Presented by the International College of Healing Arts

The Basic Kinesiology Practice Programme ™ (by ICPKP)

Overview
Course Descriptions
Class Schedule
The Next Step
Student Handbook 2007 (pdf)
Application Forms

Overview

The 10 units of the Basic Kinesiology Programme (BKP) represent the core of the PKP program. Each workshop comprises about 35 hours of training. About half of this you do in the classroom with the teacher (ICPKP Faculty Member) and the remainder you complete by working with classmates, friends who become willing volunteers, and on the ICPKP website where you can compare notes with other students working on the same units. (Some of these will be in exciting countries overseas.) BKP takes approximately 10 months of full-time study to complete. The International College of Healing Arts holds classes one weekend a month.

BKP 101 - 110 will provide you with a solid foundation in kinesiology on which you can build the skills needed to become a practitioner. The workshops are designed to be fun, easy and progressively add to your skills. Anyone can take BKP: mums, dads, students looking for a career or mature folk looking for an escape from the 9 - 5 grind and a business of their own. Anyone with a high school education and a willingness to learn, explore and grow can take BKP.

In the first 10 classes the student learns the basic foundation of Kinesiology skills on which all other training will be based.

• First, they learn self-help energisers, then how to muscle test a person. The skills include many reflexes to stimulate the function of muscles; the indicator muscle of the 14 meridians; the principles of acupuncture meridian therapy.
• They learn various balancing techniques such as Time of Day, an 8 muscle yin balance, a 14 muscle wheel balance, a 5-element one point balance, a colour balance, a sound balance, and a nutritional balance.
• They learn the basics about the skeleton, the anatomical names and a summary of the organs of the body. They learn many pain reduction techniques, different eating regimes: food combining, food rotation, eating by the 5-element food colours table.
• They learn active listening using emotions and how to work to a kinesiology balancing protocol with a goal, using fingermodes. They learn some advanced muscle techniques, posture analysis and the principles and ethics of client relationships.

BKP Course Descriptions

BKP101: Energisers and Self Care
This workshop introduces you to three different kinds of easy to learn self-energiser trigger points (Neuro-Emotional, Neuro-Lymphatic, and Neuro-Vascular) and the powerful meridian energiser trace. As well, you will use walking gait reflexes, crosscrawl self integration, vision and hearing energy techniques.

BKP102: Proficient Manual Muscle Testing
People completing this unit will be able to use muscle testing accurately, and perform a Kinesiology energy balance on others. They will be able to identify dehydration, ionisation, neurological disorganisation (switching), central vessel integrity and thymus energy imbalance.

BKP103: Introduction to the Law of 5-Elements
This unit develops an elementary understanding of and skill in using basic 5-Element principles for energy balancing.

BKP104: The Body's Superficial Energy Connections
This unit introduces an understanding of the philosophy, principles and history of Kinesiology; to extend the understanding of meridians and their related organ systems and to develop proficiency in a 14 muscle wheel energy balance.

BKP105: The Law of 5-Elements in depth
This unit extends the understanding of, and skill in using, the 5-Element principles and 5-Element emotions for energy balancing.

BKP106: Professional Skills, Balancing Protocol with Database
This unit develops skill and understanding in the use of basic professional Kinesiology techniques.

BKP107: Pain Reduction
This unit develops skill in using Kinesiology techniques to reduce physical pain.

BKP108: History / Balancing with Food
This unit extends an understanding of the development (philosophy and principles) of Kinesiology. It develops an understanding of the chain of life, the six stages of nutrition, food combining; the concept of biogenic, biostatic, biocidic substances; to construct a diet using 5-Element, food family and food rotation principles; to develop skill in using C1 and ear acu-point sensitivity tests.

BKP109: Advanced muscle techniques, Reactivity and Posture
This unit develops skill and understanding in correcting reactivity in muscles and meridians with (and without) circuit retaining or reactive modes. To develop skill in observing postural imbalance; to extend techniques in balancing energy in muscles.

BKP110: Using Client Health Records
To establish, utilise and update a client health record; communicate in a professional manner and set clear boundaries in a kinesiology practice; establish personal ethical behaviour and respect client's rights in a health care context.

Class Schedule

The International College of Healing Arts offers the BKP and PKP course work in a series of weekend classes. In general they run Friday 5-9pm, Saturday and Sunday all day. See the Class Schedule for dates of upcoming classes.

The Next Step

Application Information and Forms for the PKP / BKP Program

Completion of the 4 year PKP program

Class Schedule

Class Fees and Policies

More info for students

Student Handbook 2007 (pdf)

Please note that class fees may be reduced for prior learning through the Touch For Health classes.

Professional Kinesioogy Practice is a certified program of the
International College of Professional Kinesiology Practice

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