What you will learn

In Manual NVR Part 4, we continue your "Level Two" NVR studies. We will integrate and utilize all the skills you have learned in Parts 1, 2, and 3 as we consider body-wide postural patterns. It has been a year or more since we first took a tour through the upper body! You have been applying the techniques and concepts you have learned, and your skills and perceptions have matured. Now, we are ready to revisit the territory of Part 1 to deepen and refresh your understanding of some neck, shoulder, and thorax techniques as we gradually add details for the arms, hands, and viscera.

Prerequisite: NVR Parts 1, 2, and 3, either distance learning or in-person.

Plan for your next courses

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!

Distance learning format

Recorded and live sessions total 28 plus hours, spread across five weeks

  • Spread out your learning over time. Practice the techniques and strategies you just learned and then return to class the following week with questions.

  • Reduce your travel costs!

  • Each week, watch four hours of recordings and attend a 90-minute live mentoring session.

Each week, watch four hours of recordings and attend a 90-minute live mentoring session.

Watch the class recordings on your own and attend the live Q&A sessions for small group mentoring. Cohort A: Tuesdays from 5:00 - 6:30 pm Pacific Time (Wednesday mornings in East Asia and Australia/New Zealand) or Cohort B: Wednesdays from 9:00 - 10:30 am Pacific Time

  • Attend live at a time that works for your time zone

    The Q&A is held twice to accommodate many time zones. (If you live somewhere that doesn't allow you to attend either cohort live, reach out to arrange private or small-group mentoring at a time that will work for you.)

  • Curated videos edited into short segments allow you to plan your practice time

    Watch the anatomy lessons, technique demonstrations, and guided practice segments, then replay the demos or guided practice segments while you work with your model (a practice client).

  • Bring your questions and a model (practice client) to the live Q&A each week

    After answering your questions, Kier will guide you through technique practice during the second half of each 90-minute group mentoring session.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome! Mark your calendar with these class dates. Schedule a private zoom call with Kier.

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    2. Content for Manual NVR Part 4 and the Manual NVR Course series

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    3. Refund Policy and Agreements for Participants

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    4. Continuing Education Credits

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    1. Zoom Link

    2. Ensuring the best internet connection and Zoom experience!

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

    2. 2025 Manual NVR Technique Manual

    3. Bonus PDF -- from Movement-Based NVR Module E: using shift, tilt, and rotate to describe relationships between vertebrae

    4. Bonus PDF -- from Movement-Based NVR Module E: working with anterior and posterior bends in the spine

    1. Part 4 Class 1 Video 1 - introduction, working with full body patterns

    2. Part 4 Class 1 Video 2 - assessing scapulae

    3. Part 4 Class 1 Video 3 - interesting case from Lyrea, invitation to bring forward other cases to share

    4. Part 4 Class 1 Video 4 - seeing patterns in gait, lower body to upper body connection

    5. Part 4 Class 1 Video 5 - guided practice - assessment of posture in standing

    6. Part 4 Class 1 Video 6 - guided practice - assessment of movement in seated rotation

    7. Part 4 class 1 Video 7 - the first thing (with Jenny)

    8. Part 4 class 1 Video 8 - the first thing (with Cam)

    9. Part 4 class 1 Video 9 - the first thing (with Emily)

    10. Part 4 class 1 Video 10 - the first thing (with Lyrea)

    11. Part 4 class 1 Video 11 - the first thing (with Joanna)

    12. Part 4 class 1 Video 12 - the first thing (with Tessa)

    13. Part 4 class 1 Video 13 - followup and a question (with Jenny)

    14. Part 4 class 1 Video 14 - followup (with Cam)

    15. Part 4 class 1 Video 15 -the first thing (with JackieBlu)

    16. Part 4 class 1 Video 16 - pretesting the neck to find the next thing to work on

    17. Part 4 class 1 Video 17 - working with the neck (with Emily)

    18. Part 4 class 1 Video 18 - working with the neck (with Joanna)

    19. Part 4 class 1 Video 19 - working with the neck (with Cam)

    20. Part 4 class 1 Video 20 - pretesting the arms

    21. Part 4 class 1 Video 21 - working with the neck (with Tessa)

    22. Part 4 class 1 Video 22 - demonstration of arm techniques (review) - anterior circumflex humeral, subacromial, and posterior circumflex humeral arteries

