Dissolve painful restrictions. Become a fluid, electric mover.
Our work helps you rebuild movement freedom: moving with poise, confidence and strength — without forcing through or dissociating.
8 THINGS ABOUT YOU
You’re an ex-athlete caged by pain, stiffness, old injuries — feeling like a bag of gravel. Memories of orgasmic frictionless athletic expression, but mostly in adolescence!
You’ve been pushing against resistance from stiff hips, locked lower back, painful knees or clicking shoulders. And movements that used to be tolerable are now feeling detrimental.
You’re feeling stuck in a loop of training hard, getting in good shape, flaring old injuries, having to stop indefinitely as the hard-earned gains dwindle… only to restart again because what other option is there?
You get bored with rehab and being treated like a patient… given bland, clinical programs with watered down exercises that do fuck-all to replicate real world movement. Spent enough time in the void between rehab and training.
You’re financially able and willing to invest but seeing little return on current gadgets, appointments, classes or coaching — and you’re baffled by the vast array of advice out there… yet starving for a method which reliably rebuilds movement while reducing painful restrictions.
Your identity isn’t matching your body’s capability. Like a Ferrari built for the mountain roads but forced to drive to the shops in limp mode, waiting indefinitely for a specialist repair. You’re a beast… yet hesitating as you anticipate pain during daily movements.
Being capability + skill driven means you quickly become disinterested in generic programs because they don’t tie in with rewarding skills, tasks or clear lifestyle outcomes. You need to be able to sense hints of what’s to come: speed, movement freedom or body awareness.
You’re autonomous and diligent when you’re given a sophisticated, comprehensive system that treats you like a capable mover. You want to learn the method by embodying it, so you can move with confidence knowing that you can heal and strengthen anything that comes up in future.
WHY YOU’LL APPRECIATE THIS APPROACH
Attuned represents the middle path between listening and surging; restoration and momentum.
We bring emotional intelligence (and a certain maturity earned through suffering), to proven, world-class training systems refined for more than a decade. We’ve privately advised clinical practitioners looking to up-skill, as well as pro & olympic athletes who knew their career deserved the best possible movement systems.
Attuned training integrates timeless healing systems (authentic lineages of meditation, yoga, tai chi, qigong) — with a highly measurable modern strength & conditioning perspective. The coaching comes from direct athletic experience in weightlifting, gymnastics strength, mobility development or generalist movement practice to name a few.
At this stage in your life, winning means feeling good and moving better.
We don’t chew you up and spit you out. We aren’t interested in producing dependent, dogmatic, robotic disciples, to get testimonials for our “special” method.
Instead, we teach you to deeply sense your own body, attune to its feedback and intelligently, gradually expand your own physical limits. We don’t gate-keep the system. You are the system. We help you access what your body is capable of, with the right touches and knowledge.
ABOUT THE DUDE WRITING THIS — YOUR COACH, JACK
MOVER (31 years old) — practices have included skiing, swimming, soccer, cycling/BMX, rugby union, Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics strength training, Ido Portal method, surfing, Brazilian jiu jutsu, climbing, tai chi / qigong.
COACH (11 years full time) — private personal training, strength & conditioning for athletes, CrossFit coaching, meditation & yoga teaching, injury + chronic pain rehabilitation, somatic therapist, body relationship coaching.
STUDENT (16 years self-guided) — invested profoundly in private tuition from the best coaches + mentors I could find, ranging from ex-military, elite athletes, circus, yoga, movement, rehabilitation, martial arts + qigong teachers.
DIRECT EXPERIENCE W/ PAIN, INJURY + REHAB*
— 5 years complex chronic lower back pain with disc herniations and stenosis (high stress lifestyle, repressed rage and an insane training routine)
— Hip impingement and torn hip labrums with osteoarthritis on both sides including L side arthroscopic surgery (as above, but probably from soccer and dive-bombing into the hole on heavy squats)
— Double surgical hernia repair: unmbilical + inguinal (definitely some emotional shit, over-bracing and excessive training of high tension abdominal movements without the requisite breath control)
— Left shoulder grade 2 AC joint separation (a tackle from a big islander while playing high school rugby 7’s in the Gold Coast)
— Left hand corrective surgery for displaced knuckle fracture (punching my mate in the elbow in drama class, unfortunately)
— Left heel surgery and steel pins for fracture, resulting in nerve damage (was awake for this surgery listening to the drilling)
— Left foot ligament injury (backflipping barefoot on hard wood floor)
— Impingement and probable SLAP tears on both shoulders (heavy snatches and jerks)
— A bunch of other neck and shoulder niggles (not from jiu jitsu, funnily enough)*Most of these injuries were accumulated when young and dumb… so the surgical interventions were prior to my mid twenties, when I realised that the medical system and even scans are largely unnecessary and can be detrimental. Now, I move better, feel better and no longer have confusing or chronic pain. Since becoming skilled in rehab and training, I make confident, attuned training decisions knowing that if I accidentally push it too far, I can quickly bounce back. I can sense my body’s layers and functions with a clarity that would have seemed impossible before. I see pain as a useful signal to help me optimise my practice, and I’m driven by a playful, bold curiosity rather than a fear of not being enough. This can be you, too.
DISSOLVE YOUR SHIT + MOVE LIKE BRUCE LEE
The path is clear now. It’s all laid out for you here. Let’s fucking cook!