Stretch Therapy

Home
Australia
Kiama, NSW
Stretch Therapy

We teach the most advanced stretching and neural repatterning system presently available, and are always learning and improving what we do.

We began in 1985, at the ANU, in Canberra. Our mission is to help people to experience grace and ease in the body. Of course, this sounds like a big call, but this is what people tell us all around the world where we run workshops.

09/01/2026

😻 Site-wide sale – 33% off all digital products 😻

Sale runs until the end of January.

Head to https://stretchtherapy.net/.

To access the discount, click on the Buy Now button of any product; this will load a checkout page. At the top of the page you’ll find the Coupon code box.

Type in JANUARY2026 (no spaces) and click the green 'Apply' button; the discount will be applied in the process.

Use the coupon as many times as you like!

Four video programs:
* Starter Course
* Mastery Course
* Overcome Back Pain Course
* Overcome Neck Pain Course

Kit's three books (PDF versions):
* Overcome Neck & Back Pain (4th ed.)
* Stretching & Flexibility (2nd ed.)
* Stretching & Pregnancy (2nd ed.)

😻 We would be very grateful if you can please share this sale announcement with anyone you think would benefit 😻

08/01/2026

AI has no hands

Have a look at this graphic*** that represents the cognitive domains and capacity sets that most AI research is focussed on.

You’ll notice straight away that the sense of touch is not there. Touch is the still-uncharted territory, or the experiential space between, intelligence and capacity to act on the world.

The sense of touch is the core of what we call “feeling” and which AIs of all kinds have literally no knowledge, or concept of. Feelings and sensations in the body are ephemeral (they exist only in the continuously unfolding now, in other words), and feelings constitute the main way humans know themselves, and via empathy, have understanding of what others might be feeling.

And in ST we have long argued that all of the core, most important aspects of daily life, and the source of most of its pleasure, derive from touch, and its sister sense, taste, also missing from the graphic.

In our current era, AI has assumed centre stage in news, and in the financial markets. Some are arguing it’s the latest bubble. We intend to explore this more deeply, but for now please remember that as a human being, our priorities need to be the capacity to work with one’s own body, to be able to work out what it needs to be healthy, well-functioning, and to feel good to live in. It’s all about feeling!

*** Courtesy Ethan Mollick’s newsletter, One Useful Thing

08/01/2026

Best wishes for 2026 ❤️

It seems clear to us that the world is less stable than it was a year ago. What can we do? Worrying and becoming more anxious does not help anyone.

We can only influence and affect the people we know personally ourselves. To be useful to them in times like these, we need to make sure that we have looked after ourselves first (a bit like the airline safety announcement about putting on your own oxygen mask before helping someone else). In practice, this means getting the minimum amount of activity you need each day, eating properly, stretching what’s tight, strengthening what’s weak, and doing a relaxation practice regularly. Let go of tension, and let yourself relax whenever you think of it. Smile internally.

One more way this might be implemented practically is take care of the business you know you need to take care of, and do not put this off. This helps secure your house. Part of being resilient in the face of difficulties is knowing you have done all you can in preparation—and this is where our system can help.

With this in mind, we wish you the absolute best for the coming year.

With love,
Kit and Olivia

11/06/2025

😻 Site-wide sale – 50% off all digital products 😻

Sale runs until midnight Sunday 22 June.

Head to https://stretchtherapy.net/.

To access the discount, click on the Buy Now button of any product; this will load a checkout page. At the top of the page you’ll find the Coupon code box.

Type in JUNE2025 (no spaces) and click the green 'Apply' button; the discount will be applied in the process.

Use the coupon as many times as you like!

Four video programs:
* Starter Course
* Mastery Course
* Overcome Back Pain Course
* Overcome Neck Pain Course

Kit's three books (PDF versions):
* Overcome Neck & Back Pain (4th ed.)
* Stretching & Flexibility (2nd ed.)
* Stretching & Pregnancy (2nd ed.)

😻 We would be very grateful if you can please share this sale announcement with anyone you think would benefit 😻

10/06/2025

It’s happening, finally; we’re excited. We are, we really are, going to take that sabbatical we planned for 2019, but life scuppered that …until now!!!

There are two consequences of this decision:

> We are going to close the ST website to NEW sales *** for six months from 1 July 2025.

*** The Client Portal will be operating as usual, so you will be able to access your purchased programs while we have a break.

And,

> First, we are going to have a big sale of all products – details to be announced here tomorrow.

The backstory.

As you know, we have transitioned the business to all on-line since Covid-19. And an on-line business means that we really can't take a break ordinarily, mostly because of the huge amount of backend stuff that Olivia has to do. And it never stops.

To give you an idea, many countries across the world have their own sales taxes on digital products. These sales taxes have to be collected, reconciled and remitted to the relevant tax authorities every three months.

[As an aside, let us note that if you are thinking about starting an online business, and you're selling outside your own country, this must be factored in—it is a significant amount of work.]

Cheers
Kit and Olivia

07/06/2025

Mobilising and stretching session, focus on hips

The terms “mobility” and “limbering” are often used these days. In ST, we regard these kinds of movements as being the best way to incorporate your new flexibility into your movement patterns—this is a process of embodiment, literally.

This is the second part ** of a longer session we shot live on a 2016 workshop in the Monkey Gym at ST HQ in Greenwell Point, and this shows you a variety of bodies doing the movements.

** The first part can be found here on FB at https://www.facebook.com/StretchTherapyKitLaughlin/videos/929924768127786

Contents:

- Wide leg squat
- Full squat
- Whole body lateral circles
- Wrist preparation
- Kneeling hip mobility
- Hip flexors

26/11/2024

😻 Black Friday sale – 60% off all digital products 😻

Sale runs until midnight Tuesday 3 December.

