Origins of the Hurley/Osborn Technique
The Hurley/Osborn Technique began in the 1930s with Dr. John Hurley, who originally called his work Aquarian-Age Healing. His approach focused on healing both the human body and the planet, using careful structural assessment and the gentle removal of physical distortion through principles he described as Bio-Mechanics and Bio-Engineering.
Dr. Russell Osborn dedicated more than 50 years to practicing and teaching this technique. Through decades of hands-on clinical work, observation, and instruction, he refined and expanded the original principles, passing his knowledge directly to his students.
After Dr. Osborn’s death, his students renamed the work the Hurley/Osborn Technique to honour both founders and to preserve the unique identity of the method. The Hurley/Osborn Practitioners Association was formed and registered in Victoria, British Columbia, in 2001.
DR. RUSSELL OSBORN
Dr. Russell Osborn was born in England March 4th , 1903 and, having moved to Canada with his family, planned to be an architect. His life radically changed after his brother died at the age of 23. "He was in perfect health, except for pain in the hip, before all the drugs," he said in a Times Colonist interview.
This led Dr. Osborn to train at the National College of Chiropractic and National College of Drugless Physicians. Graduating in 1941 as a Chiropractor and Naturopathic Doctor, he set up his practice in Toronto on the corner of Danforth and Sherbourne.
Doctor John Hurley
Dr. John Hurley, the founder of Aquarian-Age Healing, was born is Altoona, Pennsylvania in 18832. His early years are somewhat of a mystery, with the only source of information being stories passed down from students, and a single article in The Plumb Line, written while he was still alive. It profiles a man of singular creativity of thought and individual self-determination, a man who, "at the age of nine had run away from home for the fifth time......He earned his own living, such as it was, from that time on," This same article states that Dr. Hurley became a draftsman at a young age, and also worked as a machinist in the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was an easy transition from draftsmanship and machinist, to building, and Dr. Hurley was soon aiding in the construction of some of the largest open-hearth furnaces in North America.
