KinesioGeek Magazine "Mind over Matter" Spring 2021

Issue 19, Spring 2021

Mind over Matter

Issue 19, Spring 2021

Specialized Kinesiology Magazine

Muscle Testing Research

From ‘Mind’ to Multiple Intelligences

With Dr. Anne Jensen Releasing Burdensome

Muscle Monitoring provides Personal Care Opportunities

Burdens Spreading the Light

Meditations for Kinesiologists—A Review

Of TFH—Honouring Sandy Gannon

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Issue 19, Spring 2021 Editor/Publisher/Writer Proudly brought to you by conand flawed dictator: Alexis tributing KinesioGeeks: Costello Alexis Costello (Editor/ Publisher / Flawed DictaContributors: tor) Alison Kingston Anne Jensen Jensen Anne Michelle Greenwell Bruce Dickson Natasha Polomski HannahRose Costello Reenie Robert Frost Michelle Greenwell Sylvia Marina Sylvia Marina Cover image is a stock Touch for Health Charity photo

Adam Lehman: Muscle Testing inside the holoResearch gram with Anne Jensen

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page 6 Multiple Intelligences

Opinions expressed by contributors and advertisers are their own.

With Bruce Dickson

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Contents: p. 4 Letter from the Editor p.5 Your turn: letters, questions and social media p. 6 Muscle Testing Research, changing the paradigm P. 12 From ‘Mind’ to Multiple Intelligences P. 16 Muscle Monitoring Provides Personal Care Opportunities

p. 22 Releasing Burdensome Burdens P. 24 Spreading the Light of TFH and Honouring Sandy Gannon P. 26 Intuitive Meditation for Kinesiology—a review P. 29 Food for Thought P. 30 Intention Perception P. 32 Classifieds p. 33 Because Health should be Fun! Cover art: stock photo from Pexels.com

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Do you Mind?

The Frequency of Balance

I understand this is a strange topic! But the concept of ‘mind’ has been coming up a lot lately—from the idea of using clarity of thought and intention as an integral part of muscle testing to the idea that we can clear stress at many different levels of mind. The dualistic concept of a battle between mind and brain is outdated; I tend to think of brain and mind as different vibrational patterns. The same way that we have an etheric body which holds the blueprint for the physical, which is simply a slower-vibration, perhaps the mind holds the blueprint for the brain, which is the physical manifestation of that energy…

People’s different understanding of this has led to an interesting issue where we will look at how the construct being held in mind can influence the muscle testing paradigm, the evolution of thought on this matter, a review of meditations used in kinesiology and thoughts about the different systems of muscle testing available to us.

If this topic fascinates you, as it does me, you might be interested in the presentation I am giving at the KConversations conference, taking place online April 16-18 where I will be discussing the consciousness of everything, layers of super-consciousness and testing from a superconscious state. Is this a shameless last-minute plug for the conference? Yes. But only because IASK, IKC and Knowlative coming together to host an event is momentous and you don’t want to miss it! Say you’ll keep it in mind :D Thanks for reading, we’re all in this together!

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A Facebook conversation: Royce Connie Johnson: I’m always skeptical with the show me a yes or no answers as it relates to food! Am I making myself say yes because I really want it? How does one get to the point where you trust that you are not influencing the answer? I obviously need to work on self doubt.

Alexis Costello: I hear you. Lots of practice helps! And the knowledge that you absolutely can tip the scales in favour of chocolate Alison Zeidler: Lol I literally ask the question this way "I really really want this but is it good for my body". As I hold the product on my belly button.

Most of the time it says no . . . sigh.

Terrina Bailey-Brown: Totally! I always ask is this my mind or my body?

And is it in the best interest of me.

Leonie Bartlett: A mind full of good and pure intention for the sake of the client.

Lisa Childs: I think intention has a big affect, for one thing.

Debbie J Benson: I feel the practitioner needs to have the mind set of “what is the answer to the question” rather than “this is my expected answer”. Keep it neutral.

Do you have ideas for future issues? Feedback about what you are reading here? Interested in advertising or contributing an article, or do you have news about an exciting K-event in your area (or, let’s face it, online)? We want to know! Email happy@alexiscostello.com

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What role does 'mind' play in muscle testing?

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Healthy TravelMuscle Testing Research: Advice from the Pros changing the paradigm Purpose Boosts Immunity

with Anne Jensen

with Wayne Topping

By Alexis Costello

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r Anne Jensen is a chiropractor and researcher, perhaps best well known in the Kinesiology community for the Oxford studies proving the efficacy of muscle monitoring, and the creation of HeartSpeak. Anne’s research was featured in one of the first issues of this magazine – this was a chance to catch up on her newest projects which show how our thoughts and mental paradigm influence the muscle test.View the full interview on YouTube here.

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AJ: Yes, this is a project, a study, that I conceived when I was doing my PhD at Oxford, but at that point I had already done maybe five studies and it didn't need to be done then. So we kind of shelved it. But it's really interesting, because I come from various muscle testing backgrounds: yes, I took Applied Kinesiology, but I do more than Applied Kinesiology and I do HeartSpeak, which is a different type of muscle testing, and then I'm a chiropractor, so there's that the different type of muscle testing. Again, I got to see a whole range of different types of practitioners, especially when I was assessing people for my data collection, for my PhD. And I would invite any muscle testing practitioner that wished to participate; so I had all sorts, not just kinesiologists and chiropractors; all sorts of psychologists and social workers and acupuncturists and osteopaths, you name it. They showed up and I got to see what they did while interacting with them. And I assessed over four hundred practitioners and their accuracy. I have also seen this with teaching HeartSpeak around the world people come to my classes from various backgrounds, and I could see what they were doing.

This person would be doing things differently than that person: those people over there were testing two hands; this person over here only did the O-ring test… It was fascinating to me.

