Brain 2: Brain Tissue, Nuclei, Fluid & RAS Fluid Dynamics and Fascia Release of CNS
Class Code : B2
03 - 05 Oct 2026
Chatswood Club, 11 Help Street, Chatswood, NSW 2067, Sydney, Australia.
Prerequisite
B1
Price
$1,250.00
ReTake
AUD $700.00
Offer
10%
off for two or more courses
You can receive the 10% off for two or more courses when purchased as a package and Full Payment must be made at the same time 45 days before the class start date.
Class Code : B2
Brain 2 teaches the form, function, and response mechanisms of the brain’s various components and offers hands-on techniques to effectively release many primary restrictions that can affect the whole body. In this class, we will learn different ways to find a primary lesion in the brain, and we will focus a little more on the spinal cord’s grey and white matter.
Class Length: 3 days
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS
- Lecture
- Study Guide
- Question & Answer
- PowerPoint Slides
- Demonstration
- Practice sessions
- Review
Schedule (subject to change)
Day One
8:30
Registration
9:00 – 11:00
Introduction, teachers, students, teaching assistants, and facilitator. Teaching material
Review of some Brain level 1 techniques
Reticular formation (RF) / Reticular Alarm System (RAS): the median, medial and lateral column of the RF.
11:00 – 11:15
Ventricles of the brain: fluid assessment and treatment
Corpus Callosum: assessment and treatment
12:30 – 2:00
Lunch
Anterior Commissure: assessment and treatment
The commissure of the Fornix
3:30 – 3:45
Break / group discussion
3:45 – 5:30
Basal Nuclei / Internal Capsule: motor/coordination/balance assessment. Applications in motor deficit, fine motor skills.
Day Two
9:00 – 11:00
Questions and answers
Thalamus afferents, applications to physical body lesions
11:00 – 11:15
Break / group discussion
11:15 – 12:30
Release of the superior, middle, and inferior peduncles of the cerebellum: fascia and fluid approach.
12:30 – 2:00
Lunch
2:00 – 3:00
Tissue trauma and hands-on downregulation of the RAS and clinical cases
3:00 – 3:30
RAS Clinical cases
3:30 – 3:45
Break / group discussion
3:45 – 5:30
Finding dominant lesions in the CNS: fascia and fluid approaches.
Day Three
9:00 – 10:30
Questions and answers
10:30 – 10:45
Break / group discussion
10: 45 – 12:45
Caudal meningeal attachments of the spinal cord: Filum terminale internum and externum
12:45 – 2:00
Cephalic meningeal attachments of the spinal cord: occipital and cervical dural attachments. Foramen Magnum fascial release
Review
Take home Protocol
Final questions and answers
Self-Reflection and identification of changes for practitioner’s practice
Day Four
9:00 – 10:30
Break
– Connective-Tissue-Fibers Technique (CTFR)
12:30 – 1:30
Lunch
– Scar-Release Therapy
– Final questions and answers
– Take home Protocol
– Self-reflection and identification of changes for practitioner’s practice
Learner's Objectives:
- By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly demonstrate on a live person how to alleviate physical symptoms of Reticular Alarm System hyperactivity
- By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly assess on a live person fluid dysfunctions of the Ventricles
- By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly demonstrate on a live person how to release dysfunctions of the Corpus Callosum
- By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly demonstrate on a live person how to release dysfunctions of the Corpus By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly demonstrate on a live person how to release dysfunctions of the Anterior Commissure
- By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly assess on a live person fluid dysfunctions of the Internal Capsule
- By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly assess on a live person dysfunctions of the Thalamus
- By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly demonstrate on a live person how to release the peduncles of the Cerebellum
- Based on a fascia and fluid approach participants will be able by the end of the course to correctly design on a live person a proper treatment plan in relation to CNS dysfunctions
- By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly demonstrate on a live person how to release mechanical dysfunctions of the spinal cord
- By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly demonstrate on a live person how to release caudal meningeal attachments of the spinal cord
- By the end of the course participants will be able to correctly demonstrate on a live person how to release cephalic meningeal attachments of the spinal cord.
Anatomical/Physiological Terms
1. The DVD “Dissection of the Brain” and Spinal Cord is a great preparation for the Brain 2 class.
2. Be sure you understand the following words and, as applicable, know precisely where these structures are located in the body.
For this class, it is more important to know their 3-dimensional location and relationship with one another, than their classically described physiology.
- Reticular alarm system: median (raphe nuclei), medial and lateral columns, locus ceruleus, sulcus limitans, rhomboid fossa.
