Embodied Healing Bodywork, LLC

01/30/2026

Spotlight Series: Pathway to Bodywork Mastery – Extended Courses

Connective Tissue Release (CTR) 1 & 2

If you’ve completed our Foundation Courses, Kinetic Chain Release™ (KCR) and Introduction to Connective Tissue, the next steps on the Pathway to Bodywork Mastery are Connective Tissue Release 1 and 2 - two hands on courses that deepen your fascial work and expand what’s possible in your sessions.

CTR 1 introduces the first set of techniques from the Hugh Gilbert Method™ to address deep fascial restrictions and support clients with issues like sciatica, frozen shoulder, and low back pain.

CTR 2 builds on that foundation with additional techniques and new areas of focus, helping you integrate CTR more seamlessly into your KCR sessions.

Both courses offer 14 NCBTMB CEUs and are essential steps for practitioners continuing along the Pathway.

If you’re ready to begin the Pathway, now is the time - our 2026 KCR courses are filling fast, and one date already has a waitlist. Early registration helps secure your spot.

Learn More and Register:

https://www.embodiedhealingbodywork.com/courses
https://www.kcracademy.com/

01/30/2026

The Pathway to Bodywork Mastery is a lineage of healing that weaves together science, intuition, and heart‑centered presence.

It begins with Kinetic Chain Release™ (KCR), the foundational protocol created by Scottish physiotherapist Hugh Gilbert. From there, each course deepens your awareness, expands your skillset, and strengthens your ability to support profound, lasting change in the body.

Whether you’re just beginning your journey or seeking to elevate your practice, the Pathway offers a structured, transformative approach to whole‑person wellness.

I’ve shared the full blog on my website — including KCR, Connective Tissue, CTR 1 & 2, Postural Energetics, Women’s Health, and Quantum Dynamic Healing.

Full blog + upcoming course dates are linked in my bio.
If this work calls to you, I’d love to welcome you into the Pathway.

https://www.embodiedhealingbodywork.com/post/discover-the-pathway-to-bodywork-mastery-from-kcr-to-advanced-healing

01/28/2026

Your skills don’t belong in just one place.
If you’re a Kinetic Chain Release™ (KCR) practitioner or trainer, your work is portable.
Your hands, your knowledge, your presence they travel with you.
From clinics to retreats, studios to pitch-side work, KCR is practised all over the world.
Work where life takes you.
https://linktr.ee/KCRAcademy

01/25/2026

Something new is coming in 2026, and it’s one of the offerings I’m most excited to share. For the first time, I’m dedicating a KCR course date specifically for personal development, not professional practice. This includes couples, friends, parents, anyone who wants to bring real, effective care back into the home.

One of the most powerful things about KCR is also the simplest: anyone can learn this protocol. Hugh designed it that way on purpose. And I’ve watched what happens when they do. Entire households shift. There’s more ease, more connection, and a different way of caring for one another that feels both ancient and completely new.

If you’ve ever felt called to support your partner, your child, or a close friend in a deeper, more meaningful way, I’m teaching this course on April 25–26 in my home studio in Hopewell, NJ.

Discover why bringing KCR into the home can shift the way we care for the people we love - click below to read the full blog:

For most of human history, bodywork wasn’t something reserved for clinics, spas, or specialists. In ancient traditions across the world, therapeutic touch was woven into daily life. Families cared for one another with hands that soothed, balanced, and restored. Touch was medicine. Bodywork was con...

01/24/2026

Spotlight Series: Pathway to Bodywork Mastery - Course 2
Introduction to Connective Tissue

Last week, we began our journey with Kinetic Chain Release™ (KCR), the foundational protocol that restores balance and opens the door to deeper healing.

This week, we step into the second course on the Pathway to Bodywork Mastery, Introduction to Connective Tissue, a transformative exploration of the body’s most intelligent communication system.

This two day immersive course expands your understanding of the connective tissue (myofascial) system and its essential role in physical function, emotional well being, and whole body integration. While you’ll learn a handful of hands on techniques, this course is primarily conceptual.

What You’ll Learn

•Tune into subtle patterns of restriction within your own body and those you work with
•Facilitate deep healing by integrating heart led presence with skilled touch
•Cultivate heart coherence to foster trust, safety, and energetic alignment with clients
•Apply intuitive approaches that open pathways to lasting transformation
•Reimagine myofascial release through a whole-person, heart-guided approach

This course blends science backed understanding with a deeply heart centered approach. Many practitioners describe it as the missing link in their bodywork journey.

It’s a course that doesn’t just teach you what to do, it changes how you perceive the body, your clients, and your role as a practitioner.

The KCR Protocol Course is the prerequisite for Introduction to Connective Tissue.

If this course speaks to you, the next step is to register for one of our upcoming KCR training courses.

*We already have a KCR Course that’s full with a waitlist, so early registration is encouraged.

Learn more and register:

https://www.embodiedhealingbodywork.com/courses

01/24/2026

We are so much more than just bodywork.

Stillness Comes Before Technique

We are often trained to believe that effectiveness comes from doing more, more techniques, more effort, more fixing.
Yet the most powerful moments in bodywork often happen before the technique even begins.