In my old study we looked at the accuracy of muscle testing to distinguish between a true statement and a false statement. And the paradigm that we use during that research was one that I used in practice. If a statement is true, the arm will stay strong, the muscle will stay strong. If a statement is false, the muscle goes weak. But, you know, that led me to thinking about how different people were using it. And there are a lot

Issue 19, Spring 2021 of people out in our community that test for a yes and a no. But not everyone tests the same way; sometimes yes is a weak and sometimes the yes is strong. This is what the new study will look at: if we change the initial paradigm, is the accuracy comparable? I am going to ask practitioners to test both: the true statement results in a strong test, false statement results in a weak test like all my other studies, but then also switch the paradigm. I'm going to then ask the practitioners to have the intention that a true statement will result in a weak test and a false statement will result in a strong test, which actually some people out there do. It will be interesting.

AC: I’m listening to what you're saying and when I teach classes, I'm always telling people that in kinesiology context is king. The framework that we have set up changes what the test means, right? When I’m working through a normal session, I work from a locked muscle, which would mean that I'm looking for an indicator change, which is for the muscle to unlock most of the time… Unless I'm working with muscles specifically, like I'm working with the reactive paradigm, where I might be looking for the muscles that are strong… there are different ways of testing depending on context.

AJ: Yes, so this might be a good time to talk about the different types of muscle testing. In my experience, there are three different types of muscle testing being done in clinical practice. One of them is the strictly orthopedic neurological testing that chiropractors, osteopaths, and physios use; testing muscles to detect whether or not the muscle strength has been impacted. That type of muscle testing was systematized by Kendall and Kendall. They created those muscle tests: zero to five where five was normal and they were looking for muscle strength and a normal strength muscle would be graded to five and they

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would compare side to side and they would test any muscle in the body.

condition, and it's used to guide the course of care. That's all common sense, right?

Then there is the George Goodheart style. And in the 60s, well, he was a chiropractor, so he tested muscles like most chiropractors do. And he noticed that when certain conditions were present, certain muscles were weak. For example, when there was a heart condition, maybe the pectoralis muscle was weak, so he tested there. And that makes sense because the heart lies over the pectoralis muscle. Long story short, we all know that George Goodheart developed Applied Kinesiology from that, in which any muscle in the body is tested and it's looking for a weakness. So, you know, you test both sides and you compare them. But George then also changed the zero to five scale to a binary test, meaning if they're strong or weak; facilitated or inhibited. And from there then in the 70’s John Thie took Applied Kinesiology and made Touch for Health. From there, a wellspring of different techniques were created, some of them use the AK style of testing. There was something really unique as well about AK-style testing, and that is: this was the first time a muscle was tested to detect something other than strength. So if we back up all the way to what a test is, a diagnostic test, a test tries to detect a condition, the presence or absence of a

Then we fast-forward into the 80’s and we notice a divergence with what people are doing: the push-down test, indicator muscle testing – that’s the kind of testing I studied during my PhD at Oxford - it’s basically picking one muscle and testing it over and over again, meaning different things as the condition changes. The earliest mention of this kind of testing is in the 30’s a chiropractor named Major Bertrand DeJarnette who developed the sacral-occipital technique and developed the ‘arm-fossa test’ which is an indicator muscle test. The patient would be lying on their back arm straight up in the air and the practitioner would be pushing down on the arm while testing parts of the pelvis. A weakness would indicate a category 2 block.

Fast forward to the 80’s and you can see all these different kinds of muscle testing emerging.

I’ve come to call all of this kind of testing Muscle Response Testing; it is binary and you’re usually only testing one muscle over and over again and you can basically test anything under the sun. So we have these distinct different kinds of testing, even thought they might look the same sometimes. Then we go back to, “what are you testing for.” And that’s always the

Kendall and Kendall muscle grading on a scale to five.

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question I ask practitioners, and you get interesting answers. For example, I would expect a HeartSpeaker to say, “I’m testing for stress.”

AC: I’ve been involved in a few conversations lately through the Open Houses that I host about ‘how strong is a muscle test?’ Because, in TFH, we are taught; 2lbs of pressure, 2 seconds, 2 inches. But there are times when, the second I touch the body, I know that the muscle is going down – that’s a test! Or maybe when resetting reactives, you might need a little more pressure. I’m curious to hear from you; why is it really important to understand and break down the differences of these three different styles? What does the average practitioner need to know?

AJ: The most important piece of information is that muscle testing does work. Let’s stop questioning it, let’s get beyond that! I think our next research is to determine if what we are doing in clinical practice results in better patient outcomes. I would love to see some research done on clinical trials of specific conditions. Pick something that you are really confident in and design a study.

“The most important piece of information is that muscle testing does work. Let’s stop questioning it, let’s get beyond that! ”

AC: There is a difficulty in this though, because if I see 20 clients with the same condition, every session looks different because I’m not really interested in ‘curing the condition,’ I’m much more interested in, ‘where is the stress in your body that has allowed this imbalance to happen? And then, how do you need that to be balanced?’ So when you then show this to someone and you say, ‘look, all these people had good results!’ It’s like, ‘yes, but you did different things with each of them.’ So does that even count or prove anything? And I would argue that what we’ve shown in this is that the method, the muscle testing works.

AJ: This would be an easy study to do; a lot of people have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (for example) and they take a lot of medication.

Get some GP clinics on board and randomize the next 100 people that come in with IBS diagnosis – have them stay the course of the medical treatment, but then randomly assign them to a kinesiology protocol. Regardless of what the kinesiologist AC: To bring this back to what we were discussing before; why is it important to flip the paradigm and do the study in the opposite way?

