"Over the past year, my program of resistance stretching has restored much of the flexibility I had lost due to injuries, and subsequent surgeries."
Linda Carstens, 1997 Top Ten U.S. Masters Swimmer

"After three months of stretching, I was released from a two year dependence on preventative migraine medication."
David Jones, MIT Doctoral Student

ABOUT US — THE MERIDIAN STRETCHING CENTER

OUR MISSION

The Meridian Stretching Center is a non profit 501 C-3 corporation dedicated to the art and science of human motion. We help people of all ages and abilities to become physically more flexible and strong with concomitant increases in physiological and psychological health. We specialize in the training of Professional and Olympic Athletes, and performers. The Meridian Stretching Center works to lead the world in flexibility training and analysis manifesting in providing some of the highest quality physical training globally.

A REVOLUTIONARY FLEXIBILITY AND STRENGTH TRAINING SYSTEM

• We are the exclusive home and founders of Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training —the ‘new way’ to stretch and strengthen your body, and The Meridian Flexibility System —a powerful program known for significantly rehabilitating and upgrading the performance of professional performers, and severely injured individuals.

• Created through more than a decade of research, the MFS tailors to your most pressing physical, spiritual, emotional, and psychological issues. We want you to not only feel better, we want you to eat better, live better, get what you desire and think better. So in addition to flexibility and strength training, we provide dietary advice, suggest lifestyle changes, teach pertinent emotional and psychological knowledge and connect you with complimentary health care practioners.

THE CENTER OFFERS

• Group Classes
• Personal One-on-one Training Sessions
• ON-LINE Personal Training Sessions via I-Sight
• RFST Workshops
• Certification Program Trainings
• Professional Athlete and Perfomers Personal Intensives

RESEARCH

We are developing a computer based flexibility analysis program which objectively measures your flexibility compared to norms, averages and optimal levels. Visual and numeric displays of a person’s current flexibility with a prioritized list of recommended stretches.

By touching specific bony landmarks on your body with a small electronic wand, similar to a pen, the program can automatically morph a three dimensional skeletal figure on a computer screen in the exact positions you are moved into. You perform 16 different movements for analysis. The program takes the data and performs a thorough analysis of muscular flexibility and skeletal alignment, producing a visual display and written report of the tightest muscles along with recommending specific stretches to address your targeted areas of stress.

This program is used to create injury prevention, rehabilitation and therapeutic accountability.

OUR CERTIFIED TRAINERS REFLECT OUR COMMITMENT TO QUALITY

Our Trainers are certified in The Meridian Flexibility System. Their education includes study in anatomy, applied kinesiology and biomechanics, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Genetic Personality Types. All Certified Trainers can only be trained through programs administered through The Meridian Stretching Center.

Certification Programs include 10 Programs. Trainers in training are listed as CERTIFIED MFS INTERNS until they have completed all 10 Programs at which point they are called CERTIFIED MFS TRAINERS.