Hands On & Holistic Physio with Amanda Berntsen

02/01/2025

Happy New Year 🌟
Here’s to another year of healing 🤍

28/01/2022

19/01/2021

Thank you to the beautiful souls who joined me to awaken and align the energy body in my first healing mini-retreat, Introduction to Chakra Yoga.

It was a journey spanning mind, body and spirit....a journey towards transformation....a journey towards becoming whole.

Having completed my first Chakra Therapy Course with Anodea Judith in November 2019 and having been inspired to learn more about The Chakra System during my yoga teacher training with the amazing Georgia I wanted to share my passion and understanding of both the chakras and yoga in this very healing mini-retreat.

Yoga and The Chakra System have both been incredible for me on my own healing journey and I was so grateful to be able to share this class with 9 beautiful women last Sunday morning, followed by the most healing, nurturing and delicious morning tea thank you to my gorgeous sister, Tracey, .colquhoun and Musellie .

Thank you to Element Wellness and Healing for allowing us to travel this journey in their beautiful Yoga Room.

I’m feeling incredibly blessed...

Amanda 🙏🏻❤️

colquhoun

30/12/2020

*******AN INTRODUCTION TO CHAKRA YOGA*******

“The Chakra System is a template for transformation and a profound formula for wholeness” Anodea Judith, CHAKRA YOGA.

Join me at Element Wellness and Healing on Sunday January 17th and start the year awakening and aligning the energy body with this healing mini-retreat.

In this 90 minute class the chakras will be opened and energised through the practice of yoga postures (asanas), breathing practices (pranayama) and meditation.

The class will be followed by a nutritious morning tea thank you to my beautiful niece

Beginners and all levels of yoga experience are welcome.

DM me, call me on 0417396251 or email me at amandaberntsen@bigpond.com to find out more or to book your spot.

In good health,
Amanda ❤️

15/08/2020

What’s contributing to your tight or painful back, neck, hips or shoulders?

As a Physiotherapist and recently trained Yoga Teacher, I want to share with you what I am currently seeing in my clinical Physiotherapy Practice.....extra-ordinary tightness and tension in people’s spinal joints and shoulder, hip and spinal muscles and fascia.

Are you sitting too much?
Are you working at home with a less than optimal ergonomic workstation set-up?
How are you feeling about the current situation you find yourself in due to the restrictions in place because of COVID-19?
And what are you putting into your body?
Are you over-indulging yourself in highly processed foods, high in sugar and ‘bad’ fat?
Are you consuming too much coffee or alcohol?

Inflammation and pain in our body can be due to PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL and/or CHEMICAL factors.

Look after your posture.
Don’t sit for too long.
Lie on the floor and watch television rather than sit on the couch.
Study or work at the dining table or at a desk rather than on the couch or your bed.
Connect to how you are feeling.
Acknowledge your emotions and ‘move’ and release them.
Move by walking, running, stretching, practicing yoga, dancing or lifting weights or whatever else you love doing.
Eat more alkalising,
plant-based foods.
Drink more water and herbal teas.
Reduce your intake of meat and dairy products and take-away foods.
Eat organic foods if possible and reduce the intake of chemical pesticides, herbicides and artificial flavours and colourings.

Take some responsibility for your own body and your own health.
Be aware of the PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL and CHEMICAL factors that can cause inflammation and pain in your body.

Connect with YOU.
Connect with your mind and your body.
Be the witness to what you are doing, thinking and feeling.
Practice holistic healing.
Believe in the power that we all have to heal ourselves.

Stay safe and well during these challenging times.

