What you will learn

In Manual NVR Part 3, we will focus on the lower extremities, assess lower body patterns, and develop a detailed understanding of the anatomy and function of the lower legs and feet. We will consider the structural balance within the feet, arch support, mid-foot stiffness, bunions, plantar fasciitis, knee issues, and how to help people adapt to minimal shoes. 

You can expect from this course that you will experience improved one-legged balance and foot articulation in your own body, as well as a greater experiential understanding of how the work that we have done in the core of the torso is helpful for leg and foot symptoms. We will revisit the hamstrings and quads to explore how these affect tibial rotation and patellar tracking. We will explore the neural and vascular contribution to the spiral patterns that wind down through the lower limb. Adding detailed lower leg and foot techniques to your sessions will improve your clients' agility, resolve old injuries, and help prevent new injuries to the lower body.

Prerequisite: NVR Parts 1 and 2, either distance learning or in-person.

In-person format

A 3-day immersion (21 hours) with unlimited opportunity for online review

  • Benefit immediately from hands-on guidance by Kier

  • Throughout class, receive this work from Kier and fellow students to help you understand and fine-tune your touch

  • Receive a ten to fifteen minutes of individualized integrative work form Kier during the last hours of class to settle your systems before you go home.

Additional benefits

  • Opportunity to schedule a full session with Kier

    If you have a complex injury history, you can schedule a full session with Kier for the day prior to class or the day after class.

  • Spend time in person with colleagues

    Get in touch with a close colleague to plan a rendezvous for this course. Connect with new colleagues in person.

  • Unlimited course review online

    Edited and curated recordings of the distance learning version of this course, divided up into short segments, are available online for you to review.

New Buddy Discount

Recruit a friend to help you deepen your learning

Would you like to receive and practice NVR regularly with a practitioner who lives near you? 

    •    Take care of your body's needs by making sure there is a practitioner near you who also knows NVR. 

    •    Enhance your learning by studying and practicing regularly with someone who lives near you.

Both practitioners must register as students this year and you must live in close proximity to one another, but your practice partner could be registering for Part 1 while you are registering for Part 3. (This discount is an incentive to build an NVR practitioner community near you.) Let Kier know the name of your practice partner (via WhatsApp or text 1+503-720-7403). Each of you will receive a 25% discount by registering with coupon code Buddies2024.

Plan for your next courses

Looking ahead, in Manual NVR Part 4, we will be learning hand and forearm work and will further discuss how neurovascular work can support the organs. We will also consider structural and functional balance throughout the body while we practice "listening" and review techniques from Parts 1, 2, and 3. 

Manual NVR Part 5 is a practicum focused on assessment and practical application. In full sessions with outside models, you will apply all that you have learned in Parts 1 through 4, practicing session strategy under Kier’s guidance. This is a great opportunity to bring family members with you to receive work!

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome! Logistics and class location

    2. Content for Manual NVR Part 3 and the Manual NVR Course series

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    3. Refund Policy, Agreements for Participants, and Continuing Education Credits

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    1. Checklist: What to do after registering

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    1. Introduction to your Technique Manual, including your agreement about copyright

