​Cynthia Price

Dr. Cynthia Price, PhD, MA, LMT, will demonstrate the key elements of interoceptive awareness training through Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy (MABT), a therapeutic mind-body touch-based approach she developed and has been researching for the past 25 years.  The MABT protocol for research teaches interoceptive awareness skills to promote self-awareness, self-care, and emotion regulation in a sequential three-staged approach over eight 75-minute sessions. Dr. Price will briefly demonstrate each stage and describe the rationale and importance of this scaffolded teaching/learning process and answer any related questions.

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Steven Weiniger

Dr. Steven Weiniger, DC, DIANM and poster expert will describe how the Interoceptive Posture Picture (IPP) (Weiniger & Schilaty, 2024, Frontiers in Neuroscience) quantifies the gap between perceived and photographically observed alignment across four zones of postural mass (ZPMs), in bipedal and unipedal stance. And a structured chiropractic elective (N=9, NWHSU, Winter 2026) found that MUST-cued (vs. TRY-cued) unipedal balance training — the StrongPosture® Stork — led every participant to spontaneously identify previously-unnoticed asymmetries, with several reporting unprompted postural self-correction carrying into daily life within a week. Steven Weiniger, will demonstrate, live, the two protocols at the center of the model: the StrongPosture® Stork (unipedal balance) and the StrongPosture® WallLean, each performed under both TRY and MUST cueing so the audience can see the difference in postural engagement directly.

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Bob Seton

Bob Seton, MPT, will demonstrate Autonomic Recalibration (AR), a trauma-informed manual therapy approach designed to address autonomic dysregulation associated with chronic pain. AR begins with a head-to-toe Nociceptive Startle Exam to identify myofascial trigger points and patterns of hypervigilance. Treatment combines Primal Reflex Release Technique and Pain Neutralization Technique to relieve pain and restore myofascial function by addressing maladaptive reflex loops. This whole-person approach integrates neuroeducation concerning the relationship of pain, stress, trauma history, and autonomic self-regulation. Preliminary clinical and mechanistic studies have reported significant reductions in pain and nociceptive trigger points, accompanied by improvements in myofascial function (Cawley et al., 2024; Seton et al., 2023). Building on these findings, ongoing research is using 7-Tesla resting-state fMRI and magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate changes in brain networks associated with AR.  This interactive demonstration will introduce participants to the clinical reasoning, assessment framework, and manual techniques used in AR.

Anita Ribeiro

Dr. Anita Ribeiro, PhD, and psychotherapist, will demonstrate Calatonia, a gentle psyche–soma regulation technique developed by Pethö Sándor during WWII, consisting of a structured sequence of subtle, stationary, bilateral touches to the feet, ankles, calves, and head, held for approximately three minutes each.  Calatonia's possible mechanisms include the effects of light, sustained, bilateral, non-task-oriented touch in a resting-state context, which may support the balancing of functional brain connectivity and cortical and biobehavioral synchronisation within dyadic regulation between client and therapist. It also relies on the engagement of affiliative and discriminative touch systems and other skin structures, including hair follicles, Schwann cells, and Langerhans cells; the orienting reflex; interhemispheric connectivity; and neuroendocrine pathways related to the skin’s HPA axis.

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