Continuing Education Programs

At Emet Osteopathics, continuing education is grounded in a simple but essential understanding: osteopathic mastery is not achieved once, but cultivated over time through continual refinement of perception, touch, and clinical reasoning.

Back to Foundations

Our Back to the Basics programs are designed for osteopaths from a wide range of schools, traditions, and professional paths. Whether your training emphasized a particular methodology or clinical focus, these programs offer an opportunity to return to the core principles that unify osteopathy as a profession.

These courses are not remedial, nor are they technique-driven. Instead, they provide a structured and thoughtful space to revisit foundational osteopathic concepts with clarity, depth, and clinical relevance—supporting practitioners in integrating their experience into a more coherent and adaptable clinical practice.

The emphasis throughout our continuing education is on integration rather than accumulation: refining osteopathic thinking, sharpening perceptual skills, and strengthening the relationship between assessment, treatment, and clinical outcomes.

This is continuing education intended to support professional longevity, clinical confidence, and the ongoing development of osteopathic practice—regardless of where your original training began.

Emet Osteopathics maintains a distinct stream of continuing education dedicated to learning from experienced osteopathic practitioners working at a high level of clinical maturity.

Advanced & Integrative Continuing Education

This stream brings practitioners from around the world to share elements of their work that have been refined through decades of clinical practice. Teaching is centered on thoughtful examinations of how osteopathic principles are expressed, applied, and clarified through long-term clinical experience.

Visiting educators may represent different osteopathic lineages, modalities, and ways of working. What unites them is a demonstrated depth of clinical reasoning, perceptual clarity, and an ability to articulate how osteopathic understanding evolves through sustained practice.

This element of continuing education is intended to:

  • introduce practitioners to diverse expressions of osteopathic thinking

  • support professional dialogue across traditions without loss of coherence

  • encourage discernment and integration

  • contribute to the ongoing maturation of the profession

These offerings create space for osteopathy to evolve through shared clinical experience—learning from practitioners who have cultivated something meaningful, grounded, and transferable through years of committed practice.

Back to the Basics Program – Core Areas of Study

The Back to the Basics program is designed as a comprehensive return to the foundational domains of osteopathic practice. The curriculum emphasizes perceptual skill, clinical reasoning, and the integration of osteopathic principles across systems and regions of the body.

Foundational Osteopathic Skills

  • Palpation and perceptual refinement

  • Osteopathic assessment and evaluation

  • Clinical reasoning within osteopathy

  • General osteopathic treatment

  • Strain Counter Strain

  • Regional treatment

Structural & Regional Approaches

  • The Pelvis

  • Cervical spine

  • Upper cervical spine

  • Lumbar spine

  • Thorax and rib cage

  • Lower extremity

  • Cranial base

  • Cranial vault

Functional Approaches

  • Muscle energy approach

  • Articular strain Approach

  • Direct myofascial Approach

Cranial & Neurophysiological Concepts

  • Cranial sacral mechanism

  • Visceral–cranial relationships

  • Neuro-endocrine Systems

Visceral & Systemic Approaches

  • Cardiorespiratory system

  • Digestive system

  • Hepatic system

  • Reproductive system

  • Pressure and fluid systems

Developmental & Embryological Perspectives

  • Embryological approaches to treatment

  • Paediatrics