ABOUT US
About Kinh O'Brien
Kinh teaches fitness and rehabilitation with a mixture of modalities that include Pilates (machines and mat), yoga, fascial release and the Madeline Black Method. Her students include general fitness clients, and post PT-orthopedic and oncology rehabilitation patients.
As a movement practitioner, Kinh's talent is her ability to see and understand your body’s patterns and sequence workout sessions that are specific to your goals.
Before she started teaching 12 years ago, Kinh graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Economics and Political Science. Not unlike so many of her clients, she spent years in front of her computer working for a strategy consulting firm and ultimately became an executive at a major retailer. When Kinh finally decided to make a life change, she decided that she did not want to be a typical fitness teacher who taught exercises blindly. She wanted to understand and see bodies better and actually sequence and teach relevant and tailored exercises to people's needs and goals. To Kinh, the body is a complex but integrated and holistic system of energetically organized parts that work together in nonlinear patterns. To recognize these patterns with her clients and reinforce those that best serve their personal goals is her purpose in the clinic with you.
For over a decade she's studied (and continues to study) with some of the best movement scientists in the world (see below). Kinh has taught at conferences, has been featured on teaching websites and has mentored and taught other Pilates teachers throughout her career.
Kinh and her family of boys relocated to Bend, Oregon in the summer of 2023. She loves to trail run, hike and ski all the terrain that Central Oregon has to offer.
To find out more about Kinh and her services, please visit her website: https://www.kobpilates.com/
Movement Education
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Pilates: Pilates Integrated Teacher Training (ITT) in San Francisco on all apparatus and mat 2012
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Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) Member
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Yoga: Yoga Tree San Francisco 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training 2014, SmartFlow Yoga training, Yoga therapeutics training
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Madeline Black Method: world-renown movement science (Teachers Assistant)
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Manual Therapy: Lauren Berry Method for Fascial release and correction 2016
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Teachers and Gurus who I gratefully look to for continued guidance and study:
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Madeline Black (Madeline Black Method and Pilates)
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Jean Sullivan (Pilates)
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Annie Carpenter (SmartFlow Yoga)
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Irene Dowd (faculty at Julliard School of Dance)
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Lynda Caesara (manual fascial therapy)
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Harvey Deutch (Physical Therapy, Yoga Therapeutics)
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