Kyle Wright is the founder and president of the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork, Inc., located in the quaint town of Fairview, North Carolina, a suburb just 10 minutes southeast of Asheville, North Carolina. His new school’s curriculum and health care facility is devoted to the treatment and ongoing clinical research of postural-related problems, muscular imbalances and myofascial pain.

As the primary hands-on instructor of functional anatomy, kinesiology, soft-tissue pathology, and clinical treatment strategies, Kyle also maintains a private practice at the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork and offers regular continuing education seminars for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. He teaches a variety of postgraduate training courses to further educate licensed therapists in the evaluation and treatment of structural imbalances and musculoskeletal pain.

Kyle’s North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork’s curriculum was initially developed in 1991, when he cofounded his first of five Southeastern Schools of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy, Inc., in Jacksonville, Florida. There he developed the clinical and practical portion of the clinical massage therapy and structural bodywork curriculum. Kyle wrote and self-published the manual Clinical Neuromuscular and Structural Bodywork, which served his former students of the Southeastern Schools for the past 18 years.

He also cofounded the Southeastern Schools of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy, Inc., in Charlotte, North Carolina, and in Greenville, Charleston, and Columbia, South Carolina. In 2005 two of his schools were awarded School of Distinction Awards by the Accrediting Commission for Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT).

In 2007, after selling the Southeastern Schools to Keiser University and two Wright Centers of Advanced Bodywork practices to his loyal and long-standing therapists of 20 years, Kyle shifted his energy to fulfill his dream of living in and operating his new school in the health- and wellness-minded area of western North Carolina.

Kyle graduated in 1984 from the Suncoast School of Massage Therapy, Inc., in Tampa, Florida. He had the privilege of learning from and assisting Paul St. John, LMT, in the instruction of the St. John Seminars from 1986 through 1991 while maintaining his practice at the Jacksonville Neuro logical Clinic for 6 years. Kyle went on to work at the North Florida Center for Head, Neck and TMJ, assisting the physician’s patients by normalizing the soft-tissue components of the body, thus reducing many of the afflictions associated with temporomandibular disorders.

In 1988, Kyle opened up two “Wright Centers of Advanced Bodywork” centers in Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, becoming one of the first providers of clinical bodywork in the community. His vision still lives today as The Wright Centers are successfully operating after 22 years.

For his entire career Kyle’s commitment to the field of bodywork has helped further his studies; he has worked in conjunction with many physicians specializing in neurology, orthopedics, podiatry, radiology, chiropractic, and dentistry. He has also worked with many of the industry greats in athletic training and physical therapy and with many nationally renowned massage therapists. He served as an instructor on the teaching rotation of the Complimentary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) curriculum at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. There he taught proper posture, myofascial imbalances, and their relationship to musculoskeletal pain.

Kyle maintains a unique relationship with many of the worlds’ top professional golfers playing on the PGA and European tours. When traveling and working with the players, his treatment strategies include cardio training, light workouts, and stretching 3 hours before their tee times and massage and bodywork in the evening to enhance their peak performance.

Kyle was honored to be selected as Massage Therapist of the Year by the Florida State Massage Therapy Association in the North Florida Chapter in 1992.

He has been a speaker at:

• The National Convention for Osteopathic Medicine

• The Florida Chiropractic Convention

• The Florida State Massage Therapy Convention

• The Mayo Clinic, Physical Therapy Department, in Jacksonville, Florida

• National certification courses for strength and conditioning coaches and trainers

Kyle is a 20 year member of the American Massage Therapy Association and Florida State Massage Therapy associations.