A gentle dive into the experiential and physiologic fundamentals of the energetic, neuroendocrine musculoskeletal systems of the body.
13-Module Self-Paced Program
With 40 hours of videos and reading
You are here because you’re ready to enhance your clinical practice with hands-on biodynamic cranial osteopathy, and experience a transformative approach to healing that nurtures both you and your patients.
Enrolling in this program offers you
12 Weeks of "Healing Practice Lab"
Live group healing experience on Zoom
Saturdays, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Time
Saturdays, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Time
Learn at Your Own Pace
You'll have lifetime access to content
Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credits
DOs, MDs, MFTs, and Nurses in California can earn 33 Category 1-A AOA/AMA CME Credits
30-Minute Private Consultation
Private Zoom call with Dr. Veneziano
Certificate of Completion
Receive a printable certificate once you complete the program
Alumni Group Invite
The option to join our ongoing Alumni Group for support beyond 12 weeks
Flow Is Medicine is a transformative program designed to help healthcare professionals and individuals cultivate a deeper understanding of healing by working with the body’s natural ability to restore balance.
Our approach is rooted in biodynamic cranial osteopathy, blending insights from both Western and Eastern medicine to support long-term well-being and resilience.
Through our evidence-based curriculum, participants learn to develop greater awareness of the body’s self-regulating mechanisms, allowing for more effective and intuitive care, whether for themselves or their patients. This program is not just about learning new techniques; it’s about fostering a shift in perception that enhances both personal and professional growth.
Course Curriculum
Lesson 1: Course Overview
🌀 Welcome to the “Principles & Practice of Osteopathic Self Care”, and the Cultivating Resilience Community Healing & Learning Space! FREE PREVIEW
🧘♀️ About Your Course Holder FREE PREVIEW
🎥 Video Preview (9 min): Clips from Class! FREE PREVIEW
🗓 The “Itinerary” (Course Schedule) FREE PREVIEW
🙏🏽 Healing Practice & Sharing Lab (details on our Saturday gatherings) FREE PREVIEW
🧹 HOUSEKEEPING: YouTube Playlist of Recordings, Info on CME, & the Community Space!
👨👩👧👧 Community Posting Space — Please Share Questions, Thoughts & Resources!
✏️ Slides — Workbook for note taking
💺 THE Must Have “Flow Cushion” & “Flow Stool” — I’ve tried them all!
💡 “Iris” Blue-light Blocking Technologies — Protect Your Nervous System After Sundown
⭐ Spoof Names — Got One? Let’s play a game, and celebrate where we are!
🎥 Video (25 min): In Preparation for Class: “The Power of Listening” with Lee Glickstein
🐒 The “Bare Bones” of Natural Sitting — Freeing Up the Midline to Support Full Body Breath and Flow!
📚 Optional “Text Books” for Class — Engaging the Movement of Life, and Dr. Fulford’s Touch of Life FREE PREVIEW
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | COURSE INTRO
⛹️♀️ It’s All About Play! Neuroscientists and Educators Continue to Confirm the Primacy of Play & Connection to Growth and Learning.
🧋Pearls — Review of Themes
🤔 Quiz —- Course Overview
🙆♂️ Time for a Stretch!
Lesson 2: Perception Practice 1
🎥 Video (49 min): 1000 Years of Osteopathy — an Interview with Eliott Blackman, DO
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | PERCEPTION 1
📣 Mentioned in Class: “The Inner Smile” — by Taoist Master Teacher Mantak Chia
🗣 Interview with Trauma Therapist Resmaa Menakem —“My Grandmother’s Hands”
🧋 Pearls — Review of Themes
🤔 Quiz — Perception 1
🙆♀️ Time for a Stretch!
Lesson 3: Perception Practice 2
🎥 Video (15 min): “Holding Stillness” – the Key to Public Speaking with Ease
📖 Suggested Reading: Entrainment and the Cranial Rhythmic Impulse, J. McPartland, DO, E. Mein, MD
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | PERCEPTION 2
🧋Pearls — Review of Themes
🤔 Quiz — Perception 2
🙆♀️ Time for a Stretch!
Lesson 4: The Impact of Conscious, Dynamic States on Physiology 1
🎥 Video (3 min): Full Body Breathing — “La Respiration Totale”, Roger Fiametti, DO (Belgium)
😫 Video (12 min): Low Back Pain as a Function of Midline Integrity & Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) Balance
🌊 Video (6 min): Intrinsic Movement — Continuum Movement (We are More Verb than Noun!)
