Esoteric traditions around the world compare the human body to a microcosm of the entire universe. Many years ago, the astrophysicist Carl Sagan stated that “we are made of star stuff.”

Your history, your emotions, your choices, everything about your existence is in your body.

Your brain is constantly “re-presenting” the world you are creating. Thousands of years ago, the Oracle at Delphi said that “Know thyself,” was the key to living.

For centuries, people have found, then lost, then found again, the connections between thought, emotion, and action in the human organism. One consistent path is the study of movement. As you raise your hand to scratch your head, snort in derision, slump in despair, you are enacting rituals encoded in your neurons based on education, culture and biology. What do you know?

How you move is how you move through life. 

But movement alone is not enough. After all, amoebas move. Ants move. And while all creatures great and small are to be respected, the unique experience of being human offers the possibility of choice. A calf knows how to walk within minutes of birth. It follows the program that is almost impossible to change. But the human brain can change, evolve, and adapt, choosing how to respond to life.

Kinēsa® is an experiential learning process which synthesizes ancient wisdom teachings with modern science and sensory-motor intelligence for creating conscious choice and optimal health.

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Kin = Kinesthetic

Learning through movement, listening to your body’s choices as you move toward more functional choices for optimal health.

Ē = Emotion

You are an emotional body. Your movement choices reflect and influence your emotional state and vice versa. You develop emotional fluency – the ability to regulate your emotions in life situations.

S = Sensation

By attending to your sensations, your movements become the result of choice, not compulsion. Sensation is the gateway to clarity: of intention, action and possibility.

A = Attention

The Latin root meaning of attend is “to stretch,” giving the mind the ability to “apply one’s mind or energies to” (Old English definition). The result is a clarity of thinking and enhanced perception.

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Inspired by the teaching of Moshe Feldenkrais and others, kinēsa® combines the power of slow, meditative movement with current research in neuroscience, somatic approaches to emotional regulation and an immersion in the relationship of spiritual traditions and mythology to functional movement.

It’s a mouthful, and the result of a lifetime of study.

But you don’t need to take that long.

I have spent years developing the Kinēsa process. You can experience it for yourself and even learn to become a Kinēsa practitioner.  In the meantime, you can experience Kinēsa here.

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