Frontal and occipital forceps of the corpus callosum
Internal capsule
Anterior commissure, medial and lateral olfactory striae, posterior commissure
The commissure of the fornix (psalterium or lyre of David)
Mamillothalamic tract
Posterior limb of the internal capsule, pyramidal decussation, corticospinal tracts
Dentate gyrus, gyrus fasciolaris
All nuclei of the thalamus, including midline, medial dorsal (MD), all lateral and all ventral, intralaminar nuclei (centromedian, central lateral, parafascicular), etc.
Nucleus accumbens, septal nuclei, nucleus basalis (of Meynert), ventral tegmental area (VTA), stria terminalis, stria medullaris
Habenular nuclei
Vermis, superior, middle, and inferior cerebellar peduncles
Vestibular nuclei
Periaqueductal gray matter (PAG)
Dura, arachnoid, pia, in the brain and spine
The spinal cord, foramen magnum, C1, C2, cervical and lumbar enlargements, dorsal and ventral roots, dorsal root (spinal) ganglion, conus medullaris, cauda equina, filum terminale
3. You can see this Youtube video for the ascending and descending tracts of the spinal cord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G-d8gKIlOw
4. Be familiar with the brain structures from each of the following pages of “Netter’s Atlas of Human Neuroscience” 1st Edition (and 2nd Edition in parenthesis):
Page 24 (page 35-36): Areas 3, 1, 2, 4, 6 of Brodmann, somatosensory, motor, and premotor cortex
Page 25 (page 37, 47): Anterior commissure
Page 29 (page 38, 46, 50, 63): Denticulate ligament, dentate gyrus, gyrus fasciolaris
Page 30 (page 47): Olfactory bulb, septal nuclei, anterior nuclei of the thalamus, mammillary bodies, indusium griseum, hippocampus, amygdala, stria. terminalis, stria medullaris, habenular nuclei, interpeduncular nucleus
Page 31 (page 48): Frontal and occipital forceps of corpus callosum, medial and lateral longitudinal striae
Page 34 (page 52): Thalamus; all nuclei: midline, medial dorsal (MD), etc.; all lateral, all ventral, and intralaminar nuclei (centromedian, central lateral, parafascicular)
Page 35 (page 54-55): Pulvinar, pineal, inferior and superior colliculi, medial and lateral geniculate bodies, cerebellar peduncles, pyramid, inferior olive, choroid plexus of 4th ventricle
Page 36 (page 56-57): Cerebellum, vermis, paravermis, lingula, central lobule, culmen, declive, folium, tuber, pyramid, uvula, nodule, cerebellar nuclei
Page 38 (page 62): Filum terminale, cauda equina, conus medullaris
Page 39 (page 63): Meninges, nerve rootlets (filaments of a nerve root), and nerve roots
Page 40 (page 64): Meninges, nerve roots
Page 41 (page 65): Have a specific concept of ascending, descending, and bilateral pathways of the spinal cord
Page 44 (page 70-71): Cerebellar peduncles, locus coeruleus, sulcus limitans, tuber cinereum, colliculi, choroid plexus
Page 57-58 (page 96-97): Meninges layer
Page 87 (page 139): Dural sac (black), filum terminale, cauda equina, conus medullaris
Page 169 (page 251): Reticular formation, raphe, PAG
Page 170 (page 252): Thalamus reticular nuclei, reticular Formation
Page 174 (page 256): Cerebellum, vermis, paravermis, lingual, central lobule, culmen, declive, folium, tuber, pyramid, uvula, nodule
Page 175 (page 257): Cerebellar peduncles
Page 176 (page 260): Thalamus projections to the cerebral cortex
Page 191 (page 290): Amygdala, nucleus basalis (of Meynert)
Page 195 (page 298): Superior cerebellar peduncle
Page 206 (page 316): Locus coeruleus
Page 207 (page 317): Raphe nuclei
Page 209 (page 319): Septal nuclei, nucleus basalis (of Meynert)
Page 237 (page 353): Cerebellar peduncles
Page 243 (page 363): Corticobulbar tract
Page 244 (page 364): Corticospinal tract
Page 258 (page 380): Cerebellar nuclei: fastigial, globose, emboliform, dentate, vermis, vestibular nuclei
Page 292-293 (page 417-418): Olfactory bulb, septal nuclei, hippocampus, amygdala, stria terminalis
Page 295 (page 420): Septal nuclei
Page 298 (page 423): Anterior commissure, medial and lateral olfactory striae
