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healing tree
osteopathy
What you seek is seeking you ~ Rumi
Welcome
Biodynamic Osteopathy has developed within the Osteopathic medical profession over the past 120+ years. Treatments involve a therapeutic awakening from within - that occurs when structural anatomy re-integrates into the deeper mysteries of human function & self-healing. Nature's own self-healing capacity is gradually covered over and forgotten as the physical, emotional and spiritual stressors, strains and traumas of life accumulate and alter the body's intended structure and function. Biodynamic treatment involves the gentle laying on of hands, with no external force being applied. Therapeutic forces already present within nature begin to awaken as an Osteopath synchronises with the memory of the Health within. Transformative change becomes possible, when a patient and practitioner are surrendered into the unknowable depth and mystery of the Health. The Health itself shifts our consciousness so that we are able to perceive it, and the rational thinking mind takes a back seat in proceedings. A treatment process is then able to unfold, without patient or practitioner resisting and getting in the way.
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About your appointment
NEW PATIENTS: please note that this practice does NOT use massage or spinal manipulation. You will be fully clothed, and get to relax on the treatment table during your session. Treatment times can vary, so please allow 60 minutes for your initial and subsequent appointments. Please also ensure you have completed your online health survey before your appointment (this can be found in your initial booking confirmation and reminder emails). Please complete your survey at least 24 hours before your appointment - this will give me a head start, and allow us to get the most value from your treatment.
If your appointment is for your BABY, please be sure to bring either your partner, grandma or a helper along with you. Through treating mum, one very often achieves more significant change for baby - and this works best when mum is able to take a break, and deeply relax.
To CANCEL an appointment, please select the link in your confirmation or reminder emails. Please note that at least 24 hours notice is required - an $80 cancellation fee will apply if your appointment time cannot be filled.
EPTPOS and Private Health Fund HICAPS payment facilities are available. Sorry, this practice does NOT offer government subsidised Medicare Chronic Disease Management Plans. A more scientific/evidence based treatment methodology is better suited to Medicare's reporting requirements.
Biodynamic Osteopathy
The purpose of Biodynamic Osteopathy is to find Health within every patient: the perfect potential that we each bring into life. Health itself is always present within us, it just gets covered over and forgotten under layers of stress, strain and trauma accumulated throughout a lifetime. Dr. James Jealous (Osteopathic physician, obstetrician, and founder of Biodynamic Osteopathy) described treatment of his own patients in this way: "I find the Health within my patients, and then wait for them to feel it also".
Biodynamic treatment includes (amongst other things) the process of "becoming neutral". Being neutral involves a practitioner and patient becoming still, quiet and surrendering their own will to the will of the Health. The Health itself is a mystery that includes the physical body, the natural and super-natural world - all integrated as one. When a practitioner and patient synchronise with the Health, therapeutic forces awaken within; and these provide the resources required for therapeutic change to occur, with no external force being required.
Since Biodynamic Osteopathy is guided by the Health within, treatment outcomes tend to have a direction and timing of their own. If you are seeking symptomatic relief as quickly as possible, then a practitioner-directed treatment approach may be better suited to you.
Biodynamic treatment is suited to preconception care, pregnancy, babies and family inter-generational health. Wholistic healthcare for adults. Complex trauma history. Seeking relief from painful symptoms - whether they be of a physical, emotional or spiritual origin. Preventative healthcare - preparing your body for the challenges of life. Head, jaw, neck, thoracic, lumbar, pelvic, arms and legs symptoms. Mood, stress, breathing, circulation, digestive and reproductive health etc.
"It is the objective of the doctor to find health, anyone can find disease"
~ Dr. Andrew Still (Surgeon and founder of Osteopathy)
ABOUT
Hi, my name is David and I've been in Osteopathic practice since 1998. When expressing nature's Health and self-healing capacity, the human body combines mechanical stability with dynamic ever-changing motion. To be stable and fluid at the same time, requires significant amount of inner organisation. Each human being comes into life with a blueprint, or embryo of perfect potential - and our physical body uses this resource throughout life as a dynamic point of reference for growth, development, co-ordination and self-healing. For many people, this memory of Health gets covered over or forgotten – with ongoing stress, body rigidity and pain being the result. This indwelling Health is at the heart of Biodynamic Osteopathy – a mystery and therapeutic resource that brings us closer to our originally intended self.
Osteopathic Medicine originated almost 150 years ago in the United States. American Osteopathic Physicians are registered medical doctors and receive university training with internship, and the option of specialist training within Osteopathic hospitals. Osteopath's utilise their understanding of body structure and function, and the application of manual therapy to improve the expression of health and self-healing capacity of the human body. Australian Osteopaths have 5 years of university training, and work in private practice - and unlike their American cousins, do not prescribe drug therapy or perform surgery. The Australian Osteopathic profession remains committed to Osteopathy's original foundations of manual medicine; of treating the human body as an integrated whole, and seeking people's greatest potential through preventative healthcare.
