Ortho-Bionomy - your body's new best friend

If you’re used to forceful bodywork treatments, Ortho-Bionomy feels revolutionary! 

It’s designed to gently activate your body’s self-healing reflexes with the minimum amount of ‘input’ from me. That means there are no forceful manipulations, deep pressure or working on painful ‘trigger points’. This is what makes it a disruptive therapy in the field of pain relief and pain management.

We begin in the opposite place to many other pain management therapies – I look for where your body is functional, responsive and comfortable instead of focusing on what’s ‘wrong’ with you. 

By focusing on comfort we create a physical and emotional sense of safety, ease and relaxation, allowing your nervous system to switch out of fight/flight and into rest/reset. 

Far from being the ‘soft option’, this state shift allows your body to correct itself and heal at a deep level. People are often surprised that such a gentle therapy can relieve pain so effectively – they also report better sleep, easier movement and more energy for work, play and exercise.

With Ortho-Bionomy your body re-learns what it knew in childhood: fluid posture, comfortable movement and freedom from pain.

“Ortho-Bionomy reminds people of something they already knew but have forgotten.”
Dr. Arthur Lincoln Pauls, founder of Ortho-Bionomy.

Experience lasting pain relief with these options:

In-person Ortho-Bionomy sessions

Body Reset 4-week online consultation package

Single online consultations

If you’re ready to learn how to relieve pain simply and effectively without using force or repetitive exercises, this is for you.

You CAN unlearn your old painful tension patterns and replace them with ease, relaxation and freedom.  

Because it’s gentle, this approach is safe for all. It’s great for you if you don’t like deep pressure or forceful manipulations, or if you’d rather be living your life than spending all your time having treatments.

Work with me if you want to learn to harness your body’s self-healing intelligence using techniques that fit easily into your day and help you understand what your body needs to feel better.

This work isn’t right for everyone – it’s not intended as a replacement for medical care and may only be helpful for people not suffering from a medical condition. While I am a registered Ortho-Bionomy practitioner, I am not a medical practitioner – so I do not diagnose, cure or treat any medical conditions and my services must not be interpreted as medical care. These services are intended to teach you how to relieve tension and discomfort in your own body using specific gentle self-care techniques involving comfortable positioning and gentle movements. Consider consulting your medical practitioner before using this or any other self-care program. 

Ortho-Bionomy was developed by Canadian osteopath and Judo master, Dr. Arthur Lincoln Pauls. Pauls was inspired during his osteopathic training in England to develop techniques that would initiate change by stimulating the body’s own healing processes and avoiding the high-velocity thrust techniques and force manipulations commonly used.  His studies in Judo and ancient healing practices also taught him the value of going with the body’s flow instead of opposing it.

Ortho-Bionomy is therefore based on principles of non-force, non-judgement, less is more and allowing the body to change at its own pace. By doing less ‘to’ your body we allow it to find its own way back to natural postural balance as the foundation for authentic wellbeing.

When you work with me, I support you to be your own wellbeing expert. By connecting with our body’s self-healing intelligence there is no need for forceful manipulations, ‘cracking’ of joints or deep pressure on painful ‘trigger points’. There’s no longer a place for the old beliefs that the practitioner always knows better than the patient, or that you must submit to treatments that hurt or feel wrong in some way because you’re ‘not the expert’.

Instead my highest priority is that you feel safe while we work together, letting your body be the guide.  This gentle approach addresses all levels of your being – physical, emotional, mental, energetic. It helps release the ‘charge’ of stress stored in your body – in your cells – from negative emotions and memories which are often the real source of our physical pain and tension – all without having to talk about it.

This means you can leave behind the distress and lingering influence of your past experiences without needing to revisit them verbally and without the potential for retraumatization. Research shows that working with the body to create relaxation and a feeling of safety helps people recover from negative experiences better than talk-therapy alone. 

You’re ready to work with me if you want to understand how to listen to and take care of your own body.

You can use this noninvasive bodywork and associated self-care techniques to support these and similar conditions:

• Pain – from injuries, surgery, chronic pain etc.
• Pain and stiffness in joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments
• Postural issues
• Repetitive strain injuries
• Women’s health – supporting natural alignment in the pelvis encourages hormonal balance which can reduce the symptoms of menstrual, menopausal and reproductive issues
• Pre- and post-natal pain in back, hip and pelvis, especially when sitting, getting up or walking
• Helping your newborn baby to settle, sleep and feed comfortably and recover from birth interventions
• Support for children’s growing bodies – growing pains, injuries and supporting natural postural development
• Support for trauma recovery
• Support for stress, fatigue and overwork
• shoulder pain, frozen shoulder, carpal tunnel issues, numbness/tingling in elbow, wrist and hand
• headaches, migraines, jaw and TMJ pain
• back pain including low-back and hip, scoliosis, kyphosis
• neck stiffness, restriction and pain,
• knee, ankle and foot pain

Remember: this work isn’t right for everyone – it’s not intended as a replacement for proper medical care and may only be helpful for people not suffering from a medical condition. While I am a registered Ortho-Bionomy practitioner, I am not a medical practitioner – so I do not diagnose, cure or treat any medical conditions and my services must not be interpreted as medical care. These services are intended to teach you how to relieve tension and discomfort in your own body using specific gentle self-care techniques involving comfortable positioning and gentle movements. Consult your medical practitioner before using this or any other self-care program.