Rebuilding movement from the ground up.
A four-part, hands-on education series for practitioners who want to understand how joints move, connect, and create efficient human motion.
Understand how every joint moves — on its own, then as part of the whole.
You already know movement isn’t just about muscles — it’s about how the whole skeleton moves as one.
But most training stops short of showing you how each joint actually fits into that bigger picture.
This series changes that.
You’ll learn to see how the foot, ankle, knee, hip, and spine talk to each other during every step — and how to use that knowledge to assess, treat, and retrain real human movement.
No theories. No clamshells. Just practical, joint-by-joint biomechanics that work in clinic the very next day.
Because when you understand how movement should flow, you’ll know exactly what to do when it doesn’t.
Gait & Biomechanics Workshop Series
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Why Join This Series?
Because you’re not looking for another rehab checklist — you’re looking for a system that actually explains what you see in the room.
-If you’ve ever watched a client walk and thought “Something’s off… but I can’t quite tell what,” this series gives you the framework to find the missing link — and change it.
You’ll learn to:
See patterns, not parts. Understand how each joint contributes to the bigger movement story.
Trace dysfunctions through the chain. Spot where motion stops, shifts, or gets stolen.
Treat movement, not muscles. Use precise, closed-chain joint mobilisation and movement re-education that lasts.
Build your clinical confidence. Know exactly what to do, and why it works.
This isn’t a theoretical exercise — it’s about learning to see the body like a map, then using your hands and movement cues to redraw it.
You’ll leave with a repeatable framework that transforms the way you assess, explain, and treat.
No fluff. No jargon. Just practical biomechanics that make you better at what you already do.
What You’ll Learn
Across four hands-on workshops, you’ll build a complete framework for understanding and improving human movement — from the ground up.
Each module adds a new layer of clinical insight and skill:
you’ll go from identifying joint-by-joint motion to seeing the entire kinetic chain in action, and knowing how to correct it in real time.
You’ll learn how to:
Decode movement through gait. Understand what each phase of walking tells you about joint health, coordination, and compensation.
Assess joints in motion. Move beyond static postures and learn to evaluate bones, joints, and timing through real movement.
Mobilise intelligently. Use targeted, closed-chain techniques that restore motion and proprioception at every level — from the toes to the spine.
Link local to global. Connect a stiff talus to a tight hip, or a collapsed arch to chronic back tension, using a clear movement logic.
Rebuild efficient patterns. Create long-term change with movement drills and isometric holds that “lock in” new coordination.
Communicate what you see. Explain movement and dysfunction to clients in language that makes sense and motivates change.
You’ll finish with a whole-body treatment system grounded in how the body truly moves — practical, evidence-informed, and designed for immediate use in clinic.
No gadgets. No generic exercise sheets.
Just intelligent, hands-on movement therapy that makes you see and treat differently.
How It Works
This isn’t a sit-and-listen kind of course — it’s a full learning system designed to make sure everything you learn sticks.
Each workshop blends theory, practice, and post-training support so you can confidently apply new skills with your clients straight away.
2-Day In-Person Workshops
Learn by doing.
Each weekend combines hands-on assessment, mobilisation, and movement retraining.
You’ll work in pairs, test ideas, feel joint motion for yourself, and refine your eye for movement patterns in real time.
Online Pre-Learning Modules
Arrive ready to move.
You’ll get access to online videos and reading before the workshop — covering gait phases, foot and limb mechanics, and foundational joint concepts — so the live training can stay 100% practical.
Workbook Provided
Forget messy notes.
Your workbook keeps everything structured — including diagrams, movement breakdowns, and clear step-by-step guides for each technique.
Post-Course Support
Because real learning starts when you get back to clinic.
Most key movement assessments and release techniques are recorded and provided for review afterward — so you can refresh, refine, and keep building confidence in your practice.
Hands-on. Structured. Supported.
Everything you need to turn gait theory into practical, clinical skill.
Workshop 1: Functional Foot Mechanics
Rebuilding the Foot — From the Ground to Gait
Practical Mechanics for Real Movement
The Foundation of the Whole System
Every movement starts at the foot — and if the foundation isn’t working, everything above it has to compensate.
