Femke Koene is an exercise kinesiologist working from her own dedicated space, L.I.F.E Movement Studio, at Lido on The Esplanade in Island Bay, Wellington. The practice is deliberately simple and personal: one practitioner, one studio, and a single clear focus — helping people move better through exercise kinesiology. The studio, shown across the practice's website, is a light-filled space set up for guided movement work rather than machines or memberships.
The approach puts movement at the centre: observing how the body moves and working with guided exercise to restore ease, balance and strength. The studio's name reflects that philosophy — movement treated as part of everyday life, not an occasional appointment. Being based on Island Bay's waterfront Esplanade gives visits a calm, seaside setting on Wellington's south coast.
Booking and contact happen directly through the practice: via the website's contact and booking page, by phone on +64 21 269 5741, or by email at info@femkekoene.com. Femke also writes the Femke Blog on movement and her work, offers a newsletter you can subscribe to, and keeps a Facebook page under Femke Koene Exercise Kinesiology. For Island Bay locals and visitors from across Wellington, it is a small, focused studio for one-to-one kinesiology and movement.
Femke Koene's practice is easy to describe and refreshingly uncluttered: she is an exercise kinesiologist, and her work happens in a studio of her own — L.I.F.E Movement Studio — in Island Bay, on Wellington's south coast. The studio's home is Lido, at 224 The Esplanade, an address that puts sessions a short stroll from the water in one of the capital's most distinctive seaside suburbs.
The website mirrors the practice. There is no long list of packages, no jargon-heavy service menu — simply the words 'Exercise Kinesiology', the name of the person doing it, a blog, and a way to get in touch. In an era of sprawling clinic websites, that simplicity reads as quiet confidence: the work, and the studio it happens in, are the point.
Exercise kinesiology starts from a simple idea: the way you move shapes the way you feel, and the way you feel shapes the way you move. A kinesiologist works with that relationship — observing how a body moves, noticing where things feel restricted or out of balance, and using guided movement and exercise to restore ease and strength. It sits at the meeting point of movement science and one-to-one guidance, and it appeals to people who want to be active participants in how their bodies feel rather than passive recipients of a fix.
Femke's choice to put 'exercise' front and centre in her title is telling. This is a practice built around doing — around movement as the working tool — and around the kind of attention only a small studio can offer.
The photographs on femkekoene.com give a sense of the space: a light-filled, open studio set up for exactly this kind of work, with room to move, stretch and be guided through exercises at a human pace. It is a studio in the true sense — designed around people and sessions rather than machines and memberships.
The name signals the intent, too. L.I.F.E Movement Studio treats movement not as an appointment squeezed into a busy week, but as something threaded through everyday life. And the setting supports that frame of mind. The Esplanade runs along Island Bay's waterfront, so arriving for a session means arriving by the sea, with the beach and the village centre only moments away. It is a calm corner of Wellington in which to pay attention to how your body moves.
Sessions are arranged directly with Femke. The website's contact page leads to booking, and the studio can be reached by phone on +64 21 269 5741 or by email at info@femkekoene.com. Because this is a one-person practice rather than a walk-in clinic, it pays to get in touch ahead of time and arrange a session that suits you.
The practice also keeps a few channels open for those who want to follow along. The Femke Blog carries Femke's own writing on movement and her work; there is a newsletter to subscribe to on the site; and the practice maintains a Facebook page under Femke Koene Exercise Kinesiology. Reading a post or two before a first visit is an easy, no-pressure way to get a feel for her approach.
There is something to be said for a practice with one practitioner, one space and one focus. You are not passed between staff or fitted into a template; the same person who answers your email is the one who meets you at the studio. For Island Bay locals, the studio is essentially on the doorstep. For everyone else in Wellington, it is a drive to the coast that ends somewhere quiet and purpose-built for movement.
L.I.F.E Movement Studio does not try to be everything to everyone. It offers exercise kinesiology, in a dedicated space, from a practitioner whose name is on the door — and for anyone searching for exactly that in Wellington, that is precisely the appeal.