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Dynamic Systems: Gait, Breath, and the Nervous System in Motion (February 20^th and 21^th, 2026)

By Lauren Ohayon, renowned yoga and pilates instructor and creator of the Restore Your Core® Method.

Join Lauren Ohayon for a one-of-a-kind two-day professional training that gives physiotherapists and movement professionals the skills to see, assess, and train movement through the lens of pressure, load, and nervous system state.

Rather than treating isolated dysfunctions, you’ll learn to understand the body as an integrated system, designed for shock absorption, propulsion, force transmission, and pressure regulation.

Across the weekend, we’ll explore:

• How the foot, pelvis, and thorax work together to manage load and motion.
• How breath and rib mechanics organize internal pressure and spinal support.
• How the nervous system shapes tone, coordination, and pelvic floor behavior.
• What to look for in real movement — gait, breath, posture, transition — and what to do next.
• Practical movement assessments and corrective strategies to restore adaptability and ease.

You’ll leave with concrete, clinically relevant movement tools — not just theory. Learn how to watch movement differently, interpret what you see, and choose interventions that address the real problem: how your client manages pressure and load under the influence of state.

When the system can absorb, transmit, and release force efficiently, movement becomes the most powerful treatment tool you have.

This course is for pelvic health physiotherapists, physical therapists, kinesiologists, osteopaths, chiropractors and movement therapists (pilates, yoga).

Dynamic Systems: Gait, Breath, and the Nervous System in Motion with Lauren Ohayon – 8h30 to 17h00 each day

Lecture 1: Gait: The Body as a Suspension and Recoil System

Core Focus: Reframing gait as a whole-body energy system: how the body absorbs, transmits, and releases load through coordinated motion of the feet, pelvis, spine, and breath.

Key Learning Points:

• Understand gait as a dynamic process of shock absorption, propulsion, and force transmission, not just a sequence of steps.
• Identify how pronation–supination, pelvic rotation, and thoracic counter-rotation express efficiency or compensation.
• Recognize how core stiffness, rib rigidity, and limited hip extension disrupt load transfer and increase pelvic floor strain.
• Learn to observe gait clinically: what to look for, what it means, and how to correct it through movement.
• Apply practical standing, balance, and gait drills to restore adaptability and elasticity through the chain.

Format: Lecture + movement observation + live assessment demo

Lecture 2: Breath, Pressure, and the Spine: The Architecture of Internal Movement

Core Focus: Exploring how the diaphragm, ribs, and thoracic spine coordinate to manage pressure, movement, and pelvic floor function — the body’s internal suspension system.

Key Learning Points:

• Reframe breath as a pressure and movement system, not just air exchange.
• Understand how rib and spinal mobility determine how load and pressure are distributed through the trunk.
• Identify common compensation patterns that alter pelvic floor mechanics.
• Learn to see and assess breath mechanics through posture and motion.
• Use breath-driven movement to restore 3D rib expansion, spinal spring, and pressure regulation.

  Format: Lecture + guided breath labs + postural and rib mobility assessment

Lecture 3: Pain and the Nervous System: How State Shapes Pelvic Presentation

Core Focus: Understanding pain as an output of the nervous system and learning to read muscle tone, breath, and behavior as reflections of state rather than dysfunction.

Key Learning Points:

• Explain how pain reflects protection, not just tissue injury.
• Understand the autonomic nervous system (ANS) as part of the peripheral nervous system
• Recognize how breath, tone, and coordination shift with nervous system state.
• Identify protective patterns: gripping, bracing, disconnection as adaptive, not faulty.
• Apply language, pacing, and movement strategies to build safety, down-regulate threat, and restore adaptability.

  Format: Lecture + discussion + experiential regulation practice (breath, rhythm, pacing)

Teaching Approach:

Each session blends lecture, movement observation, and guided practical application. Participants will gain both theoretical understanding and real-time clinical skills to assess, interpret, and train movement through the lens of load, pressure, and state.