This first workshop rebuilds your understanding of how the foot behaves in real life: dynamically, under load, and in constant conversation with the rest of the body.
You’ll learn to see and feel what’s truly happening during each step — how the heel, arch, and forefoot interact through gait, and how to restore the motion that makes efficient movement possible.
What You’ll Learn
Static & Dynamic Foot Assessments
Understand what the foot should be doing at rest and in motion — and what it’s telling you when it isn’t.
You’ll learn to read arches, heel position, and toe function as diagnostic markers for the entire kinetic chain.
Closed-Chain Mobilisation Techniques
Master eight key joint-specific mobilisations across all three planes of motion.
These techniques restore balance through the rearfoot, midfoot, and forefoot — changing how the whole limb loads and moves.
The Six Phases of Gait (Foot Edition)
Track the mechanical story from heel strike to toe-off:
Initial Contact → Loading Response → Mid-Stance → Terminal Stance → Pre-Swing → Toe-Off.
You’ll know exactly where the foot should pronate, where it should supinate, and how to spot when it’s stuck doing neither.
Hands-On Corrections
Learn precise manual and movement-based interventions that create instant, visible change — the kind your clients can feel immediately.
You’ll leave knowing how to restore foot mobility, balance, and functional loading from the ground up.
Why It Matters
Most practitioners can spot a collapsed arch or stiff big toe — but few can connect those findings to the way a client walks, stands, and compensates.
This workshop bridges that gap. You’ll gain the skills to assess, feel, and restore real three-dimensional foot motion, giving you the tools to influence the entire body’s alignment and efficiency.
Everything you learn here becomes the foundation for the next three workshops: limb mechanics, spinal motion, and integrated gait analysis all start with the function of the foot.
Post-Workshop Access
All major mobilisations and movement drills are recorded during the workshop and made available for post-training review — so you can revisit, refine, and apply these techniques with confidence long after the weekend ends.
Masting Foot Mechanics Trailer
Who It’s For:
These workshops are designed for practitioners who want to move beyond textbook anatomy and start working with how the body actually moves — dynamically, unpredictably, and beautifully messy.
If you’re a:
Physiotherapist or Osteopath wanting a clearer framework for movement-based assessment
Personal Trainer or Strength Coach ready to understand how gait mechanics shape performance and injury risk
Chiropractor or Movement Specialist seeking to connect manual therapy with functional, whole-body motion
Soft Tissue Therapist or Reflexologist looking to expand treatment results through joint sequencing and movement integration
Then this series will give you a system that makes sense of the body in motion — practical, evidence-informed, and instantly usable in clinic or gym alike.
Because real people don’t move in straight lines — and neither should your treatments.
Workshops 2 Functional Limb Mechanics
Assessing and Restoring Functional Limb Mechanics
Practical Sequencing Through the Kinetic Chain
Building the Chain
Once the foot moves well, the next step is learning how the rest of the limb follows.
This workshop connects the dots between the foot, ankle, knee, hip, and pelvis — teaching you how motion, timing, and coordination travel through the kinetic chain.
You’ll learn to feel how restrictions in one joint steal motion from another, and how restoring proper sequencing creates instant balance, stability, and strength through the lower body.
This is a deeply hands-on workshop: you’ll practise targeted mobilisations and resets for nearly every major joint in the lower limb, then learn how to integrate those joints so they move as a single, functional unit.
It’s where isolated anatomy becomes coordinated, efficient motion — and where the limb starts working as one.
What You’ll Learn
Joint Releases & Mobilisations
Refine your manual skills with precise joint releases of the heel (subtalar joint), ankle (talocrural joint), fibula, femur (knee joint), and hip complex.
You’ll learn how to restore natural coupling mechanics and motion flow through the chain — improving alignment, balance, and gait efficiency.
Movement-Based Interventions
Expand on the skills from Level 1, linking foot mechanics to knee, hip, and pelvic function.
You’ll use wedges, tactile cues, and dynamic movement drills to retrain loading, sequencing, and coordination across all gait phases.
Dynamic Alignment Assessment
Stop analysing postures and start observing movement in real time.
