[KYLE: This page might be obsolete, as most of it is on the Home Page. We could keep it, maybe, but it needs some editing. I did once through, but it needs some attention, I think. But that is secondary to everything else there is to do. My only Major Question is do you want your Dedication to Anita on the Home Page?]
Kyle C. Wright
Founder of the Schools of Advanced Bodywork
Dedication:
To my mother, Anita for her support and guidance throughout my life and for introducing me to her massage therapy school.
To my son Steele Christopher and my daughters Carley Anne and Reagan Alee for their unconditional love, patience, and motivation for continuing my education.
To all the students who I had the privilege of teaching and learning from and to the many instructors of Massage Therapy who share their knowledge and expertise in their classrooms.
~ Kyle C. Wright
Founder of the Schools of Advanced Bodywork
Dedication:
To my mother, Anita for her support and guidance throughout my life and for introducing me to her massage therapy school.
To my son Steele Christopher and my daughters Carley Anne and Reagan Alee for their unconditional love, patience, and motivation for continuing my education
To all the students who I had the privilege of teaching and learning from and to the many instructors of Massage Therapy who share their knowledge and expertise in their classrooms.
~ Kyle C. Wright
Kyle Wright is the founder and president of the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork, Inc., in Charlotte, and the Florida School of Advanced Bodywork, Inc., in Jacksonville.
His new school’s curriculum and health care facility is devoted to the treatment and ongoing clinical research of postural-related problems, muscular imbalances, and myofascial pain.
Kyle offers regular continuing education seminars for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. He teaches a variety of postgraduate training courses to further educate licensed therapists in the evaluation and treatment of structural imbalances and musculoskeletal pain.
Kyle’s original NCSAB’s curriculum was initially developed in 1992, when he founded his first of five Southeastern Schools of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy, Inc., in Jacksonville, Florida. There he developed the clinical and practical portion of the clinical massage therapy and structural bodywork curriculum. Kyle wrote and self-published the manual Clinical Neuromuscular and Structural Bodywork, which served his former students of the Southeastern Schools for the past 16 years.
Kyle’s Early Career & Training
Kyle’s massage career started in 1984 when he graduated from Suncoast School of Massage Therapy, Inc. in Tampa, Florida. He had the privilege of learning from and assisting Paul St. John, LMT, in the instruction of the St. John Seminars from 1986 through 1991 while maintaining his practice at the Jacksonville Neurological Clinic for 6 years.
Kyle went on to work at the North Florida Center for Head, Neck and TMJ.
In 1988, Kyle opened up two “Wright Centers of Advanced Bodywork” centers in Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, becoming one of the first providers of clinical bodywork in the community.
Kyle’s Vision Lives On . . .
His vision still lives today as The Wright Centers are successfully operating after 25 years. Kyle’s continual commitment to the field of bodywork has given him the opportunity to work in conjunction with many physicians specializing in neurology, orthopedics, podiatry, radiology, chiropractic, and dentistry.
He has also worked with many of the industry greats in athletic training and physical therapy and nationally renowned massage therapists. He served as an instructor on the teaching rotation of the Complimentary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) curriculum at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida.
Kyle continues to travel and work with the worlds’ top professional golfers playing on the PGA and European tours. His treatment strategies include cardio training, light workouts, and stretching three hours before their tee times and massage and bodywork in the evening to enhance their peak performance.
Honors & Speaking
Kyle was honored to be selected as Massage Therapist of the Year by the Florida State Massage Therapy Association in the North Florida Chapter in 1992.
He has been a speaker at:
• The National Convention for Osteopathic Medicine
• The Florida Chiropractic Convention
• The Florida State Massage Therapy Convention
• The Mayo Clinic, Physical Therapy Department, in Jacksonville, Florida
• National certification courses for strength and conditioning coaches and trainers
Kyle is a 25 year member of the American Massage Therapy Association and Florida State Massage Therapy associations.
About Kyle C. Wright …
Kyle Wright is the founder and President of the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork, Inc. It was originally located in the quaint town of Fairview, North Carolina; a suburb just ten minutes southeast of Asheville, North Carolina. He moved the school to Charlotte in ????.