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | CONSCIOUS, DYNAMIC STATES 1
🩺 Andrew Taylor Still, Frontier Physician and Founder of Osteopathy was a fan of traction!
📃 Natural Sitting for Workstation, Couch, Bed & Car
🧋Pearls — Review of Course Themes
🤔 Quiz — The Impact of Conscious Dynamic States of Physiology 1
🙆♂️ Time for a Stretch!
Lesson 5: The Impact of Conscious, Dynamic States on Physiology 2
🚶♀️Natural Walking — Very Short Demo Video!
📖 Suggested Reading — Natural Walking, by Dr. Michelle Veneziano
🔬 Scientific Paper: Biotensegrity, A Unifying Theory of Biological Architecture
📖 Resource: Esther Gokhale — Healing Back Pain Naturally
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | CONSCIOUS, DYNAMIC STATES 2
🧋Pearls — Review of Themes
🤔 Quiz — The Impact of Conscious, Dynamic States on Physiology 2
🙆♂️ Time for stretch!
Lesson 6: Polyvagal Theory
🎥 Video (28min): The PolyVagal Theory
🔬 Research Paper: A PolyVagal Perspective on Chronic Disease
📖 Short Article on Full-body Breathing — A Polyvagal Perspective, by Michelle Veneziano
🌟 “The Golden Strategy” — Deb Dana, LCSW, Author of “Befriending Your Nervous System”
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | POLYVAGAL THEORY
📖 — Preferred Polyvagal Resources
🧋 Pearls -— Review of Course Themes
🤔 Quiz —PolyVagal Theory
🙆♂️ Time For a Nice Big Stretch & a Nice Big Sigh!
Lesson 7: Tongue Function, Airway & Breathing Part 1
🎥 Video (15min) : The Tongue Changes the Face (great lay video!)
📖 SUGGESTED READING: Tongue Function — an peer reviewed article by Dr. Veneziano linked to over 300 supportive studies FREE PREVIEW
✏️ Airway and Myofunctional Assessment Form — International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM)
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | Tongue Function, Airway & Breathing A
🧋 Pearls — Review of Course Themes
🤔 Quiz — Tongue Function, Airway & Breathing
🙆♀️ Time for a Stretch and a Sigh!
Lesson 8: Tongue Function, Airway & Breathing Part 2
🎥 (1:15 hr) An interview with Drs. Michelle Veneziano & Rosann Volmert on tongue function, clenching, TMJ & the ANS
🎥 Video & 📖 Book resource — “Breathe” by journalist James Nestor on NPR
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | Tongue Function, Airway & Breathing Part 2
🧪 Lab Exercises — Tongue Function
📖 The ALF Approach: Changing the Face of Orthodontics by Tasha Turzo, DO
🧋 Pearls — Review of Course Themes
🤔 Quiz — Tongue Function, Airway & Breathing 2
🙆♂️ Time for a Stretch and a Sigh!
Lesson 9: Breathing & the Nervous System Part 1
🎥 Video (16min): Shut Your Mouth and Change Your Life: Patrick McGowan of Buteyko International
🎥 Video (4 min): Nasal Clearing Technique
📖 PAPER: Buteyko: Hyperventilation Science Explained by Biomedical Engineer Peter Kolb. GREAT explanation of the physiology (downloadable PDF)
🎥 Video (22min) – Robert Fulford, DO on BREATH
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | Breathing & the Nervous System Part 1A
🧋 Pearls — Review of Themes
🤔 Quiz — Breathing and the Nervous System
🙆♂️ Time for a Stretch AND A SIGH!
Lesson 10: Breathing & the Nervous System Part 2
🎥 Video (10 min): Buteyko Breathing Exercises in 3 minutes by Patrick McKeown
✍️ Article: Hum Your Way To Health — How to Naturally Increase Nitric Oxide in Your Body
✍️ Article: The Nitric Oxide Pleasure Connection – by Christiane Northrup, MD
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | Breathing & the Nervous System Part 2
🫁 Free Resources: Buteyko vs. the Wim Hoff approach (Tummo Breathing) to breathing — they’re complementary!
🧋 Pearls — Review of Themes
🤔 Quiz – Breathing and the Nervous System, Part 2
🙆♂️ Time for a Stretch AND A SIGH!
