FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kinesis BodyReading 101™ DVD Teaches Postural Analysis for Standing, Walking, Sitting and Breathing to Manual and Movement Therapists

Thomas Myers Helps Students of Anatomy to Build and Apply Visual Analysis Skills in a Step-by-Step Process to Locate and Address Soft-Tissue Issues in the Human Body

WALPOLE, Maine – April 21, 2008 – Kinesis, Inc., the leading educator of Kinesis Myofascial Integration (KMI) bodywork and producer of the popular Anatomy Trains® books, DVDs and workshops, announced today the availability of a new three-part DVD series: BodyReading 101™: Visual Assessment – A DVD Self-Study Course. The DVD set is ideal for manual practitioners such as chiropractors, massage therapists, and osteopaths, as well as movement therapists such as Feldenkrais® practitioners, personal trainers, Pilates and yoga teachers, or anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of postural issues and develop strategies for unwinding the problems.

Prompted by increased demand within and outside the ‘bodywork and massage therapy’ community, Thomas Myers shares his secrets on visual analysis based on more than 30 years of studying and working with the human body. He has assembled a fun, unique and highly applicable step-by-step process for developing visual analysis skills that can make an immediate difference in how practitioners approach their clients based on posture.

“Bodyreading is an art, but it is also a skill set,” said Thomas Myers, director of Kinesis, Inc. “Oftentimes, the ‘key’ to strain patterns that lead to pain patterns occurs at some distance from the site of injury. From reading the relative position of the skeleton, to seeing the soft-tissue involved in creating the position, my students will learn to identify the tilts, shifts, bends, rotations, and soft-tissue restraints of suboptimal postures, and develop strategies for applying these skills in manual and movement therapies. Upon viewing this DVD, you will never again be bored at an airport!”

The Kinesis BodyReading 101 DVD set offers more than thirty practice client examples for standing posture, and twelve for gait analysis, as well as sections on assessing breathing and seated posture. These sections allow viewers to test their observations before hearing Myers’ 'expert' opinion and suggestions for addressing the issues.

Pricing and Availability
The Kinesis BodyReading 101™ Visual Assessment – A DVD Self-Study Course is currently available for purchase via the Kinesis web site store at: www.anatomytrains.com/at/store. The regular retail price for this 3-part DVD series is $149.95, but the initial introductory price is $99.95 if you orer before June 1, 2008. (Note to Editors: to receive a complimentary “Review Copy” of this DVD, please contact pr@anatomytrains.com.)

About Anatomy Trains
The Anatomy Trains concept, devised by Thomas Myers, provides useful language describing the ‘anatomy of connection’ in which muscles are functionally linked in series through the unity of the fascial network that runs throughout the body; muscles work as an integrated system rather than as individual units. The 'Anatomy Trains' myofascial meridians provide a revolutionary map for analyzing whole-body soft-tissue patterns that leads to positive new strategies for unwinding these patterns via manipulation and movement-oriented work.

About Thomas Myers and Kinesis, Inc.
Thomas Myers, is a Certified Advanced Rolfer®, LMT, NCTMB, and is the director of Kinesis, Inc. which he founded in 1994 to provide continuing education to massage and physical therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, yoga practitioners, Pilates instructors, personal trainers and those interested in making a change in people's lives through 'Spatial Medicine.' Kinesis offers courses nationally and internationally in integrated soft-tissue approaches, including courses in Anatomy Trains® Myofascial Meridians, Body Language and its highly-regarded certification program in Kinesis Myofascial Integration (KMI), an advanced form of Structural Integration bodywork. These courses are supported by the Anatomy Trains book, DVDs, and the Primal Pictures DVD-ROM series.

A prolific writer and speaker, Myers’ research and systemic approach to postural and movement patterns has revolutionized the teaching of anatomy away from the 'single-muscle theory' toward a more holistic appreciation of muscular interactions and their role in posture and dysfunction. Prior to founding Kinesis, Myers trained directly with Dr. Ida Rolf, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller, and has been a leading practitioner of integrative bodywork for more than 30 years.

For more information about Kinesis books, DVD products, or KMI classes, visit www.AnatomyTrains.com or call 888.kinesis.

Anatomy Trains® is a service mark and BodyReading 101 is a trademark of Kinesis, Inc. Rolfer® and Rolfing® are registered trademarks of the Rolf Institute. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.


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