Kyle graduated in 1984 from the Suncoast School of Massage Therapy, Inc., located in Tampa, Florida. He was certified by Paul St. John in neuromuscular therapy in 1985 and had the privilege of learning and assisting Paul St John, LMT and Judith Walker, LMT in their development of their post-graduate educational seminars. He assisted them nationally in the field of Neuromuscular Therapy from 1986 through 1991 while maintaining his practice at the Jacksonville Neurological Clinic for 6 years.
Further, Kyle went on to work at the North Florida Center for Head, Neck and TMJ assisting the physician’s patients by normalizing the soft tissue components of the body, thus reducing many of the afflictions associated with temporomandibular disorders.
His new school’s curriculum and health care facility is devoted to the treatment and on-going clinical research of postural related problems, muscular imbalances and myofascial pain.
As the primary hands-on instructor of functional anatomy, kinesiology, soft tissue pathology and clinical treatment strategies, Kyle also maintains a full-time practice at The Wright Center in Fairview, NC, near Asheville, and offers regular continuing educational seminars as a “category A” provider for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.
He teaches a multitude of post graduate training courses to further educate licensed therapists in the evaluation and treatment protocols for soft tissue injuries.
Kyle’s curriculum for the North Carolina Schools of Advanced Bodywork, now in Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida, was initially developed in 1991, when he co-founded his first of five Southeastern Schools of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy, Inc. located in Jacksonville, Florida. There he developed the clinical and practical portion of the neuromuscular and structural bodywork curriculum.
Kyle has written and self-published the manual, Clinical Neuromuscular and Structural Bodywork, which served his former students of the Southeastern Schools for the past 17 years.
He also went on to co-found the Southeastern Schools of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy, Inc. in Charlotte, North Carolina as well as Greenville, Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina.
In 2005; two of his schools were awarded with School of Distinction Awards by the Accrediting Commission for Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT).
In 2007, after selling the Southeastern schools to Keiser University and two Wright Centers of Advanced Bodywork practices to his loyal and long-standing therapists of twenty years, Kyle shifted his energy to fulfill his dream of living and operating his new school, the original School of Advanced Bodywork in the health and wellness minded area of Western North Carolina, in Fairview, NC.
For the past 25 years Kyle’s commitment to the field of bodywork has helped further his studies working with in conjunction with many physicians specializing in neurology, orthopedics, podiatry, radiology, chiropractic, and dentistry. He has also worked with many of the industry greats in athletic training, physical therapy and many nationally renowned massage therapists.
He served as an instructor on the teaching rotation of the Complimentary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) curriculum at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. There he taught proper posture, myofascial imbalances and their relationship to musculoskeletal pain.
Kyle maintains a unique relationship with many of the worlds’s top Professional Golfers playing on the PGA and European Tour. When traveling and working with the players, his treatment strategies — in conjunction with his unique method of hands-on, Myo-Structural Therapy — include cardio training, light work-outs, and stretching 3 hours before their tee times. The massage and bodywork in the evenings enhances their peek performance.
Kyle Wright is the founder and president of the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork, Inc., in Charlotte, and the Florida School of Advanced Bodywork, Inc., in Jacksonville.
His new school’s curriculum and health care facility is devoted to the treatment and ongoing clinical research of postural-related problems, muscular imbalances, and myofascial pain.
Kyle offers regular continuing education seminars for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. He teaches a variety of postgraduate training courses to further educate licensed therapists in the evaluation and treatment of structural imbalances and musculoskeletal pain.
Kyle’s original NCSAB’s curriculum was initially developed in 1992, when he founded his first of five Southeastern Schools of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy, Inc., in Jacksonville, Florida. There he developed the clinical and practical portion of the clinical massage therapy and structural bodywork curriculum. Kyle wrote and self-published the manual Clinical Neuromuscular and Structural Bodywork, which served his former students of the Southeastern Schools for the past 16 years.
Kyle’s Early Career & Training
Kyle’s massage career started in 1984 when he graduated from Suncoast School of Massage Therapy, Inc. in Tampa, Florida. He had the privilege of learning from and assisting Paul St. John, LMT, in the instruction of the St. John Seminars from 1986 through 1991 while maintaining his practice at the Jacksonville Neurological Clinic for 6 years.
Kyle then went on to work at the North Florida Center for Head, Neck and TMJ.