AJ: It’s my hypothesis that it does not matter what you’re testing for; what matters is that

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Mind over Matter the practitioner knows what they are testing for and what the outcomes will mean. As long as they are clear in their head, I think we can get that information from the body. I’m trying to get practitioners to be clearer about where they’re headed. I think if we can simplify things to the nuts and bolts, that muscle testing will be better utilized. When Covid first started I taught a class on how to muscle test remotely.

And I believe it works, using an indicator muscle test in this way, even for more AK style testing. So why do we need to flip the paradigm? To show that the practitioner’s intent matters. We always say it’s all about intent – let’s show it!

AC: I wanted to ask you more about the role of intention, because I was wanting to focus some of this issue on the mind and the role of

Issue 19, Spring 2021 the mind in our work; so does the mind influence the result of the muscle test? Or does the mind just need to be clear about what it’s looking for?

AJ: Maybe you’ve been to a fair and met someone who is there selling magnets or something of the sort and they do a muscle test to prove you need them. I’d really like to do a study that emphasizes having the mindset of the patient’s highest good, vs. profit or the desire to sell a product. I haven’t figured out the design of that yet! But that’s the intention I have when working and sometimes you can be surprized. It would be interesting to see if the practitioner was rewarded if the test came out a certain way, if that would change the testing.

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Mind over Matter AC: Any other interesting research and projects that you want to talk to us about?

AJ: the hardest part of research is actually getting people to participate. If you have an opportunity to participate, which is extremely difficult with Covid restrictions; any Australians who are reading or watching this right now, if you want to participate please get in touch as I’m hoping to have all the data collection done this year!

Once that’s done, I want to do a study on surrogate and self-testing. I think that self testing is a kind of surrogate testing where you are your own surrogate. I’ve been planning this for a few years and now I have the ways and means to do it. (note: check out the video on YouTube about 33 minutes in for our digression here into the subject of self testing!)

AC: Any other resources that you would suggest to others on these subjects?

AJ: I do have a webinar that I recorded that explains all my muscle testing research (links below), where I outline what I did for each of the studies and the results. And that would also give you links for all the papers that I’ve published.

You can also find all of these on my website drannejensen.com and if you want to be involved in the research, you can email as I’m always recruiting.

Issue 19, Spring 2021 asked, ‘what’s my accuracy?’ It’s not an easy thing to calculate, so I can’t tell you this when you participate. But what’s really exciting is; once this self-testing study is done and I see how the system works, I’m going to launch a website where you’ll be able to login and test your own accuracy and it will give you your accuracy right then and there.

AC: OK, that’s super cool!

AJ: You could use this as a gauge to see how you’re going and to try different things with yourself; try different types of testing or try changing your focus. It will be really fun, but I need to get more information first.

AC: This would be such a great tool for new students and allow them to see and gauge their progress as they move through classes and as they practice more. Building confidence as they see it improve – I think that would be really helpful.

Anne’s Webinar: https://heartspeaknternational.myshopify.com/products/theoxford-studies-validating-muscle-responsetesting Anne’s website: www.drannejensen.com Email: dranne@drannejensen.com

AC: Can you quickly let us know what is involved in that?

AJ: It would mean about an hour of your time to be a practitioner testing a patient, hopefully that you do not know, using deltoid as an indicator muscle test. 40 muscle tests with one paradigm and then 40 muscle tests with the other. And that’s it! Some practitioners in the other study

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From "Mind" to Multiple Intelligences

By Bruce Dickson

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e need to have a serious talk about "mind." Why? Because the connotations of "mind" are a male fiction, from the 1800s.

Mind was defined as the "win" position in a win/lose framework. Who was the loser in the human psyche? The gut-brain, Feelings, everything subjective and all intuition.

The limitations and restrictions males in the 1800s put on "awareness" by terming it "mind" are still with us. These limitations are best transformed when individuals become more aware of and precise about what they mean by "mind" and how "mind" differs from "awareness."

Males in the 1800s split awareness and the human psyche into two poles. One pole was "Natural Science", the other pole was "Romanticism." Romanticism included and embraced, Feelings, everything subjective, all intuition, gut-brain and right-brain. What was left for Natural Science? Left-brain and head-brain.

In the 1800s males defined and created the connotations of "mind" in a framework of conflict-competition between males (everyone out for themselves, dog eat dog, King of the Hill, One Ring to rule them all, etc).

"Mind" in the 1800s connoted primarily leftbrain and head-brain activity only. Men called this "being rational."

Everything outside of left-brain and head-brain activity was of a subjective, Feeling nature and was "irrational."

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Mind over Matter As "the winner makes the rules," "mind" was human awareness and the human psyche hijacked by male egos; then, stuffed into a little box they could control better.

The story males tell themselves about their "mind" is male mythology, to be passed down to young males. In the 1800s it deliberately excluded the valid intelligences and wisdom of women, children and Nature. As the last 20 years have demonstrated, male’s narrow concept of awareness and intelligence was not sustainable.

If this sounds odd to you...

If the above sounds odd, it may be because everyone I've ever met or read about doing kinesiology, in any form, has already escaped male limitations-restrictions on "mind." We already operate in a whole-brain context. This has only been available since about 1975.

People doing kinesiology are at the leading edge of reframing the old "male mind" into "whole-brainedness;" or more simply, "wholebrain."

Where confusion exists about "mind," it is usually because the above distinction is not acknowledged. It takes practice to learn a new rhetoric. If you practice using the phrase "whole-brain" in your own thinking; and, replace "mind" with "awareness," this is less confusing in my experience.

"Mind" looks backwards to our collective maledominator past. "Whole-brain" looks forward to more healthy psychology, with the validity of the subjective, the validity of children's perception and the validity of Nature's perspective and wisdom, embraced and incorporated. Kinesiology people and Cultural Creatives more generally, are how this newer way of "thinking about thinking" will spread.

