In 1989, Kyle C. Wright had an Idea with a Vision. …
A BIG Vision!

And Kyle was willing to do whatever it took to bring that idea to life. … Even if he had to Hitchhike his way to accomplish his goals!

Back in 1984, massage was for the most part only known for general relaxation, spa, and luxury applications. There was very little awareness that massage had profound clinical and medical healing applications, especially within the medical professions. Yet, unable to compete economically and legislatively with the growing drug and surgery-based medical culture, most therapeutic massage & bodywork knowledge had already been nearly lost by the turn of the 19th/20th Century.

Ironically, after all these years, while there has been much progress, most massage & bodywork therapists do not see the vast potential of clinical & medical healing available, literally at their fingertips, if they only had the right knowledge & skills. This awareness is the latest driver of Kyle’s work to complete what he started so many years ago. That being to help existing or new massage schools teach their students about the more wide-ranging clinical/medical implications of hands-on therapy.

[KYLE: Do you have a Short Case Study or a Testimonial of someone with a condition not normally associated with massage therapy? Something most people, including therapists, would not expect to be caused by muscle tension.]

It was up to people like Kyle Wright to help bring back that lost knowledge, improve on it, and take it to the Next Level in America.

Kyle had a Thirst & Quest for Deeper Knowledge of bodywork and how massage could become a clinical therapeutic modality, and be more fully utilized for medical conditions. In his early intuitions about the potential of properly delivered medically/clinically-oriented massage therapy, he searched out and studied a wide range of advanced knowledge of how the human body functioned, how it broke down, and how hands-on Neuro-Musculo-Fascial Therapy could help so many cases of pain & pathology.

Kyle studied with many of the early Great Men & Women in Massage Therapy: Paul St. John, Judith Walker, George Kousaleos, Dr. William Bonney, Gus Keathley, Tony Gray, Dr. Robert Perault, Leon Chaitow (a pioneer in European NMT), and many others.

Because massage therapy was not commonly known for clinical or medical applications, Kyle would work for unreasonably low wages in high-end medical clinics just to prove what advanced massage & bodywork therapy techniques could do for patients and clients.

Kyle also became a Lead Instructor for the St. John Method of NMT (Neuromuscular Therapy), traveling all over the country for Paul St. John to teach the NMT method to hundreds of therapists in many cities. Here too, the pay was unreasonably low, yet in his quest to master his therapeutic and teaching skills, Kyle persisted to gain the knowledge and skills he was building into his own neuromuscular system and his own BodyMInd.

In 1989, Kyle decided he could do a much better job of teaching what he had learned — at great personal cost — to new therapists, providing them with a satisfying, rewarding, and profitable career while helping human beings get their lives back. And yes, too much pain or restriction on movement for too long can ruin a person’s experience of life beyond what most people can imagine unless they’ve suffered such pain or limitations themselves.

SO … with NO capital to his name, Kyle financed his new, Leading Edge Massage School on a credit card … and, because he had been operating on such low wages for several years, he hitchhiked to and from his first school for the first six months [???]!

Now, many years later, as Kyle says, “For over three decades, I’ve had the privilege of being a part of one of the fastest-growing professions in health care: Massage Therapy.”