Exploring the Tide 2026

Exploring the Tide 2026 is organized by Osteopathy's Promise to Children (OPC) and will be held from Feb 20 - 22, 2026 at Osteopathic Center San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America.

Course Description:
This intermediate course in osteopathic diagnosis and treatment presents cutting-edge information and palpatory experience that heretofore has not been available through colleges of osteopathic medicine or other teaching venues. It is the product of the clinical experience of R. Paul Lee, DO, FAAO, FCA, DABMA. We will explore how the whole of the body expresses interrelationships through the fascia and how treating one part of the body influences and is influenced by other parts. One full day will be spent on a subject that revolutionized and drove Dr. Lee’s clinical and personal life – querying the tide for its ultimate intelligence. It informs the physician on what anatomic part am I palpating, or what do I do next in this case? Then, we will learn how to treat inflammation in the body by downregulating the amygdala, a most useful technique. We will learn how the brain is a dynamo and how this informs our understanding of a CV4. Finally, we will learn how to work on the traumatized brain. This course takes the student from familiar territory and usual structural clues to less familiar ground in treating energetic influences and the nervous system directly. This progression allows one who is not experienced in treating the brain to become capable. But from the beginning, new approaches to old problems are presented.

Learning Objectives:
The faculty of this course intends to teach the student to:

1. Learn to utilize the continuity of the fascia in osteopathic treatment. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice, Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice, Osteopathic Patient Care)
2. Understand how fascia acts to unify body, mind, and spirit, a basic tenet of osteopathic philosophy. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice)
3. Palpate the Tide within the fascia with all its important attributes. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice, Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice, Osteopathic Patient Care)
4. Explore how the fascia displays various factors based on fields of quantum energy. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice)
5. Feel through the fascia at a distance, based on principles of physics. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice, Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice, Osteopathic Patient Care)
6. Practice the use of Intelligence and Potency, two characteristics of the Tide. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice, Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice, Osteopathic Patient Care)
7. Learn how to use Intelligence of the Tide clinically. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice, Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice, Osteopathic Patient Care)
8. Learn how to use Potency of the Tide clinically. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice, Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice, Osteopathic Patient Care)
9. Learn how to use hand modes when querying the body. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice, Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice, Osteopathic Patient Care)
10. Learn how to use points that refer to organs when querying the body. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice, Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice, Osteopathic Patient Care)
11. Learn how to feel motion of the cerebellum as a part of the CNS dynamo. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice)
12. Learn how to feel the motion of the two layers of the tent. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice)
13. Learn how to feel Sutherland’s fulcrum. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice)
14. Learn how to feel distortions of the thalamus. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice)
15. Learn how to balance the autonomics by normalizing inhibition of the vagus nerve. (Osteopathic Principles and Practice)