Issue 19, Spring 2021 Q: Why did males in the 1800s define "mind" in such a limited and one-sided way?

A: 1800s males were fascinated with CONTROL. They wanted CENTRALIZATION. Why? If you can centralize power, you can CONTROL better. If you can control, you can WIN. "Winning" and "making money" were synonymous in the old male mind. Winners take all. "Winner take all" is what's corrupting our politics and our economy. Some readers may know monopolies are much more numerous and powerful now than they ever were in the 1890s (Matt Stoller at Substack.com is the most informative voice on this).

More and more, "mind" is a retro, dated concept, an old myth men tell themselves about how their waking psyche works.

How this applies to kinesiology In our body, there is no single location for awareness-intelligence.

Awarenessintelligence is spread out, DECENTRALIZED. What men call "mind" is more generously described as "swarness-intelligence. This is spread out over and around our anatomy.

Women are naturally better at accepting this and working with this than men.

Where is awareness-intelligence concentrated in our body-psyche? In two places: - We have a head brain. It's good for executive function, deliberate choice and decisions. It's more attuned to the Outer Game of Life.

- We have a gut brain. It's good for feelings, body sensations. Because our gut-brain is the conduit thru which our Higher Self communicates with our waking conscious Self, our gut brain is talented at some forms of intuition. The "still small voice" comes mostly thru our gut-brain. Gut-brain is more attuned

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Each individual is more awake-aware in one of these two brains.

Everyone prefers one brain over the other Every adult--kids before puberty are different-feels safer and prefers one of their two brains over the other. This is fine. We also prefer using one hand over the other, one eye over the other, one foot over the other, and so on.

Whichever brain you are more comfortable with, this is your brain dominance.

In the past, starting with Paul Dennison, we languaged this only as which brain hemisphere dominated, left or right.

Since the microbiome became a mainstream fascination in 2017, it makes more sense to talk about brain preference in two ways:

Issue 19, Spring 2021 - Yes each of us has a preference for using the right or left brain hemisphere, AND - each of us prefers to use either our gut-brain or head-brain more than the other What's the goal? Using both of your brains and all of your intelligences more often.

Using both brains--either set--can be likened to using both hands more equally. Which hand would you prefer to live with tied behind your back? The answer is "neither." You want both hands available. Same with legs. Using both hands, both brains, is whole-brain. when conscious waking Self is healthy, it can flexibly switch between its capacities as useful and beneficial for yourself and for all concerned.

Two brains as two eyes

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Mind over Matter This idea comes from Mimi Castellanos, one of my mentors. Gut-brain and head-brain are akin to two eyes. Which of your eyes would you prefer to live without using? The answer is "neither." You want both eyes working. Why? Because each has a somewhat unique perspective (intelligence).

Each organ has unique intelligence Our "mind" does not end with our two brains. Each internal organ has intelligence.

If this were not so, how come so many Ksystems get good results correlating emotions and glands and emotions and organs?

If each part of the body was NOT intelligent in some way, how could there be any such a topic as Body Symbology or such a book as Messages from the Body by Michael Lincoln?

If awareness-intelligence was not widely distributed in us, how could there be any such topic as Cellular Memory? Memory is a form of intelligence. How could the Innate intelligence of the early chiropractors be possible without this wider view?

Issue 19, Spring 2021 If energy is intelligent, this suggests different frequencies of energy have different intelligence--and this seems to be the case.

The above suggests the kind of views Kpractitioners encounter as they explore what we used to call "consciousness." Probably in many cases, "awareness" is a more clear and precise word than the more abstract word "consciousness."

The above is the expanded view of "mind" we will be learning to live with in the coming 100 years. This will require living with uncertainty without falling into fear.

How not to fall into fear at such a wide-open vista? Having and using adequate and sufficient spiritual protection and asking for your own Higher Guidance, either silently or out loud, at the start of every session, is what I use.

Contact Bruce and learn more about him by visiting his website:

Our five senses also suggest five intelligences. Any reader who has explored NLP deeply will understand how close each of our five animal senses is to an "intelligence," how useful it is to conceive of each sense as a distinct intelligence.

Energy as intelligence Finally, what's the difference between "energy" and "intelligence"? How about, ‘very little difference?’

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By Michelle Greenwell

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n Canada we have had the unprecedented times of being told that we are not able to call ourselves under the title of “Kinesiology” and we had to shift our focus from the “scientific study of human or non-human body movement.” And, although “Kinesiology addresses physiological, biomechanical, and psychological dynamic principles and mechanisms of movement,” which is a little of what we do address with our protocols and techniques, we really do something much different.

Canada’s approach has been to look at the results of what we do. That is, we provide a special means of assessing the biofield to create a flow or balance of energy that provides for the innate healing potential to be engaged. Further, it is because we have a ‘healer’ role that a BioEnergetic Wellness Facilitator initially provides an “energetic boost to push the patient’s total energetic system back into homeostasis. This healing energetic boost has special negatively-entropic, self-organizational properties that assist the cells in creating order from disorder along selectively defined routes of cellular expression.” This impressive feat happens because we are engaged with another, the healee, in a collaborative approach to personalized self -care. This may not be achieved by the engagement of the individual in a medical model that provides for appointments for symptom review and testing, whereby the intention is to do assessment before a treatment protocol, which could take several appointments across time.

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As a BioEnergetic Wellness Facilitator we are engaged with the ‘healee’ at their thought of making an appointment, to making the appointment, through to the appointment and the following tips and tools we provide them for self-care after leaving their balancing session. It is the act of connection to engage or the “call to compassion,” referred to in Therapeutic Touch®.

the “Kinesiologist” who was a registered graduate from a Kinesiology College. Although this is likely not an exhaustive search, it was what was available to us in 2018 when we began our deep dive into the world of “muscle monitoring” and “bioenergetic feedback.”

