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ABOUT
RODOLFO MARI
The method came later. The looking began long before.
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The path that became Mystic Body Method began before art school, photography, fitness training or professional credentials gave it names.
I have long been interested in the living human form: how a body moves, communicates, adapts, compensates and relates to gravity.
Parsons School of Design did not begin that inquiry. It gave me another language for it—form, balance, relationship, weight, space and composition.
A career in photography sharpened the eye.
Then I turned that eye more deliberately toward the body.
One discipline kept opening into another.
Since beginning professional fitness training in 1998, I have studied personal training, medical exercise, yoga, massage therapy, craniosacral work, Pilates, functional anatomy, neuromuscular systems and movement.
Argentine tango, photography, music and the ordinary movements of daily life continue the study.
Each discipline offered a valuable window.
None contained the whole body.
The tool is not the method.
People do not arrive as categories.
A person is rarely only a back, a jaw, a gait, a fitness goal, a nervous system or a story.
Every part arrives in relationship with breath, gravity, posture, movement, attention, history, compensation, intention and present state.
Mystic Body Method emerged from learning to look beneath the named problem and beneath the limits of any single modality.
I may use movement, strength, yoga, Pilates, breath, coaching, massage or craniosacral work.
The tool is not the method.
The method is learning to see what is actually happening—and finding the smallest meaningful way to begin.
YOUR BODY HAS A METHOD.
SELECTED EDUCATION & TRAINING
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BFA — Parsons School of Design
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AS Degree — The Swedish Institute for Massage Therapy
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American Council on Exercise Personal Training Certification
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Equinox Fitness Training Institute
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Integral Yoga Teacher and Advanced Teacher Training
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PhysicalMind and Peak Pilates Certifications
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Craniosacral Training — Milne and Upledger Institutes
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Anatomy in Motion
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NeuroKinetic Therapy Levels 1–3
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Immaculate Dissection Movement and Anatomy Series
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THE STUDY CONTINUES BECAUSE THEÂ BODYÂ CONTINUES