Introductory Workshop I Sat 17 October I North Shore Community Centre, Mudjimba
$55 Adult or $35 Concession
Your body is constantly adapting to the way you live.
Stress, prolonged sitting, training hard, repetitive movement, old injuries, shallow breathing and everyday habits all influence how your body feels and moves.
Over time, you may notice more:
pain, aches and tension
stiffness and restriction, or
you find that everyday movements require more effort than they used to.
This workshop is a hands-on introduction to working with your fascia: the connective tissue that wraps every muscle, joint and organ in your body, and shapes how you move, breathe and hold yourself.
In 90 minutes, you’ll get a first taste of Block Therapy, Human Garage Fascial Maneuvers, and breath-led movement, and leave with practical techniques you can start using straight away.
It’s not about forcing, stretching or fixing everything in one session. It’s about understanding why your body has become the way it is, and experiencing what it feels like to work with it instead of against it, so you can start listening to what your body is actually asking for, and tend to those needs.
It’s a perfect match if you:
🔹 Regularly feel stiff, tight or restricted
🔹 Have noticed that your body isn’t moving quite as freely as it used to
🔹 Want a way to support recovery alongside your training and exercise
🔹 Carry tension through your neck, shoulders, back, hips or legs
🔹 Spend a lot of time either sitting, training hard, or doing repetitive movement
🔹 Are curious about fascia and want to understand your body better
🔹 Want a more effective recovery approach to balance your exercise
🔹 Prefer a more natural and intuitive approach, rather than pushing, stretching or forcing
🔹 Want to support your mobility and wellbeing as you get older
Every session brings a different mix of people, each here for their own reason. The mum snatching 90 minutes for herself between school drop-off and the next load of washing. The desk-bound professional whose shoulders have lived somewhere near her ears since Monday. The weekend athlete looking for a smarter way to recover between sessions. The woman who’s quietly noticed her body doesn’t move the way it used to, and wants to do something about it before it becomes a bigger problem.
Different starting points, same room, same simple techniques, and the same sense of relief by the end.
Here’s what one attendee, a young mum juggling it all, had to say after her first workshop
All fitness levels are welcome. You don’t need to be flexible, fit or experienced, just come as you are and work within your own comfort level. You’ll leave with a real understanding of how to work with your body.
This is the first of more workshops to come, with weekly Fascia Reset classes to keep building your practice through regular, guided sessions.
Just show up, breathe, and let your body guide the way.
What you need:
🔹 Blocks provided. Just bring an exercise or yoga mat, towel and water bottle.
Each workshop is limited to 14 students.
90 Minutes Session
What’s Included:
Block Therapy: Using specially designed blocks, your body weight and conscious breathing to create deep, sustained fascial decompression. You’ll learn a simple technique you can use on your own, addressing areas of tension and compression.
Human Garage Fascial Manoeuvres: Dynamic techniques combining movement, pressure, positioning and breath to work with areas of restriction, and how different parts of the body move together.
Pain-free Living Foundations: Practical ways to build breath, movement and posture habits into everyday life, so what you learn in the room keeps working for you at home.
Chat and Connect: Meet other participants with a warm cuppa and snack following the workshop.
Julia McDonald is a fascia and movement educator helping women feel more at home in their bodies through midlife and beyond.
Drawing on her own recovery from nearly 20 years of chronic pain and fatigue, and her training as a Certified Block Therapy Instructor, and student of Human Garage Fascial Manoeuvre Coaching Program, Julia takes a whole-body approach to fascia, movement, breath and everyday habits.
In her classes you’ll release built-up tension you can genuinely feel, and discover why pain in one place so often starts somewhere else. Then Julia shows you how to weave small changes into your day, little and often, so the benefits carry through long after class ends.
She works with students on the Sunshine Coast + worldwide Online.