Lesson 11: Hydration & Trophicity
🎥 Video (3 min): The Water Inside Our Bodies — Trailer to “A Movement in Water” by Gina Bria & Maxi Cohen FREE PREVIEW
📖 Blog: Dr. Veneziano, Dr. Pollack & Gina Bria on HYDRATION! (Article contains TedTalks)
🎥 Video (52 min): Gina Bria interviews Dr. Veneziano on Metaphysics, Hydration & the Body
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | Hydration & Trophicity
🔬 The Effects of Consciousness & Intention on WATER: Masuro Emoto
📖 Paper: Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Richard Feynman, PhD on Electron Transfer from the Earth
🧋 Pearls — Review of Themes
🤔 Quiz — Hydration & Trophicity
🙆♂️ Time for a Stretch AND A SIGH!
Lesson 12: Coherence & the Heart
🎥 Video (23 min): Connecting With the Heart’s Intelligence — Rollin McCraty, PhD at the Science & Non-duality Conference
🎥 Video (35 min): The Heart is Not a Pump! Thomas Cowan, MD Explains how Coherence in the Heart is Responsible for Blood Flow & Health
🔬 Research: Cardiac coherence, Self-regulation, Autonomic Stability, and Psychosocial Well-being
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | Coherence & the Heart
🧋 Pearls — Review of Themes
💡 Idea: Turn Your Broken Heart into Art! KINTSUGI as a Metaphor for Life
🤔 Quiz — Coherence & the Heart
🙆♂️ Time for a Stretch and a Sigh!
Lesson 13: Review & Wrap Up
🎥 Ted Talk: “Low tech” is the highest tech! & “Living Medicine,” by our own Ann McCombs, DO & Gladys McGarey, MD FREE PREVIEW
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | Review & Wrap Up
🙆♂️ Time for a Stretch and a Sigh!
🔍 COURSE EVALUATION — Please download, complete, and email to: Practices@FlowiSMedicine.com or return by fax: (800) 484-4902
Healing Practice Lab
🔁 Video Replay 🔁 | Community Gathering | HEALING PRACTICE & SHARING LAB
Get a free, no-obligation 15-minute session to explore how Flow Is Medicine can support you. No credit card, no commitment, just a chance to ask questions and see if this approach is right for you.
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
Dr. Michelle Veneziano
I'm a family physician, intuitive, and an adjunct clinical professor at Touro University in Northern California.
My approach to osteopathic medicine is rooted in Cranial Osteopathy, a hands-on, evidence-based therapeutic practice that sources both western & eastern philosophies to support the body’s ability to heal itself.
I share practices and insights for awakening the healer that resides within each of us, for connecting with who we really are, and for living in alignment with nature.
My approach to osteopathic medicine is rooted in Cranial Osteopathy, a hands-on, evidence-based therapeutic practice that sources both western & eastern philosophies to support the body’s ability to heal itself.
I share practices and insights for awakening the healer that resides within each of us, for connecting with who we really are, and for living in alignment with nature.
Who Can Benefit From This Course?
What Others Are Saying....
“It had been a very full, fast day for me and I was looking forward to resting and returning "home" but wasn't sure how long my system would take to come back. As soon as I was on the call I just dropped right in, in a big way. I felt myself being pulled deeper and deeper into myself — I didn't want to move. At a point a thought came, "am I sleeping?" 🙂 Then, Ahhhh no, the meeting place. So good.”
Ann Priest, DO
Osteopathic Physician
“When class started I was tired and achy and it was really hard to pay attention. So I just rested. About a half hour in, as I listened out of the corner of my ear, my energy came back and I had no pain. This was really amazing, since I wasn’t trying to do anything. I felt good til then next day when I slowly started to ache again. I understand it takes time to "train our nervous system to hold coherence.” I’m really looking forward to the next class and I’m so glad we have many weekly sessions to go.”
Ozge Kemik
Artist
“As a physician and teacher, she embodies how to be present in one's embodied experience.”Avon Manney, DO, MS
Avon Manney, DO, MS
Osteopathic Physician
“This course is highly worthwhile . . . very useful teachings to work within ourselves, integrate and then offer to patients. A very good use of time.”
Eliott Blackman, DO
Osteopathic Physician affiliate of California Pacific Medical Center and Sonoma Valley Hospital
“I felt I got a kind of a purification of all the years of dealing with traditional Western Medicine. Being a part of this group was like entering one vast healing ocean.
Here's what happened for me. I started with a huge amount of tension across my back. Went into awareness with my sitting, then my breathing, then feet, then my hydration… by the end of this session my right shoulder had completely released (and that's my bad one), my breathing had deepened across my back, and a tremor in my right hand disappeared.
