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Mobile health and movement therapy — Taupō, NZ. We find what your body responds to and reset it. We come to you.

The Rewire & Release Protocol: 5 sessions combining myofascial assessment, neurological corrective exercise, and fascial release.

17/09/2026

I see her twice a week, and have done since I first started working with her at Matariki, when she was recovering from hip surgery.

When we started, there were 12 different points of restriction. A month in, we reassessed: down to 5.

Most recently, we reassessed again: 7.

That's not a step backward. We are only able to work on the most superficial layer with restrictions. Each time we clear a layer, we are able to go deeper. If something new happens, we get to clear that before we're able to pick back up where we'd gotten to. Eventually the hope is that every movement should free up your body — obviously there will be scars, surgeries etc. that give more permanent compensations, but we're working with your body and looking to help it flow more readily with whatever starting point you have.

Start with a movement assessment.
DM me. John

16/09/2026

Blue light blocking glasses are a genuinely massive industry — worth billions globally, and growing fast.

Here's what most people don't know: a major 2023 review of 17 clinical trials found no significant benefit for eye strain compared to regular lenses. The marketing outran the science a long time ago.

I test colour on the nervous system for a living (coloured lenses which cause different cones in the eyes to work and different stimulus through the optic nerve, stimulating different regions of the brain) — different reason entirely, but the same principle applies. The colour that changes something for you isn't the one on the label. It's the one your body actually responds to, and that's different for everyone.

If you've bought blue light glasses because the marketing made sense, you're not wrong to want relief. You just might not actually have what works best for your body.

DM me if you want to know what actually changes things for your body — not what a label says should.

14/09/2026

I was speaking with a client during a Friday class recently. She's now wearing barefoot shoes after a recommendation, and actively trying to let her toes spread while she walks.

All great things.

Except — the advice I'd given her to help spread her toes was to use the neural link. Spreading your fingers helps spread your toes.

So this poor lady has been walking along the lakefront with her "jazz hands" on every step. 🙈

That's when I realised I'd also given someone else the homework to walk along like Conor McGregor, to help her hips and shoulders articulate rather than remaining trapped and protected.

Another client is out looking for a wizard staff.

I've got triathletes cycling around in purple and yellow glasses with tape on their necks.

Everyone's moving better. And I don't think I'm the only one with a smile on my face about it. 😇

13/09/2026

Tag the person who says "I'm just getting old" every time they wince standing up.

Tag the one who stopped playing with their kids on the floor because getting back up became the hard part.

Tag whoever's been "meaning to sort their shoulder out" for the last three years.

None of that is just getting old. It's a body that's compensated for something so long it's forgotten what normal feels like.

Five sessions. Full movement, cranial nerve testing, followed by application of what's found — not a generic fix-all.

Tag them. Or just send them this.

DM me. John

10/09/2026

In the protocol, you'll get homework. - It's added to over the first 3 assessment sessions as we learn more and more things that create freedom for you.

It's not generic. It's built from what we test in the sessions — if smelling peppermint makes positive changes to your movement in session, smelling peppermint with your specific movements gets added to your homework. If looking through violet glasses works in the session, that's what I suggest you get for yourself to create freedom while you drive/ walk/ live your life.

The goal isn't adherence to a routine. The goal is to test as much as we can, to create an awareness for you of what's restricting you and what helps so that you can take home the movements and stimuli and keep working them yourself — in your home/ work environment because you are aware of how much better they make things for you.

Some clients find the homework works so well they barely need to come back for a maintenance check. That's a success. The protocol isn't designed to create dependency on seeing me.

If you've had treatments before where you were sent home with generic stretches you probably wouldn't do — this is different, nothing is slow acting requiring your body composition to change as you build muscle to support - you'll feel the difference in the first session, second session and third. The homework is built from what your body actually responded to.

DM me if you want to know whether this applies to your specific circumstances. John

09/09/2026

Hi! I'm John, and I thought I'd share a little about who I am and what I actually do since it's been about a hundred years since I've said hi.

I'm a neurological corrective exercise specialist — a fancy way of saying I work with the nervous system to help your body recover and move better. I'm also a myofascial movement coach, working with the connective tissue that shapes how your body has learned to compensate over years of day-to-day life — the knots and niggles that build up needing to be undone and strengthened.

I built the Rewire & Release Protocol around the combination of what I know works and testing specifically for you, not guessing — five sessions covering movement assessment, cranial nerve testing (scent, colour, sound, eye tracking), vagus nerve work, and deep fascial and lymphatic release.

I run movement classes and reformer classes, alongside the individual and protocol work.

