Transform How You Understand and Work with Human Movement
The Contractile Field (CF) Model of Human Movement. 

At Osteopathy Nelson, 13th and 14th June 2026, 9-5pm, Course fee $300

Who is this for?
Osteopaths, manual therapists, movement specialists, physiotherapists, pilates and yoga instructors, and anyone who works with people’s movement and posture.

Why This Workshop Matters
Most movement models still see the body in isolated parts — regions, muscles, or joints. But human movement is whole-body, dynamic, and patterned. 

Phillip Beach’s Contractile Field model reframes how we conceptualise movement, posture and biomechanical ease — giving you a new lens to assess and support your clients. 
This isn’t about memorising protocols — it’s about understanding movement as an integrated, organism-wide presence.

What You’ll Discover
 A Whole-Organism Movement Model
Instead of thinking about single muscles or joints, the CF Model maps interactive fields of contractility that run through the body — like patterns that guide how we twist, bend, breathe, walk, and stabilise. 

These fields relate deeply to embryology and evolutionary biomechanics. 

Movement with Meaning
Each contractile field links movement with sensory input — because sense organs (like the ear, eyes, etc.) are embedded in these pathways. This integrates how we feel movement with how we move. 

Archetypal Postures as Tools
Simple ‘floor postures’ — squatting, cross-legged sitting, kneeling — are not just static positions. They are self-tuning postures that help your body return to its natural patterns and improve ease and alignment. 

Practical Applications to Your Practice
Learn ways to:
assess whole body tune and imbalance apply movement-based insights therapeutically rethink posture and movement quality from a field perspective integrate CF concepts into exercise guidance and hands-on work 

Who Phillip Beach Is
Phillip is an osteopath, Acupuncturist and author whose work explores how movement patterns emerge from biology, sensory systems and whole-body mechanics. His ideas build on evolution, embryology and clinical experience to offer a fresh model of movement — moving beyond isolated structures to fields of integrated activity. 

What You’ll Walk Away With· A clear, whole-body framework for understanding movement· Practical assessment tools based on archetypal postures· Ways to apply CF concepts to long-term biomechanical ease· Enhanced confidence in working beyond protocol-based therapy

Register Now with Liz Stroud Osteopathynelson@gmail.com· 13th and 14th June 2026, 9am -5pm Osteopathy Nelson Health Collective.· Course fee $300· Limited spaces

Direct Indirect

Revision research and principles of BLT stages of technique Jamie Taylor

Revision principles of MET. Marcus Ferreira

At Osteopathy Nelson Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th November 2026  9am-5pm, Course fee $450.

Day 1 Saturday
Shoulder complex BLT
Clavicle sitting bilateral unilateral BLT.
GH sitting BLT.
Scapulothoracic, supine/sitting BLT.
Sitting elbow.
Interosseous forearm.
A/P Sternum, pericardium Mid T spine release.
Cervical fascia sitting.
MET SCM/ C spine flexor/extensors. Hyoid release.
Articulation Mid T spine, Rib complex.

Day 2 Sunday introduction to BLT and cranial palpation pelvis
Sitting Pelvic floor release.
Sidelying Ischial release.
Cranial diagnosis, palpation cranial motion and treatment of Sacrum and Ilia.
Flexion extension palpation, torsion side-bending rotation and compression.
Viola Frymann treatment of Diaphragms, Pelvis, Thoracic and RTM.
Syncing pelvic and Thoracic diaphragms.
Review of Heart rate variability studies influencing autonomic/vagal activity.
Indirect palpation treatment of Thoracic diaphragms.
Engaging and changing Vagal activity via Indirect release Upper ribs.
Engaging vagal complex through Indirect work on upper cervical complex.

Register Now with Liz Stroud Osteopathynelson@gmail.com