In good health,
Amanda xx

06/07/2020

This 5 week Yoga Workshop is designed for beginners and experienced practitioners who want to learn more about the correct way to use their core muscles in order to create a more conscious, empowering and healing yoga practice.
A one on one, 1 hour consultation with Amanda will precede the 5 group yoga classes. Diagnostic Ultrasound will be used to assess each individual’s Pelvic Floor and Transversus Muscle Groups. Other key muscles of the shoulder girdle and neck will also be assessed.
After this session, each individual will know which muscles they should engage consciously in each posture and as they flow mindfully through yoga sequences.
Engaging the core muscles correctly helps prevent and treat muscle imbalances and injury, promotes energy efficient and accurate movement patterns and leads to improved posture, balance and wellbeing.
DM Amanda or call 0417396251 for more details or to make a booking.

20/06/2020

I am very excited to announce the dates and location for my next Core Focused Vinyasa Yoga Workshop. Learn more about YOURSELF and YOUR BODY....
CONNECT WITH YOU....
ENGAGE your CORE MUSCLES CORRECTLY....
TRANSFORM and HEAL as you Flow mindfully and consciously Tuesdays 9:30am to 10.30am July 21 - August 18 at Element Wellness and Healing in Glenferrie Rd, Malvern.
DM or call me on 0417396251 for any info or for any bookings.

22/09/2019

Thank you to the beautiful souls who joined me to CONNECT, ENGAGE and FLOW in my first CORE FOCUSED VINYASA YOGA WORKSHOP in the wonderful Yoga Room
🧘🏼‍♀️..
Thank you Plover for allowing us to practice in your beautiful space and for the yummy bliss balls ❤️

11/08/2019

SELF-KNOWLEDGE IS EMPOWERING.

SELF-KNOWLEDGE IS HEALING.

Learn more about YOURSELF and YOUR BODY....

CONNECT with YOU....

ENGAGE your CORE MUSCLES correctly...

TRANSFORM and HEAL as you FLOW mindfully and consciously in a 5 week Core Focused Vinyasa Workshop.

DM to sign up 🧘🏼‍♀️

06/08/2019

DM or call me on 0417396251 to sign up today.

Health Insurance Rebates available.

25/07/2019

CONNECT ENGAGE FLOW

5 WEEK CORE FOCUSED
VINYASA YOGA WORKSHOP

with Amanda Berntsen
Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist
and Registered Yoga Teacher
(Yoga Alliance)

Every Thursday from
August 22 - September 19
@ PLOVER WELLBEING
MORNINGTON
(Peninsula Home Centre
1128 Nepean Highway)

Call Amanda with any queries or book online via the Mindbody App at
www.plover.world/booking/

26/05/2019

“Yoga is the journey of the Self, through the Self, to the Self”
The Bhagavad Gita

The following poem is a reflection of my Yoga journey and the journey I have just taken to become a Yoga Teacher....

OPEN and HEAL
by Amanda Berntsen

The years go by and as they do
We’re sometimes holding on
To fears, regrets, pain and stress
To people and things long gone

Our body starts to tighten
It’s not just what we do
It’s the unresolved emotions
That cause us pain and illness too

There is no time like the present
It takes courage to begin
It all starts with the breath
So STOP and look within

Where do you hold your tension?
Where do you store your stress?
What memories lie deep inside
Your back, neck and your hips?

Perhaps you have an injury?
That never does quite heal
Feel what lies beneath the pain
What does that injury reveal?

Open up your body
Open up your heart
Open as you move
And let the process start

Peel away the layers
The conditioned part of you
Surrender to the old
And open to the new

You’ll begin to feel a lightness
As the darkness starts to lift
Connect to what you feel
Feel the energy within you shift

“Yoga is the dance between
The Light and Dark within you”
Surrender to the Darkness
And watch your Light shine through

You need to trust the process
And stay with what you’re feeling
The body and the mind will change
As you feel your way to healing

Always use your breath
To connect you to that place
Where joy and peace and love reside
It is our blissful space

As we open up our hearts
And feel away our pain
Love, Light, Peace and Joy
They are all that do remain

This blissful space that lies within you
It’s the same place inside of me
It is the Universal Spirit
We are the Same…We are One…Namaste 🙏🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️❤️