Move Freely. Address Pain at the Source.
A structural approach to trauma, performance, and wellbeing.
By working with your body's fascia, I can help you:
Unwind chronic tension and holding patterns in the body
Restore efficient movement, posture, and load distribution
Enhance overall bodily function & efficiency
Promote nervous system regulation, deeper rest, and recovery
Transform Your Life with Fascia Bodywork
I help people experiencing chronic pain, long-held tension, fatigue, and nervous system overload as well as those wanting to improve performance, energy, and overall wellbeing.
Release Stress & Tension
Let go of deeply held stress, tension and patterns associated with trauma.
Reduce Pain & Discomfort
Experience relief from chronic pain through targeted fascial release work.
Improve Posture & Alignment
Restore your body's natural structural balance and postural health.
Increase Flexibility
Expand your range of motion and move with greater freedom and ease.
Boost Energy & Vitality
Feel renewed energy as your body releases restrictions and flows freely.
Enhance Bodily Function
Support your body's overall function and natural healing capacity.
Better Sleep & Peace
Achieve deeper rest and a profound sense of peace in your daily life.
What is the Process?
A simple, supportive journey to lasting relief and transformation.
Preparation & Environment
Sessions are held in a warm, private room on a comfortable Earthlite massage table. To support the flow of the session, full undressing is recommended, though underwear is welcome. You’ll remain fully covered with sheets at all times, with music supporting relaxation.
The Bodywork Process
Every session is different and guided by what I feel and observe in your body. I work intuitively with areas of physical and emotional holding, allowing the session to unfold naturally rather than following a rigid sequence or predetermined technique.
Pacing & Integration
Please allow up to two hours for your session. This creates space to work at a natural, unhurried pace, with time for conversation and integration as needed. While meaningful shifts can occur in a single session, this work is most effective when approached as a process. A short series of sessions, spaced to allow the body time to adapt, supports deeper integration and more lasting change.
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Myofascial Bodywork & Structural Integration
FASCIA is a living, responsive, intelligent network that weaves throughout your entire body. It surrounds and supports your muscles, bones, nerves and organs, connecting everything from head to toe and playing a vital role in how your body moves, feels and functions.
THE METHOD: Working slowly and intuitively along the body’s fascial lines using sustained pressure through the thumbs, hands and elbows, I help you soften, surrender and release deeply held tension, blockages and trauma. The slower pace allows trust and safety to build, giving your body space to unwind at its own pace rather than being forced. As the fascial “armour” begins to melt away, the muscles can finally let go and relax more deeply.
Above: Tom Myers, author and founder of Anatomy Trains, introduces the essential concepts behind the fascial map of the body. Note: This video contains images of a dissected cadaver.
Above: A visual representation of the body’s fascial network, highlighting the body as an interconnected system.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions? Here are some of the most common questions about the work.
Structural Integration is a form of bodywork pioneered by Dr. Ida P. Rolf that works with the body’s connective tissue, or fascia, as an interconnected system.
Fascia surrounds and connects muscles, bones, nerves and other structures throughout the body. Tension or restriction in one area can influence movement, posture and load elsewhere, which is why I look beyond the place where pain or discomfort is being experienced.
Through slow, precise fascial work, Structural Integration aims to reduce restrictions, improve movement and support the body in finding greater balance, ease and adaptability.
Structural Integration can support people experiencing chronic pain, restricted movement, postural imbalances, persistent tension or a general sense that their body is working harder than it should.
I also work with athletes and active people wanting to improve movement, recovery and performance, as well as people whose bodies have been carrying the effects of prolonged stress or significant life experiences.
Because physical tension and nervous system state are closely interconnected, sessions can sometimes bring emotional shifts alongside physical ones. Clients often describe feeling lighter, calmer, more grounded and more connected to their bodies after the work.
You don’t need to be in pain to benefit. Some people come simply because they want to move, feel and function better.
Sessions are booked within a spacious two-hour window. The hands-on bodywork typically lasts around 60–90 minutes, with additional time available for conversation, assessment and integration as needed.
Rather than working to the clock, the session is allowed to unfold at a natural pace based on what your body needs that day.
Everyone responds differently, and results depend on your body, history and what you’re bringing to the work.
Clients commonly report reduced pain and tension, greater freedom of movement, improved posture and body awareness, deeper sleep, increased energy and a greater sense of calm and connection with themselves.
Some people experience a noticeable shift after their first session, while longer-held patterns often respond best to a series of sessions that gives the body time to adapt and integrate.
The intention is not to force change, but to create the conditions for your body to reorganise with greater ease, freedom and resilience.
Structural Integration doesn’t need to be painful to be effective.
At times we may work at what I describe as the hedonic point: the meeting place between intensity and pleasure where you can still breathe, soften and remain present with what you’re experiencing.
The aim is never to overpower the body. I work slowly and patiently, using enough pressure for the fascia and nervous system to respond while continually listening to your body and adjusting in real time.
A large part of my approach is intuitive touch. I’m highly present throughout the session and pay close attention to subtle changes in breathing, tissue response, tension and nervous system state. This allows me to work at the pace your body is ready for rather than forcing it to conform to a technique or predetermined level of pressure.
