Healing PTSD Through Kinesiology: A Path Back to Wholeness
- Amy Bakirtzakis
- Apr 19
- 3 min read
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a deeply impactful condition that can affect anyone who has experienced or witnessed a traumatic event. While the effects of trauma are often invisible, they can leave lasting imprints on both the mind and the body. Understanding how PTSD presents and how kinesiology can support the healing process is a powerful step toward recovery.
What is PTSD?
PTSD is a mental health condition that can develop after someone experiences or is exposed to a traumatic event such as a car accident, assault, natural disaster, or prolonged stress like abuse or combat. For many, the event is over, but the body and mind continue to relive it as if it’s happening again and again.
Unlike everyday stress or anxiety, PTSD is persistent and can disrupt a person’s daily life, relationships, and sense of safety. It can appear immediately after a trauma or surface weeks, months, or even years later.
How PTSD is Stored in the Body
Trauma isn’t just remembered—it’s stored. When someone experiences a traumatic event, the body can go into survival mode—activating the fight, flight, or freeze response. If this response isn’t fully processed, the energy from that moment can get stuck in the body, leading to long-term physical, emotional, and energetic imbalances.
Some of the ways PTSD presents in the body include:
Chronic tension, especially in the shoulders, neck, jaw, and gut
Digestive issues or a ‘nervous stomach’
Trouble sleeping or nightmares
Hypervigilance or feeling constantly “on edge”
Panic attacks or shortness of breath
Fatigue, foggy thinking, or dissociation
Emotional numbness or frequent mood swings
Sensitivity to sound, touch, or light
Difficulty concentrating or memory lapses
These are not just emotional reactions—they are physical signals that the body is still caught in a survival loop.
How Kinesiology Can Help
Kinesiology is a gentle yet powerful way to support the healing of PTSD. It works with the body’s innate intelligence to identify and clear stress held in the physical, emotional, mental, and energetic systems.
Using muscle testing, kinesiology accesses the subconscious mind to uncover the root causes of stored trauma. Once these are identified, various techniques—such as acupressure, emotional stress release, meridian balancing, and chakra work—can be used to gently shift the body out of survival mode and into a state of safety and healing.
Here’s how kinesiology can assist:
Releases trauma held in the nervous system
Calms the fight-or-flight response
Restores balance to the body’s energy systems
Supports emotional release in a safe and supported way
Enhances self-awareness and emotional resilience
Helps rewire limiting beliefs and subconscious fear patterns
Encourages reconnection with the body and a sense of grounding
Kinesiology doesn’t require the person to re-tell or re-live the trauma in order to heal from it. This can be particularly helpful for those who feel overwhelmed by traditional talk therapy or have difficulty verbalising their experiences.
You Are Not Alone
PTSD can feel isolating, but healing is possible. Kinesiology offers a compassionate, holistic pathway back to balance—empowering the body to do what it was designed to do: heal.
If you or someone you love is living with the effects of trauma, please know that support is available. You deserve to feel safe in your body again. You deserve to thrive.
At Fleurieu Kinesiology, I’m here to walk alongside you, gently supporting your healing process with love, care, and understanding.
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