Lobke Mienis

Since 2007 Lobke Mienis works as a Functional Posture and Movement Therapist (Oefentherapeut Mensendieck) in here own practice De Mensendieckpraktijk in Amsterdam. Because of here passion for dance and dance background Lobke specialised herself during here Mensendieck Therapy study in working with dancers. During the years she continued broadening her kwlegde in sports at the International Acadamy for Sportscience (IAS), Orthopedics at the Nederlandse Academie voor Orthopedische geneeskunde (NAOG) and followed a lot of different courses varieng from motor learning, burn out til vague complaints. In her practice she treats a lot of amature dancers, dance students and professional dancers. Besides dance related injuries and general posture and movement amallies, she works a lot with low back pain, Shoulder dyskinesia, ankle/foot injuries and tension related complaints. In 2017 Lobke became a certified TRE provider. TRE is a great addition to her work as stress/tension can have a negative influence on recovery. In som cases it is usefull to work first on bringing the whole body in a more calm and balanced state before starting to work with the injury/complaint. Besides her work in her parctice Lobke works also at The Academy for Theater and Dance in Amsterdam. (ATD) Here she teaches Experiential Anatomy and Kinesiology at the different dance departments and she is the substituded for the consultancy hours posture/movement and injury prevention. Lobke assists the coordination of Health & Performance with focus on the education and screening for dance students. Until recently she also taught health and wellbeing classes at Circus Arts (Codarts) and helped to set up the Health program there.