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 work with 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 patterns and trauma stored in your body's fascia.
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
Sessions are guided moment to moment, allowing trust to build as the body learns to let go without force. By listening to both physical and emotional holding within the fascia and nervous system, the work responds to what is ready to shift — supporting natural release without pushing beyond your capacity.
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.
Rated "Excellent" by Past Clients
Structural Bodywork – Myofascial Integrative Therapy
Your body is an incredible, interconnected organism, beautifully woven together and supported by electrically charged connective tissue known as fascia.
This life-giving fabric acts as a cohesive network with its own intelligence, playing a vital role in providing shape, form, alignment, and overall well-being.
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? Find answers to the most common queries about Structural Integrative Bodywork.
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.
Transparent Pricing for Your Wellbeing
Healing isn't measured in minutes.
This work is most effective when approached as a process rather than a one-off fix.
Sessions are booked as a 2-hour window. Most sessions run 60–90 minutes, with space to extend when deeper work or integration is needed. Each session unfolds responsively—precise, deliberate, and guided by what your body needs in the moment.
Initial Session
New Clients
$400
A spacious initial session of up to two hours to understand what’s happening in your body, experience the work, and see whether it feels right for you.
If you choose to continue into the 5-session Journey, your $400 payment is fully credited toward the total.
Premium Journey
5 Sessions
$2,000
A committed pathway for lasting change
5 sessions total, including your initial session
Initial $400 payment fully credited
Sessions generally spaced over 2–8 weeks
Priority scheduling
Allows the body to adapt and reorganise between sessions
Addresses patterns rather than symptoms
Save $500 compared with five individual $500 sessions
Maintenance Package
3 Sessions
$1,350
A supportive container for continued alignment.
Ideally spaced a month apart and used within 4 months
Tailored to your body's needs
Creates momentum & continuity
Save $150
Somatic Anchor
12-Week Private Mentorship
Offered selectively to existing clients
$5,000
90-minute Somatic Anchor intensive to map what’s happening and establish the focus for the 12 weeks
6 × 60-minute private mentoring sessions, approximately fortnightly
2 bodywork / integration sessions during the 12 weeks
Personalised somatic practices between sessions
Custom audio / regulation practices where useful
Private message support between sessions for things that arise in real time, with clear boundaries around response times
Closing integration session and forward plan
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.
More Client Transformations
Real stories from real people who have experienced profound changes through fascia bodywork.
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.
© 2026 Health and Vitality - All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy | Terms of Service