What distinguishes us, as BioEnergetic Wellness Facilitators, from other wellness facilitators who are a part of mind-body therapies, biofield therapies, energy psychology, mindfulness? It is our ability to utilize a muscle monitoring approach that gains biofeedback from the biofield about the balance of energy flow. Enter the “muscle test,” “muscle response test,” “muscle monitor,” or “biofeedback” possibilities.

Analogue – testing a muscle in movement

In our research to identify exactly who we represent as the Canadian Association of BioEnergetic Wellness, we needed to understand what our technique was and how it differed from

A few TERMS – for reference

Autonomic – access to the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems at a subconscious level Binary – testing a muscle in a static position BioEnergetic – implies that energy is being assessed within the Biofield of the person.

BioFeedback – information is provided back to the individual for them to make adjustments.

Devices are often used to read this information.

Energetic – implies that energy is being assessed

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Equilibrium – state of rest or balance

History of Terminology:

Feedback – implies that a stimulus is used and there is a reply to the implications of this stimulus

1. Muscle Test (MT), Manual Muscle Test (MMT) – testing a muscle, looking for “strong” or “weak”, uses more than 2 pounds of pressure.

Modulation – varying a waveform. Not all that we do has to do with wave form.

Monitoring – implies that a change in a response is being identified across time.

Muscle – can be a muscle directly linked to the meridian system, or it can be an indicator muscle – indicating that there has been a change in the stress felt within the system.

2. Muscle Response Testing (MRT) – Neural ability of the electrical system shown by a muscle tested with less than 2 pounds of pressure, shown with “lock” or “unlock”. Used by Dr. Anne Jansen at Oxford University for research.

3. Muscle Monitoring (MM) – Same as MRT, used

by John Thie, by IKC since 2000, and identified by Krebs/McGowan

Muscle testing - is used by Physiotherapy and Academic Kinesiology. We can muscle test as they do, but we have a much more in-depth approach to the way we gain information from the Biofield and the status of the whole system.

4. Muscle BioFeedback – identified by Krebs/ McGowan as the information gained from MM.

Test – implies that something is being measured.

In most cases Muscle testing is a test of strength.

6. Binary Muscle Testing (BMT) – Testing a muscle in a static position – Alan Sales – Cyberkinetics

Response – implies that an answer is being provided towards questioning

Krebs/McGowan - refer to “Muscle Testing” as “Muscle Monitoring” because the tool is not a test but a way of understanding the “biofeedback aspect of the muscle response.” Muscle testing uses “strong” and “weak”, where we use “lock” or “unlock”. “Locked” can be a muscle with integrity but it can also be one of 7 states of muscle imbalance as identified by Richard Utt. For the purposes of EK, they identify “Muscle Monitoring” as the more accurate term to use. “Muscle Biofeedback” is information gained by an indicator muscle about what is happening within the Biofield and is a stressor to the system. This is oversimplified for today’s purposes, and has many aspects, but helps to bring other techniques into a blanket term.

5. Analogue Muscle Testing (AMT) – Testing a muscle in movement – Alan Sales – Cyberkinetics

7. Holographic Muscle Monitoring – Neurologicalenergetic interface in 14 positions – Richard Utt 8. Indicator Muscle (IM) – Muscle used to gain biofeedback from Neurological-energetic interface 9. Autonomic Response Testing (ART) – Same as MRT, used by Dr. Dietrich Klinghart, also Advanced Autonomic Response Testing 10. Quantitative Muscle Test (QMT) – Use of a dynamometer to measure a MMT, measures the force of the test.

If we go back to our first discussion on the results of our assistance to another, it is to provide balance and flow to engage the innate healing potential. As we are an umbrella organization for those who provide assessment of the biofield prior to engaging in actions to create flow, this

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also includes assessment which can be hands off techniques such as you find in Therapeutic Touch® and Somatic Movement and Dance, (formerly known as Dance Kinesiology). All this leading to a self-care approach whereby the ‘healee’ can engage in the activity for gaining bioenergetic feedback through assessment or monitoring.

Many of the facilitators who are providing a self-care model and engage clients and students in a selfempowering practice, (and with our restrictions from Covid protocols), have implemented the use of the Body Pendulum. The use of this approach provides the ‘healee’ with the realization when they are affected by something entering their biofield, or by a shift in their thoughts or emotions. From a stabilizing stance there is a shift of the pendulum when something affects or influences the field. Looking at this muscle monitoring method is significant to the exploration of the muscle monitor as less than two pounds of pressure, or as you find in Body Talk techniques, ‘feather-like’ touch. The shift of an indicator to identify where a release happens and where a hold stays in place can provide biofeedback about the biofield and the systems within the body. Of significance here, is the creation of the awareness that can be developed for a ‘healee’ to understand cues and somatic experience to identify when there is not an energetic flow to activity, and when there is.

Through bioenergetic feedback facilitators can provide a means by which the root cause of a shift in flow has occurred. This may be accomplished through some in-depth dives into the structure of the body and then engagement of a stimulus to release this block and recreate flow.

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As facilitators we strive to explain how our monitoring tools can assist with pain, stress, and other symptoms. As muscle monitoring engages muscles related to meridians, as we find in the teaching of Touch for Health™ and the work of Dr. George Goodheart, we can gain information within a specific system by the muscles that we chose to engage in the monitoring. We are assessing Qi flow and balance. I believe Dr. Daniel Keown sums this up beautifully: “To make sense of how Qi organizes the body we have had to move from mitochondria, through cells, tissues and then into organs…we introduce cutting-edge science in the guise of morphogens and understand that cells direct each other through chemical signals…the body is connected.” And when we look at the flow of Qi: “If Qi is intelligent metabolism, the Acupuncture points are the embryological organizing centres and the channels are the fascial planes which connect these.” Our ability to sense energy through awareness and off body assessments like Therapeutic Touch™, and our ability to monitor energetic shifts with the introduction of signals into energy flow or through emotions provides us with a unique view of the function and flow of the body and how our interaction in community and the environment can shift function.

