How I got here
I started my working life with 8 years in the Australian Defence Force before moving to the construction industry. A life of instability left me dysfunctional and struggling to cope. In my 30's I recovered by patching together a range of services that suited my needs. I went on to study and become a drug and alcohol worker and moved into mental health and suicide prevention.
After a run in with cancer I moved from community services to health work and spent a decade continuously studying different modalities of natural health culminating in a health science degree of Myotherapy. During this time I became a natural therapies teacher and taught remedial massage and traditional Chinese massage.
As a young soldier I was naturally fit and active. Years of using alcohol as a coping mechanism had damaged my body and I left the army in a rather average state.
Working in community services my coping mechanisms had changed, but stress was now taking its toll on my already impaired metabolism.
For years I tried high frequency, high intensity training. It improved my fitness, but I was unable to significantly change my body shape. Testing identified I had sleep apnoea and hyperinsulinemia, even though my blood sugars are normal. I was left to question, is my condition a side effect of my coping mechanisms or were my coping mechanism self-medicating for my conditions.
Now I follow the path of a natural therapist and rather than trying to change my shape I work on my metabolism and try to live in harmony with my environment. My training is about metabolic health, maintaining a natural self-generated pace, in balance with the rhythm of life and change of seasons.
From a natural therapist’s perspective, as a species we are totally out of alignment with nature. Our pace is hectic, our stress levels are abnormal, we are hyper stimulated with media coverage, social networks and over involved in issues that would not have occurred in our tribal origins. We are bombarded with messages to do more, try harder, and go to the next level.
Our planet is telling us this is dysfunctional and unsustainable, it is well and truly time to listen. Listen to our breath, listen to the sounds of nature, taste the food we grow in our own gardens. Feel ourselves and the relationships we have with the people, animals, and earth around us.
We are not a machine, and a one size fits all cookie cutter approach to health, nutrition and exercise is not realistic or helpful. Each of us is an environmental, generational, and stimulus-effected adaption that has taken generations to reach fruition. We each have our own unique pace and rhythm, to which health treatment and exercise tailoring needs to adjust.
The goal of our business is to help people restore themselves to their natural rhythm. To be more attentive to their motor sensory nervous system. Empowered to connect with themselves in thought and feeling, and for that to be expressed through their unique healthy movement.
With a health science education my assessment is not just based on a sore joints or muscles. Rather how are you integrating with your environment and what can be restored in your physiology to create a more harmonious you.
Yes, there are days when you just need a rub down, or a relax, and we can do that too. But we are really looking to partner with you around your long-term health and wellbeing.
My treatments are about the integration of breathwork, stretching and movement, with manual therapies supporting these foundations to assist in the restoration of movement quality.
I have a private clinic and movement space, and as an independent therapist the flexibility to adjust my time and schedule. We start with a standard 1-hour timeslots but can accommodate longer or shorter sessions as required. Book online or contact through our socials to discuss further.
