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Kinex Therapy : Total Body Integration, Busselton, Perth, Busselton (2026)

07/06/2026

These last two weeks

Have been challenging…on the other side of the country, I needed to see my brothers

I come home I lose my father in law

My own family even has issues of need

But I remember my own father, he had a way with words, he sat me down once…” if you can make a difference, you do, you’re not here for the BBQ, you’re here for a purpose”

We question our mortality our actions
But in Sydney in Perth, from Bali, from Europe and now I’m in Fremantle.

I humbly get messages, a compliment here or there

And then one that truely humbles me..my mum would say “ do not hold tickets of yourself”

One thing I’d add personally, David: six months after smashing your face on the Busselton Jetty, you’ve rebuilt your breathing, your running, your balance, your yoga practice, and your ability to help others while recovering yourself. Most people would have stopped. You didn’t. You stepped up
That’s worth remembering. ❤️

I know because I can feel this, I know my fathers would be smiling, mum would raise a finger, “no tickets”

07/06/2026

Morning…Midday…Evening

Your eyes are not your skin. Your skin is not your brain. Yet all three are responding to the same star in different ways.”

It was a conversation I hear a lot…” I need to get some Vitamin D from the sun “

Oooh….That’s not really true

Our body evolved under a changing sun spectrum, not a fixed spectrum.

☀️ WHAT IF THE QUESTION ISN’T “HOW MUCH SUN?”

WHAT IF IT’S “WHICH SUN?”

A conversation with a client this week got me thinking.

“We need sunlight for Vitamin D.”

True but the Sun doesn’t produce it

“But we should block UV.”

Also true but without it, you will get sick

“And we should wear blue-light blocking glasses.”

Maybe but not before midday

Suddenly I realised we’re trying to simplify something that nature never intended to be simple.

The sun changes all day.

Morning sunlight delivers powerful signals to the eyes that help regulate dopamine, alertness, mood, cortisol rhythms and the body clock.

Late morning and midday sunlight provide the strongest UVB wavelengths involved in Vitamin D production within the skin.

Evening sunlight shifts towards reds and oranges, helping prepare the nervous system for rest.

Different wavelengths.

Different tissues.

Different jobs.

Your eyes are not your skin.

Your skin is not your brain.

Yet all three are responding to the same star in different ways.

Sometimes I wonder if we’ve become so focused on blocking light that we’ve forgotten why we evolved to receive it.

Perhaps health isn’t found in avoiding the sun.

Perhaps it’s found in understanding it.

A little morning light.

A little movement.

A little exposed skin.

A little sunset.

The body evolved in a rhythm.

Maybe we feel better when we return to it.

☀️

The body doesn’t just run on food.

It runs on information.

And light may be one of the oldest forms of information we receive

06/06/2026

🌊 Surfer’s Ear… Is It Just an Ear Problem?

This week alone I’ve seen two cases of surfer’s ear.

That’s not surprising here in the South West of Western Australia. The surf is magnificent, but the water is cold, the wind is cold, and your head is often exposed for hours at a time.

Most people know surfer’s ear as extra bone growth in the ear canal, known medically as Surfer’s Ear. The traditional explanation is repeated exposure to cold water and wind. The body responds by laying down extra bone to protect the ear canal.

But what interests me is everything else I often see alongside it.

The jaw becomes stiff. The muscles around the skull tighten. The scalp loses its normal glide. The cranial bones feel compressed. The sinuses become congested. The neck becomes guarded. People report headaches, eye pressure, facial tension, post-nasal drip, ringing ears, coughing, and a feeling that their head is “under pressure.”

The body is constantly adapting to forces. Cold exposure, repetitive wave impact, breath holding, neck extension, jaw clenching, and the constant challenge of maintaining orientation in moving water all place demands on the system. Over time the body creates protective strategies. Some are helpful. Some eventually become limitations.

Bone follows load. This principle is described by Wolff’s Law. Soft tissues adapt too. Muscles, fascia, breathing patterns, and movement strategies all change in response to repeated stress. The question is not simply “Why is there bone growth?” but “What has the entire system adapted to?”

When someone presents with surfer’s ear, I don’t just look at the ear.

I look at the jaw.

I look at the neck.

I look at the sinuses.

I look at breathing.

I look at eye movements.

I look at gait and balance.

Because the ear doesn’t work in isolation. It lives within a complex network that helps us orient ourselves, breathe, balance, hear, and move through the world.

