Spinal Energetics HQ

Spinal Energetics HQ Location: Richmond, Melbourne, Australia
1:1 & Group Sessions: In person
ONLINE Sessions: Worldwide
Founder: Dr Sarah Jane Perri
Home of Spinal Energetics

15/09/2026

When a practitioner works with the energy of the heart space, they are not simply addressing the physical structures of the chest and mid spine. They are in relationship with everything the heart has ever carried. The love that was given freely and never returned. The grief that had nowhere to go. The walls that were built so carefully around it that the person inside forgot they were there.

As the thoracic spine begins to soften and the energy of the heart centre starts to move, clients often notice something unexpected. A breath that reaches somewhere it has not reached in years, a warmth that spreads through the chest without explanation and an emotion that surfaces quietly and without warning, because the heart finally has the space to express what it has been holding.

This is why one session is only the beginning.

The heart space works in layers. What becomes available in a second session is something that simply could not have been accessed in the first, and what opens in a fifth session could not have been reached in the second. Each session builds upon the one before it, creating a progressive deepening of trust between the practitioner, the client and the body’s own innate intelligence. With each layer that opens, clients describe feeling lighter, more open, more connected to themselves and more capable of giving and receiving love in ways that previously felt out of reach.

The heart has been waiting for this kind of attention for a very long time. & the more sessions you give it, the more it has to offer.

Practitioner featured is Kristina Misha • Spinal Energetics & Somatic Alignment

11/09/2026

Every Spinal Energetics session begins with an assessment.

This is not a clinical checklist or a series of standard questions. It is a structured and attuned process of reading the body as it presents in that moment. The practitioner moves through the body’s field with presence and precision, assessing where the system is holding, where it is available and where it is ready to be met. This assessment is the foundation of every session at HQ and it is what ensures that the work which follows is always in direct response to what this body needs on this particular day.

Finding access is not something that is forced or predetermined. It is discovered through that assessment. The practitioner senses where the system has created an opening and follows that information with care and skill. Sometimes access comes through the cervical spine, sometimes through the thoracic and sometimes through an area the practitioner did not expect at all.

In this session, the opening came through the sacrum.

The sacrum sits at the base of the spine. It is the foundation of the entire spinal column and one of the most significant access points in the body. When the practitioner finds availability here, what follows can be immediate and unmistakable, because the sacrum is not just a physical structure. It is a gateway. When it begins to respond, the whole system feels it.

Watch what happens. The moment access is established through the sacrum, the body begins to respond in its own way and in its own time. The pelvis begins to shift, the sacrum starts to shake and the tissue and fascia surrounding it begin to unravel the patterns of tension and protection that have been held there, sometimes for years. The session has begun not because the practitioner started it, but because the body signalled that it was ready.

This is the intelligence of Spinal Energetics. The practitioner does not decide where the work begins. The body does. Every time.

09/09/2026

There are practitioners who understand the body academically. There are practitioners who understand it energetically.

Tim is one of the rare few who moves between both worlds with equal fluency, bringing the full depth of both into every single session. Holding a Bachelor of Exercise Science from ACU Melbourne, Tim brings a level of anatomical and physiological understanding to his Spinal Energetics practice that is genuinely rare.
He understands not just what the body is doing, but precisely why it is doing it. How the structures of the spine relate to the nervous system, how chronic pain patterns develop in the tissue and what the body needs at a physiological level to begin to shift them.

Alongside that knowledge sits an intuitive awareness of the energetic body that takes years of dedicated practice to develop. The ability to read what the nervous system is communicating beneath the surface, to sense where the body is holding and where it is ready to open and to respond with the kind of presence that makes a client feel genuinely safe from the moment they arrive.

Tim works with clients navigating chronic pain, trauma, anxiety, athletic performance and disconnection from the body. His compassionate approach creates a space where the nervous system can begin to regulate, where patterns that have been running in the background for years can start to reorganise and where clients leave feeling more connected to themselves than they have in a very long time.