    1. Orientation to full class recordings

    2. Bonus: 2024-03-07 Mentoring session on Listening and Questioning

    3. Part 3 Class 1 Video 1 - intro to spinal erectors_ importance of using listening and questioning

    4. Part 3 Class 1 Video 2 - explanation and first example of listening and questioning exercise

    5. Part 3 Class 1 Video 3 - beginning of mini-session - one to three things

    6. Part 3 Class 1 Video 4 - mini-session continues - arteries to spinal erectors_ long levers

    7. Part 3 Class 1 Video 5 - wrap-up of mini-session with questions about dural glide

    8. Part 3 Class 1 Video 6 - anatomy review - lumbar and sacral nerves

    9. Part 3 Class 1 Video 7 - anatomy review - arteries of posterior pelvis

    10. Part 3 Class 1 Video 8 - demonstration - pre-tests for hips and pelvis_ and artery to piriformis

    11. Part 3 Class 1 Video 9 - guided practice - doing one balancing thing for the pelvis

    12. Part 3 Class 1 Video 10 - demonstration - artery tension into lower leg_ p. 13 handles 1 and B

    13. Part 3 Class 1 Video 11 - guided practice - artery tension into lower leg

    14. Part 3 Class 1 Video 12 - anatomy - perforating arteries of lower leg

    15. Part 3 Class 1 Video 13 - demonstration - perforating arteries of lower leg

    16. Part 3 Class 1 Video 14 - guided practice - perforating arteries of lower leg

    17. Part 3 Class 1 Video 15 - discussion after guided practice - perforating arteries of lower

    18. Part 3 Class 1 Video 16 - anatomy - artery supply to popliteus

    19. Part 3 Class 1 Video 17 - discussion after practicing artery supply to popliteus

    20. Part 3 Class 1 Video 18 - anatomy - saphenous and posterior tibial nerves near the knee

    21. Part 3 Class 1 Video 19 - demonstration - flossing posterior tibial nerve

    22. Part 3 Class 1 Video 20 - guided practice - flossing posterior tibial nerve and one more thing

    23. Part 3 Class 1 Video 21 - final check-in regarding close of mini session and homework

    24. 2024-10-08 Manual NVR Part 3 Class 1 Q&A - Session 1

    25. 2024-10-09 Manual NVR Part 3 Class 1 Q&A - Session 2

    1. Part 3 Class 2 Video 1 - Intro to class 2

    2. Part 3 Class 2 Video 2 - neck question_ related to heart

    3. Part 3 Class 2 Video 3 - anatomy - muscles_ nerves_ and vessels crossing the knee

    4. Part 3 Class 2 Video 4 - demonstration - saphenous nerve and superficial femoral artery

    5. Part 3 Class 2 Video 5 - guided practice - saphenous nerve and superficial femoral artery

    6. Part 3 Class 2 Video 6 - demonstration - genicular arteries

    7. Part 3 Class 2 Video 7 - discussion of results after working around the knee

    8. Part 3 Class 2 Video 8 - story about supportive adaptation around the knee

    9. Part 3 Class 2 Video 9 - bent-knee hamstring stretch_ self-tx posterior femoral cutaneous nerve

    10. Part 3 Class 2 Video 10 - demonstration - medial_ lateral_ and collateral branch of sural nerve

    11. Part 3 Class 2 Video 11 - guided practice - medial_ lateral_ collateral branches of sural nerve

    12. Part 3 Class 2 Video 12 - demo and guided practice - saphenous nerve below knee

    13. Part 3 Class 2 Video 13 - anatomy - cutaneous nerves in anterior thigh

    14. Part 3 Class 2 Video 14 - anatomy - superficial fibular nerve into top of foot

    15. Part 3 Class 2 Video 15 - demonstration - superficial fibular nerve into top of foot

    16. Part 3 Class 2 Video 16 - guided practice - superficial fibular nerve into top of foot

    17. Part 3 Class 2 Video 17 - side conversation - torsion within the tibia and hypermobility

    18. Part 3 Class 2 Video 18 - discussion - superficial fibular nerve into dorsum of foot

    19. Part 3 Class 2 Video 19 - anatomy - artery supply to vastus lateralis to improve patellar tracking

    20. Part 3 Class 2 Video 20 - demonstration - artery to vastus lateralis to improve patellar tracking

    21. Part 3 Class 2 Video 21 - guided practice - artery to vastus lateralis to improve patellar tracking

    22. Part 3 Class 2 Video 22 - anatomy_ demonstration - lower leg posterior compartment differentiation

    23. Part 3 Class 2 Video 23 - guided practice - lower leg posterior compartment differentiation

    24. Part 3 Class 2 Video 24 - summary of class 2 and homework

    25. 2024-10-15 Part 3 Class 2 Q&A - Session 1

    26. 2024-10-16 Part 3 Class 2 Q&A - Session 2

    1. Part 3 Class 3 Video 1 - Lyrea - (story) attention to anterior compartment of lower leg helped hip

    2. Part 3 Class 3 Video 2 - anatomy - anterior compartment of lower leg

    3. Part 3 Class 3 Video 3 - Kier - (mini story) lower leg key to addressing knee pain

    4. Part 3 Class 3 Video 4 - Katrin - (story) thigh work helped man with weakness attributed to stroke

    5. Part 3 Class 3 Video 5 - Kier - (story) thigh work helped elderly man with edema in legs

    6. Part 3 Class 3 Video 6 - Janice - (story) leg work helped with plantar fasciitis

    7. Part 3 Class 3 Video 7 - JackiBlu - (story) after inguinal hernia repair

    8. Part 3 Class 3 Video 8 - Kier - (story) hypermobility_ focusing on problem area caused distress

    9. Part 3 Class 3 Video 9 - Kier - (story) spinal cord injury (Brown-Sequard syndrome)

    10. Part 3 Class 3 Video 10 - Kier - (story) endometriosis_ local listening and questioning

    11. Part 3 Class 3 Video 11 - important to pay attention to subtle signs from nervous system

    12. Part 3 Class 3 Video 13 - guided practice instructions

    13. Part 3 Class 3 Video 14 - guided practice (one thing) - Jenny

    14. Part 3 Class 3 Video 15 - guided practice (one thing) - Janice (new scalene area technique)

    15. Part 3 Class 3 Video 16 - guided practice (one thing) - Katrin (diaphragm area intercostal work)

    16. Part 3 Class 3 Video 17 - check-in (regarding one thing) - Christina and Jenny

    17. Part 3 Class 3 Video 18 - demonstration - standing pretests

    18. Part 3 Class 3 Video 19 - demo on skeleton - supine pretests and long lever nerve work

    19. Part 3 Class 3 Video 20 - demo on person - supine pretests_ posterior compartment differentiation

    20. Part 3 Class 3 Video 21 - anatomy - posterior compartment

    21. Part 3 Class 3 Video 22- guided practice - posterior compartment

    22. Part 3 Class 3 Video 23- discussion - posterior compartment

    23. Part 3 Class 3 Video 24- demonstration - working with hallucis longis for stiff big toe

    24. Part 3 Class 3 Video 25- guided practice - working with hallucis longis for stiff big toe

    25. Part 3 Class 3 Video 26- variation on how to cue inversion and eversion

    26. Part 3 Class 3 Video 27- story (Shiny) - hamstring work for a child who had surgery for club feet

    27. Part 3 Class 3 Video 28 - question - can you cause microtrauma when you are doing manual NVR

    28. Part 3 Class 3 Video 29 - self-treatment approach to posterior compartment differentiation

    29. Part 3 Class 3 Video 30 - discussion after posterior compartment differentiation

    30. Part 3 Class 3 Video 31 - guided practice and discussion_ dural guide advice_ homework

    31. 2024-10-22 Manual NVR Part 3 Class 3 Q&A - Session 1

    32. 2024-10-22 Manual NVR Part 3 Class 2 Q&A - Knee and lower leg review_ plus artery to fibularis brevis

About this course

  • $1,000.00
  • payment plans available
  • scholarships available