In 1988, Kyle opened up two “Wright Centers of Advanced Bodywork” centers in Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, becoming one of the first providers of clinical bodywork in the community.
Through my years of experience in clinical practice and taking over 100 seminars in bodywork, I have found The DSL Method to be the missing link toward a greater understanding of human physiology and chronic reflex pain patterns. I endorse and highly recommend taking a course in The DSL Method.
Kyle Wright, L.M.T. Wright Center of Advanced Bodywork Advanced Schools of Bodywork Asheville, North Carolina
MEET THE FOUNDER
What is Clinical Massage Therapy? A Special Message from Kyle C. Wright, LMBT:
Clinical massage therapy, one of more than 500 different types of massages, uses touch to manipulate soft tissues throughout the human body. Patients seek massage therapists for a number of reasons, including decompressing tired muscles, reducing stress, and supporting general health.
Clinical Massage Therapy uniquely focuses on the treatment of soft tissue to maintain, develop, augment or rehabilitate the patient’s physical function. Clinical massage therapy can improve the functioning of joints and muscles, the healing process, metabolism and circulation.
For over two decades, I’ve had the privilege of being a part of one of the fastest-growing professions in health care: massage therapy. In 1990 I started my first clinical massage therapy school, which eventually evolved into five schools throughout the southeast. The well-planned curriculum enabled students to graduate with the skills that would make them employable and able to meet the growing demand for clinically trained massage therapists.
When I started my first class with six quality dedicated students, I never imagined witnessing over 8,000 students graduate with the same level of determination I had when I graduated from massage therapy school.
In the years since starting that first school, I have had the good fortune and freedom to experiment with new and innovative approaches to soft-tissue therapy. It is not always easy — and often even risky — to be an early adapter of new ideas and techniques. This is especially true when the ideas go against the common understandings and practices of the day.
At the time, these practices included much of what I had previously been taught by leaders in the field. Yet, the techniques my previous schools have been teaching for nearly 20 years are steadily working their way into acceptance by mainstream massage educators and practitioners.
I firmly believe my North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork will bridge the best of traditional massage and bodywork with cutting-edge clinical therapy techniques and practices.
David Scott Lynn (DSL EdgeWork: Mindful Medical Massage & Yoga Therapeutics) contributed and collaborated with me in the writing, research and development of my textbook, “Structural Balancing,” as well as for teaching me his philosophy and sharing his effective psycho-muscular balancing techniques.
In the mid-1990s, David taught me how to reach deeper levels into the body without producing pain in the client. The main things I learned from David were about playing the physical and mental “Edges” and his theory on Chronic Excess Muscle & Nerve Tension (C.E.M.&.N.T.). After incorporating his yoga and bodywork techniques in my practice and schools, I can say without reservation that his theories on muscular compensatory adaptation allowed me to take my bodywork to the next level.
David originated the term and practice of “Myo-Structural Balancing & Bodywork.”
Clinical Massage Therapy and Structural Bodywork is a compilation that reflects my years of education, practice and instruction in the field of clinical massage therapy. It is a product of the beliefs that I share with so many others.
One such belief is that students are entitled to superior education and individualized training so that they may uphold, or excel beyond, the professional standards that they continually pursue.
The NCSAB texts and curriculum are forward-thinking and express my philosophy and interpretations of the neuromuscular and skeletal systems and their relation to the body’s structure and function. The text and graphics that will be used at NCSAB are sequenced so that the fundamentals are set as the basis upon which more advanced techniques will be built.
Rather than attempt to encompass a wide range of massage techniques, our program focuses more deeply on certain aspects, such as Clinical Massage Therapy and Structural Bodywork, and less on others. I came to write the curriculum material and the school’s syllabus to assist the student’s educational development in learning and understanding a higher-level approach to massage therapy and bodywork.
Throughout my career, I built a strong following and reputation for being a goal and results oriented bodyworker, working on people that suffered from musculoskeletal pain.
My approach to bodywork has been addressing and eliminating postural distortions caused by muscular tension and muscular imbalances. It is through my experience, that many of the painful afflictions that people suffer from are caused by the gravitational force that’s being applied to their body and the way their body painfully opposes it.
