What is Edu-K’s Relationship to other Systems of Education and Kinesiology?
Educational Kinesiology is based on a unique integration of the learning process with kinesiology, the study of muscles and their movements. The intention of the Edu-K work is to invite the emergence of latent potential through the vehicle of the body––the repository of thoughts, feelings, and movement patterns. The Edu-K processes offer a structure for the continuous interweaving of thinking, feeling, and sensation––the integration of mental and physical functions. Edu-K enhances, rather than replacing, other educational and kinesiological approaches to growth and development. Applied Kinesiology (AK) is a distinct work used by chiropractors, similar to Edu-K in its study of muscles and use of muscle-checking or muscle-testing, and yet different from Edu-K. AK is based on processes of “muscle-testing” that isolate the response of individual muscles in the body. Edu-K is oriented to goals, and to daily life function and performance, rather than to a medical or mechanistic model of the
