Kinesis, Inc

Kinesis, Inc. was formed in 1994 as a corporate vehicle for encouraging and disseminating the seeds of a new relationship to our bodies.

Vision:
“Kinesis” is coined from the Greek, meaning “guided movement”. The rapid proliferation of our modern world has led to a relatively unnoticed impoverishment of a potentially rich source of information – the wisdom contained within our body. Proper use of the body, which includes the ability to listen to its messages, not only reduces structural pain and degenerative suffering, but it also prolongs active participation in life for our aging population, deepens the wellsprings of intuition in the young, and encourages autonomous, true maturity, and provides the basis for a “biology of democracy.”

In an increasingly somatically alienated world, true “physical education” is going by the boards. In a world where the surfaces, interfaces, and social constructs are ever more man-made, orthogonal, conceptual, sedentary, voyeuristic, and artificial, the whispered pleas of the natural body are increasingly drowned out by the squawking of our collective “monkey mind.” Kinesis celebrates the wisdom of the body moving, the inherently felt sense generated by the joyous and complete inhabiting of our physical self.

Kinesis seeks answers to the living question: How do we balance and honor the essentially “neolithic” soft animal of our body in an excitingly electronic, speed-of-light, “Spaceship Earth” world? Our body is our most proximate and valuable tool – how can we best employ it in this world that is now much of our own making?

Kinesis is dedicated to providing opportunities for such deeper exploration of the inherent somatic wisdom that is our birthright, with therapeutic and educational processes to support the social trend back toward reliance on inner feeling.

We see major opportunities to change minds, hearts, and bodies via:

• Educating parental involvement with infant and child movement,
• A renaissance in culturally-relevant physical education,
• Deepening of the principles in what is now called ‘exercise’, and
• Promotion of common principles within the many ‘somatic arts’.

In order to support these opportunities, Kinesis provides quality courses and educational materials for hands-on therapists and movement educators of all types designed to improve the completeness of their vision, and allows them to build on systems-oriented (as opposed to reductionistic and mechanical) views of the body and its inner workings.

Kinesis thus offers books, videos, and other learning tools that promote somatic and kinesthetic sensitivity and seeks opportunities to share our ideas and practices through speaking and teaching engagements worldwide.