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The client is engaged in their self-care and can gain awareness of flow and imbalance. Our conversations have been able to reach mainstream dialogue as people can sense through the pendulum and somatic awareness what energy feels like and when it shifts for them. As the exploration of muscle monitoring continues to expand and be utilized by the general population, we have a community building that is engaged in their self-care, and that was the original goal of Dr. John Thie when he brought Chinese medicine and Chiropractic knowledge to the layperson. Be engaged and aware for your own self-care. BioEnergetic Feedback is one key tool that provides everyone with a personalized approach to wellness.

Are we “testing” function, or are we “monitoring” flow? Ultimately, we are gaining bioenergetic feedback to provide a selfempowering model for self-care that provides the ‘healee’ with the opportunity to shift flow by interaction with a ‘healer’ or engaging in an activity to increase flow and/or expand Qi. The members in CanBeWell have embraced the approach to shift the viewpoint of what we do as facilitators which has provided us with an expanded relationship within our balance sessions.

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Mind over Matter Notes and references: 1) Wikipedia 2) Richard Gerber, “Vibrational Medicine: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies,” 2001. Bear and Company, Vermont, USA, p. 285-324.

3)Gerber, p. 305.

4) Charles Krebs and Tania O’Neill McGowan, “Energetic Kinesiology: Principles and Practice, 2014. Handspring Publishing, East Lothian, UK. 5) “…a person is not the sum of its cells (biology), molecules (chemistry), and atoms (physics). A human being has a conscious mind and emotions (psychological aspects), and also a soul (spiritual aspects). Cloning creates a physical body that looks like the original cell structure, with physical features of the original person, but the clone would likely not feel, love or react like the original person. Neuroscientists will argue that thoughts and emotions are regulated by genetic patterns in our hormones, neuropeptides, and growth factors, but energy field theory would argue that emotions come from the biofield patterns of their original generator – the human spirit in reaction to its environment, not in reaction to its cell structure.”

Christina Ross, “Etiology: How to Detect Disease in Your Energy Field Before It Manifest in Your Body,” 2013. Zlibris Corp., USA, pp 134-135.

6) Also referred to as the Sway Test, we have chosen not to use this term as it identifies a test, rather than the ability to monitor.

7) At this simplistic action, there is no pressure on a limb to over two pounds of pressure, or less than two pounds of pressure, something which has been debated and hypothesized for accuracy in comparison to the muscle test used by chiropractors, physiotherapists etc. which is looking for strength vs weakness.

Issue 19, Spring 2021 10) This final paragraph was constructed to show how the use of the terminology has changed over the last 2 years as we have endeavored to find our voice and our terminology in a world of academia that looks at Kinesiology as the study of movement. As the University and College programs in mainstream medicine continue to evolve the profession of Kinesiology, we are striving to find a solid voice that can use the valuable tools of muscle monitoring and bioenergetic feedback to continue to explore the energy systems of the body and create flow for the innate healing potential to engage and succeed in creating wellness. This approach provides a means to converse with athletic and dance programs who use Kinesiology extensively in their training programs. We provide a different system, and this can be identified by our terminology and exploration for wellness and balance without conflicting with terms or approaches that confuse the client or communications with health care providers.

Michelle Greenwell has been a long-time contributor to KinesioGeek magazine bringing her perspective of wellness and engagement into our focus. You can find her FREE videos on Youtube: Tai Chi Wellness and the Seated Form Series, which she filmed with her parents who are also Tai Chi instructors turning 80 this year. She has also combined her knowledge of TFH and Tai Chi in the other playlists provided for the public through Covid restrictions: Tai Chi Online (108 days of exploration) and Tai Chi Online Fall 2020 which is her current weekly outreach through Facebook Live sessions, Fridays on the Tai Chi Wellness page. The Qi YINtegration program she mentions that combines her love of TFH and movement can be found on Facebook as well as the current online class schedule found at www.dancedebut.com on the class listing blog post.

The Set 1 book is in her shop for those wondering how they can bring more homework ideas to their clients after a session. Be Well with Michelle Greenwell is her podcast found on Spotify and Buzzsprout.

8) Often this is referred to as releasing a stressor and engaging the relaxation response to “mobilize the body’s natural mechanisms of self-repair, anything is possible and spontaneous remission just might happen, even when you’ve been told your condition is chronic or uncurable.” Lissa Rankin, “Mind over Medicine: Scientific Proof that you can heal yourself,” 2013. Hayhouse, USA, p 189.

9) Daniel Keown, “The Spark in the Machine: How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine,” 2014. Singing Dragon, London, UK, pp 78-79.

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Release Burdensome Burdens

By Sylvia Marina “There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency, something that should never be done at all.” – Peter Drucker

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orry is a useless burden. We each have times in our life when we have concerns that have the ability to occupy our every waking hour and then harass our thoughts and keep us awake when we wish we were sleeping.

In the past I have had clients who are so conditioned to worry that when I speak to them about de-conditioning themselves it seems impossible.

It is possible that seeds of negativity are sown into our subconscious without our conscious awareness. And for us to overcome the habit of living our programmed self, the first step is to recognise we are being programmed and stop that process.

Because of the constant struggle against useless, impractical burdens, many people have even left their homes in search of freedom.

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An example: in our house Mother used the expression ‘take your umbrella or you will get wet.’ and 'Don’t sit on the grass or you will get piles'...piles of what? I later learned that was her word for haemorrhoids. And that thing about not having holes in your undies, in case you have to go to hospital...and 'Don’t go out in the rain, you’ll get sick again'. I say, ‘take your umbrella and keep dry.”