Most often (and rarely mentioned in modern medical practices) is the lack of understanding of how postural distortions have a direct and negative effect on the body. This negative effect is often from the upper body being pulled down and forward, literally compressing the body molecule-by-molecule. On top of that, most people are not even aware that poor posture eventually leads to musculoskeletal pain & pathology.
Through practice, I’ve evaluated and treated thousands of people suffering from chronic pain. Most of the time, musculoskeletal pain is caused by the way the body opposes gravity inefficiently, meaning, their body weight has shifted off the bones and onto the muscles.
This body shifting, altering, and compensation often leads to the constant barrage of trigger point formation, referral of pain to distant areas, deviations (unevenness) in leg lengths, distortions in the pelvis and spine (misalignments), depressed or elevated shoulder girdles, as well as causing a collapsed (stooped or slouched) upper body and forward head positioning.
My objective in sharing this approach is for my instructors to train our students to start focusing on muscles that are overly “locked” short from Chronic Excess Muscle & Nerve Tension (C.E.M.&.N.T.) and the muscular imbalances linking poor posture, musculoskeletal pain and restriction of body movements.
The goal of the NCSAB curriculum is to prepare the students so that when they have a person on their table with complaints of muscle pain and/or restrictions they’ll have a clearer picture and a deeper level of understanding as to what is below the skin surface, what they’re working on and what muscles could be causing it.
The premise of this method of bodywork is to create symmetry among muscle groups by applying effective and consciously applied massage therapy techniques and stretches to the shortened muscles, not necessarily the painful ones. This can be achieved by learning and practicing deep-tissue work, the non-painful kind that isolates the cause of the problem rather just massaging the area of complaint.
While learning at NCSAB, I strongly encourage the use of repetition while learning the hand placements. Repetition is extremely beneficial for students; as lessons are repeated, they become imprinted on the memory. During instructor-supervised classroom “trades,” students build confidence with each practice session.
My instructors also encourage students to give continuous feedback during trades between the giver and receiver, whether it is in the form of praise, constructive criticism or both. Feedback further allows for academic and spiritual growth while perfecting hands-on delivery skills.
My instructors and I encourage students to explore the art and science of clinical massage therapy and structural bodywork and everything it has to offer, as well as to expand their study and practice of massage therapy in general. The focus should not be on so-called alternative methods but on adjunctive methods.
Additionally, I recognize that massage therapy can be extremely effective either by itself or as an adjunct to other interventions, such as flexibility and strength training exercises, chiropractic, and acupuncture, as well as emotional and spiritual healing.
The NCSAB teaching staff has a combined 60 years of experience in the massage and bodywork profession both in practice and instruction. It is with great pleasure that my instructors share our massage and bodywork experience, knowledge, and practical skills with you. I commend both instructors and students for choosing this course of study and profession.
I sincerely hope that together we may continue to enlighten the world about the value of massage therapy and how it fits into our healthcare system today and into the future.
One-On-One with KYLE C. WRIGHT
Kyle C. Wright, LMBT offers 1, 2, and 3-hour private bodywork sessions for those seeking pain & pathology relief at his private practice in Fairview, NC (10 minutes from downtown Asheville). My approach to massage and bodywork is to eliminate the muscular imbalances and postural distortions that are often the cause of chronic musculoskeletal pain and joint restrictions.
Deviations in leg lengths, distortions in the pelvis, functional scoliosis, and disc-related problems all have soft tissue components that will be addressed within each bodywork session.
Plantar Fasciitis, Knee, Hip, Back, and Neck Pain as well as Rotator Cuff injuries usually stem from muscular imbalances that are caused by one group or groups of muscles “locking short” while another muscle is “locking long”; this is muscular imbalance and if left untreated, often leads to chronic pain.
Injuries usually stem from repetitive motion, muscular overload, and poor posture. I specialize in postural bodywork and pain relief.
Give me a call if you would like to schedule an appointment with me to look further into your situation that may be causing your pain. I take one session at a time and I am a goal-oriented bodywork therapist who gets results.
Kyle’s Vision Lives On . . .
His vision still lives today as The Wright Centers are successfully operating after 25 years. Kyle’s continual commitment to the field of bodywork has given him the opportunity to work in conjunction with many physicians specializing in neurology, orthopedics, podiatry, radiology, chiropractic, and dentistry.
