Certified Holistic Kinesiology Practitioner · Atlanta, GA

Kinesiology training in Atlanta.

Holistic Kinesiology is table work — muscle testing and balancing protocols — and it tends to pull Atlanta students who already work with their hands, including bodyworkers and the healthcare crowd from Emory. This certification covers muscle testing, balancing, and full-session craft from first contact to close.

Kinesiology certification training in Atlanta, GA

Atlanta cohort at a glance

Tuition
$4,000

Same tuition in every city

Format
100% in person

In Atlanta, GA

In-person teaching
9 days · 72h

8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days

Personal study
~58h

Between sessions, on average

Cohort size
10 students

Fixed cohort, start to finish

Credential
CHKP

Private certification, not a state license

Download detailed program (PDF)

PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.

Your dates in Atlanta

Feb 18 – Apr 30, 2028

Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 9 teaching days in 3 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort

  1. Module 1Feb 18–20
  2. Module 2Mar 17–19
  3. Module 3Apr 28–30

Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Atlanta venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.

Seats

10 students

Enrolment closes

January 28, 2028

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Train where you live

Why Kinesiology in Atlanta?

This is close, one-to-one table work, so graduates rent table time in Buckhead and Inman Park rooms or add it to an existing massage or bodywork practice. It's a slower build — the modality is less familiar to the public than Reiki or sound, so you'll spend real effort explaining what a session is before someone books one. Word of mouth, not walk-ins, fills the calendar here.

Atlanta's wellness market has grown faster over the past decade than nearly any other U.S. metro. The city's Black wellness community, in particular, has been building a generation of practitioners and lineage holders whose work is reshaping the national conversation. Our Atlanta cohorts often include nurses, educators, and entrepreneurs in active career transition.

For students of Kinesiology specifically, Atlanta's scene is a particularly good match: fastest-growing wellness market in the southeast. strong, distinct practitioner voices. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Midtown, Old Fourth Ward, Decatur, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Atlanta students are often 30-50, with strong representation from healthcare (Emory and the metro hospital system are major employers), education, hospitality, and entrepreneurship. The Atlanta cohorts are unusually diverse — recent cohorts have been roughly 40% Black, 40% white, 20% Latina/other — and that diversity shapes the conversations meaningfully. Many of our Atlanta students are actively building wellness businesses serving specific cultural communities.

The modality

What you'll be training in.

For a deeper introduction to Kinesiology as a practice tradition, see the full program page.

Holistic kinesiology is a hands-on, table-based wellness practice that uses manual muscle testing as a biofeedback tool. The practitioner places the client's arm or leg in a specific position and applies light pressure; the change in muscle response — the small ways the muscle either holds or yields — is read as feedback from the body's own information system. From that feedback the practitioner builds a session: balancing specific muscle-meridian pairs, addressing emotional stress patterns associated with specific points, and supporting the client toward a stated goal.

Holistic kinesiology should not be confused with academic kinesiology — the university-level study of human movement that prepares students for physical therapy or athletic training. The two share a name but are different fields. Holistic kinesiology grew out of George Goodheart's Applied Kinesiology in the 1960s and was popularized in non-medical wellness practice through John Thie's Touch for Health system in the 1970s. Today it is one of the most widely-practiced hands-on modalities in the U.S. wellness market.

The program, day by day

The Kinesiology curriculum in Atlanta: 9 in-person days.

Nine days, the full Touch for Health 1-4 synthesis, and a practice that's yours.

Teaching days
9

days, 7h each

Teaching hours
72h

in the room

Cohort size
10

in your Atlanta cohort

See every day in detail
Certified Holistic Kinesiology Practitioner (CHKP) · 9 days · 72 hours
DayTheme
Chapter 1 · Days 1–2First touch
01Muscle testing and Touch for Health 1 begins
02The 14-muscle balance
Chapter 2 · Days 3–4Deeper maps
03Touch for Health 2: 28 muscles and circuit locating
04The meridian wheel and the five elements
Chapter 3 · Days 5–7The full system
05Touch for Health 3: 42 muscles and goal balancing
06Reactive muscles, gait and easing discomfort
07Touch for Health 4: standing, lying and postural stress
Chapter 4 · Days 8–9Your practice
08The full synthesis and your session arc
09Your practice, your assessment, your CHKP

Signature moment of the program

Cohort schedule

When Kinesiology cohorts run in Atlanta.

Atlanta cohorts run year-round with three starts (January, May, September). Summer cohorts adjust slightly for the deep heat (most studio venues are well-air-conditioned). The fall cohort is the strongest by enrollment volume.

The right student

Who this Atlanta cohort is for.

Bodyworkers, yoga teachers, and career-changers who want to add a powerful biofeedback tool to their work.

Career outcomes

Where your Atlanta training leads.

  • Open a private Holistic Kinesiology practice (CHKP)
  • Specialize in stress, goal balancing, or posture and movement wellness
  • Add kinesiology to a yoga, coaching, or bodywork practice
  • Lead small-group practitioner exchanges
Tuition

$4,000 for the full 9-day Kinesiology program in Atlanta.

Same tuition whether you study in Atlanta or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Atlanta cohort.

Tuition and financing details

$4,000

72h of teaching · 9 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Holistic Kinesiology Practitioner in Atlanta.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Kinesiology cohort starting in Atlanta, GA. Free, online, one hour.