Burdensome ideologies are passed from generation to generation, stories and expressions that are not relevant in today’s world but are often so ingrained that they have become what I call a useless burden. Trauma and the fear of trauma passed through family lines is very real.

It’s an unnecessary burden to be constantly filtering non-essential words and statements.

Don't label what happens as bad. Then you won't need to consciously be doing positive thinking and much of the stress in your life will simply disappear.

Each day be vibrantly alive and brimming with love, passion, dreams and visions. Live each day happier that you have ever been. Be radiant, be the one that is transparently leading you to fulfilment in many dimensions, career, relationships, spiritual development… everyday evolving your future.

Sylvia Marina is a Human Behaviour Trauma Specialist, speaker and mentor.

She is the author of TRANSFORMNG DNA MEMORIES and RETURN TO LOVE and offers worldwide seminars in person online A registered Touch for Health Instructor since 1985. Sylvia serves on the Executive Board of the International Kinesiology College of Australia and Dean of the IKC Personal Development School since October 2020.

Her intensive career includes assignments across Australia, Asia, South Pacific, Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, UK. And USA.

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Spreading the light of Touch for Health and honouring the memory of Sandy Gannon

The 2nd of April 2021 is the first anniversary of the passing of Sandy Gannon, elected IKC President. Sandy held John Thie’s teachings very close to her heart and her own contributions to Touch for Health were immense. Sandy also played a pivotal role in the Touch for Health Charity and we are launching a project to honour her and celebrate her life on this first anniversary.

Sandy had a vision of bringing TFH to communities and individuals around the globe in times of need. We, the TFH Charity, want to make this dream a reality, especially during these challenging times when there is so much need around the world.

To start us off on this year long project we invite you to share TFH during the month of April in your community. It’s an opportunity to light the way for others to better health and wellbeing. Naturally we need to follow local Covid-19 guidance but here are some ideas:

Show a friend, colleague, neighbour or anyone who is struggling some simple self-help techniques - perhaps zipping up, auricular energy, switching on, cross crawl or ESR?

Arrange to share techniques with a local community group (self help groups, care homes, refugees, children’s homes, people with mental health challenges, communities in crisis, women’s shelters ….)

Offer balances to those in need, where restrictions allow The TFH Charity is offering 10 bursaries of up to £50 to enable any TFHer to share TFH within their community. If you have an idea of something you would like to do, but just need a little financial support to help make it happen, please contact us at the email below.

The bursaries are there to help share the light of Touch for Health.

Our Charity mission is to promote wellbeing through the practices of TFH and we want to do precisely that. During this year of honouring Sandy we want to bring TFH to communities that are affected by crises such as natural disasters, political unrest, poverty and privation.

We need your help to do this. If you have a seed of an idea for a bigger project please get in touch with us so we can help you with financial or other support to make yours, and Sandy’s dream a reality.

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We’d love to hear how you are helping your community or you can inspire others by sharing your stories on our facebook page. www.touchforhealthcharity.com admin@touchforhealthchairty.com www.facebook.com/ touchforhealthcharity Charity Number 1000303

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Intuitive Meditations for Kinesiology—a review

By Hannah Costello

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ebbie Rossi’s Intuitive Meditation for Kinesiology reference booklet walks the practitioner through thirty different meditations with clear purposes and scripts to facilitate healing in a new way. This is a technique that can be used like any other during a session, whether you have any experience guiding meditations or not.

What I particularly enjoy is the diversity of the meditations in this book. Each script has the same structure but the deviations in details create really powerful balances. There’s a range, from focusing on breathing and colours to full spirit guide visualizations, where people with all levels of experience and comfort with meditation can get beneficial results.

Some Intuitive Meditations involve integrating other information, such as bringing in a specific chakra and affirmation, being surrounded by a crystal and its attribute, or tracing a meridian pathway. I think this is brilliant, as it creates more versatility in the use of these items and information. For instance, if I knew that a certain crystal frequency would be good for you but don’t have access to the rock itself, I could lead you through a meditation where we could visualize and infuse that frequency. That being said, I would be curious to see if it worked the other way. As in, if I don’t know anything about flower remedies but it seems like one is necessary, perhaps I could lead you through a visualization and see if your subconscious is able to bring to mind the correct frequency.

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Another thing that I love is that there are a couple of Intuitive Meditations that are written for children. The structure of the meditation stays the same, but the words and tone change to create an environment where the child understands and is comfortable with the exercise. I’m sure that these could be used or adapted for adults and that the others could be used and adapted for children, but it’s nice to see so clearly the many different ways this can work for someone.

So how does an Intuitive Meditation work?

This could be a balance on its own, which I think would be especially helpful in a situation where you don’t have other books or materials with you. Since each meditation is written on a single

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page, start to finish, including reflection questions, it would be very easy to put a couple of favourites in your work binder if you have one, or to fold them into a bag so you always have a low-tech tool with you.

It could also become homework for the client, especially if there isn’t enough time during the session to go through a full meditation, or if continued visualization is necessary.

But it’s most likely that you’ve gotten here in the middle of a session. However it is that you got here, you can open up your copy of Intuitive Meditations for Kinesiology and follow the clear instructions for how to put your intention in circuit and scan for which meditation would be most beneficial at this time. . There’s a wonderful little note here saying that you can create your own meditation as well.

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There are no clear directions for how to do this, but once you’ve read through a few of the scripts provided, it becomes clear how they are formulated. That little note gives you permission to think outside the box and design something that is exactly what your client needs.

