The Professional Diploma - Professional Kinesiology Practice program begins with the Basic Kinesiology Practice (BKP) program.

Upon successful completion of the BKP program Students may then continue on into the professional diploma program.  This program typically takes 2-2½ years to complete.

Detailed PKP Course Curriculum

1. Mastery of Emotional Stress Release EMS 2.201
This unit develops skills to defuse a variety of emotional stress issues, and more importantly how and when to use each one.

Skills included Frontal/occipital holding, new resources, video-rewrite, brainstorming, new possibilities, senses and intuition, feel/want/willing, imagery, jewels, balloons, grounding rods, picture frames, symbolic encapsulation, older wiser self, challenges to authority, terminating a relationship, active listening  and role play.     (Prerequisite - BKP 110)

2. Muscles and Skin Activation MST 14.201
Students develop skills and understanding in identifying and correcting meridian energy imbalance related to muscle circuits, skin, scars, blood chemistry, thymus and spleen energy. This variety of techniques covers a number of key areas not previously covered.

Those who have completed this unit will be able to evaluate and balance for skin stretch response; scar reintegration; hyoid; blood chemistry; thymus-spleen energy imbalances; cranial and hand stress receptors. Utilize intercostal muscle reset; shapes of structure; under-facilitation or over-facilitation; myotomes; dermotomes; muscle circuits; use temporal tap, eye rotations.     (Prerequisite - BKP 110)

3. Brain Integration Skills PIB 3.203
Learning difficulties is a topic of high discussion. Kinesiology is a huge help to both adults and children with these problems. This unit teaches techniques related to neurological blind spots caused by fear, pain, self-doubt of learning difficulties and dyslexia.

Introduces evaluation and correction of energy imbalances related to neurological blindspots caused by fear, pain and self-doubt, learning disabilities and dyslexias: applying ESR, body scan, lazy-8s, cross crawl, auricular energy, visual inhibition, navel - K27s. Utilize navel-glabella / frontal eminences / mastoid process, frontal eminences/ temporomandibular joint, CV trace, Cook’s hook-ups, cloacals, handballs, Lu 9.6, eye points, vision education.     (Prerequisite - BKP 110)

4. Lifestyle and Dietary Modification ECO 6.201
Students learn Kinesiology techniques relating to dietary habits and lifestyle and how to identify nutritional excess and deficiencies and when clients need to add or delete supplements.

Students learn how to use kinesiology techniques to correct energy imbalance related to dietary needs. Use integration for organ energy, addition and/or deletion of specific foods and/or herbs and/or supplements, nutritional analysis, slow/fast vibratory foods, rehydration, sleepers, Riddler points, blood sugar balance, liver function, dysfunctional tissue techniques, and assess the need for lifestyle change.     (Prerequisite - BKP 110)

5. Immune Mismatch Responses Allergies & Hypersensitivity ECO 6.202
Continuing where BKP108 stops, students learn various sensitivity techniques to identify and release stressful foods and substances (allergies and reactions). Today these are becoming an epidemic in our society.
Learn how you can help correct energy imbalance related to allergies and hypersensitivity to food and/or other environmental factors. Use eight allergy (sensitivity) modes to identify stressful substances. Resolve allergy causal factors.     (Prerequisite - ECO 201)

6. TMJ and Cranials JAF 5.201
No need to feel uptight after this unit. Flexibility is the word here. Students learn how to release tight muscles and have theirs released while they learn.

Balance energy dysfunction of the cranium and temporomandibular joint, using rebreathing, simultaneous NL-NV stimulation, inhalation and exhalation reset, sagittal suture-cerebrospinal fluid and inferior occiput techniques.     (Prerequisite - MST 201)

7. Shoulder, Elbow, Hand Muscle Protocol MST 14.202
Students learn test and correction techniques to release pain, increase the function and performance of the shoulder arm, hand and fingers. We all know people with pain and MST202 and MST203 are major units to release these pains.

Use manual muscle tests and balancing protocols to facilitate increased function and performance in the shoulder girdle and upper limb. Working with shoulders, elbows and wrists can become a major part of the clinical work you do.     (Prerequisite - MST 201)

8. Genetic and Meridian Emotional Release EMS 2.301
This unit includes skills to assist client: to express life events in terms which do not decrease body energy; to recognize in themselves behaviors that are similar to those of either parent or which are a negative reaction to the behavior of either parent; to be at choice, to make positive adaptive responses and to see positive possibilities in their future.

They will use meridian-based affirmations to relieve the energy drain of a wounded spirit and have skill in balancing the stresses of reactive emotion responses in the meridian system. They will be able to construct and use a genogram to make meaning of family events and use the sentic cycle as a stress diffusion technique.     (Prerequisite - EMS 201)

9. Subconscious Self-Perception EMS 2.302
Correcting energy imbalances related to subconscious self-perception. Those completing this unit will be able to use self-image, reactive roles, conflict and reversal, sabotage programme, misunderstanding, misperception, stress statement and hypnotic message techniques.     (Prerequisite - EMS 201)

10. Adrenal, Geopathic and Life Energy ECO 6.301
Those completing this unit will be able to recognize body energy depletion, adrenal dysfunction with and/or without activity; geopathic, polarity and electromagnetic field stress, hypothalamic setpoint dysfunction, and use lifestyle change enablement techniques to increase function, vitality and longevity.     (Prerequisite - ECO 202)

11. Cleansing and Detoxification ECO 6.302
Identify and resolve excesses of supplements, drugs or medications, foreign chemicals, overgrowths, bacteria, viruses, parasites or heavy metals using physiology processes, biochemical pathways and detoxification processes.     (Prerequisite - ECO 202)

12. Hip, Knee and Foot Muscle Protocol MST 14.203
Students learn tests and correction techniques to release pain, increase the function and performance of the hip, leg, knee and foot.