Learn to identify where motion is missing, where it’s being borrowed, and how to bring each segment back into sync through the walking cycle.
Limb Coordination & Timing
Use wedge placement and precise motion cues to teach the body how to load and release energy efficiently.
This is where gait analysis turns into fluent, functional motion — movement that looks and feels effortless.
Why It Matters
When you understand how the foot, knee, and hip communicate, you can trace the real source of most lower-limb dysfunctions — and fix them efficiently.
Whether it’s chronic knee pain, hip tightness, or clients trapped in endless compensation loops, you’ll have a clear, repeatable framework for restoring motion and balance through the entire limb.
This workshop is where assessment turns into insight, and insight becomes action.
You’ll walk away knowing how to rebuild the lower limb from the ground up — confidently, clinically, and in real time.
Post-Workshop Access
All major releases, movement drills, and sequencing techniques are recorded during the workshop and made available afterward for post-training review — so you can revisit, refine, and apply these techniques with confidence long after the weekend ends.
‘ I enjoyed the topic and presentation, presented by Riccardo. He did a good job and made sure all participates understood content, going over topics a number of times to make sure we all understood and were comfortable moving on’
Keith 2 /6/24
‘Riccardo is a very passionate teacher, delivers a great course on the foot mechanic. most enjoyable infos on a very important part of the body. thank you’
Susan 2/6/24
Who It’s For
This series is for the practitioners who look at movement and think, “There’s more to this than what the textbook says.”
The ones who want to understand how the body really works — not in theory, but in motion.
Whether you’re a:
Physiotherapist or Osteopath wanting to bridge manual therapy with functional movement
Personal Trainer or Strength Coach chasing better biomechanics, not just heavier lifts
Chiropractor or Movement Specialist tired of chasing symptoms instead of patterns
Soft Tissue Therapist or Reflexologist ready to see how the foot and gait drive everything else
You’ll leave with a system that actually mirrors how your clients move — messy, adaptive, and wonderfully human.
Because the body isn’t a machine with parts to fix — it’s a story to read, and this series teaches you the language.
Workshop 3 Functional Foot & Spinal Mechanics
Mapping Motion from the Ground to the Spine
Practical Integration for Posture & Movement Control
Connecting the Ground to the Core
Once the foot and limb work as a functional unit, it’s time to see how their motion shapes everything above.
This workshop explores the kinetic conversation between the foot, pelvis, rib cage, and spine — showing how forces from the ground influence postural control, breathing mechanics, and movement efficiency.
You’ll learn how motion, or the lack of it, in the lower body translates into spinal stiffness, torsion, and asymmetry.
By the end of the weekend, you’ll understand how to trace these relationships, restore balance, and bring genuine structural harmony back to the body.
What You’ll Learn
Foot-to-Spine Mapping
Discover how motion and tension travel from the heel to the head through the fascial and skeletal systems.
Learn to recognise where the chain breaks down and how to restore coordination through the pelvis, rib cage, and spine.
Pelvic & Rib-Cage Mechanics
Explore how pelvic rotation, rib-cage counter-rotation, and spinal motion interlink during walking.
You’ll practise hands-on assessments and mobilisations that bring fluidity back to these regions — improving gait rhythm, posture, and breath capacity.
Spinal Mobilisation & Integration
Learn to identify and release spinal stiffness through both manual and movement-based methods.
You’ll use gait-informed strategies to decompress the lumbar spine, free thoracic restriction, and reconnect cervical alignment through the entire column.
Postural Integration Strategies
Connect what you see in posture to what you feel in motion.
You’ll gain tools to address scoliosis patterns, rib-cage torsions, and rotational imbalances that resist local or isolated treatment.
Why It Matters
Most spinal issues don’t start in the spine — they start below it.
A rotated pelvis, collapsed arch, or restricted ankle can all distort spinal motion and posture.
This workshop teaches you how to restore global alignment by addressing movement where it begins — at the ground.
You’ll leave with a clear framework to assess and treat clients with:
Chronic spinal tension or back pain
Postural asymmetry and scoliosis
Limited spinal mobility or coordination loss
Recurring upper-body symptoms with unclear origins
When you understand how the spine responds to the ground, you stop chasing symptoms and start changing systems.
