Practitioner, instructor and author, Barry Krost has spent the last 25 years learning about health and healing.  Originally intending to become a Medical Anthropologist and study healers, he became one himself and has never looked back.  His career has gone through a number of evolutions and he continues to study and learn.  Barry’s greatest insights have occurred during sessions with clients where the innate wisdom of the body becomes the teacher.  He is author of the Psoas Release E-Manual which provides simple methods of releasing back and hip pain.

Barry is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork from NCBTMB, a Certified Body Therapist by ABMP and a member of the AMTA.  In Texas he is a licensed Massage Therapist (#MT031614) and Licensed Massage Instructor (#MI01827) from the Texas State Department of Health Services in Austin.  

Barry has a BA in Anthropology he proudly received from Grinnell College, in Iowa, and a MA in History from Northeastern Illinois University where he also received a certificate to teach high school social studies.  He taught briefly and was a teacher’s substitute in the Chicago area where he is from.

His professional training began at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy in 1982.  Since than he has trained in a number of modalities including sports massage, deep tissue, trigger point, mobilizations, positional release, Chapman's reflexes, reflexology and zone therapy.  

After 8 years of massage practice he began looking for bodywork that would be easier on the hands as well as be more effective.  Luckily he got exposed to a version of positional release therapy called Ortho-Bionomy® after receiving a session from a colleague.

Positional release began in the 1950’s when Lawrence Jones, D.O. discovered by accident that when he placed the body into a specific comfortable position pain and dysfunction would heal quickly and completely. He initially called this approach to pain spontaneous release by positioning and later Strain-Counter Strain®.  Eventually variations of his work became known collectively as “positional release.”

In positional release the most comfortable position resets the sensors in the musculature and joints know collectively as proprioceptors.  With the correct stimulus to these sensors, the musculoskeletal system returns to a healthier state, eliminating pain and allowing joints to move back to dynamic balance.

Barry studied Ortho-Bionomy for ten years with a number of instructors until becoming an instructor himself. A British trained Osteopath, named Arthur Lincoln Pauls, developed Ortho-Bionomy in the 1970’s.  He added his own unique elements including his knowledge of judo and an emphasis on using energy to achieve the same results.

Barry eventually left Ortho-Bionomy and began his own study of Strain CounterStrain, modified strain counterstain and other versions of positional release methods.  Using a number of manuals, trying out techniques on friends and clients and working with his wife, Kim, a former Ortho-Bionomy Practitioner, they began to formulate a version of positional release geared to the needs of massage professionals.

Today Barry practices at the Integrative Healing Institute in San Antonio, Texas, a massage center that also offers massage therapy, aromatherapy continuing education and a massage supply store. He offers a number of continuing education classes for massage therapists throughout the year focusing on positional release applications to body areas or conditions.