Live with Gil Season 1 (16 HR/CE)

S1 E1: Deep Dive into the IT Band 

In this Live With Gil, Gil shares his evolving perspective of the IT Band as an integrated structure whose differential movement potential is informed by its weave and integration with the surrounding perifascia. This session includes microscopic photos and videos of the IT Band to illustrate its structure and movement potentials facilitated by its weave as well as discussions of the application of this understanding to clinical practice.

• Video: 1 hour 17 minutes
• Reading: 5 minutes
• Review: 8 minutes

S1 E2: The SI Joint with Leslie Kaminoff 

In this Live With Gil, Gil and his special guest Leslie Kaminoff explore the structure of the sacroiliac joint. This session includes video from Gil’s work with Anna and Z to disarticulate the bones of the pelvis, which illuminates the variability in the structure of two real SI joints. Using a plastic and clay model, Gil illustrates the structure and movement potential of the joint. Together, Gil and Leslie discuss the implication for these variations and the application of this understanding to movement and clinical practice.

• Video: 1 hour 38 minutes
• Reading: 5 minutes
• Review: 9 minutes

S1 E3: Brain Tour with Dr. Madhav Gramke, D.C. 

In this Live With Gil, Gil and his special guest Madhav Gramke, DC (Doctor of Chiropractic) explore a beautifully preserved brain from a form in Gil’s recent internship program. In this remarkable and comprehensive tour, they identify the physiological structures of the brain and spinal cord (cerebrum, cerebellum, ventricles, meninges, pineal and pituitary glands, etc.). They also explore more esoteric questions, such as the brain’s relationship to consciousness, the heart, and the whole human.  

• Video: 1 hour 27 minutes
• Reading: 5 minutes
• Review: 10 minutes

S1 E4: Sex Ed Clitoral Anatomy - with Sue Hitzmann* 

In this Live With Gil, Gil and his special guest  - and founder of the MELT Method - Sue Hitzmann explore “Sex Ed: Clitoral Anatomy.” Through the use of life-sized, multi-colored clay model, Gil identifies the important structures of the female pars intima and its connections to its surrounding tissues. Together, Sue and Gil explore the emotional, social, spiritual, and personal aspects of sexuality. Near the end of the talk, Gil also introduces for the first time his handmade silver pars intima model.

• Video: 1 hour 34 minutes
• Reading: 5 minutes
• Review: 9 minutes

*S1 E4 is excluded from NCBTMB credit.

S1 E5: Deep Dive on the Psoas! With Til Luchau

In this Live With Gil, Gil and his special guest Til Luchau take a deep dive into exploring the psoas muscle in intimate context with its surrounding anatomy. This session includes images and video from Gil’s work in Anatomy from A to Z, as well as relevant images from his Integral Anatomy Series to illustrate the intricate connections between psoas and a wide variety of major anatomical structures and organs in the abdominopelvic cavity. By examining the complexity of psoas in relationship, Gil and Til arrive at a reverence for the work that is done with and around this famous muscle.

• Video: 1 hour 44 minutes
• Reading: 5 minutes
• Review: 9 minutes

S1 E6: Exploring "Intersex" with Debbie Rosas

In this Live With Gil, Gil and special guest and Co-founder of NIA Debbie Rosas bring clarity and regard to the anatomical phenomenon of intersex bodies. Gil shares images of an intersex donor form recently received in the lab to help illustrate one of many possible intersex variations that occur naturally in the human experience. Special guest and intersex activist Tatenda Ngwaru also joins the conversation and contributes her unique voice and experience as an intersex person.

• Video: 1 hour 29 minutes
• Reading: 5 minutes
• Review: 9 minutes

S1 E7: Diaphragm-Abdomen Relationship with Jill Miller

In this Live With Gil, Gil and special guest Jill Miller–creator of Yoga Tune Up and the Roll Model Method–discuss the relationship between the musculature of the abdominal wall and the respiratory diaphragm. Gil shares images from the lab that make clear how the internal and external obliques, as well as rectus abdominis, join the deeper interweaving of transversus abdominis and the diaphragm to create our whole-body breath. 

• Video: 1 hour 27 minutes
• Reading: 5 minutes
• Review: 9 minutes

S1 E8: Touring Abdominal Viscera with Marty Ryan, LMT

In this Live With Gil, special guest Marty Ryan, LMT, joins Gil to explore the abdominal viscera with the help of images of Margaret, the donor form in Gil’s unfixed Online Dissection Series: Margaret course. Together they orient the viewer toward the typical location of the organs of the abdomen and pelvis, as well as compare notes about what Gil sees in dissection vs. what Marty feels and finds in manual practice.

• Video: 1 hour 33 minutes
• Reading: 5 minutes
• Review: 9 minutes

S1 E9: Body As Gift w/ Rachel Scott, E-RYT

In this Live With Gil, special guest Rachel Scott joins Gil to explore the questions, “Who am I?” and “What is my body?” The session begins with Gil and Rachel sharing images from the lab from the course Anatomy from A to Z, as well as images from nature and life. They then open the discussion for fellow somanauts to share their experiences of body-as-gift and where they are currently in their personal journey of discovering the truths of themselves and their bodies.

• Video: 1 hour 31 minutes
• Reading: 5 minutes
• Review: 9 minutes