limitations of our osteopathic approach to fertility and a proposed treatment methodology.
• Various disturbances affecting fertility and fetal development.
• The importance of the pregnant woman’s emotional state on the development of her baby in utero.
• Axes for osteopathic monitoring of women during the implementation of their gynecological function, in the event of dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, etc.
• Axes of osteopathic monitoring of the parturient to promote a natural delivery and an optimal position of the baby for its birth, osteopathic monitoring axes in case of difficulties in the management of emotions.

• Physiology of emotions
• "Endocrine temperaments", according to Bernard Darraillans
• Gametogenesis
• Hormonal axis and its dysfunctions
• Menstrual cycle (with the analysis of temperature curves)
• Definitions and characteristics of fertility disorders
• Conditions necessary for procreation
• Peritoneal physiology and its influence on fertility
• Different origins of fertility disorders and the axes of osteopathic monitoring
• Spontaneous abortions and the osteopathic monitoring axes
• Specific osteopathic history in case of infertility (data on the couple)

• Lesion primarity tests
• Emotional balancing techniques, according to Bernard Darraillans
• A specific approach to the gynecological sphere with the evaluation and normalization of the different lesions of the uterus, the appendices, the hypogastric plexus, the pelvic arteries, and the lymphatic system.
• Normalization of the hormonal axis: cranial sphere, pituitary gland, thyroid, adrenal glands
• Integration techniques

• Physiological changes of a pregnant woman: uterine growth, influence on nearby organs, hormonal changes.
• The influence of the mother’s emotional balance on the baby's development.
• The development of the fetus' senses: the different stages of the installation of the great sensory functions, their implications in relational life, our emotional and emotional world, our communication
• The stages of birth, from a physical and psycho-affective point of view, are the first "stages of human psychology", as developed by Bernard Darraillans, D.O.
• Endocrine disruptors and pregnancy: incidence and prevention.

Geneviève Kermorgant is an osteopath, a professor at the Deutsche Osteopathie Kolleg (DOK), an international lecturer, and a professor. She has been practicing in the south of France for over 20 years, where she has developed her activity around perinatal care: from fertility to pregnancy and infant monitoring. Motivated by her desire to share her clinical experience, she offers postgraduate training on these subjects in different countries, and she is part of the women’s health program, developed by Nathalie Camirand, and the curriculum of the Molinari Institute of Health of Renzo Molinari. She also had the privilege of assisting Bernard Darraillans during his consultation days for many years, which has deeply influenced and inspired her practice, and she shares his osteopathic vision with enthusiasm and conviction.

This excellent osteopath has developed a fascinating work in osteoarticular adjustments specific to osteopathy because he respects all the concepts and principles. His seminars are appreciated for their gentleness and dialogue with the tissues, and because this work is very comfortable for the patient.

The goal is to achieve a perfect unity between the patient and the osteopath, a symbiosis, during the osteopathic adjustment. “The work of tissue presence goes far beyond the hands and uses the presence of our entire body.” For this, David Lachaize has set up a precise learning and adapted pedagogy illustrated by specific exercises, aiming to use the tissue presence and the feeling of the lesion during the process of the osteopathic adjustment. The quality of this workshop is to guide the participants with ease toward the precise gesture, in an effective dialogue with the tissues.

He has always refused the idea of having a blind force imposed from outside to put the joints back in place. David Lachaize works gently and relies on neurophysiological bases, tending to modify locally and remotely the quality of the tissue by reflex. The osteopathic therapeutic gesture is a precise solicitation; nothing is imposed.

• The different methods to make an osteopathic, tissue and joint adjustment,
• Tissue tests: at the level of the pelvis and the sacrum,
• General position of the osteopathic manipulation of the lumbar area - working first on the position of L5, the pelvis and the lower limbs
• Exercises to work in impulse

• Discussion
• The pelvis and iliacs, the sacrum. The different positions, evaluations and corrections
• Lesions of the feet and lower limbs.
• The anterior tibia, anterior talus, posterior talus, subtalar joint, lateral lesions of the calcaneus, etc.

• Exercises
• Pumping technique for the sacrum
• Anterior and posterior iliacus
• Discussion
• Lateral knee, posterior fibula

• Knee rotations: pro-cubitus position
• Discussion

A worthwhile seminar. Lots of softness and precision, and very comfortable for patients.

