About Breeze Therapies

A brief history of Breeze...

Quality - what you need.

I offer highly skilled and experienced massage and therapeutic services.

Outline history of Breeze

Since 2001 Breeze has been in the Hobart CBD, moving from 3 treatment rooms to four, plus a top quality FIR sauna - in Liverpool Street.

As from 2014, I am the sole therapist at Breeze Therapies in Mount Stuart. Recently I completed building a new purpose-built single room clinic in peaceful Mount Stuart.

My training:

My first training was in relaxation massage.

Later, I undertook professional training in at Island Health in Hobart, gaining a diploma in Remedial Massage (Remedial Body Therapies).

Subsequently I opened Breeze in 2001. I have since undertaken many courses in various fields of body therapies.

Below is a list of some of my most significant training, with brief notes on what I valued and what lessons I drew from each.

Training Courses and Further Education. From 1999 onwards...

1. Remedial Massage (Diploma in Remedial Body Therapies) Island Health, Hobart 1999 and 2000 (Two years - evening classes).

2. Pulsing (1 day course.)

3. Reflexology (Part of my Diploma course.)

4. Theta Healing - Numerous 1-2 day courses.

5. Reference Point Therapy (RPT) - Numerous 1-7 day courses.

6. Feldenkrais - Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes and 1- day workshops. This has been an on-going engagement for ~10 years.

7. Buddhist philosophy - The depth of enquiry found here is amazing!

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8. Cranio-Sacral Therapy (CST) - with the Upledger Institute of Australia. A three-day Training in Sydney.

9. Ortho-bionomy: (Numerous 1-3 day courses) - so many!

10. I had an experience of Private Subconscious Healing (P.S.H.) from a trainee practitioner.

11. Reiki - For several years I trained in Reiki. These days I mostly leave that form of Energy Healing to others.

12. Volitional Release (VR123) This three level therapy is the culmination of decades of reading, attending courses and professional practice and evolving a new therapy into my practice.

What I valued, what I learned...

1. Remedial Massage - especially MET (Muscle Energy Technique), MLD (Manual Lymphatic Drainage), Trigger Point Therapy, Anatomy and Physiology + much more. I use these skills every day.

2. Pulsing - has the benefit of bypassing the the conscious and subconscious minds and it physically references the security of your Mother's womb. I rarely use this, but it can be a relaxing way to integrate at the end of a session.

3. Reflexology - I studied this over a number of years, but I now prefer other techniques instead of reflexology. I no longer use Reflexology as such.

4. Theta Healing - while this was important at the time (~2005), it was superseded by RPT (Reference Point Therapy) taught in Melbourne. From Theta Healing I learned the powerful significance of our beliefs and thoughts, whether conscious or subconscious, in making us better - or worse!

5. Reference point Therapy - It is built on the standard approaches of Theta Healing, but with a more rigorous structure, and from these RPT courses I developed an interest helping people with the peaceful healing of Trauma (The therapies I use are not themselves traumatic!)

6. Feldenkrais - Awareness Through Movement (ATM) is one of the best everyday ways of maintaining your body-mind connection and balance I have come across. And none of the classwork requires conceptual learning - unless you are like me! I learned the value of small movements; while paying close attention to any sensations in the body; then waiting for the nervous system to process that experience, while you lie still, on your back. Every time I left that weekly class I felt "I am together again!"

7. Buddhist philosophy - (It seems to me it is not properly a religion.) It is mostly well-founded and is coherent with (the best) modern therapeutic research. However, I would not call myself a Buddhist. I studied by reading books.

8. Cranio-Sacral Therapy (CST) This was the starting point in my training in subtle-sense palpation. Allowing me to feel the pulsating rhythms of the cranio-sacral fluid around the brain and spinal cord. That is the major benefit I got from it. I decided that there was not a large market for CST in Hobart, and today I would not claim to be that type of therapist. It was developed by John Upledger (USA) who first trained in Chiropractic before developing CST.

9. Ortho-bionomy (O-B): This was developed by Arthur Lincoln Pauls (ALP), an Osteopath from the US. Its highlight for me was its effective but gentle approach, which it shares with Feldenkrais, and the multiplicity of types of reflexes which it identifies and treats differently. This is where my Cranio-Sacral training came in handy! O-B can be described as a gentle, non-manipulative, sensed conversation between the sensitised therapist and the customer's system of nerves (reflexes of various types). It occurs mostly under your non-conscious control. The therapist must be mentally still, and respond to subtle signals. Do not confuse reflexes as used here with Reflexology.

10. Private Subconscious Healing (PSH) might be very useful, but that was not my personal experience. Nevertheless, I felt it opened the door a bit wider for me. There do not seem to be any PSH practitioners in Tasmania. Do not confuse PSH with hypnotism.

11. Reiki - offers hands-on (and hands off) energy healing of Japanese origins. I no longer think of myself as a Reiki practitioner, but I know and respect some local therapists, including esteemed former colleagues at Breeze.

12. Volitional Release (VR123) - This began its life in my clinic, with a couple of experiences which led me to develop this approach. It is informed, in part, by reference point therapy (RPT) but goes well beyond it. It can play a significant role in your life, apart from therapeutic work. It will be up to you to decide for yourself if/when/how you use it in your own life. I commonly teach VR1 to all my customers - via the 5 minute training course. I do this to facilitate their progress during our work together. VR2 and VR3 are extensions, built on the basic (VR1) course. I will introduce these later, so you can use them as needed.