Merryn Penington - Structural.Energetics

18/07/2025

Return to the origin
Is to return to your original essence
The essence of Qi
That is within you and surrounds

The light is vast and expansive
It illuminates your innate intelligence
The wisdom of ethereal and cosmic Qi

The dark cradles the vessel
Containing the light from full expression
Modulating the frequencies of polarity

Together they alchemise as one
In their truest forms of authenticity
Embracing the unchartered paradigms of existence

Here we land back at home
Blood pulsing and heart beating
Spot fires beneath the washing waters

For this is liberated living
Milking of the yin and yang
Forever is the dance of duality ✨

04/07/2025

03/07/2025

Your posture provokes your state ☀
Your state instructs your posture 🌑

Our thoughts and feelings are intimately interconnected with the way we physically move through life and present ourselves in situations.

Your internal environment is everything!
It is always investigating the surrounding areas.
Ultimately the assessment is whether it's a valuable space to open or a necessary moment to draw inward.
So many ways to look at this realm of enticing the nervous system, it's intelligence, old patterns and reawakened wisdom.

It's real time learning, listening to what the environment feels like right now.

29/06/2025

Our bodies are vessels of experiencing.
And it's the fascial networks that retain thoughts, emotions and memories.

It's the actual fabric that bonds our individual reality.

So unique in form, that science can only suggest possible patterns arising from experience. It's our individual perception, developed from our environment and relationships that sculpt this fabric that holds our big life stories. Buoyancy, laxity and tension patterns within the fascia can contort the positioning of the bones, affecting muscle tension and strength, posture, movement, energy levels and even organ function.

In 25yrs of working with clients from various walks of life, from world ranked athletes, to the chronically ill and those working with deep embedded patterns of trauma, there is not a formula that treats everyone.

So having resources and skills to notice, see, feel and respond, within your treatments is everything. Having formulas offer a strong foundation for your bodywork therapy sessions. We do however need more than this, it requires sensory intelligence, being able to see and talk through your touch.

This is what Structural Energetics offers you. Here is incredible collaboration of 2 modalities, joining in one common union, to offer freedom and liberation to the whole being.

Deep Dive in the Water Body | Bali Gathering 💙✨
September 11th - 21st 2025

Open to Zenthai Therapists & current program students.

Details and applications - https://www.merrynjane.com/bali-retreat

23/06/2025

The 2025 Bali gathering is approaching. We're taking a Deep Dive into the WATER Body 💙✨ September 11th – 21st


Join us, to delve into the realms of FASCIA and the intricacies of how fascia is a significant orchestrator for life.

The way we move through life, where stories are held within the tissues and the underpinning expressions of the 5 elements and the central nervous system.

The advanced intelligence of the fascial network system gives rise to the importance of effective therapeutic touch and the wisdom to know when to lead and when to follow the fascia.

Wrapped up in the essence of comm-UNITY, Balinese Culture and living our best lives, we will embark on a journey of curiosity, liberation and embodiment.

Nestled in the coconut forest, lapping on the ocean tides, swimming with turtles, singing our hearts and listening to the language of nature.

If this speaks to your Fascia Water Body, listen to the Deeper Rhythm 💙

Applications are open to Zenthai Therapists & current students of the Therapist Program.

For all the course info and online application, click here - https://www.merrynjane.com/bali-retreat

17/06/2025

MAGNETIC ISLAND MAGIC
Embodying movement as a healing practice ✨

I'm offering up a platter of classes and workshops to the Magnetic Island community. This will be an experience into the tapestry of the human form, and the interwoven relationships with the mind and emotions. Through the lens of Structural Energetics, we will explore how fascia affects muscular tension, posture, pain and movement. Venturing through a range of yogic practices, somatic inquiry and innovative stretch therapy, we will illuminate the bodies freedom and liberation.

Classes and workshops will be engaging, intriguing and cultivate a deeper listening of your own body and others. Classes are fully guided practices, with intricate flavours to access a deeper sense of self and empowering solo and partnered practices. Workshops are educational and experiential, where we delve into the parts of the whole, cultivating wholeness and harmony.

We warmly welcome ALL of you, comm-UNITY! All classes and workshops are accessible and relevant to EVERYONE! The offerings range from utilising props, breath, each other and therapeutic touch to amplify what’s most aligned to the strength and suppleness of your body and mind.

It will be an absolute joy to share these practices with you!
Come along, bring your friends, family & community 🙏

For more info & booking - https://www.merrynjane.com/magnetic-island-retreat

11/05/2025

✨ Celebrating the alchemy of 20+ awesome souls coming together ✨

To witness the support and loving connections, when strangers meet for the very first time — we are constantly shown the power of connection and what is possible in the container of non-judgement.

🌿 Celebrating YOU as I acknowledge this community — all those who have walked the path of self-realisation and the lineage of teachers and students who have been inspired and inspire others through the practice of Zenthai.

This is a life worth investing in.
This is where the heart is the centre of the univers. 💛

To the many souls who have journeyed from far and wide to Zenthai Northern Rivers — and committed to a life of devotional service through intentional touch and holistic therapy — deep bow to thee 🙏🏽

An honour walking this path with my dear friend and colleague 💫

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If this journey has touched your life, I’d love to hear — share a memory or tag someone you’ve shared this path with. 🌿

09/05/2025

Pregnancy Zenthai is an incredible privilege to offer therapeutic touch, presence and nurturing support to two souls in one treatment.