Sometimes the symptom is in the ear.

But the solution may involve restoring freedom to the entire system.

🏄‍♂️ Don’t guess. Assess.

Find what has become locked, compressed, overprotective, or underactive.

Then teach the body how to move freely again.

05/06/2026

🧠 When Focus Feels Fuzzy

Don’t give it a name!!!!

Everything is integrated….
You are not a tricycle, you’re a complicated Starship

Fug it….Fitzy just overhaul the lot”

People often come to see me because of sore backs, clicking jaws, problem feet, reflux, headaches or dizziness.

Then somewhere during the conversation they laugh and say:

“I can’t focus.”

“My brain is all over the place.”

“I start one thing and end up doing five.”

I tell them they’re not alone.

And often, it isn’t just a focus problem.

Your brain and body are wired together.

The same nervous system that controls your posture, breathing, eyes, balance and movement also helps control your attention.

Focus isn’t a single switch inside your head.

It’s a network of brain regions that open and communicate when you’re paying attention, learning and engaging with the world.

The more these networks are used, the stronger they become.

But they can also become difficult to access.

Pain.

Poor sleep.

Stress.

Concussion.

Breathing dysfunction.

Chronic compensation.

All create noise within the nervous system.

When the brain is busy managing instability, it has fewer resources available for concentration, learning and memory.

In neuroscience, this reflects the principle of neuroplasticity:

“Neurons that fire together wire together.”

The loss of precision in movement often mirrors a loss of precision in attention.

That’s why when I work with people, we don’t just chase symptoms.

We restore rhythm.

We restore breathing.

We restore balance.

We restore movement.

And something interesting happens.

Clients often say:

“It’s like the Christmas tree lights are coming back on.”

Their thinking becomes clearer.

Their attention improves.

Their mind feels quieter.

Their body feels calmer.

Focus is not simply mental.

It’s neurological.

It’s chemical.

It’s mechanical.

When breathing improves, when the eyes coordinate better, when the body moves with more precision, the nervous system often shifts away from constant fight-or-flight mode.

The result?

Better movement.

Better thinking.

Better awareness.

Better presence.

You can’t fake focus.

But you can retrain it.

From the body up.

04/06/2026

☀️ What a Morning
Light, Photons and Movement

This morning I was walking along the beach at Cottesloe Beach, watching the sun slowly rise over the pines,
another beautiful day.

It made me think about something extraordinary.

Every second, trillions of photons from the sun are striking your skin and eyes. Morning light is relatively low-energy compared to midday sunlight, but it carries incredibly important information. Those photons are absorbed by specialised molecules in the retina, skin and even within mitochondria. They aren’t simply “turned into movement,” but they do trigger cascades of biochemical events.

Inside your cells, mitochondria are constantly transferring electrons through the electron transport chain to create ATP—the chemical currency of energy. Nerves move ions such as sodium, potassium and calcium to create electrical signals. Electrons move. Ions move. Molecules move. Energy changes form.

In physics, energy is rarely lost—it is transformed.

A photon may become an excited electron.
An electron gradient may become ATP.
ATP may become muscle contraction.

Muscle contraction becomes movement.
Movement becomes adaptation.

The morning walk you take today is actually the end result of countless energy transformations occurring within you every second.

Perhaps that’s the miracle we often overlook.

You are not simply a body moving through sunlight.

You are a living transducer.

Converting photons into chemistry.
Chemistry into electricity.
Electricity into mechanics.
Mechanics into thought, movement and life itself.

The next time you step outside into the morning sun, remember:

The light isn’t just illuminating the world around you.

It’s helping organise the world within you.

☀️⚡🧠🚶‍♂️

27/05/2026

TEACH YOURSELF TO GET BETTER

Vertigo, Balance & Confidence

While I was recently in Sydney, this conversation came up constantly.

At the airport.
On the plane.
Walking through crowds.
Even chatting casually with travellers.

“I feel wobbly.”
“I don’t trust stairs anymore.”
“My neck feels stiff.”
“My jaw locks.”
“My eyes feel strange.”
“I get ringing in my ears.”
“I feel off balance for no reason.”

And honestly… so many people are quietly struggling with this.

What I kept thinking was this:

Most people have never been taught how to check back in with their nervous system.

We charge through life disconnected from our movement, posture, breathing, vision, and balance… until the body finally says:
“Enough.”

So I explained something simple.

You need a toolkit to switch your nervous system back on.