When we pause.
When we breathe.

When we allow the system to settle.
In that stillness, the nervous system downregulates, tissues soften, and the body becomes receptive. From here, the right intervention reveals itself naturally. Not because we imposed it, but because we waited long enough to perceive it.
This principle extends far beyond the treatment room.

In life, many mistakes are not caused by bad intentions, but by premature action. When decisions are made from agitation or pressure, they often create more work later. Stillness allows clarity to surface before commitment.

The Pathway to Bodywork Mastery trains this capacity, to sense when to act and when to wait - to recognise that timing is as important as skill.
Stillness is not passive.
It is alignment preparing movement.

Many practitioners discover through KCR that stillness changes everything. The Pathway to Bodywork Mastery builds on this foundation, supporting a more refined relationship with timing, presence, and choice.
https://linktr.ee/KCRAcademy

01/22/2026

To all KCR Practitioners:

Due to the weather, our KCR share for this Sunday has been rescheduled to Sunday February 22nd. May the days ahead hold warmth and ease for you. 💖

01/20/2026

Kinetic Chain Release™ supports HYROX training by improving core activation, reducing unnecessary strain, and helping the body recover and perform as a single, coordinated system.
https://linktr.ee/KCRAcademy

01/17/2026

Reflections on intuition, bodywork, and conscious evolution

In a world that encourages speed, certainty, and constant decision-making, many people arrive in our treatment rooms carrying more than physical pain.
They arrive with uncertainty. With anxiety. With the quiet sense that something needs to change, but they don’t yet know how.
Within the Pathway to Bodywork Mastery, we learn that intuition is not something we add, it is something we remember. It grows in stillness, deep listening, and unconditional presence.
Over the next few weeks, we will share a short series of posts that explores how the same qualities that guide skilful bodywork, patience, attention, and trust, also support clarity, self-mastery, and conscious evolution in life itself.
These are simple reflections, offered gently from a place of peaceful realisation.
Not to instruct - but to invite deep, still listening.
If your experience of KCR has already shown you the power of listening beyond technique, our Pathway to Bodywork Mastery offers a space to deepen that intuitive skill, steadily, thoughtfully, and in your own time.
https://linktr.ee/KCRAcademy

01/16/2026

I’m kicking off a multi‑week spotlight series on the courses that make up our Pathway to Bodywork Mastery. Let’s begin with the course that started it all: Kinetic Chain Release™ (KCR).

Every great path has a beginning, and ours starts with Hugh Gilbert, the visionary physiotherapist behind Kinetic Chain Release™ (KCR). With over 40 years of experience, Hugh spent 15 years developing a sequence of medically recognized techniques to restore balance in the body. Long before the concept of interconnected body systems became mainstream, Hugh was pioneering this work.

While KCR may seem like a new protocol, it has been well established in Scotland and the UK for many years. At the heart of our program is the KCR Academy in Scotland. In recent years, we have expanded internationally with a growing team of dedicated teachers and practitioners, bringing this transformative work to communities worldwide.

The KCR Protocol is a series of medically and scientifically approved mobilizations and stretches. This immersive two-day training offers 15 hours (NCBTMB approved) of hands-on instruction in the full 23-step sequence. Designed for both beginners and seasoned professionals, the course provides a comprehensive foundation in this powerful whole-body balancing technique. By the end, students not only earn the title of Certified KCR Practitioner but also gain the confidence to integrate KCR immediately into their practice with precision, safety, and client-centered care.

KCR is easy to incorporate into any practice. It can stand alone as a full treatment or used before any other modality to enhance effectiveness. By correcting imbalance first, everything you do as a therapist becomes more impactful.

If you’re ready to deepen your practice with a technique that truly transforms client outcomes, this is the place to begin.

2026 KCR Course Schedule

March 7/8 – StretchSource, Boonton, NJ
March 15/16 – Center for the Healing Arts, Voorhees, NJ
April 18/19 – Therapeutic Massage & Training Center, Westfield, NJ
October 8/9 – Embodied Healing Bodywork, Hopewell, NJ
November 7/8 – StretchSource, Boonton, NJ

Learn more and Register:

https://www.embodiedhealingbodywork.com/courses/kinetic-chain-release-(kcr)

01/14/2026

How Body Imbalance and Apparent Leg Length Difference Can Lead to Chronic Pain. Book your KCR treatment and regain your mobile, pain free life today.
https://linktr.ee/KCRAcademy

01/11/2026

To all KCR Practitioners - a quick heads‑up that an email just went out with details about our upcoming KCR Share on Sunday, January 25th. Be sure to check your inbox if you are interested in attending.

Experiencing the treatment firsthand is an essential part of self‑care. It deepens your understanding of the work and strengthens the way you offer it to others. A KCR Share is also a wonderful chance to spend time with fellow practitioners and connect with our community. And if you’re not fully up to speed on the protocol, it’s an ideal opportunity to practice. There will be plenty of support available.

I look forward to sharing this time together and supporting one another in the new year.