Head to https://stretchtherapy.net/.

To access the discount, click on the Buy Now button of any product; this will load a checkout page. At the top of the page you’ll find the Coupon code box.

Type in BF2024 (no spaces) and click the green 'Apply' button; the discount will be applied in the process.

Use the coupon as many times as you like!

Four video programs:
* Starter Course
* Mastery Course
* Overcome Back Pain Course
* Overcome Neck Pain Course

Kit's three books (PDF versions):
* Overcome Neck & Back Pain (4th ed.)
* Stretching & Flexibility (2nd ed.)
* Stretching & Pregnancy (2nd ed.)

😻 We would be very grateful if you can please share this sale announcement with anyone you think would benefit 😻

22/11/2024

Resistance is futile by Kit Laughlin

How often do you become aware that you are wanting the thing you’re doing to finish, because you want to get on to the next thing, the more important thing—that you want to do something other than what you’re doing?

Once, about fifteen years ago, this idea was brought into stark relief by the teacher I was working with at the time. I was washing the dishes; he asked me what I was doing. I said, “washing the dishes”, and he said, “I can see that. But can you hear what you’re doing?”

I was washing the dishes, and making noise while doing this. He asked me what I was thinking about, and I said I wanted to get back into the studio to finish a project I was editing. He said, and I remember this clearly, “You just kissed off ten minutes of your life.” This resonates, still.

This kind of ‘here, but wanting to be there’ (in whatever way this can be conceived) is how most of us live our whole lives—we are only half present, or perhaps only a fraction of that.

Literally every aspect of modern life actively conspires to encourage this way of being ‘out of body’: social media; the recent US elections; the economy; the housing crisis; on it goes—and it will never end. By ‘out of body’, I mean being in the world of ideas and concepts, contrasted here with the world of direct experience. I do not know, though, that this is a new thing: I remember, and clearly, growing up in the country in a drought, and everyone around me worrying about this. And I get this: watching grass going brown; needing to hand-feed cattle and horses; dams getting visibly lower every day—these are real events with real consequences.

What do these experiences have in common? They are all examples of resistance to what is.

Read the full article at https://stretchtherapy.net/resistance-is-futile/.

20/11/2024

Hello ... we're still here!

It’s been almost a year since we were last in touch with you all. For the past six years, we have been consumed with family matters—many of our immediate family have died, including both Liv’s parents, and Kit’s mother and brother. Anyone who has been through this will know the extent of the sheer amount of energy (and work) that these events entail. It has seemed endless—but life goes on.

The sabbatical that we announced for 2019 did not happen either. Over the last twelve months or so, we have realised that we are simply exhausted.

In the wider world, the one in which Stretch Therapy is embedded, the overall trajectory does not seem ‘auspicious’. But getting depressed about this, or talking endlessly about this (either by phone, or, worse, social media; who talks face-to-face these days?) is an immense waste of energy. What we can do though is be useful to the people around us, and we intend to redouble our efforts in this direction.

In late 2023 we sold our Greenwell Point property (many of you here attended workshops there), and we are now living in the optimal place to rejuvenate ourselves—Kiama!

17/01/2024

😻 Happy New Year 😻

Thank you, everyone.

Just over a year ago, we wrote, "It's been a tough few years for everyone, and we think the old 'normal' will likely not return.” Another year later, it does not look all that different.

Yet we are alive, something we are grateful for, every day. All of us will need to be even more resilient in this changed era, and learning how to relax, and how to remove tension from your body and your mind will only be more important. Increased resilience will simply make us more useful to the people around us. We can be more like the eye in the storm.

We thank you sincerely and deeply for your support of Stretch Therapy,

With love,
Kit and Olivia

22/11/2023

Black Friday sale – 50% off all digital products – it’s on now 😻

Sale runs until the end of November.

Head to https://stretchtherapy.net/.

To access the discount, click on the Buy Now button of any product; this will load a checkout page. At the top of the page you’ll find the Coupon code box.

Type in BF2023 (no spaces) and click the green 'Apply' button; the discount will be applied in the process.

Use the coupon as many times as you like!

Four video programs:
* Starter Course
* Mastery Course
* Overcome Back Pain Course
* Overcome Neck Pain Course

Kit's three books (PDF versions):
* Overcome Neck & Back Pain (4th ed.)
* Stretching & Flexibility (2nd ed.)
* Stretching & Pregnancy (2nd ed.)

We would be very grateful if you can please share this sale announcement with anyone you think would benefit 😻

13/10/2023

Vale Dr Greg Laughlin, 1955–2023
Senior Stretch Therapy Teacher

With sadness we announce the passing of Greg Laughlin on 11 October. He was 68.

Many of you knew and worked with Greg over many years in ST (formerly Posture & Flexibility) classes at the ANU in Canberra.

There will be a celebration of Greg’s life at the Chapel of Norwood Park Crematorium, Sandford Street, Mitchell, ACT, Friday 20 October, commencing 1:30 p.m. All welcome.

Address

Kiama, NSW

Website

https://www.stretchtherapy.net/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Stretch Therapy posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Stretch Therapy:

Shortcuts

Want your practice to be the top-listed Clinic in Kiama?

Stretch Therapy

09/01/2026

08/01/2026

08/01/2026

11/06/2025

10/06/2025

07/06/2025

26/11/2024

22/11/2024

20/11/2024

17/01/2024

22/11/2023

13/10/2023

Address

Website

Alerts

Contact The Practice

Shortcuts

Share

Category