The Cantrell Center in Warner Robins, GA, has long been a PRI facility under the long-time leadership of Tassie Cantrell. For me, it was a full-circle moment. In 2006, after taking a few years to study PRI concepts, and my first course to get back into PRI was at the Cantrell Center. The course was Postural Respiration with Ron as the instructor. And from that point forward, PRI has been an exceptionally rewarding professional and personal journey. So it was not lost on me that nearly 20 years later, I was teaching the same course in the same facility that jump-started my professional relationship with PRI.
This course was a wonderful mix of PRI veterans and those new to the science of PRI. The labs were wonderful, with the help of Samantha Anderson, PRC. There is so much lab on the second day of this course, and with Samantha’s help, everyone had the opportunity to experience the manual and non-manual techniques. This course has been tweaked and massaged several times since the first time I took this course in 2004, most recently in 2022. If you haven’t taken this flagship course of PRI, I would encourage you to do so as this course is the gateway to Cervical Revolution, Cranial Resolution, Impingement and Instability, Human Evolution, Voice Box Resonance, and Forward Locomotion Movement.
Day One of this iteration of Postural Restoration is designed to provide hard evidence and rationale for how and why the rib cage needs to move backwards and in alternation. The thorax and rib cage movement necessary for acquisition and maintenance of a Zone of Apposition is the recurring theme of Day One. We present exhaustive peer-reviewed literature evidence of why the ZOA is the body’s best opportunity for proper use of the diaphragm for inhalation.
Day Two is primarily lab so the attendees have the opportunity to experience the manual and non-manual techniques recommended by the science of PRI to achieve and maintain a ZOA. For many years, Superior T4 Syndrome was a mystery to me. So I do my best to flush out how this course has evolved to hopefully remove the mystery of what Superior T4 Syndrome is, how to identify it, why it occurs, why it is problematic, and how to manage it. There are a few “deal breakers” in PRI, and Right Superior T4 Syndrome is one of them.
My thanks to the Cantrell Center and specifically the staff that were in attendance: Johnathan, Maria Christina, Samanatha, Erin, Linda, Braxton, Dina, Elizabeth, Keeley, and Cindy. And Sunshine was the perfect host as she attended to all of our needs during the course. It was also so great to reconnect with PRI veterans Karen Warren, PT, Mary Beth Verlander, PT, Melissa Baudo PT, and Angela Nelson, LMT. Hope to see you at the new and improved Postural Restoration!