The extraordinary thing about Tim is that this depth of work is available to you wherever you are in the world.
Tim offers in person sessions at Spinal Energetics HQ, 8 Albert St Richmond. He holds regular group sessions where clients experience the added benefit of a shared nervous system environment. He also works with clients online worldwide, bringing the same quality, the same presence and the same depth of skill directly to you, no matter where you are.

If you have been looking for a practitioner who meets you at every level, physically, energetically and with genuine compassion, Tim is exactly that.

Tim is available online & in person!

06/09/2026

In Spinal Energetics, working with the cervical spine requires the lightest of touch and the deepest of presence. The techniques applied here are precise, intentional and specifically attuned to the sensitivity of this area. Rather than pushing or manipulating, the practitioner uses refined touch and sound to engage the body’s own innate intelligence, meeting the cervical spine exactly where it is and working with what it is ready to offer in that moment.

Each technique is applied in direct response to what the body is communicating. Before a hand is placed at the cervical spine, the practitioner is already reading the energetic field around it. Noticing where there is contraction and where there is openness. Where the system is defended and where it has created even the smallest window of availability. The technique follows that information rather than preceding it.

When touch is applied, the practitioner works through a combination of light contact, sound and an attuned awareness of the subtle movement in the tissue, following the body’s cues in real time and adjusting the approach as the system responds. Sometimes a single technique opens a layer of tension that has been held for years. Sometimes it initiates a cascade of reorganisation that moves from the base of the skull all the way down the length of the spine. Sometimes the most refined technique produces the most subtle response and yet something profound shifts beneath the surface.

The techniques used at the cervical spine are never forced and never rushed. They are applied with the understanding that this area will only offer what it is ready to offer and that the practitioner’s role is to create the conditions for that offering rather than to determine what it should be.

This is Spinal Energetics working at its most refined. Precise technique meeting deep presence, in one of the most sensitive and significant areas of the human body.

Practitioner featured is Mish Bourke - SPINAL ENERGETICS practitioner & mentor

03/09/2026

Clients who move a lot during a session are often those who have experienced a significant amount of this work. Not because the work is creating more movement over time, but because the nervous system has developed a level of trust, in the practitioner, in the space and in itself, that allows the body to express more freely than it could in earlier sessions.

In the beginning the nervous system is cautious. It is assessing. Deciding whether this environment is safe enough to let its guard down & as that safety is established session by session, the body becomes more comfortable expressing what it has been holding in whatever way feels most natural to it.
For some that looks like larger movement. For others it remains subtle and internal. Both are equally valid expressions of a nervous system doing its work.

What you are watching in this footage is not someone having a better session than a client who barely moves. You are watching someone whose nervous system has learned, through accumulated experience of this work, that it is safe to fully express what it is carrying. That permission alone is profound.

Practitioner featured is Jesse Akkerman - Spinal Energetics - Somana Method and the client featured is a regular client of our group sessions and a trained level 1 Spinal Energetics practitioner

01/09/2026

If you’ve experienced Level 1, you already know the power of dropping into your body and allowing your nervous system to lead the way.

Level 2 takes that journey deeper.

At this level, the work begins to access not only the spine but also the organs, recognising that our body stores experience, emotion and memory far beyond what the mind can consciously recall. The spine acts as a central channel of intelligence, while the organs hold their own wisdom, often carrying the weight of unprocessed stress, grief, fear, and tension accumulated over a lifetime.

Through precise contact along the spinal structures and energetic connection to the organ systems, the body is invited to soften, unwind, and reorganise from within. This is not something that is done to the client, it is something the body does itself with the practitioner serving as a skilled guide.

What clients frequently describe:

✦ A deeper sense of safety within their own body
✦ Emotional releases that feel natural and freeing
✦ Sensations of warmth, movement or release through the torso and organs
✦ Greater clarity, groundedness, and self-awareness
✦ A strengthened connection between mind, body, and spirit

Level 2 is not about doing more it is about allowing more. The body knows exactly what it needs and at this level, that wisdom becomes increasingly accessible.

31/08/2026

Precision is everything in Spinal Energetics. Kristina reads the spine like a map, noting each point of tension, each held breath, each place where energy has been frozen in place. Her touch is exact, never rushed, following the body’s own intelligence rather than imposing upon it.