This is the first part of the course. The part on the spine, cervical, dorsal and lumbar as well as the upper limbs will be given in the fall of 2023 in Montreal from November 23 to 26. Other dates are to come for Toronto or Vancouver for this course.

David Lachaize obtained his state diploma as a physiotherapist in 1992 and his osteopathic diploma in 2000 from the School of Osteopathy in Geneva. He then completed a DU in applied anatomy to clinical examination and imaging in 2007 at the Faculty of Medicine of Versailles, and a master’s degree in education, and training engineering in 2016 at the University of Aix Marseille.

He has been practicing osteopathy in a liberal clinic near Aix-en-Provence since 2000. He has been teaching “structural tissue” osteopathy in various schools, and postgraduate training structures since 2007 in France and abroad.

To distinguish himself from traditional structural osteopathy that he does not practice, and with which he does not share all ideas, he decides to create the concept of "structural-tissue manipulation”. A registered name that qualifies for this form of technicality. This concept combines structural manipulation with an energetic thrust, and the notion of very precise tissue presence. The technique is then implemented within the tissue itself, in communication with it, and not with the help of external parameters such as levers, for example.

He has since developed the teaching of this type of manipulation in various training structures. Videos of technical demonstrations are available on YouTube.

David Lachaize is the founder and manager of Ostéo-Évolution.

• Improvement of urogenital techniques in 2001 – J.P. Barral and D. Prat
• Biological decoding of diseases in 2002 - Dr Claude Sabbah
• Visceral manipulations, advanced techniques in 2003 - J.P. Barral and D. Prat
• Anatomical dissections in 2005 and 2006 A. Métrat and A. Soussan, Faculté des Saint-Pères
• Application of the tensegrity concept to osteopathy in 2009 - Alain Géhin
• Structural manipulations in minimum levers in 2010 - José Kunzler
• Pediatric Osteopathy in 2011 - Alain Géhin
• The osteopathic tensegrity concept in 2013 - Alain Géhin
• Unnamed Body, tensegrity approach in 2015 - Alain Polbrat
• Absorption technique for lumbar disc herniation - Alain Géhin
• Cervical manipulations in the sitting position in 2015 - Alain Géhin
• Personal techniques in 2016 - Alain Géhin
• Cervical disc herniation absorption technique 2017 - Alain Géhin
• Cervical disc herniation absorption technique - Sylvie Lessard

• IFOGA Avignon, from 2008 to 2010 (2nd and 3rd years)
• IPEO Paris, from 2007 to 2010 (structural-tissue manipulation (4th and 5th years)
• IFSO Vichy, from 2011 to present
• PLP training from 2009 to 2011
• Postgraduate trainings for: Ostéo-Évolution, IFSO Vichy, PLP formations, COP Marseille, AMFCK Marseille, CETHOM Paris, idHeo Nantes and AMFCS Avignon, COB Bordeaux
• International speaker - (Belgium, Spain, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Brazil)
• Trainer of "gestures and postures" in companies, from 2004 to 2008 - QSE formation company

We are very pleased to welcome Torsten Liem, who will present his excellent course on the world of psychosomatic. There will be a second part, which will be presented in the next few months. His course is very useful and will bring many solutions to relieve patients.

• Diagnosis of somatic-energetic-psychic dysfunctions.
• Etiologies, top-down and bottom-up dynamics, and different aspects of somatic-energetic-psychic dysfunctions.
• Therapeutic relationship.
• Diagnosis and awareness of ANS.
• Stabilization work in the osteopathic setting.
• Dynamic resource organization and coregulation.
• Indications and contraindications.
• 15-step-Multimodal Bifocal Integration®.
• Right-left balance and bilateral stimulation.
• Resolution of somatic-psychic dysfunctions with breathing techniques.
• Further principles, models, approaches, and techniques to deepen osteopathic treatment.
• Integration of top-down and bottom-up dynamics in diagnosis and treatment.