Post-Workshop Access
All key assessments, mobilisations, and movement drills are recorded during the workshop and made available afterward for review — giving you a complete video reference library to refine your practice over time.
Workshop 4 Dynamic Gait Integration
Seeing, Sequencing & Correcting Real-World Movement
Rebuild the Foot → Integrate the Limb → Connect to the Spine → Unify the Whole Gait
The Full System in Motion
This is where everything comes together — the foot, the limb, and the spine working as one.
In this final module, you’ll learn to see movement as a complete, coordinated story rather than a collection of isolated parts.
You’ll refine your eye for sequencing, rhythm, and timing across the entire gait cycle — learning to recognise when motion flows efficiently and when it’s disrupted.
Then, you’ll develop the practical tools to restore that flow using movement, wedges, and joint-based corrections in real time.
This is gait analysis with purpose — not theory, not data collection, but movement you can see, feel, and change.
What You’ll Learn
Whole-Body Gait Observation
Train your eye to see global patterns — how the foot influences the pelvis, how the spine organises around motion, and how timing shifts throughout the cycle.
You’ll move from analysing parts to reading movement as a single, integrated system — exploring what the foot, limb, and spine each do at every phase of gait.
You’ll learn to record and recognise the most common restrictions at each phase, turning observation into actionable insight.
Sequencing & Pattern Recognition
Identify where movement begins, where it’s lost, and how compensations ripple through the body.
You’ll learn to decode gait timing, limb rotation, and energy transfer across all six phases of walking — refining your understanding of when and where movement needs restoring.
Applied Gait Correction
Use wedges, manual cues, and guided motion to restore missing segments of movement — both on the table and in standing.
You’ll discover how to correct inefficient patterns on the spot and teach clients to feel those changes immediately.
Clinical Communication & Integration
Learn to translate your observations into clear, client-friendly language that drives understanding and long-term engagement.
You’ll leave with a communication system that helps clients see what you see — and feel invested in their own progress.
Why It Matters
Gait is the body’s natural diagnostic — every joint, muscle, and compensation is visible if you know how to read it.
When you can see the system in motion, you stop chasing pain and start correcting the mechanics that create it.
This workshop gives you the confidence and clarity to:
Recognise the true source of dysfunction, not just symptoms
Build treatment plans that restore functional movement
Communicate and demonstrate change instantly
Integrate everything you’ve learned into one cohesive clinical model
By the end of this module, you’ll have a repeatable, real-world method to assess, treat, and transform movement — from the first step to the last.
Post-Workshop Access
All gait analysis examples, sequencing breakdowns, and movement correction demonstrations are recorded during the workshop and made available afterward, giving you a permanent reference library to refine your skills and integrate the full system with confidence.
Loved Riccardo's modality - awareness of and working with tendons to rebalance the body - starting with the feet. Issues since my teens including twisted toes and jammed metatarsals - I could feel the difference in the problem foot after a demo treatment at the workshop!
Robert 30/8/24
‘I was very engaged throughout this workshop even though a lot of fairly complex topics were introduced from a perspective I had not previously considered’
Jennifer 30/8/24
What Participants Are Saying
I can directly use this information in both my Reflexology and massage modalities. Jill 30/8/24
More of Riccardo please - much more. Love what he has to offer, even though the workshop was a tiny start to his modality!
Anthony 30/8/24
“1 very well organise polite and good communicator”
Channing 2/6/24
Hey Riccardo,
I’ve incorporated the foot assessment into my global screen. It’s been the missing link to my treatments - have always identified foot dysfunction but never had the right tools to assess and treat. I can’t thank you enough.
I’ve had 3-4 people come in complaining of “plantar fasciitis” and after assessing and treating was able to get them loading their foot tripod correctly, coming off the big toe and moving pain free within the hour. Brilliant! Dane 5/6/25
The modality that Riccardo has/is developing has huge potential for pain and health. I'm very excited about it!
Lisa 30/8 /24
Thank you Riccardo, my knee pain and shin pain has gone and my foot straightened without effort. Much appreciated
Carol 30/8 /24