"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
Meet the KMI Faculty
HEAD TEACHERS
Thomas Myers studied with Drs. Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller, and has practiced integrative bodywork for over 30 years in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He incorporates many movement and manual disciplines. Tom is the author of the best-selling book, Anatomy Trains (Elsevier 2001), as well as over 60 articles for trade magazines and journals, and a dozen video programs on fascial technique and dissection. He directs Kinesis and lives with his wife, Quan, on the coast of Maine.
Larry Phipps has over 30 years of service with human potential in behavioral health and in the massage and bodywork profession. He is a 1990 graduate of the Guild for Structural Integration and became an Advanced Practitioner in 1994. He completed his training in Kinesis Myofascial Integration in 2003 and became a certified KMI instructor, in 2004. He is a member of the International Association of Structural Integrators, and Board Certified Structural Integratorr (2007).
James Earls (BA Hons, KMI) is an Advanced Practitioner of KMI and has been running a private practice in structural integration in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 2001. As co-director of Kinesis UK with Tom, he has arranged a number of trainings around Europe and led workshops in many places. James has authored many articles on anatomy and bodywork which have been published in a range of journals. He has also brought a number of leading edge trainers to the UK. James has a wealth of experience in the organization and running of workshops.
FACULTY
Lou Benson has been studying the three dimensional moving puzzle of the human body for over 28 years, first as an athlete and amateur bodybuilder, and beginning in 1991, as a massage therapist, anatomist and technique teacher. Since then, she has developed curriculum for and taught a wide variety of courses in massage, anatomy and kinesiology for massage therapists and yoga teachers. Lou began her studies with Tom Myers in 1994, and certified in the first KMI class in 1999. Lou is also certified in Aston Patterning, and is founder and director of the BodyWork Education Project Cambridge, MA, where she also maintains a private practice.
Kelly Chadwick has been doing bodywork since 2005. Following a career in community mental health administration and crisis counseling, she developed her passion for structural bodywork as a student in the KMI program. Kelly has been assisting in Kinesis courses since 2008. She is enthused by the emotional and spiritual changes that occur with structural integration work. Her focus is working with children and teens. She maintains a private practice at Stillpoint Center for Healing Arts Bodywork for the Soul near Cincinnati, OH.
Lauren Christman, a registered bodyworker since 1994, maintains a thriving practice centered on KMI structural integration (KMI certified in 2003), craniosacral therapy and visceral manipulation. She has a special interest in working with children and infants. Lauren was a core faculty member and Dean of Students at the Brian Utting School of Massage in Seattle for over 8 years. Teaching with passion, curiosity and humor, she leads advanced classes in myofascial release, craniosacral, postural assessment and professional ethics.
Carrie Gaynor, BSN, RN, KMI is a Board Certified Structural Integrator and a graduate Kinesis where she has been a faculty member since 2006. Carrie divides her professional time between teaching for Kinesis and a thriving private Structural Integration practice in Rochester, New York, where she also Co-Directs ABSOLUTE yoga & wellness.
Carrie’s strong foundation in the health sciences began with her nursing education earned at the University of Rochester in 1993. She now integrates teaching, clinical practice and research as a means of informing her classroom, private practice and professional endeavors.
A trusted and experienced teacher, Carrie leads professional training programs (KMI Structural Integration with Thomas Myers and other senior Kinesis faculty) and Anatomy Trains intensives in the US and abroad. Her diverse knowledge, infused with a lifetime of athletic interests including nearly two decades of practicing and teaching yoga, allows her to engage with movement and manual therapists.
Most recently, Carrie has written two articles on Structural Integration that were published in the International Association of Structural Integration 2011 Yearbook. She has also delivered presentations on both Structural Integration and Yoga at internationally attended seminars such as Natural Health Practitioners of Canada: Annual National Conference and Atlantic Yoga Conference. She currently serves as a member of the Certification Board for Structural Integration and the Board of Directors of the International Association of Structural Integrators.
Peter Ehlers practices in Santa Fe and has been the Connective Tissue Bodywork instructor for the Scherer Institute since 1997. Peter has studied numerous forms of related arts including Rockwell Myofascial Dynamics, Neuromuscular Therapy, Hakomi, Trauma Work, and Process work. Peter completed the KMI Structural Integration training in 2003, and has assisted with Tom Myers in several classes. Peter has a passion for teaching this work, as well as a deep compassion for the human spirit.
Thomas Myers studied with Drs. Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller, and has practiced integrative bodywork for over 30 years in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He incorporates many movement and manual disciplines. Tom is the author of the best-selling book, Anatomy Trains (Elsevier 2001), as well as over 60 articles for trade magazines and journals, and a dozen video programs on fascial technique and dissection. He directs Kinesis and lives with his wife, Quan, on the coast of Maine.
ipps has over 30 years of service with human potential in behavioral health and in the massage and bodywork profession. He is a 1990 graduate of the Guild for Structural Integration and became an Advanced Practitioner in 1994. He completed his training in Kinesis Myofascial Integration in 2003 and became a certified KMI instructor, in 2004. He is a member of the International Association of Structural Integrators, and Board Certified Structural Integratorr (2007). 
James Earls (BA Hons, KMI) is an Advanced Practitioner of KMI and has been running a private practice in structural integration in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 2001. As co-director of Kinesis UK with Tom, he has arranged a number of trainings around Europe and led workshops in many places. James has authored many articles on anatomy and bodywork which have been published in a range of journals. He has also brought a number of leading edge trainers to the UK. James has a wealth of experience in the organization and running of workshops.
Lou Benson has been studying the three dimensional moving puzzle of the human body for over 28 years, first as an athlete and amateur bodybuilder, and beginning in 1991, as a massage therapist, anatomist and technique teacher. Since then, she has developed curriculum for and taught a wide variety of courses in massage, anatomy and kinesiology for massage therapists and yoga teachers. Lou began her studies with Tom Myers in 1994, and certified in the first KMI class in 1999. Lou is also certified in Aston Patterning, and is founder and director of the BodyWork Education Project Cambridge, MA, where she also maintains a private practice..jpg)
Kelly Chadwick has been doing bodywork since 2005. Following a career in community mental health administration and crisis counseling, she developed her passion for structural bodywork as a student in the KMI program. Kelly has been assisting in Kinesis courses since 2008. She is enthused by the emotional and spiritual changes that occur with structural integration work. Her focus is working with children and teens. She maintains a private practice at Stillpoint Center for Healing Arts Bodywork for the Soul near Cincinnati, OH. 
Lauren Christman, a registered bodyworker since 1994, maintains a thriving practice centered on KMI structural integration (KMI certified in 2003), craniosacral therapy and visceral manipulation. She has a special interest in working with children and infants. Lauren was a core faculty member and Dean of Students at the Brian Utting School of Massage in Seattle for over 8 years. Teaching with passion, curiosity and humor, she leads advanced classes in myofascial release, craniosacral, postural assessment and professional ethics. 
Carrie Gaynor, BSN, RN, KMI is a Board Certified Structural Integrator and a graduate Kinesis where she has been a faculty member since 2006. Carrie divides her professional time between teaching for Kinesis and a thriving private Structural Integration practice in Rochester, New York, where she also Co-Directs ABSOLUTE yoga & wellness.
Connective Tissue Bodywork instructor for the Scherer Institute since 1997. Peter has studied numerous forms of related arts including Rockwell Myofascial Dynamics, Neuromuscular Therapy, Hakomi, Trauma Work, and Process work. Peter completed the KMI Structural Integration training in 2003, and has assisted with Tom Myers in several classes. Peter has a passion for teaching this work, as well as a deep compassion for the human spirit. 