About Me

The mission of my work is to help you find comfort and vitality in your body and in how you move, so that you are able to participate fully and freely in all aspects of your life.

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When the body is structurally and vertically aligned, it functions naturally and with ease.

Kirsten Bedard

Since I was a teenager, I have had a passion for walking. I discovered that the repeated contact of my soles with the ground would ignite my mind, which in turn would invigorate my body. This was a profound realization for me at the time, and one that education and experience has continued to reinforce; the body could awaken the mind, and the mind could enliven the body. One can affect the other – or rather, they are one and the same. This fascination led me into this amazing work of Rolfing®, acupuncture, and movement.

My studies began at Ryerson University, where I earned a degree in Nutritional science and became an Exercise specialist and trainer. For many years I provided sport-specific training and nutrition consulting for weight loss and hormone balance. In 2017, I wrote the book Read This Before You Diet, to distill and clarify the true science of weight loss.

I then completed a three year program in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine and Philosophy. Eastern medicine sees wellbeing as a continuum where everything in the body is affected by everything else, and works holistically with an entire person, not merely the symptoms that present.

In my early forties, I moved to Boulder, Colorado to study Rolfing Structural Integration. I chose to train in the practice of Rolfing because I was interested in working with fascia – the connective tissue that forms the body’s physical structure and directly affects how we move and function. Fascia is pliable tissue that is intricately connected to the body’s nervous system, and Rolfing works with this fascia to create lasting structural changes.

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