Anatomy Trains short courses

From this page you can access the full schedule of Kinesis workshops, including Anatomy Trains short courses, KMI professional certifications, CE and Advanced workshops, other short courses, events, conventions, and retreats.

You can also access videos and photo galleries of some of the classes to get a sense for the learning environment.

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Praise for Anatomy Trains Courses:

"As a massage therapist and personal trainer, the Anatomy Trains system brings a new understanding and interpretation to what is 'functional training.'"

— R.L., New York City

"Thank you again for all of your help and wonderful teaching. The combination of your demeanor, classroom management and pedagogy skills established a wonderful loving learning environment. This was one of the best seminars that I have ever attended!

Now, for the exciting news. I just worked on my first pt, who has been a pt for 5 yrs. She is a tri-athlete and has an Olympic course competition coming up this weekend. We were both amazed by how much I was able to clear her out. I was also able to reproduce her pn patterns and of course they followed the lines. WHAT A WONDERFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND WHAT AMAZING RESULTS!"

This was the most positive learning environment/workshop I have ever taken. I have an education in Kinesiology, Anatomy, Biomechanics, dancing, pilates, PT, etc., and by far, the work and the presenters were the most tangible, inspiring and practical in their knowledge, application and embodiment.

Re-printed with permission from Erin Godfrey, who attended Mark and Deb Finch's Anatomy Trains class at Yoga Spirit the weekend of February 2, 2007.

I have taken many, many courses over the past 18 years and this one was fantastic.

Anatomy Trains will not only bring my massage practice to a new level, it has already, immediately changed my own body awareness, which I know will bring my yoga and martial arts to the next level as well.

Gerri-Lee Gravelle, RMT, attended Mark Finch's and Carrie Gaynor's Anatomy Trains class at Yoga Spirit on June 22-24, 2007.

I have been teaching Pilates for 10 years. I deeply respect the system and I am always looking for the new ways to take my practice to the next level. In 2001 I discovered Thomas Myers' groundbreaking book, Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians
and began my own intense studies of the system. Years later I was fortunate enough to attend Mark Finch’s course, where the light switch was flipped and I was truly able to marry these concepts together with what I do. To the wonderful Mark Finch a huge thank you for his deep knowledge of this work and his fantastic teaching abilities that enable even the thick headed to understand how to integrate the Myofascial Slings into movement. This work has blown open a whole new doorway in my teaching and has profoundly enriched and deepened my approach to Pilates, Stretching and Small Ball Release techniques. I am now happily and irrevocably immersed in a life-long process in understanding the science of the sling system and implementing the rules into my practice. I believe that integrating these principles will lead my clients towards a more balanced approach to achieving overall body wisdom.

Kathleen Keller
Certified STOTT® and Polestar® Pilates Practitioner
Calgary, Canada

Thank you so much for your class on Sunday. I had already seen Body Worlds 2 but knew I wanted to return to study the models (or human art forms) and doing so with you as the guide was perfect. Your manner, your perspective, and your humor are engaging and informative. I got very excited when on the tour you told us about your dissection which confirmed your theory about the lines!!! Every time I work with the body, I can feel the lines. It is such a solid foundation on which to do body work. Thank you!

K.G. - Aston Patterner and Zero Balancer, who attended Tom Myers's guided tour of BodyWorlds 2 in Boston on December 12, 2006.