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ABOUT AVERILLE
Averille Morgan is a registered osteopath (General Osteopathic Council, UK) and runs a family based practice from Heacham, Norfolk, UK.
Since her graduation in 1995 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, Averille has practised osteopathy in several countries and experienced osteopathy with inspiring mentors and practitioners.
In Sydney, Averille learned with osteopaths Julie Fendall and Anne Cooper, which broadened her view of embryology and family osteopathic medicine. In San Francisco, Catherine Henderson’s insights into IVF conception and the subtleties of family potency has helped shape Averille’s ideas on “family fulcrums”. Viola Frymann’s paediatric course was a solid grounding in paediatric anatomy and physiology. In London, Allison Brown and Phil Parker provided grounding in cranial and biodynamic osteopathy, and the Osteopathic Centre for Children, with Stuart Korth, gave insights about management of acute and chronic illness in children. Premature babies clinic with Susie Booth was a deep insight in understanding primal health and survival of the newborn.
Averille travelled to Nepal for relaxation, meditation and mountaineering and then volunteered to work at Kathmandu Teaching Hospital. This experience with the obstetric and paediatric team at the hospital gave Averille insights into acute medical care during childbirth, for neonates and for young children suffering from pathogenic diseases and the idea for her published article ( Osteopathy for the children of Nepal? 1995, AJOM).
Whilst working at the British School of Osteopathy (1997-2000), Averille taught at the BSO’s community children’s clinic which helped children with several physical and learning difficulties, and established another children’s clinic, with Richenda Power, in a school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. This clinic was called “Body Learning” by the school staff and children and was an opportunity for children to safely express themselves through body movements and supportive light touch. This experience was the basis for “action research” undertaken and later published ( Body expression: an osteopathic interpretation of the body postures and expression of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, 2002, Br Ost J, Vol XXV, 22-26 ).
Averille completed her Masters degree in Osteopathic Science in 2004, from the BSO, and she has continued to develop practical notions related to “seeking health”, fluid form and fluid body. Averille has lectured for midwives on optimal fetal positioning at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Norfolk and attended Jean Sutton’s workshop on OFP in 2001. Averille invited Michel Odent to a day workshop with osteopaths and midwives on childbirth in 2002 in Norfolk.
Averille currently teaches regularly for post- graduate osteopaths on E. Lederman’s CPDO pathway (London), M. Schlachet’s CFPCO (Paris), International Institute of Advanced Studies in Osteopathy pathway (Barcelona) and Munich Osteopathic School Paediatric pathway. Averille has contributed to S. Yates’ book Pregnancy and childbirth- a holistic approach to massage and bodywork, 2010, Churchill Livingstone, and has published Healthy Pregnancy- a practical guide for health professionals, 2010, Clan Press.
Averille continues to study:
- Embryology as described by E. Bleschsmidt, J. Van der Wal, B. Freeman
- Counterbalancing reflexes by B. Bainbridge Cohen
- Osteopathic philosophy & practice by J Jealous, R. Becker, B. Fulford, N. Handoll, W. McKone
- Maternal & Neonatal physiology
- Magnetic Resonance by R. Sheldrake & energy medicine by J. Oschman.
