04/12/2025
Reflection on Teaching Unit 106
By Claire Vannuccini
As I watch students move through their Kinesiology journey, I am always fascinated by what begins to surface in these early months. Six months into the Foundations and Certification Program, I can clearly see who is present, who is rushing, who is grounded, and who is quietly wrestling with their own internal world.
Kinesiology attracts a unique kind of student. It is rarely someone fresh out of school. More often, it is the person seeking a career change; the parent returning to work after raising children; or the individual who has experienced an awakening and now feels called to help others in a meaningful way. Regardless of how they arrive, something profound begins to happen as they step into this work.
What I witness so often is the death of the ego.
When you look at a class of students, you are not actually seeing a 36-year-old, or a 42-year-old, or a 50-year-old. You are seeing the inner child who once sat in a classroom feeling unsure, unseen, or overwhelmed. You are seeing old projections, uncertainties, insecurities, and the anxiety of being visible. The fear of being “found out.” The quiet belief that they do not quite fit in.
Yet, these are the very human moments that make this journey so meaningful. They are the layers the students must move through. They are the patterns that rise to the surface during class, during practice balances, and during the sessions they receive from fellow students.
At their sixth class, something starts to shift.
This is the moment they begin to grasp how to deliver their first basic PKP full protocol Kinesiology balance. Until now, their learning has been a beautiful layering: energy systems, emotions, stress, trauma responses, and the intricate ways the body communicates imbalances. They have learned what disrupts energy flow and how emotions can anchor themselves into the physical body.
But now, in this unit, they learn how to weave it all together.
They begin to understand how to rewrite a bigger story.
Six months in, they can create goals, identify which energy centres are imbalanced, apply corrections, and most importantly, hold space for one another. Yes, they have already been practicing outside of class, but this is the first time they bring everything together into a cohesive, powerful one-hour balance.
And here is the one thing I always remind them:
Sometimes the simplest Kinesiology sessions are the ones that create the most profound change. Even at this stage, what they are delivering can be absolutely transformative.
Every time I teach first-year students, I am gently reminded of my own journey over the past fifteen years, a journey held in deep gratitude.
Gratitude for Kinesiology, for the teachers who guided me, for the lessons that shaped me, and for the personal evolution that continues to unfold.
Now, as I watch this gift being passed on through NSK and fellow PKP schools, I am deeply moved.
To my students:
I salute you. 🙏