Some areas may feel intense, particularly where tension has been held for a long time, but clients consistently describe the work as manageable and deeply relaxing. I have never had a client end a session early because the work was too intense or ask me to use less pressure.
Your sense of safety remains central throughout the session, because meaningful release is far more likely when the body feels safe enough to let go.
My approach has been shaped by decades of combined knowledge from Structural Integration, Anatomy Trains, movement, natural healing and somatic practice.
John Benedict has been one of my primary hands-on mentors. A Structural Integration therapist with more than 40 years of experience, John trained in Structural Integration and sports massage after his own journey recovering from injuries sustained as a US Navy deep-sea diver. I trained extensively with John while living in Costa Rica, learning not simply techniques, but how to listen to and work responsively with the body.
Tom Myers is the founder of Anatomy Trains and one of the world’s leading educators in Structural Integration and integrative manual therapy. His work mapping the body’s myofascial continuities has deeply influenced how I understand whole-body movement, compensation and structural relationships. I have trained with Tom and Anatomy Trains in the United States.
Carol Bittner, my mother, gave me my earliest exposure to bodywork and natural healing. A massage and beauty therapist who later became an advanced practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy, she introduced me from childhood to the relationship between the body, nutrition, wellbeing and our innate capacity for healing.
Together, these influences have shaped an approach that is structural but not mechanical, intuitive without losing precision, and grounded in treating the body as an interconnected whole.
There is no predetermined number of sessions that every body needs.
A single session can create a meaningful shift and is a valuable way to experience the work. However, patterns that have developed over years rarely exist in isolation, which is why deeper and more lasting change is often better supported through a series of sessions.
For clients wanting to go further, I offer a five-session Journey that allows us to work progressively with the whole body while giving it time between sessions to adapt and integrate.
Some people feel complete after this process. Others choose occasional maintenance sessions as their body, lifestyle, training and life continue to evolve.
The goal is not to make you dependent on ongoing treatment. It is to help your body function with greater freedom, resilience and self-sufficiency.
My relationship with the body has been shaped by a lifetime of movement, performance, discipline and, ultimately, healing.
Before becoming a bodyworker, I served as an Australian Army officer and competed nationally across duathlon, cross country, road cycling and mountain biking.
Movement and physical performance have been part of my life for as long as I can remember, but over time my interest expanded beyond what the body could do into understanding how it adapts, protects, heals and holds our experiences.
My path into natural healing began long before I practised professionally. My mother was a bodyworker, and after leaving the military I explored an increasingly broad range of approaches to health, human potential, somatic awareness and mind-body integration.
I later spent four years living in Costa Rica, where I trained extensively in Structural Integration with John Benedict, developed my private practice and worked with clients at HOLOS retreat centre in the Diamante Valley. I subsequently continued my Structural Integration education with Tom Myers and Anatomy Trains in the United States.
Then, in January 2025, everything I had learned became deeply personal.
I was involved in a near-fatal cycling accident, fracturing 11 vertebrae, 10 ribs, both collarbones and both scapulae, as well as collapsing my left lung. I chose a non-surgical path and committed myself fully to rehabilitation, movement, somatic practice and supporting my body's natural capacity to heal.
Nine weeks after the accident, I ran a pain-free 3 km.
That experience fundamentally deepened my understanding of recovery. I know what it is to inhabit a body that has experienced significant trauma, to rebuild trust in it and to discover that our current limitations do not necessarily define what is possible.
Today, from my practice in West Hindmarsh, Adelaide, I bring together Structural Integration, movement, nervous system awareness, intuition and lived experience to help people move beyond persistent patterns of pain and tension and reconnect with greater freedom in their bodies and themselves.
A Pathway to Lasting Change
Meaningful shifts happen in a single session. A short series of sessions gives the body time to unwind, adapt and integrate, supporting deeper and more lasting change when working with chronic patterns of pain, tension and trauma that have built over decades.
Sessions are booked within a spacious 2-hour window so the work never feels rushed.
Initial Session
New Clients
$400
A spacious full session to understand what’s happening in your body and experience the work.
If you choose to continue into the 5-session Journey, your payment is fully credited.
Premium Journey
5 Sessions
$2,000
A committed pathway for lasting change
Tailored to your body's needs
Priority scheduling
Allows the body to adapt and reorganise
Session benefits compound
Save $500
Maintenance Package
3 Sessions
$1,200
For those who benefit from regular ongoing bodywork.
Ideally spaced a month apart and used within 4 months
Supports continued progress and integration
Save $300
Somatic Anchor
12-Week Private Mentorship
Offered selectively to existing clients
$5,000
Mind + Body Integration
Combines private mentoring, somatic practices and hands-on bodywork to work with what is happening mentally, emotionally and physically.
Support Beyond the Session
Personalised practices, custom resources and private message support to help you navigate what arises in real life between sessions.
Referral Gift
When you refer someone who books their first paid session, you'll receive a $100 credit toward your next booking. Credits can be stacked
Community Offering
Each month, one complimentary session is gifted to someone in genuine financial need. Contact me to apply.
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Ready When You Are
You don’t need to have it all figured out. If you’re curious about the work you’re welcome to reach out.
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