He has also worked with many of the industry greats in athletic training and physical therapy and nationally renowned massage therapists. He served as an instructor on the teaching rotation of the Complimentary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) curriculum at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida.
Kyle continues to travel and work with the worlds’ top professional golfers playing on the PGA and European tours. His treatment strategies include cardio training, light workouts, and stretching three hours before their tee times and massage and bodywork in the evening to enhance their peak performance.
Honors & Speaking
Kyle was honored to be selected as Massage Therapist of the Year by the Florida State Massage Therapy Association in the North Florida Chapter in 1992.
He has been a speaker at:
- The National Convention for Osteopathic Medicine
- The Florida Chiropractic Convention
- The Florida State Massage Therapy Convention
- The Mayo Clinic, Physical Therapy Department, Jacksonville, Florida
- National certification courses for strength and conditioning coaches and trainers
Kyle is a 25 year member of the American Massage Therapy Association and Florida State Massage Therapy associations.
About Kyle C. Wright …
Kyle Wright is the founder and President of the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork, Inc. It was originally located in the quaint town of Fairview, North Carolina; a suburb just ten minutes southeast of Asheville, North Carolina. He moved the school to Charlotte in ????.
Kyle graduated in 1984 from the Suncoast School of Massage Therapy, Inc., located in Tampa, Florida. He was certified by Paul St. John in neuromuscular therapy in 1985 and had the privilege of learning and assisting Paul St John, LMT and Judith Walker, LMT in their development of their post-graduate educational seminars. He assisted them nationally in the field of Neuromuscular Therapy from 1986 through 1991 while maintaining his practice at the Jacksonville Neurological Clinic for 6 years.
Further, Kyle went on to work at the North Florida Center for Head, Neck and TMJ assisting the physician’s patients by normalizing the soft tissue components of the body, thus reducing many of the afflictions associated with temporomandibular disorders.
His new school’s curriculum and health care facility is devoted to the treatment and on-going clinical research of postural related problems, muscular imbalances and myofascial pain.
As the primary hands-on instructor of functional anatomy, kinesiology, soft tissue pathology and clinical treatment strategies, Kyle also maintains a full-time practice at The Wright Center in Fairview, NC, near Asheville, and offers regular continuing educational seminars as a “category A” provider for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.
He teaches a multitude of post graduate training courses to further educate licensed therapists in the evaluation and treatment protocols for soft tissue injuries.
Kyle’s curriculum for the North Carolina Schools of Advanced Bodywork, now in Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida, was initially developed in 1991, when he co-founded his first of five Southeastern Schools of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy, Inc. located in Jacksonville, Florida. There he developed the clinical and practical portion of the neuromuscular and structural bodywork curriculum.
Kyle has written and self-published the manual, Clinical Neuromuscular and Structural Bodywork, which served his former students of the Southeastern Schools for the past 17 years.
He also went on to co-found the Southeastern Schools of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy, Inc. in Charlotte, North Carolina as well as Greenville, Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina.
In 2005, two of his schools were awarded with School of Distinction Awards by the Accrediting Commission for Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT).
In 2007, after selling the Southeastern schools to Keiser University and two Wright Therapy Centers of Advanced Bodywork practices to his loyal and long-standing therapists of twenty years, Kyle shifted his energy to fulfill his dream of living and operating his new school, the original School of Advanced Bodywork in the health and wellness minded area of Western North Carolina, in Fairview, NC.
For the past 25 years Kyle’s commitment to the field of bodywork has helped further his studies working in conjunction with many physicians specializing in neurology, orthopedics, podiatry, radiology, chiropractic, and dentistry. He has also worked with many of the industry greats in athletic training, physical therapy and many nationally renowned massage therapists.
He served as an instructor on the teaching rotation of the Complimentary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) curriculum at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. There he taught proper posture, myofascial imbalances and their relationship to musculoskeletal pain.
Kyle maintains a unique relationship with many of the worlds’s top Professional Golfers playing on the PGA and European Tour.
When traveling and working with the players, his treatment strategies — in conjunction with his unique method of hands-on, Myo-Structural Therapy — include cardio training, light work-outs, and stretching 3 hours before their tee times. The massage and bodywork in the evenings enhances their peek performance.