Testimonials from the Kinesiology Students

January 2008 Class

Kinesiology has been an extremely enlightening, exciting and wonderful experience for me.

Classes are filled with loads of information, fun, laughter and hard work.  With each lesson you can grow, understand and change as a person and are given tools and practises to help people grow and change and deal with day to day life.  This is one of the things that really attracted me to Kinesiology as most people are unable to deal successfully and confidentally just with day to day happenings and stresses.  Kinesiology offers anyone who studies it a broad spectrum of opportunities to grow in.  Being a practise that looks at each person holistically you as a practioner have the option of specialising in a specific area of kinesiology if you so wish and being a successful practioner without having to specialise in all fields of Kinesiology.

It is a field of study that I am pleased I undertook and looking forward to completing the full four years with the aim of being a successful Kinesiology Practioner.

Denise Mzyk

Trust the process, people, trust the process!

Recently a client entered my rooms with a stiff and sore neck. Any movement was restricted and very painful. On closer inspection it turned out her right upper trapezius had very neatly turned itself into a ball of iron – very much like the ones you saw on Arnold before he traded them for another ballgame, only she had forgotten the rule: what you do for the right, you do for the left! So we started the balance and it turned out to be a frozen muscle with an over-facilitating lower traps. I tested for the balance and my hands immediately started sweating as I read that I had to stimulate GV24! As I “confidently” explained to my client that I was going to rub a spot on her forehead on the hairline, I thought to myself: “How the hell am I going to turn that iron monster into muscle – the last time I checked I was still failing alchemy!” Anyway, must have worked for someone otherwise it wouldn’t be there! So, I rubbed…and we talked through the emotion.

After about 45 seconds she told me, “You can stop now”. “Why?” Secretly I think, “great, so now she has also figured out that I will have rubbed a hole through her skull before this thing relaxes”. “Because it has gone”, she said as if it was the most natural thing in the world. “Gone? Gone where? Maybe to the other side?” So I felt the muscle and hey, what do you know. Mush!

She sighed relaxed, “You know just what to do!”. Stunned and still fighting for composure I replied, “no, not me dear, it was you! Your body is innately genius”….(and to think for a while there I almost didn’t believe it!)

April 2007

If you still wonder about Kinesiology..

I was asked to write a short article on what Kinesiology did for me. Now, I’m not sure how one can explain ‘in short’ what it means when you walk into a room feeling like you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders and walk out feeling like you just got you life back. But I will try, in short..

I started the Kinesiology course with Margie in August last year, and have seen that Kinesiology works. I mean, one can see muscles locking and unlocking and feel you have more energy after doing certain balances. The simple things that prove that somehow, it works. And I believed that it worked, all of it. But all the studies, practicing in class, reading up on it or listening to what others tell you about it could in no way make me understand just how powerful it is until I experienced it for myself a few weeks back.

I had a very traumatic experience in January and since then has been down, depressed, had no energy, felt physically sick, to name but a few symptoms. Life was just not good and I felt really dark and gloomy even though I thought I handled it rather well.

So where did I start? I saw my doctor and well, nothing. Bloodtest, etc. and, I was told, it ‘could be and ulcer’.. I saw a homeopath and he found that I have the Guardia parasite, which basically attacks the liver, which I contracted from infected water. There is not really any medication available (I was told) and at most one treats the symptoms and lives with it for a while. Obviously to me, these all made sense on a physical level. Down and depressed from the bad experience that I had and feeling so horribly ill all the time from the parasite, perfectly acceptable explanations to me. Except the medication was not working at all and if anything I felt worse.

Well, then, after Margie ‘suggested’ a balancing for the second or third time, I finally felt ready and one of the second year students did a balance on me. Michelle worked in her soft and gentle way with me through the bad experience that I had had, the feelings and emotions and started getting stuff out of me that I did not even realize was there to begin with relating to my past history. She spent almost two hours working with me and we covered a lot of information with me switching and blocking to try and get out of this very uncomfortable situation of having to deal with what was really going on. But with her help and support we worked through issues that I had ignored for a long time.

I cannot describe to you in words how I felt when I left that afternoon. I was unsettled, but calm and relaxed. I felt light and ‘clear’; almost walking on air.. I slept for 8 hours that night and woke up the next morning rested and not feeling like I have not slept in days. The bloating, discomfort and nausea that I had felt even from drinking water – gone!! The ‘feeling uncomfortable in my own skin’ – gone!! The dark and gloomy feelings lifted….and I can just go on and on..

It took all of those experiences to get me to start dealing with the real issues. I t took all of that to help me understand that this wonderful process, that I want to use myself one day to help others, really works!! And I am so grateful that I had this experience because in a way it had to be proven to me and I had to see it for myself just how powerful it can be. I am sure however that I have barely begin this journey of discovering what Kinesiology can do!

Thanks Michelle, for helping me so much, and for showing me how powerful it can be and thanks Margie for suggesting a balancing more than once – I heard you eventually!! –and also for helping me to learn how to use this wonderful, wonderful tool so that I can do the same for others someday.

Marlene Liebenberg
SKCSA student

2009 Cape Town

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