Workshop Description

The Fabulous BoneWork Class

This workshop offers a profoundly different point of view on the fascia in the bones. The paradigm shifts from considering bones as an unchangeable baseline to considering bones as the most changeable of all the tissues in the human body.

The groundbreaking information presented in this workshop is the result of Sharon’s inquiry into the fascial plasticity of bone. There are two major areas of study in this workshop: Bone Change and Bone Rolling. They are somewhat similar in method, but they differ for their integration outcomes.

Bone Change：

Since the initial spontaneous discovery in 1973, Sharon has been exploring the curious phenomenon of Bone Change. These techniques are designed to address shape and contour. Bone Change employs precisely placed manual pressure into the fascial elements of the bone. The chronic distortions left over from badly healed breaks in the bone, or scars in the bone, transform towards normal in moments. Results appear to be permanent.

Bone change helps to remediate badly damaged, poorly healed bones. This phenomenon is generated within surrounding pressure directed into the damaged fabric of the bone. This pressure matrix allows for the rapid remodeling of the bone fascia.   Bone Change may also be used to normalize the size of a break that has “over-grown” it’s original shape and size. When Bone Change techniques are done with the right direction, depth and speed, they remediate Bones back towards their original shape or “blueprint”.

Bone Rolling is the second area of study. Accidents and injuries can disorganize the functional relationships between bones. Bones can get stuck together out of place causing chronic dysfunction. These bone- to-bone adhesions are at the level of the fascia of the periosteum. In

Bone Rolling, deep manual pressure is precisely directed through the periosteal adhesion to release the stuck bones. The bones are now free to move, or "roll" into a better relationship within structure of the fascial web. There are Bone Rolling techniques for most of the bone-to-bone relationships of the body. The techniques are primarily for the appendicular skeleton, and some for the axial skeleton. Bone Rolling results in profound, lasting structural shifts.

There are over twenty unique techniques which release chronic bone to bone adhesions at the level of the periosteum in many areas the body. These are adhesions that do not resolved with Structural Integration. Pressure is directed through periosteal adhesions, allowing the adhesions to separate and the bones to reposition.

Students have the opportunity to exchange BoneWork with supervision to gain first-hand knowledge while getting some help for their own chronic problems. Students help their study partners find the correct depth and calibrate the pressure needed. We will also provide a varied selection of outside models for practice with supervision. Working on “real people” with bone problems gives students some idea of the range of possibilities BoneWork opens up. There is so much more you can do to help structural problems when bones become the most changeable tissue.

Sharon will also demonstrate "Two-Handed Torque" for the cranium. This fascinating and unique approach smoothes out irregularities in the cranium, nicely demonstrating the fascial plasticity of spongy bone.