When you are laying down:
check your feet… knees… hips… ribs… shoulders… jaw… eyes… fingers.

Can you feel yourself properly?

Then when you sit up:
check again.

Feet to knees.
Knees to hips.
Hips to spine.
Head position.
Eye movement.
Arm and finger awareness.

Then when you stand:
don’t just rush off walking.

Pause.

Check left to right.
Front to back.
Feet to head.

Can your body feel upright and organised?

And then…

Teach yourself to walk again.

Not aggressively.
Not fearfully.
But consciously.

Feel your feet load.
Let your arms swing.
Let your eyes guide movement.
Let your ribs and diaphragm move.

Because balance is not automatic forever.

It is a skill.
A neurological conversation.
A constantly updated map between the brain and the body.

Sometimes the body is not weak.

The map is simply blurry.

And when you begin checking in again…
the nervous system often becomes calmer, steadier, and more confident.

25/05/2026

Grip is confidence
Recent clients with hand issues

The hand is extraordinary.

It can create art…
Lift weights…
Hold a child…
Throw a ball…
Play piano…
Write poetry…
Or simply reach out and comfort someone.

But sometimes the issue isn’t pain.
It isn’t arthritis.
It isn’t even weakness.

Sometimes the brain has simply stopped using part of the movement pattern properly.

I explain it like a tent.

A tent needs balanced guy ropes.
If one side becomes too tight and dominant…
another side becomes lazy, silent, disconnected.

The hand does exactly the same thing.

One group of muscles overworks.
Another stops participating.
Then the wrist stiffens.
Grip weakens.
Fingers lose coordination.
Forearms tighten.
Shoulders compensate.

But the hand is not separate from the body.

The hand belongs to the arm.
The arm belongs to the shoulder.
The shoulder belongs to the rib cage.
And the arm swing belongs to gait.

So I don’t just treat hands.

I check:
• Wrist mechanics
• Elbow rotation
• Shoulder sequencing
• Thoracic breathing
• Neck and jaw balance
• Walking patterns and arm swing

Because movement is a pattern.

And if the pattern is dysfunctional…
the body compensates everywhere.

So the goal is not simply to loosen tissue.

The goal is to:
Reactivate the missing movement.
Reconnect the pattern.
Then continuously install it into real life movement.

Sitting.
Standing.
Walking.
Swinging the arms.
Changing gears through gait.

Because the brain keeps the patterns you practise.

Movement is software.
And your body is always adapting to the movements you repeat.

25/05/2026

Passion in sport is a beautiful thing. ⚽️

I’m in Sydney visiting family down in the old Sharks rugby league shire, and my young cousin absolutely loves soccer.

Fog, rain, wind…
Didn’t matter.

Morning training.
Weekend games.
Afternoon matches.

He was there every time chasing improvement.

Watching him reminded me of something my father used to say to me constantly:

“Wasted brain if you don’t use it.”

As a kid, I thought he meant studying.
As I got older, I realised he meant something far bigger.

Learn.
Pay attention.
Develop awareness.
Use your gifts.
Challenge yourself.
Reach your potential.

So being the older cousin, I asked him:

“Would you like to be faster, stronger and have less weakness in your abilities to play the game?”

Of course he said yes.

So we got to work.

Not smashing him.
Not trying to make him sore.
Not endless punishment drills.

It’s the precision, it’s the detail of all our movements

We checked what could be better.

How his feet loaded.
How his hips transferred force.
How his breathing supported movement.
How his eyes tracked.
How his arms balanced rotation.
How his body changed gears from jogging… to sprinting… to cutting and turning.

Then we reset what wasn’t connecting well and installed better movement awareness.

And almost immediately something changed.

His confidence lifted.
His movement became smoother.
Acceleration cleaner.
Less hesitation.
Less wasted effort.

That’s the beautiful thing about the nervous system.

So often people think weakness is lack of effort.

Sometimes it’s simply lack of awareness…
A pattern not upgraded yet…
Potential waiting to be switched on.

My father’s words hit differently now.
If you can help if you can make a difference

A brain to its potential
A body to be challenged…
A talent not fully developed…

Is wasted potential.

Sport is one of the greatest teachers of that lesson.

Not because everyone becomes a professional athlete —
but because sport teaches you to keep learning who you are capable of becoming.

⚽️❤️

21/05/2026

🚫 THINK WAIT AND PLEASE LISTEN.

