Continuing Education

2014 Repeat Visceral Manipulation PELVIS Barral Institute Boston MA

2014 Repeat Visceral Manipulation Abdomen II New York New York

2013 Visceral Manipulation PELVIS Barral Institute Reston VA

2012 Visceral & Cranio Sacral Teacher Assistant Symposium Orange County CA

2012 Listening and Assessment I Barral Institute Baltimore MD

2012 Repeat Visceral Manipulation Abdomen I Philadelphia PA

2012 Repeat Visceral Manipulation Thorax Barral Institute New York New York

2012 Therapist Assistant CranioSacral I Upledger Institute Philadelphia PA

2011 Visceral Manipulation Thorax Barral Institute GreenBay WI

2011 Visceral Manipulation Abdomen II Barral Institute Elkridge MD

2011 Visceral Manipulation Abdomen I Barral Institute Philadelphia PA

2010 SomatoEmotional Release Advanced Cranio Sacral Techniques Upledger Walltownship NJ

2010 CranioSacral II Upledger Institute Philadelphia PA

2010 Great Lakes Ankle Foot Seminar Magee Rehabilitation Center Philadelphia PA

2010 Deep Tissue Methods “Power Tools” Nayada Institute Conshohoken PA

2009 Myofascial Release II REPEATING SEMINAR Philadelphia PA

2009 Myofascial Release Fascial Pelvis John Barnes Schenectady NY

2009 CranioSacral I Upledger Institute Philadelphia PA

2008 Myofascial Release I REPEATING SEMINAR John Barnes Wilmington DE

2008 Myofascial Release Cervical Thoracic John Barnes Atlanta GA

2008 Anatomy Trains Tom Meyers MyoFacial Meridians Pottstown PA

2008 Myofascial Unwinding John Barnes Ocean City MD

2008 Myofascial Release II John Barnes Minneapolis MN

2007 Myofascial Release I John Barnes St. Louis Missouri

2007 3B Orthopedics Sports Congress Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia PA

2007 Great Lakes Sacroiliac Seminar Washington DC

2007 Great Lakes Comprehensive Treatment of the Shoulder Reading Pennsylvania

2006 Great Lakes Comprehensive Treatment of Cervical Ribs and Thoracic Spine Newark NJ

2006 Cross Country Education Manually Managing Neural Tension Philadelphia Pennsylvania

2006 Omeri Home Study Course Local Philadelphia PA

2006 Omeri Institute of Orthopedic Massage I Trunk and Pelvis @ Harrisburg Pennsylvania

2005 Omeri Institute of Orthopedic Massage III Upper Extremity @ Piscataway NJ

2005 Omeri Institute of Orthopedic Massage II Lower Extremity @ Piscataway NJ

2005 3B Orthopedics Sports Congress @ Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia

2004 Dance Medicine Association Artists and Injury @ Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

2004 IPTA Main Line Rehabilitation Upper and Lower Cervical Treatments@ Devon Pennsylvania

2003 Great Lakes Myofascial Release @ Philadelphia Pennsylvania

2003 McKenzie Institute Part B Cervical Spine @ Doylestown Pennsylvania

2002 IPTA Razansky Physical Therapy Shirley Sahrmann Shoulder Course@ Philadelphia PA

2002 3B Orthopedics Sports Congress@ Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia

2001 McKenzie Institute Part A Lumbar Spine @ Philadelphia Pennsylvania

2001 IPTA Razansky Physical Therapy Mulligan, Maitland, and McKenzie Lumbar @ Philadelphia PA

2001 IPTA Razansky Physical Therapy Mulligan, Maitland and McKenzie Cervical @ Philadelphia PA

Who.

Lara is a licensed nationally certified massage and bodywork practitioner. She has a career spanning 20 years of dance, movement, rehabilitation, and hands on bodywork. Her sessions focus on restoring function, balancing the body's systems, and empowering clients to treat themselves and succeed at maximizing their movement and body goals.

Modalities.

Lara interacts with the body on many levels. She is versed in varied soft tissue techniques and neuromuscular re-patterning. Lara utilizes Orthopedic massage, Myofascial Release, Craniosacral therapy, Visceral Fascia therapy.

Philosophy.

Lara's approach uses manual hands on techniques to treat the biography of the injury in all of its manifestations throughout the body. Treating the body's biography of injury requires the skill to interact with all the tissue and connected anatomy as well as applying the appropriate movement re-education. Integral to this approach, is educating the client about anatomy, biomechanics, and how multiple systems come into play to address their goals.