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Gavin Fernandes trained as a physiotherapist in England and studied manipulative physiotherapy in Adelaide, South Australia. In England he worked and trained with Olympic athletes in boxing, athletics and rowing. Since coming to Australia, Gavin has studied and practised tai chi and yoga, which has allowed him to under understand more about postural alignment principles. In the past eight years he has combined these ancient arts with his massage and physiotherapy treatments, and has developed a system that effectively helps to prevent common injuries and treat chronic injuries.
Gavin currently has a physiotherapy practice based in Ashfield and coaches many sporting disciplines. In the past 8 years he has presented a number of work workshops in which he demonstrates and teaches the effectiveness of the postural alignment principles in both the prevention and rehabilitation of sports and non-sporting injuries.
Gavin would like to demonstrate and teach these principles and show how they can apply to massage practice, muscle strengthening and stretching exercises.
LOOKING AFTER OUR OWN BODIES:
"It was after my eighth heavy massage one day, and the thought of having to do another full day's heavy massage the next day, that I decided to look at ways of `saving' my own body. I stretched, I weight-trained, I exercised, but I was still constantly sore and tight after a day's work.
It was not until 5 years later that I saw an eighty year old tai-chi master move like a twenty year old, and a sixty year old yogi move like a six year old that I recognised there was a way of effectively looking after my own body. I started to learn tai-chi and then yoga, and the principles they taught me not only relaxed my body, they improved my massage.
My aim in this workshop is to teach people how to effectively look after their own bodies
Section One - is the challenging section. It teaches us to become aware of our bodies and movement patterns, mainly of our of bad habits. The greater the insight into our postural habits, the greater the insight into the cause of our body tightness and pain.
Section Two - is the myth busting section. It allows us to compare our normal postural habits with new habits. These can be tested in daily functional movements, sporting movements and massage posture.
Section Three - is the decision and practise section. It encourages us to understand that when we make beneficial changes to our movement patterns, we need to incorporate these changes into our daily lives.
Participants requirements: Small groups will be chosen with one volunteer in each group being assessed and treated. If you have pain and tightness, the volunteer is to be assessed and treated. If you want to learn by observation, be one of the assessors and treating therapists.
However when we learn a specific yoga or tai chi exercise, everyone will practise it to understand it. Thereby you can go away, practise it and teach it to your respective clients."