One of the hardest things I deal with after helping someone move better is this:

👉 They immediately think they’re fixed.

No.

You are not “fixed.”

You are BETTER.

There’s a difference.

What I’ve done is help map your nervous system toward a better movement pattern.
A more efficient strategy.
A less compensatory way of functioning.

But neurological repatterning is not a game of Lego.

🧠 I’m not snapping plastic pieces together.

This is your:
• brain
• spinal cord
• proprioception
• fascia
• joints
• breathing
• gait patterns
• autonomic nervous system

…all trying to learn a NEW organised pattern.

And learning takes repetition.

Practice installs patterns.

That’s why I say:

👉 Walk.
👉 Breathe.
👉 Move gently.
👉 Reinforce the changes.

But then some people go:

😂 “Awesome, I feel better… I’m going surfing.”
Or:
“I’m heading to the gym.”
Or:
“I’m riding horses all weekend.”

And I’m standing there thinking:

🚫 “Please don’t be silly.”

If you had just broken your leg…
you wouldn’t sprint because the cast came off.

If you had all your teeth capped…
you wouldn’t immediately chew toffee and nuts.

Yet people expect the nervous system to instantly hold a completely new movement strategy under massive load.

It doesn’t work like that.

The old pattern is still there.
The compensation is still waiting.
The survival strategy is still familiar to the brain.

What we’re trying to do is:

🧠 Install a BETTER default pattern.

And that requires:
• repetition
• awareness
• pacing
• gradual loading
• consistency

Not ego.
Not impatience.
Not “testing it out.”

Because every time you overload too early…

👉 the nervous system often snaps back to the old strategy.

Then people say:
“I was good until I did…”

Exactly.

Healing isn’t passive.
But it also isn’t reckless.

There’s a sweet spot between:
👉 doing nothing
and
👉 doing too much.

That’s where neuroplasticity thrives.

So please…

If I’ve helped you move better:
Respect the process.
Practise the process.
Install the process.

Because better patterns repeated become permanent patterns.

19/05/2026

Some People won’t Listen

I live in Australia, I had a student who simply would not listen.

Eventually I snapped and said:

👉 “Right… go to the deputy principal’s office and ask for the school gun.”

Now here’s the thing…

We’re Australian.
We essentially don’t have guns.
Only a very small percentage of the population even hold a licence.

A few minutes later the deputy principal messages me:

😂 She said to this child
You upset Mr Fitz again didn’t you?”

Apparently the kid had walked into the office completely serious asking:

👉 “Mr Fitz said I need the school gun.”

Recess that day in the staff room was chaos.
The deputy said:

“I nearly wet myself laughing.”

I even got an award that year for:
🏆 “Most outrageous request.”

But underneath the humour was a point:

🚫 STOP BEING SILLY.
STOP IGNORING THE MESSAGE.

Because this is exactly what people do with pain.

Your body says:
👉 “Something is wrong.”

And people respond with:
👉 “Can I just train through it?”

Pain is not weakness.
Pain is a statement.

It’s your nervous system saying:
⚠️ “This pattern is not working.”

Yet people override it.

They push harder.
Train harder.
Ignore it harder.

And temporarily?

Yes…
the body helps you survive.

You release endorphins.
Natural opioids.
You feel better for a short time.

But you didn’t fix the problem.

👉 You overrode the alarm.

Meanwhile underneath the surface:

• Cortisol rises
• Breathing changes
• Recovery drops
• Blood flow alters
• Movement patterns compensate

Your body stops adapting well…

👉 and starts surviving.

Then eventually the nervous system raises its voice.

More fatigue.
More stiffness.
More pain.
Poor sleep.
Poor recovery.

And what do people do?

👉 Push harder again.

That old line:
“No pain, no gain.”

Sounds tough.

But that’s your coach talking…
not a neuroscientist,
not a biophysicist,
not an applied physiologist,
not a kinesiologist.

Because you cannot strengthen what the nervous system has shut down.

You cannot out-train compensation.

And you definitely cannot force a body forward when it’s stuck in survival mode.

My job isn’t to push people harder.

My job is to find:
👉 what’s not working,
👉 what’s driving the compensation,
👉 what’s triggering the pain.

Then restore better movement,
better breathing,
better sequencing,
better recovery.

Because pain is not your enemy.

It’s feedback.

Ignore it…
override it…
suppress it…

👉 and eventually the bill arrives.

Listen to it…

👉 and the body finally gets a chance to change.

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