Treating mother and baby has the opportunity for deeper connection in the bonding relationship and creating an immense amount of space for mums and bubs. Imagine taking the weight, compression and undue pressure from the mum's body and mind.
Alleviating such stressors allows for the ceremony of pregnancy and ritual of birthing to be enjoyed and celebrated. Imagine your capacity as a Therapist to support two souls and a whole family.

Our focus is creating space and stability - space for organs, baby and breath - stability for the joints and postural structures.

Our intention is honouring - the sacred union and the ancestral lineage of birthing.

Our practice is wholistic - ancient wisdom, 5 element integration, zenthai & remedial approaches.

An opportunity to rise up to meet clients on another level!
Will you join us? A few spots still remaining.

Pregnancy Zenthai
May 28th - June 1st
Myocum - Northern Rivers
$750 investment
camping available onsite

Book via. merrynjane.com in my bio 💜

07/05/2025

An aligned intention contains a different approach when offering Pregnancy Zenthai.

Releasing tension areas, trigger points and encouraging joint mobility has a conservative stance, compared to traditional zenthai shiatsu. Additionally, the circulation and distribution of blood (oxygen/hormones/nutrients), lymph (toxins/fluid), and chi (energy/life force) change through varying stages of pregnancy and having this knowledge significantly influences our approach to the bodywork, safe positioning and the use of potent acupressure points.

Gathering a rich and insightful body of knowledge will align your focus and intentions specifically to the pregnant woman that you offer Zenthai to. Safety and care is key, and this is where correct client positioning can support the body to open, joints to be supported and pressure alleviated from crucial structures during pregnancy.

Pregnancy Zenthai incorporates acupressure points; ones specific to muscular tension, blood deficiency, nausea, insomnia, reflux, lower back pain and headaches and learning contraindications (must avoids).

Combining remedial massage techniques into your Zenthai treatments can amplify the effectiveness and longevity of each treatment. Pregnancy Zenthai infuses remedial techniques to release tension, stabilise joints, activate weak areas, engage the diaphragm and create space for the body, baby, breath and organs.

This integrative therapy is wholistic and honours the journey of gestation, maternal wisdom, empowerment and deep care.

If you are ready to up level your Zenthai skills, ignite your practice and complement your therapy, our next training is a couple weeks away!

PREGNANCY ZENTHAI
May 28th – June 1st
Myocum | Northern Rivers
$750

Head to merrynjane.com for booking - link in bio 🤰💜✨

07/04/2025

Deep Dive into the Water Body
Zenthai Bali Gathering
Sept 11th – 21st
Led by Merryn Penington

Immerse yourself into the realm of Fascia and Structural Energetics. Embrace the lens of structural anatomy, meridian therapy and how the mind-emotions inform posture, movement and injury.
Learn new ways to assess the body, treat the tissue and empower your clients with self healing practices. We will address three primary protection patterns of the primal, instinctual and ancestral bodies; discovering new five element presentations and their underpinning core imbalances.

Deepen into yourself, the practice, our family and traditional Balinese culture. Ten days fully soaked in bliss, serenity and deep listening. This is where we can fully show up, apart from distractions, plugging into the resonance of connection, nature and the subtle yet powerful realms of chi.

Merryn has been practicing bodywork for 25yrs and has studied with world leaders of fascia engagement through movement and touch. Merryn’s passion is to share the integration of Structural Energetics and Zenthai Therapy.

Deep Dive into remedial assessments, body reading and a diverse range of muscle, meridian and visceral (organ) fascia techniques to empower the body to heal, evolve and remember its’ wisdom. Deep Dive into energy, touch, tissue buoyancy and emotional intelligence. Deep Dive into culture, family, and unity.

This is an advanced training for Zenthai Therapists and a chance to recognise and absorb your true nature, with family on the island of the gods – bring your pure joy!

For more information and application form, head to our website – www.zenthaishiatus.com or contact Merryn directly for enquiries – merrynzenthai@gmail.com

05/03/2025

Exciting news for bodywork therapists!
The Pregnancy Zenthai Training will be in two locations this year ✨

Melbourne & NSW (DATES & LOCATIONS TO BE ANNOUNCED)

An infusion of pregnancy & remedial massage, Zenthai Shiatsu & ancient healing practices for pregnancy, birth, labour & post-partum. To offer a modality that is safe, effective, deeply healing & sacred it such a gift.

Our intention is for therapists to gain confidence & competence. With a renewed inspiration for working with mothers & babies.

The training is interactive & practical, insightful & intuitive, empowering & a whole lot of fun!!

Apply at merrynjane.com 💜

01/02/2025

Our beliefs sculpt our reality and sometimes a replay button is stuck in repeat ↩️

When the beliefs are deeply etched into our subconscious, they can become mindless action, like an untrained animal or reckless child, acting without thinking.

The beliefs aren't always the big ones we think of in society, like health, family, respect, higher order... They can be ideas that have impacted us in both inflated and deflated ways, ones that inspire us and equally hold us back.

When we bring these personal beliefs into our conscious thought, we have the capacity to assess if they remain to serve a purpose or if it's time to dissolve the belief. Yes, beliefs can be fluid throughout of lives and the seasons we are living in.

I have had a deflating belief pattern around my battle with technology.
That it was in fact a battle, where we opposed each other and when challenged, I would repel the device and feel a psychological response of stress and defeat.

So now I'm rekindling a new relationship with me and technology. As allies, friends on the same team! This is the truth; this is the belief I am here to identify with.

I am making a conscious assessment and taking action on a new belief, rather than letting an old belief rule my reality. Deflating what used to deflate 😏

Bringing the unseen into the seen, to be revealed and if necessary, released.