• To understand, in diagnostics and treatments, the somatic-energetic-psychic dysfunctions: genetic aspects, prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal aspects.
• To apply the stress axis and neurovegetative axis in a clinical context.
• To apply individualized bottom-up and top-down dynamics in a clinical context.
• To establish important aspects related to a therapeutic relationship.
• To apply diagnostic and treatment tools related to the ANS.
• To treat with different aspects of Multimodal Bifocal Integration®, a newly developed technic from T. Liem.
• To use different aspects of bilateral stimulation in treating somatic dysfunctions.
• The dynamic resource organization and coregulation.
• To understand indications and contraindications.
• Stabilization work in the osteopathic setting.

Past principal of the Osteopathie Schule Deutschland (1999-2019), practicing osteopath, head of the teaching clinic in Hamburg, and international lecturer. He is the author and editor of 17 books (translated into more than 10 languages) and has written more than 60 articles. He is a co-organizer of the international osteopathy symposium in Berlin, founder of an osteopathic teaching clinic, and of the charitably funded center for paediatric osteopathy in Hamburg, and head of the Osteopathic Research Institute gGmbH. He also developed a unique approach to osteopathy, e.g., Psychosomatic Osteopathy and Morphodynamics in Osteopathy. Board member of the European Society of Pediatric Osteopathy. He is also co-founder and co-editor of the journal Osteopathische Medizin (Elsevier), a member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, and co-founder of Breathe Yoga.

Liem T. Craniosacral Osteopathy, Elsevier, London, 2004. Liem T. Cranial Osteopathy - A Practical Textbook; Eastlandpress, Vista, 2009. Liem T, Tozzi P, Chila A: Fascia in the Osteopathic Field. Handspring; 2017.
Liem T, Van den Heede P: Foundations of Morphodynamics in Osteopathy: An Integrative Approach to Cranium, Nervous System, and Emotions. Handspring, 2017. As well as three books about pediatric osteopathy. In 2023 his new book, Psychosomatic Osteopathy will be published by Elsevier.

• Liem T. Osteopathy and (Hatha) Yoga, Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies 2011; 15 (1), 92-102.
• Liem T. Wechselseitige Beziehungsdynamiken und subjektive Ansätze in der Osteopathie, Osteopathische Medizin 2011; 12 (2), 4–7.
• Flatscher M. Liem T. What is health? What is disease? Thoughts on a complex issue, The AAO Journal 2011; 21 (4), 27-30.
• Liem T. Pitfalls and challenges involved in the process of perception and interpretation of palpatory findings, International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine 2014; 17 (4), 243 - 249.
• Günther-Borstel J. Schmidt T. Liem T. Herzratenvariabilität: Messung und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten in der Osteopathie, Osteopathische Medizin 2015; 16 (3), 4-8.
• Porges S. W. Liem T. Die Polyvagaltheorie in der Osteopathie, Osteopathische Medizin 2016; 17 (2).
• Liem T. A.T. Still’s Osteopathic Lesion Theory and Evidence-Based Models Supporting the Emerged Concept of Somatic Dysfunction, The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2016; 116 (10), 654-656.

The Elders and the world-renowned osteopaths know about the existence of these fields and the energy that circulates in and around the body and have spoken about it during the descriptions of the forces that animate us.

Some basic notions of quantum physics will be exposed to you to help you understand the impact in our treatments to regain this harmony that allows health.

Chinese medicine seeks to balance the organs for global health: energetic techniques developed during care, following the principles of osteopathy, will be taught to facilitate their normalization during the care of toddlers.

Other complementary tools will be shared with you to increase and develop the maximum potential of babies, children, and the not-so-young, on a physical, mental, social, and spiritual level.

Mrs. Denyse Dufresne is an osteopath who graduated from the CEO of Montreal in 1988. She created the pediatric course and has taught it for more than 30 years at the CEO (Montreal), CCO (Toronto), CEOQ (Quebec City), DOK (Germany), and SICO (Switzerland). She has given numerous postgraduate courses at the ESO (France), in Moscow and Saint Petersburg (Russia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and at the University of Arequipa (Peru).

She has been an international speaker at several symposiums (Montreal, Toulouse, Strasbourg, and Riedering).

She is also President of the Fondation Canadienne pour l’Enseignement et la Recherche en Ostéopathie, where she has been responsible for the Children's Days since their inception.

She is the author of the book "Our children, our legacy, Osteopathy for the well-being of the small child".

This workshop will be given in Toronto later this year.