    23. Part 4 class 1 Video 23 - question leading to additional anatomy about aortic arch

    24. Part 4 class 1 Video 24 - demonstration - supraclavicular artery (the -pizza stretch-)

    25. Part 4 class 1 Video 25 - question (Lyrea)

    26. Part 4 class 1 Video 26 - clarification and variations for -pizza stretch-

    27. Part 4 class 1 Video 27 - demonstration - subacromial branch of axillary artery (repeat for clarification)

    28. Part 4 class 1 Video 28 - demonstration - lateral thoracic artery and long thoracic nerve (to serratus anterior)

    29. Part 4 class 1 Video 29 - checking in on practice - lateral thoracic artery and long thoracic nerve (to serratus anterior)

    30. Part 4 class 1 Video 30 - demonstration - self-treatment for long thoracic nerve

    31. Part 4 class 1 Video 31 - summary of what this course is about

    32. Part 4 class 1 Video 32 - demonstration and check in - artery to triceps

    33. Part 4 class 1 Video 33 - wrapping up and a request

    34. 2025-02-11 Manual NVR Part 4 Class 1 Q&A - Cohort 1

    35. 2025-02-12 Manual NVR Part 4 Class 2 Q&A - Cohort 2

    1. Part 4 Class 2 Video 1 - check-in (Emily and Tessa) - recent head injury

    2. Part 4 Class 2 Video 2 - check-in (JackiBlue) - working with umbilicus and remnant vessels inside anterior abdominal wall

    3. Part 4 Class 2 Video 3 - check-in (Jenny) - biceps tendinitis

    4. Part 4 Class 2 Video 4 - anatomy - arteries crossing elbow, carrying angle

    5. Part 4 Class 2 Video 5 - demonstration - baseci release of artery supply to flexor compartment in forearm

    6. Part 4 Class 2 Video 6 - practice tips - artery supply to flexor compartment and triceps

    7. Part 4 Class 2 Video 7 - follow-up (Joanna) - with tips for doing artery to biceps

    8. Part 4 Class 2 Video 8 - follow-up (Cam and Joanna) - triceps, biceps

    9. Part 4 Class 2 Video 9 - follow-up (Jenny) -artery to triceps with active lengthening of muscle

    10. Part 4 Class 2 Video 10 - anatomy - artery to supinator muscle

    11. Part 4 Class 2 Video 11 - follow-up (Joanna) - extended listening, possible connection to lungs

    12. Part 4 Class 2 Video 12 - anatomy and demo - perforating arteries, median and ulnar arteries

    13. Part 4 Class 2 Video 13 - follow-up (Cam, Joanna) - using local listening, problem of tissue not responding

    14. Part 4 Class 2 Video 14 - follow-up (Katrin) - thinking about working with old fractures

    15. Part 4 Class 2 Video 15 - anatomy - perforating arteries in forearm

    16. Part 4 Class 2 Video 16 - self-treatment exploration - perforating arteries in forearm

    17. Part 4 Class 2 Video 17 - sidebar - looking at the falx in the skull model

    18. Part 4 Class 2 Video 18 - demonstration,guided practice - working with perforating arteries using local palpation with questioning

    19. Part 4 Class 2 Video 19 - follow-up (four students) - working with perforating arteries using local palpation with questioning

    20. Part 4 Class 2 Video 20 - questioning - what to ask while working with forearm

    21. Part 4 Class 2 Video 21 - follow-up (Tessa as receiver) - feeling smaller restrictions now closer to hand

    22. Part 4 Class 2 Video 22 - follow-up (Jenny) and anatomy - artery to supinator and possible radial nerve impingment

    23. Part 4 Class 2 Video 23 - demonstration - artery to supinator

    24. Part 4 Class 2 Video 24 - Kier talks while students work with artery to supinator

    25. Part 4 Class 2 Video 25 - follow-up (Joanna) - called to working with artery in extensor compartment

    26. Part 4 Class 2 Video 26 - Kier guides Jenny tableside- artery supply to supinator

    27. Part 4 Class 2 Video 27 - transition to general listening - post-test after forearm work, rtery and nerve tension in a tattoo

