PNF Stretching
More intense. Contract, release, go further. Best when you want mobility to build over time.
Are you always stiff?
Back, pelvis, hips, legs, neck or shoulders that keep coming back tight. No time to stretch each week? I come to you.
Available from 5amFOUNDATION VISIT
Single or weekly
The same full-body stretch costs less when it becomes your weekly rhythm.
Weekly assisted stretching in your home, with the same practitioner and progress followed over time.
Move better, without doing the work
Assisted stretching, guided slowly, wherever suits you, at home, in the garden or the park. Sixty or seventy-five minutes, from $170. Pet friendly, your pets can stay around as you need, I can always manage.
The first visit
Begin with a Foundation Session
The first visit reads your body properly. So it runs one hour, with a full-body mobility screen and a first assisted stretch.
Neutral Bay basedTravel includedTable and towels brought60 or 75 minutes
Three things happen inside the hour.
- i
I draw your full-body Mobility Map, a complete reading of how your range moves from hips to neck.
- ii
You receive a full PNF session, the guided contract, breathe and release the practice is built on.
- iii
And you leave with a simple personal plan, short enough to live with.
The Foundation Session, 60 minutesFull-body mobility screen. One Foundation Session per person$99
The $99 is credited toward your first month of Le Rythme if you join within seven days.
Drawn in your Foundation Session
Your first Mobility Map
In your first session I map how your body moves through hips, hamstrings, calves, shoulders, neck and lower back. It is not a medical assessment. It is a simple, practical read of where your range feels open, where it guards and where it is worth returning to.
We repeat it each month, so you can feel what is changing instead of guessing. That is why the weekly practice works so well. You are not chasing a feeling. You are watching your own range come back, month after month.
The practice, plainly
Two ways I stretch you
The method
PNF, contract and release
The guided contract, breathe and release the practice is built on. You press gently against my resistance, hold, then breathe out, and as the muscle lets go I take you further than you could reach alone. You take part in this one, and it is where range is won.
The complement
Classic assisted stretch
You lie down and I do the moving. I take a limb, find its edge, and hold you there while you breathe. When the breath lets the tissue go, we travel a little further, then release. You do nothing but breathe.
Every session weaves the two together, guided by another pair of hands that reads how far to go and when to stop. Request a first session
One movement at a time
How I guide a session
A full-body sequence, worked slowly from the feet upward. Hips, hamstrings, lower back, shoulders, neck. Nothing rushed and nothing skipped. I move you through each position, adjust the angle to how your body answers that day, and hold only as long as the breath asks for.
Read before movedFifteen years of competitive basketball and handball, semi-professional in both, taught the eye where a body is tight and where it will give.
Adjusted to the dayA body is not the same on a Monday as it is after a long week. The sequence bends to meet it.
Full reachLong limbs are reached and supported end to end, so a stretch is guided all the way rather than stalling halfway.
Stated plainly
Durations and pricing
Table, towels and travel within my area are included. You settle after the session. Late evenings and weekends are held at a higher rate, settled when we confirm the time.
The Foundation Session, first visit, 60 minutesFull-body mobility screen, first assisted stretch and a personal plan. Credited toward Le Rythme if you join within seven days$99
Assisted Stretch, 60 minutesA full-body sequence, unhurried$170
Assisted Stretch, 75 minutesLonger holds, deeper into the hips and back$200
Held weekly
Le Rythme
Le Rythme is assisted stretch, held weekly. A single stretch session can give space. A weekly rhythm helps the body keep returning to that space instead of starting from zero. So I hold a standing weekly place for the people who want the practice, not the one-off. Mobility you keep, because we do not restart every time.
The same day and hour, reserved each week
The same hands, learning your body over time
Work that compounds because it does not restart
$140/ week, 60 minutes
$170/ week, 75 minutes
Le Rythme opens with twenty founding places. The founding rate stays yours for as long as you stay, and your Foundation Session is credited toward the first month. When they are taken, they are taken.
Lock your stretching. Same day, same hour, every week.
Who this serves
Bodies that have shortened around their habits
i
Desk-bound shoulders and hips
Days folded over a screen leave the chest tight and the hips closed. Length undoes what sitting has set in.
ii
Runners, swimmers, anyone who trains
You load the same lines again and again. Assisted length is the maintenance the training itself never gives back.
iii
Anyone whose range has quietly narrowed
Reaching, turning, bending down. When the everyday movements feel smaller than they were, this is where they open again.
Answered plainly
Questions about stretching
What should I wear?
Something you can move and breathe in. Soft, loose clothing you would wear to train is ideal. Nothing tight at the waist or the shoulders, and there is no need to undress for this work.
Do I need any equipment?
No. I bring the table, the towels and everything the session needs. You only need a clear area, roughly three metres by two, and I set up the rest around it.
Is it strenuous?
No. You lie still and I do the moving. Your only task is to breathe and let go on the exhale. Most people leave looser and calmer than they arrived, not tired.
The rest of the practice
Or begin somewhere else
Length is one way in. Some bodies want to switch off first, others want the load worked out of them. Three disciplines, one pair of hands.
Begin with massage instead: Signature MassageOne slow, continuous massage for a body that has forgotten how to let go.
Massage carried through dry cupping: Recovery + CuppingFor active bodies that feel heavy or overworked.
Where I travelAcross the Lower North Shore and Northern Beaches to Balgowlah.
Start simply
Request a time
Tell me how your body feels and where it has grown tight, and we start with that.
Message me. Usually replies within the day.