Understand and analyze muscle energy imbalances in the hip and lower limb muscles to facilitate increased function and performance in the hip and lower limb.     (Prerequisite - MST 201)

13. Head, Neck and Trunk Protocol MST 14.301
The variety of muscles learnt in this unit helps students fine tune areas that most practitioners wouldn’t know where to even start. These are muscles of the face, eyes, throat, tongue upper neck and the small back muscles.

Facial muscles, eye muscles, lingual diaphragm, throat muscles, tongue muscles, capitis muscles, additional muscles of the torso including small muscles of the back.     (Prerequisite - MST 201)

14. Flower Essences VEF 7.201
Flower essences open up a whole new world to students. Through flower essences students learn to identify and utilize insights relating to their properties and photographic images, to re-balancing mental emotional and spiritual energy.

History of Bach and NZ New Perception™ flower essences. Identify and utilize flower essences, insights relating to their properties and photographic images, in re-balancing mental, emotional and spiritual energy. Personal journalling.     (Prerequisite - EMS 201 & MST 201)

15. Gems & other Vibrational Energy Fields VEF 7.301
Continuing from VEF201 students learn about the healing powers of a variety of powerful vibrational healing systems such as gems, tissue salts and homeopathics and their use within Kinesiology.

Using gems, gem essences, tissue salts, homeopathic awarenesses; spiral energy techniques and third eye beaming in re-balancing energy disturbances from inheritance factors and other tendencies.     (Prerequisite - VEF 201)

16. Touch, Clothes and Environment MST 14.302
Establish boundaries of professional touch in discussion with the client; identify the adverse effects of past and/or present situations involving deprivation, unwanted or excessive touch, out of touch with the environment, clothes and accessories; losing touch.     (Prerequisite - EMS 201 & MST 201)

17. Hypertonic Release for shoulders and hips HMR 13.201
No need to feel uptight after this unit. Flexibility is the word here. Students learn how to release tight muscles and have theirs released while they learn.

Those completing this unit will know the background history and be able to use proprioceptive resets to reduce hypertonicity in muscles of the shoulder and hip regions including the hypertonic emotional metaphor and the use of basic self correction exercises.     (Prerequisite - MST 202)

18. Ligaments and Joints JAF 5.301
This unit teaches advanced techniques so students can work effectively with ligament and joint injuries affecting so many people. Many people ‘put up’ with pain simply because they don’t know how they can be helped. JAF301 and JAF302 are the answer to many of these problems.

Those who have completed this unit will be able to use shock absorber, local ligament stretch, general adrenal ligament stretch and contralatera1 joint ligament interlink techniques.     (Prerequisite - JAF 201)

19. Injury, Strain and Inflexibility JAF 5.302
This unit teaches students about inflexibility and restriction of muscles due to injury, strain and a variety of other causes.

Correct energy imbalance related to inflexibility. Use injury recall, pitch, roll and yaw, strain/counterstrain, unwinding, homolateral muscle, specific exercise selection, CIA stretch and mixed reactivity techniques.     (Prerequisite - JAF 201)

20. Metaphysical Energy Fields VEF 7.302
Students in this unit will learn how to evaluate and correct various energy fields such as chakras and the auric fields that are vital to our health and how we perform.

Those completing the activities in this chapter will be able to use chakras (nerve plexuses), reactive chakras, auric fields, reactive auric fields, metamorphic technique, right-left polarity and body polarity techniques.     (Prerequisite - VEF 201)

21. Dreams, Goals and Attitudes EMS 2.303
This unit teaches students how to evaluate and change many of the attitudes that affect our health and stop us from achieving our goals and full potential. This unit is both exciting and a real eye opener.

Be able to interpret verbal and non verbal behavioral signals, demonstrate assertive responses in stress situations, assist clients to demonstrate attitude change and develop positive strategies in relation to presentations, healing and handling success. Recognize the client’s need for or need to give positive messages generationally; work with the seasonal nature of life; release fears which have a gender basis; dream, plan and record a purposeful life path.     (Prerequisite - EMS 201)

22. Diagnosis and Treatment vs Kinesiology Protocol OCT 4.302
Develop an understanding of the assessment routine; diagnostic process and treatment implementation used in Natural and Traditional Health and Healing compared with the Professional Kinesiology Practitioner Protocol. People who complete this unit are able to explain a Natural and Traditional Health and Healing assessment routine, diagnostic process and how to implement a treatment plan; compare and contrast it with the Professional Kinesiology Practitioner Protocol  and recognize ‘red flag’ situations.     (Prerequisite - BKP 110)

23. Manage a Business CPA 19.201
In the past, many kinesiologists were guilty of seeing their clinic as a mission and failed to manage it as a business. This unit ensures that graduates maintain an effective work environment, and implement and monitor legal and ethical compliance.

24. Mentoring (home study unit) OCT 4.304
Use the communication skills you have learned to develop trust, confidence and rapport. Offer mentoring support that helps identify and evaluate options. Provide constructive feedback and help challenge limitations.

25. Complex Client Needs (home study unit) OCT 4.305
Learn the skills for providing services to clients with complex needs, and also the basics of assisting seniors and managing aged clients.

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