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follow the osteopathic principle that given proper resources and support, bodies correct themselves with very little, if any, intervention. We believe everyone's body has innate wisdom and knows just what is needed to heal. So, rather than acting to try to resolve a situation or "fi x" a client, the therapist becomes a facilitator and witness who supports the body's knowing. This process-oriented approach demands focused but noninvasive touch—what Upledger called "blending and melding with the tissue." To help beginning practitioners learn this new approach, he created a detailed protocol aimed at safely affecting change in the body with very little force. He developed techniques laypeople could master. Each technique has the core intent of releasing specifi c structures in the most easeful, least invasive way possible. The protocol of techniques aims to normalize tissue function and fl uid and energy fl ow throughout the body, focusing on the components of the craniosacral system and the fascial connections that infl uence and affect it. Students learn how to mobilize membranes using light touch on the bones as "handles" to access the soft tissue beneath and to assess those bones' movement. They also learn fascial techniques to assess whole-body pulse �