The protocol for adding a meditation to your circuit is written with indications for whether you are looking for a lock or an unlock at any given moment. This can be helpful or those of us who are still learning what to look for or who are used to using a toggling muscle response. For those of us who work from a locked muscle or who use a method that doesn’t match what is written, I would ignore the indications and work in whichever way is comfortable for you.

When using these meditations, it’s important to remember how you got here. What were you working on? What were the goals and emotions involved? If you find yourself doing something that requires outside information, such as the “Meridian” or “Flower Remedy” meditations, you may have to look over the page first to see what specifics you need to bring in before you start.

Both you and your client should go into the meditation with a clear intention, based on the context of the meditation and of the session as a whole.

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Debbie makes a very interesting point at the beginning of this booklet that having safe space to reintegrate and “allow the experience to settle” is an important part of meditation. When we meditate alone, we often have quiet and still time and space in which to do this. However, when we are working with the person on the table, it can be uncomfortable for them to sit in silence for a length of time after the meditation is complete. She suggests instead spending this time asking the person to reflect on what they just experienced. By allowing them to talk about what they felt, saw, learned, etc. during their meditation, they are able to integrate that information and you are able to continue to guide their healing, without any dead air during the session. After each meditation in the book, there are a couple of suggested reflection questions to help guide this conversation.

The back of the booklet contains a few ideas for how to respond when the client gets distracted, is new to meditating, or feels like they can’t really connect or receive information in that state. I know that as students and practitioners we’ve all had those moments where something doesn’t go the way the book says it should and it can feel flustering, so it’s comforting to have these extra little tools to guide both us and our clients through this balance.

Whether or not you are experienced in meditating or in guiding meditations, I think this booklet is a very accessible way of integrating this practice with the knowledge you already have.

The meditations booklet can be purchased online in PDF form by clicking here. When you purchase the booklet you also receive the full YouTube Playlist of all the meditations, so practitioners can experience the meditations as well as sharing these with their clients.

Hannah is a Touch for Health instructor, SIPS and GEMS practitioner living in Costa Rica under the supervision of her overbearing KinesioGeek mother. She can be reached at Hannah.rose.costello@gmail.com

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Food for Thought?

From Canadian Living Magazine and website: The MIND Diet is supposed to help preserve memory and is being researched as a way of preventing the decline associated with Alzheimer's.

The rules are pretty simple:

5 Groups of Foods to Minimize in the MIND Diet •

Pastries and sweets — less than 5 servings per week

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Red meat — less than 4 servings per week

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Cheese — less than 1 serving per week

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Fried or fast food — less than 1 serving per week

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Butter and margarine — less than 1 tablespoon per day

10 Groups of Foods to Include in the MIND Diet •

Whole grains — 3 or more servings per day

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Green leafy vegetables — 6 servings per week

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Other vegetables — 1 serving per day

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Nuts — 5 servings per week

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Berries — 2 or more servings per week

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Beans or legumes — 3 or more servings per week

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Fish — 1 or more serving per week

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Poultry — 2 or more servings per week

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Wine — 1 serving per day

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Olive oil — use as the main cooking oil

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By Alexis Costello

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ow important is ‘intention’ really for a holistic health practitioner and what on earth does it actually mean?

This is near and dear to my heart because, as an instructor of different modalities of holistic and specialized kinesiology, it makes me absolutely insane when I see people gloss over the finer details of the work, declaring it to be “all intention anyways”. ‘Intention’ is not a catchall that allows for laziness, rather it is the compass that points you in the right direction and keeps you on course.

Here’s the way I see it: everything that we work with comes down to frequency. When I use a specific acupoint, that has a frequency.

When you use a gemstone or crystal, that has a frequency. Even a pharmaceutical is a frequency because it is patterned information.

All vibrational frequencies are patterns of information and this information allows the body to make changes based on this new information provided. So it is not the acupoint or the crystal or the medication that heals, but rather the cells making changes to the structure based on new information that causes healing.

But look, over the course of the average session, you might find many areas of stress for the individual on many different levels of their being, ranging from nutritional stress (is beer and chocolate not an acceptable dinner?), to energetic stress (as I type this from the center of a WiFi cloud), to emotional stress (no examples required – we’re all just getting through the day).These different kinds of stresses require different information to come back into balance, so I might be providing that with several different sources: a physical correction like stimulating a certain point on the body, an herbal supplement, an affirmation, etc. To me, the intention does not replace any of these key components – they are each here to provide a specific piece of information. The intention is here to provide overarching integrity and coherence to each of these components, so they act like a unit.

Often in order to fix something that is broken we must take it apart a little first. Once it is in pieces, we can see clearly how it all needs to fit together and we can realign all the parts in a better way.

Intention is what holds everything in place so that we can look at the components and not have pieces go missing under the couch; it allows for smooth reassembly.

In the end, this ability to hold space and intention with focus and clarity is probably one of the big differences between average practitioners and great ones.

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Class listings online for each National Association, Conferences, Products and More Class listings for individual countries

Upcoming SIPS classes

Australia: http://www.kinesiology.org.au/page-1712619 Canada: https://canbewell.org/ Denmark: http://kinesiologiuddannelse.dk/kursuskalender/ Ireland: http://www.kai.ie/kinesiology-training-in-ireland

There are classes coming up in Canada, the US and Europe – visit the website to find courses near you. http://www.sipskinesiology.com

UK: http://www.kinesiologyfederation.co.uk/training/coursediary-search.php USA: http://touchforhealth.us/classes/classes-by-state/ USA: http://energyk.org/training-events/

2021 Conferences TFHKA Online—June 25-27 Registration open soon!

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If you are a kinesiology association and would like to have your events (conferences, demo days, etc) mentioned, please email us. There are far too many classes internationally for us to list them all, but please send a link to the page on your website that shows upcoming classes and we will add it here.

If you would like to advertise your conference, presentation or post-conference workshop, please contact us for details.

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