Co-Founder, Human Performance Center · Co-Developer of iPAT · Co-Author, Flexibility for Optimal Aging
Kele has spent 25+ years in clinical practice and over 40,000 hours with real bodies. With her husband Fred, she co-founded the Human Performance Center in Santa Fe in 1999 and co-developed iPAT—Integrative Performance and Aging Therapy—the framework that blends manual therapy, movement re-education, and nervous-system work into a single approach.
She's co-authored two books, including Flexibility for Optimal Aging, and her work has appeared in Outside Magazine. Her clinical specialties span biomechanics, kinesiology, orthopedic concepts, yoga, myofascial work, and craniosacral therapy. Her focus today is women's health and movement through midlife—because she's living it.
"I keep seeing the same thing in the lab—people in pain, moving with faulty patterns no one ever taught them to recognize, let alone correct. And no matter what your specific pain or pattern is, these foundational movements are what have to be addressed first.
I've lived a version of this myself. Between injuries as a kid, adolescence, and pushing too hard in my 20s thinking I was invincible—and the compensations my body has carried ever since—I've had to do this work to stay active in my own life. To keep cycling, hiking, gardening, doing the things I love.
For 26 years, I've only taught this work one client at a time in the lab. This is the first time I've ever put it in a format that can reach more people than I can sit with one-on-one.
Movement by Design is the foundational layer of iPAT—the education I think every BODY should have the opportunity to learn. Our experience here on earth can be fabulous or it can really suck, and so much of that depends on the body we get to experience it in. That's my passion. I want to reach as many people as I can — and in this case, women who want to feel better."