If you are interested in how this may work for you, DM me and we can book a call or book your first session.

07/09/2026

Why does smelling something, or looking through a coloured lens, change how your body moves?
Each cranial nerve carries a signal from a specific stimulus — a smell, a sound, a colour, a taste — straight to your brain. Different nerve, different pathway, different destination.

Here's the part that matters: those pathways don't stay separate. A lot of them cross paths with the parts of your brain controlling movement and pain. So stimulating the right nerve, in the right way, can genuinely change how a muscle fires or how much pain you feel — not because it's magic, because the wiring is actually connected.

That's the "why" behind testing scent, colour, and sound against your movement. It's not guessing whether something feels nice. It's checking whether that specific pathway helps you and helping you become aware of what things might be restricting you.

It's finding small simple things that you can add to you day/ your training that make a positive difference.

DM me if you want to book your session and get some easy things to unlock your restrictions.

John

06/09/2026

I saw your post on Facebook — what could you actually do for me?”

I get clients asking me for a summary of what I do so they can tell their friends and I get new requests for it as well - I don’t have a “elevator pitch” I do a lot 😇. Here’s the honest answer:

I’m a neurological corrective exercise specialist (fancy way of saying I work with nerve signals to help your body), and a myofascial movement coach (fancy way of saying connective tissue).

You can work with me privately or small groups, we can work one off sessions or through a specific 5 session protocol described below:

I start the protocol with 3 different assessment sessions.

These tell us, which lines of connective tissue will improve your freedom of movement & which cranial nerve stimuli will improve your movement.

All 3 also tell us which type of stimulus and what type of movement will be restricting you (this helps us know when you can do a homework movement to stop things stacking and making things worse - not what things we need to cut out).

The final 2 sessions are reinforcement:
Session 4, we calm the system, reset nerves that aren’t sending enough signal to extremities and reinforce the homework when the body is ready to receive the info.

Session 5, (my favourite to receive for maintenance), we help move the bodies fluids and we release any trapped connective tissues, we make space for the nerves.

The homework fits into what you’re already doing — most of it can be done at home, in the shower, even alongside your other training.

DM me if you want to know what this could actually do for you.

03/09/2026

Even if you haven’t started the protocol yet, this is worth knowing before you do.

A question I get asked a lot: “So once the 5 sessions are done, what then?”

You’ll have homework tailored to what your body actually needed. That’s the main thing carrying you forward — not me - but, expect the tightness to change in the future, so the line that works for you now, may not be your forever and we’ll need to reassess to get you updated homework at that time.

How you want to handle that is entirely up to you. Some people like a 1:1 maintenance session every so often — $130 if you book and pay one at a time, or $120 each if you book and pay for a few together (doesn’t mean they’re all on the same day, I just don’t enjoy reconciliation so I’d prefer to give you a discount and save me a job). Some prefer the online library (a separate subscription) to work through at their own pace. Some come along to classes at Studio Two and use that as a regular check-in with how their body’s changing.

How often, if at all? That varies hugely too. Say session 1 falls on a Monday — some people move straight through, session 2 Tuesday, 3 Wednesday, 4 Thursday, then session 5 the following Thursday. Others prefer session 1 on a Monday, then each session on a Monday over the following weeks. Maintenance, if you want it, might start the Monday after session 5 — or three weeks later, or six. Every body responds differently, so none of this is one-size-fits-all.

I’m not signing anyone up to keep my books full. I want you moving better — and telling everyone it was weird but effective.

Already been through the protocol and think it’s time for a check-in? DM me to book maintenance. Haven’t started yet and want to know what session 1 actually looks like?

DM me for that too.

02/09/2026

During a session focused on rehab/prehab a client mentioned they don’t like using their walking stick now.

I get that, it’s not great needing something you don’t feel you should, but I dug deeper anyway.

Turns out, it was fine while recovering from surgery, this particular client just doesn’t want to continue using it or relying on it because she doesn’t want to look like a “cripple.”

She’s had 4 hip replacements, ankles, feet, shins and knee surgeries.

When she engages her core and slows down, she’s great.

But she has things to do, people to see and she’s in a rush to do all of it 👀

My suggestion isn’t to not use a walking stick when needed, it’s not even to just get over it and use what helps you.

Get the most badass staff you can find and walk round like you own the place.

You’ll slow down, no one will be thinking you’re a cripple and you’ll have some cool conversations.

• that changed her mind 😇
(My first game of football in Aus had me needing a walking stick for a year - I had a very cool cane).

I know some of you think I’m a wizard/ miracle healer. I’m not. I do know some stuff and I trust your body to tell me what it needs

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