About Minimo Kinetics

About Mike

Mike Oleon is an award-winning puppet artist-turned-anatomy-educator-and-model-maker. He is the founder of Minimo Kinetics and one of a small number of educators applying tensegrity principles to anatomy education for bodywork professionals.  His tensegrity models are on permanent display at the BodyWorlds Museum in Berlin and featured in the upcoming edition of Anatomy Trains. He has co-taught with Tom Myers and is a Fellow of the Stephen M. Levin Biotensegrity Archive.

Toward a Better Understanding of our Bodies

The last 500 years of medicine have given us a highly mechanical view of our bodies. While this has led to incredible advances, it's also left us disconnected from understanding how we actually move and function as living systems.

Minimo Kinetics creates tools that capture what traditional models miss: the dynamic, tensionally-integrated nature of biological structure. Through tensegrity - the interplay of tension and compression found from cell membranes to fascia - we embody how living structures actually move.

With an emphasis on usability, research, and kinesthetic delight, we make complex principles tangibly obvious. When you hold our models, you can feel how shifts in tension flow instantly through the whole structure - transforming abstract concepts into unexpected, intuitive understanding.

Starting with education and small-scale anatomical models, we're building toward a future where toys, rehabilitation tools, and exoskeletons are designed around how biological structures really behave. When we understand our bodies as the dynamic, interconnected systems they are, we transform not just spatial medicine, but our fundamental relationship with ourselves and the living world.