Lovely work. A seminar in authentic being... a beautiful experience of healing/entrainment, and we're just getting started.”
Valerie Andrews
Author and Filmmaker
“I woke up in the morning with a headache and very low energy. Michelle started class with a body scan, directing us to open our attention to our back body, which we generally ignore. I imagined through her direction that I could feel and see behind me, extending my energy into the space behind my body. Suddenly I started having wave like energy moving up and down my spine. My headache immediately went away. My ankles start rotating spontaneously and then my wrists. My hips, which are usually very tight, opened up and I was able to move fluidly in my whole body. It was a dramatic visceral experience in self osteopathy. I am so grateful for Michelle holding the energy and giving the guidance which facilitated this learning. She is a true master in her work!”
Stacia Kenet, MD
“When I came home from our first class which I did from my exam room, because it was such a busy week, I was more relaxed and smiling, it was noticeable. My family asked why and I said that I stopped, breathed and felt my surfaces, and it completely brought me to a better state of mind. My daughter who went to Johns Hopkins also loves hearing anything interesting about her school, and she was way into the heart beat at 22ft.”
J. Kevin Beckman, DO
Osteopathic Physician
"This training is SO fun, so nourishing, and such a great service to the world. I participated in her last one. It was life-changing."
Dr. Monica Rogalsky
Doctor of Osteopathy
“Dr. Veneziano is transforming the patient-doctor relationship. She brings us innovative approaches to medical education and healing, and is catalytic in helping us reconnect to our Health and Joy within.”
Dawn Cieplensky, DO
Assistant Professor, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, NYIT
"A note of 🎶 gratitude for you. My body especially responded to your call for self-love and holding devotional space. My heart felt larger, and my breathing/diaphragm more free. Bless you."
Dr. Melissa Pearce
Doctor of Osteopathy
“Michelle is a formidable force for tremendous good in the osteopathic profession, and in the world.”
James Jealous, DO
Osteopathic Physician, founder and director of the Biodynamics of Osteopathy
"You are truly giving us all the tools we need for self-regulation and self-healing. I can't express my gratitude enough — your book will be a godsend, but your presence is an infusion of sheer joy."
Valerie Andrews
Author & Filmmaker
“After Dr. Veneziano walked our class through a 5-minute exercise to get into the Flow State, I suddenly felt as if I had just come out of an extraordinarily healing, hour-long osteopathic treatment. My body and mind felt great—balanced, energized, free of aches and pain. Dr. Veneziano’s vast experience and deep wisdom—and her ability to communicate this so succinctly—will gift a transformative power to anyone who experiences her teachings. She is teaching us how to be our own osteopaths! And in so doing, she is providing us with the toolkit to heal ourselves in every way imaginable.”
Anne Mason
Educator
Get a free, no-obligation 15-minute session to explore how Flow Is Medicine can support you. No credit card, no commitment, just a chance to ask questions and see if this approach is right for you.
What You Can Expect from the Program
13-Module Self-Paced Program
With 40 hours of videos and reading
12 Weeks of "Healing Practice Lab"
Live group healing experience on Zoom Saturdays, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Time
Lifetime Access to Learning
Lifetime access to all course materials, for you to revisit & deepen your understanding
Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credits
DOs, MDs, MFTs, and Nurses in California can earn 33 Category 1-A AOA/AMA CME Credits
30-Minute Private Consultation
Private Zoom call with Dr. Veneziano
Certificate of Completion
Receive a printable certificate once you complete the program
Alumni Group Invite
The option to join our ongoing Alumni Group for support beyond 12 weeks
Get a free, no-obligation 15-minute session to explore how Flow Is Medicine can support you. No credit card, no commitment, just a chance to ask questions and see if this approach is right for you.
Osteopathy and nature have shown me that caring for ourselves is as simple and pleasurable as returning to natural ways of being, and that we’re already experts.
In this space, we are supported as we expand our well-being, amplify our power, and create more joy and fulfillment in our lives and in our work.
Through aligning with nature and the principles of osteopathy, I have healed multiple physical and emotional injuries and recovered from chronic fatigue and food and chemical sensitivities. I have also rediscovered passion and purpose.
You’re invited to join me for a deep, pleasurable dive into the foundational principles of osteopathic medicine. Together we harness the power of coherence, resonance, and community to strengthen our physiology and expand our capacity so that we may serve from a highly resourced place.