    28. Part 4 Class 2 Video 28 - tricky puzzle (John) - internal iliac artery tension to diaphragm

    29. Part 4 Class 2 Video 29 - tricky puzzle (Cam) - left artery and vagus nerve to right lung

    30. Part 4 Class 2 Video 30 - tricky puzzle (JackiBlue) - left neck, arm, and leg contributing artery tension to right thorax

    31. Part 4 Class 2 Video 31 - tricky puzzle (Emily) - superior gluteal nerve and T-12 dural restriction trigger release of jaw muscles

    32. Part 4 Class 2 Video 32 - tricky puzzle follow-up (JackiBlue) - predicting artery tension to organs

    33. 2025-02-18 Manual NVR Part 4 Class 2 Q&A - cohort 1

    34. 2025-02-19 Manual NVR Part 4 Class 2 Q&A - cohort 2

    1. Part 4 Class 3 Video 1 - anatomy - flexors in the forearm and pronators

    2. Part 4 Class 3 Video 2 - where we are at in this course, self-evaluation, what do you need?

    3. Part 4 Class 3 Video 3 - demonstration, guided practice - pronators in flexor compartment

    4. Part 4 Class 3 Video 4 - question (Lyrea) - what to do when you don-t get change on a previously injuired arm

    5. Part 4 Class 3 Video 5 - guided practice (Christina working on Jenny-s other arm) - pronators and details in flexor compartment including thumb flexor

    6. Part 4 Class 3 Video 6 - debriefing forearm work (Lyrea, Joanna) - needing more slack, local listening

    7. Part 4 Class 3 Video 7 - demonstration - working with extensor compartment

    8. Part 4 Class 3 Video 8 - guided practice - working with extensor compartment

    9. Part 4 Class 3 Video 9 - check-in after practice - working with extensor compartment

    10. Part 4 Class 3 Video 10 - intro to flossing median nerve

    11. Part 4 Class 3 Video 11 - demonstration - flossing median nerve

    12. Part 4 Class 3 Video 12 - followup (Lyrea) - working with imaginary movement

    13. Part 4 Class 3 Video 13 - what is your learning edge? (Emily, lyrea, Katrin) - using more questioning, working with more slack

    14. Part 4 Class 3 Video 14 - what is your learning edge? (Joanna, Cam) - incorporating more general listening, what to do when you dont- have a clear picture of what the listening is pointing to

    15. Part 4 Class 3 Video 15 - what is your learning edge? (Tessa) - hyperkyphosis (led to demonstration of bolstering)

    16. Part 4 Class 3 Video 16 - what is your learning edge? (Shiny) - mysterious bigger patterns (lead in to next video)

    17. Part 4 Class 3 Video 17 - demonstration of pretesting individual vertebrae for rotation restriction, working with brachial artery connection

    18. Part 4 Class 3 Video 18 - guided practice - working with individual vertebrae, connection to brachial artery

    19. Part 4 Class 3 Video 19 - working with individual vertebrae sidelying (Shiny) - suggestion to use multiple levers

    20. Part 4 Class 3 Video 20 - working with individual vertebrae sidelying (Emily) - determining which handles to work with

    21. Part 4 Class 3 Video 21 - working with individual vertebrae sidelying (Lyrea) - successful, led to aorta and iliac arteries (reminder to step back and look at the big picture periodically)

    22. Part 4 Class 3 Video 22 - working with individual vertebrae sidelying (Emily) - sidelying connection of hamstrings to rib cage

    23. Part 4 Class 3 Video 23 - guided questioning for working last thing (Cam ) - artery connection from mesenteric arteries on left to abdominal muscles on right.mp4

    24. Part 4 Class 3 Video 24 - guided questioning for working last thing (Tessa ) - Kier's questioning is only minimally unsuccessful; other assessment methods or Tessa defaulting to cranial work would have served better (No need to watch unless curious)

    25. Part 4 Class 3 Video 25 - working with last thing (JackiBlue) - used listening and questioning to work on release problem area without touching it

    26. Part 4 Class 3 Video 26 - working with last thing - discussion and observations about these sessions

    27. Part 4 Class 3 Video 27 - working with last thing - discussion about visceral work and questioning

    28. Part 4 Class 3 Video 28 - suggestion -if your class model doesn-t have much forearm or hand restriction, consider bringing in someone else

About this course

  • $960.00
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  • scholarships available