While bone is living, rarely is bone the focus of the touch, but the avenue by which we can touch structures and systems innervated or underneath. The vascular connections underneath the surface of parietal bone bring us into contact with both oxygenated and de-oxygenated circulation of blood through the middle meningeal artery and the superior sagittal sinus respectively, which of course will place us in touch with propagator of circulation, the heart. In the same way, we can extend this anatomy to the sphenoid, that to optimize the position of the sphenoid will affect the vascular profusion and return, having built our anatomy, the circle of willis above nourishing the whole of the brain, foramen spinosum transmitting the middle meningeal artery creating profusion for the entirety of dura, and so now we are in contact with that which gives life and suppleness to the wrapping that connect on one side to all our cranial bone, to the underneath side to our brain, and be continuous through our cord to S2.. Allowing us to think this way helps us understand and be in awe of the systems at work and the person seeking our care.

For those who would like to attend class with me: For Milne Institute Classes: UNITED STATES: Cranial 2: Chattanooga TN - begins May 6 ro 9th AUSTRALIA Cranial 5: Ocean Shores - May 27th to 30th Cranial 6: Ocean Shores - June 10 to 13th CRANIAL 1: OPEN TO NEW STUDENTS: MELBOURNE: June 18 to 21st ENGLAND Milne Institute Associated and development of my course curriculum: Chinese Medicine Concepts in Craniosacral Contacts Module 1: the DU and the DURA - Brighton, England September 26 and 27 Head over to the LIVE CLASS tab where you will find registration links to all classes, and feel free to comment below or send me a private message with any questions. Our WEBINAR on the FRONTAL and PARIETAL BONES will be this MONDAY because of teaching Wednesday. Access for that via click your profile photo, settings, change plan, switch to premium. Happiness, Matthew

The heart is using the vagus nerve to listen to our external world, and digest it for value on how we feel about it, as we can see by the way the left vagus nerve connects to the AV node, and the right to the SA node, and their resepective recurrent branches wrapping around the aortic arch and subclavian artery to the thyroid, while the main branch continues to our digestive organ. We can hypothesize that being nerve - ous about danger would ask for muscle contraction, the energy for which loaded into the sympathetic nervous system, and this is healthy - but prolonged, all things fatigue, and can set up a pattern where there is depressed or less energy available for the system as it tries to hold together and protect the thing that probably no longer needs protection, stuck in an inertial fulcrum, a moment of time that has passed but being continued to be lived in.

When we look at cranial bone axis of rotation, it is important to understand the shape the brain makes in its fluctuation of flexion and extension as moved by primary respiration, the way the dura accommodates this change of shape, and the way the infoldings of the dura, the falx and tentorium then move, and because of their endosteal attachment to bone, we can understand cranial bone motion rather than having to memorize. The second video unfortuantely does not show correct osteopathic motion, but does give us a sense of how falx affects frontal and parietal bone, and we'll discuss it in the classroom space this coming MONDAY (because I'm teaching wednesday) in our WEBINAR on the frontal and parietal bones.

Our webinar will be moved to this Monday the 4th because I’m teaching craniosacral class untol 6pm on Wednesday. The recording will be posted in the classroom.