Barry Krost MA, NCTMB

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Practitioner, instructor and author, Barry Krost has spent the last 26 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 Techniques E-Manual which provides simple methods of releasing back and hip pain.

 

Barry is a Certified Bodywork Therapist with Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP).  He is also Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCTMB) from the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) and a NCBTMB continuing education provider. 

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. 

 

His professional training began at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy in 1982. Since than he has trained in a number of modalities. He has over 3500 hours of bodywork and energy healing training.

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.

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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.

 

Ortho-Bionomy was developed by a British trained Osteopath, named Arthur Lincoln Pauls 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 became an Advanced Ortho-Bionomy Practitioner but also explored other versions of positional release methods. Using a number of manuals, trying out techniques on friends and clients he began to formulate his own version of positional release.

 

More recently he has been training in Family Constellations with Scott Bader and became Certified in Family and Systems Constellations.

Today Barry practices Positional Release in San Antonio, Texas and Chicago, Illinois along with Energy Techniques and Family Constellations. 

 

 

Ortho-Bionomy® is a registered trademark of the Society ofOrtho-Bionomy International, Inc. and is used with permission.