Spinal Energetics works directly with the pathways that govern your fight-or-flight response, helping the body shift out of chronic bracing and back into a state where it can genuinely rest, digest and heal. When the nervous system has been stuck “on” for years, whether from stress, trauma or simply the weight of holding everything together, this kind of precise, attuned work allows it permission to finally power down.

Saturdays are open for booking and it is the perfect way to begin your weekend. Rather than collapsing into recovery mode after a long week, you arrive already carrying tension and leave regulated, clear and genuinely restored.
No rushing to work on Monday morning still holding stress in your shoulders, just space to properly reset.

Spots fill quickly online and in person, so if you have been meaning to book, this Saturday might well be the one!

29/08/2026

Jesse worked with Jayden’s spine directly, following the body’s own communication, reading where the tension lived and responding to what the nervous system was ready to release. No cracking. No forcing. No manipulation. Just precise intentional work that let the body do what it already knew how to do.

After his session Jayden shared that his back pain had shifted in a way that other treatments had not been able to achieve.

This is what we want more men to know.

You do not need to keep managing pain that the body is ready to release. You do not need a dramatic reason to come in. Physical tension, tightness and the kind of back pain that just will not quit are exactly what this work is designed for.

Jesse works at Spinal Energetics HQ and is one of the most grounded practitioners we have. If you have been on the fence about trying this, let Jayden’s session be the reason you finally book.

28/08/2026

Your body has been trying to tell you something for years.

Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just a quiet and persistent knowing that something is not quite right. A feeling that sits just below the surface of everyday life that no amount of productivity, positive thinking or self improvement has ever fully resolved. The body does not forget. & when it has something to say it will keep saying it until it is finally heard.

Tension that no amount of massage has ever fully reached.

You have been on the tables. You have had the treatments. You leave feeling better for a day or two and then the same tightness returns to the same places it always does. That is because the tension is not purely muscular. It lives in the fascia, in the nervous system and in the patterns the body built around experiences it did not know how to process at the time. Spinal Energetics works at that level.

You feel stuck and cannot explain why.

Not stuck in an obvious way. You are functioning. You are showing up. But there is a part of you that has not moved in a very long time. A version of yourself that you can sense is possible but cannot quite reach. That stuckness is often the nervous system holding a pattern it built for protection that is no longer serving you.

Anxiety that lives in the body rather than the mind.

The kind of anxiety that is not about a specific worry or thought. The kind that lives in the chest, in the stomach, in the breath that never quite settles. The kind that meditation helps with but never fully resolves. This is the nervous system speaking and Spinal Energetics is one of the most direct ways to have that conversation.

You have tried everything else.

Therapy. Chiro. Massage. Yoga. Meditation. Medication. All of it has helped in its own way and none of it has quite finished the job. That is not a failure of those approaches. It is a sign that what you are carrying lives somewhere those approaches cannot fully reach. & that somewhere is exactly where Spinal Energetics begins.

If any of these five resonate, your body already knows what it needs.

New clients are always welcome.

27/08/2026

The release that occurs within a spinal energetics session is rarely singular in nature.
Stress and tension are stored in the body in different ways, and the release that follows can be physical, mental, emotional, or, quite often, a combination of all three occurring simultaneously.

Physically, this might present as a softening of tight muscles, a deeper breath, a spontaneous shift in posture, or even small involuntary movements as the nervous system lets go of long held holding patterns.

Mentally, it might feel like sudden clarity, a quieting of racing thoughts, or a sense of mental spaciousness that was not there before the session began.

Emotionally, it can surface as tears, laughter, a wave of relief, or simply a felt sense of lightness, as stored emotion that the body has been carrying is finally given permission to move.

The body does not separate these experiences into neat categories, it is entirely common for someone to feel physical release and emotional release together or to notice a shift in one area first and the others following in the days after a session. Every person’s experience is unique, and there is no correct or expected way for release to occur.

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8 Albert Street
Richmond, VIC
3143

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Monday 10am - 8:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 7:30am - 7pm
Saturday 8:30am - 6pm
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