Relieving chronic pain, injury, ailment, and stress. Treating causes not symptoms, to improve quality of life.
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Recognised by LAYA Healthcare
Registered Member of The Association of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapists (ANMT)
Registered Member of the Complementary Therapists Association (CThA)
27/07/2025
I'm away on my holidays 🌞
With this obligatory FB-ready post, I should say something deep and profound. However, the truth is that I'm burning my white bits in this searing heat, and I'm quietly working on some big plans for the Clinic.
I look forward to reopening the Clinic door to you all on Tuesday 5th August. Message here, text/WhatsApp 087 760 8901, or email info@dundanuamatsu.com to book an appointment, and I will return your messages as soon as I can
15/07/2025
Every day is a school day! 🤓
Early morning start and it's a pre-breakfast catch-up with last weekend's seminar on soft tissue anatomy science. The two speakers are at the forefront of clinical anatomy research - Jaap Van De Wal PhD and Ireland's own John Sharkey.
For those that don't know, we are currently in an incredibly exciting time where our knowledge and understanding of human anatomy is changing at a rapid rate. No longer are we confined by the reductionist definition of the body being made of individual 'parts'.
For me to improve the healing outcome potential for clients, it is an absolute priority that I stay at this frontier of understanding that the human body, and human nature, is an ever-evolving continuum process of complex systems. For me understand your injury or chronic condition, I have to understand the interconnected and interdependent whole of your nature.
I am passionate about this, and it's my passion that drives me to always search for ways to improve treatment outcomes.
As always, I have huge gratitude to Jan Trewartha and The Fascia Hub for facilitating this important seminar. Thank you Jan, Jaap, and John, and to all in this clinical and scientific community that help to progress our understanding of human nature 💫
14/07/2025
Gratitude post.
Barely a day goes by where I don't think about Professor Neil Theise, and not a week goes by where I don't speak of his work to my Clients.
Neil's thinking on Complexity Theory has not only deeply informed my work in anatomy, physiology, neurology, and consciousness, but also on life, living, humanity, and universal nature. He is also one of the people who have inspired my research into the frontier areas of the science of human nature.
It was great to see Neil in conversation with Dr. Shamini Jain at the Consciousnes
& Healing Initiative.
09/07/2025
What would I say to my younger self?
I'd explain that life is beautiful and messy, and that we are made up of everything that happens to us, in both the light and the shadow.
I'd explain that we are here to live this life in fullness. All we need to do is learn from it and keep moving forward.
At Dún Danu Amatsu Clinic, I recognise and acknowledge that whatever led you to my door has a history that is influenced by all your life's experiences. You are seen and heard in your entirety here.
If you are looking to relieve chronic pain or suffering, whether that is physical and/or mental/emotional, DM me directly here, call/text/WhatsApp 087 760 8901, or email info@dundanuamatsu.com 🙏
07/07/2025
One of the powerfully effective therapies that I am qualified in is 'Sharon Wheeler ScarWork' therapy. This incredibly gentle modality works on scars and scar adhesions, whether they're new scars or decades old.
It was a pleasure to work with JH this morning, on her triple c-section scar and appendectomy scar, that are a part of the issue causing chronic lower back and hip pain years after her pregnancies.
As with so many other types of injury and dysfunction, the point of pain is often to victim, and the perpetratrator is often elsewhere in the the body. Scars and scar adhesions cause dysfunctional tension and compression issues that can impact areas far from the site of the scar.
To find out more about how I can help you with ScarWork therapy, or to book an appointment, feel free to message me here, email info@dundanuamatsu.com or call/text/WhatsApp 0877608901 🙌
26/06/2025
Dún Danu Amatsu Clinic is the place for you...dedicated to you 💚
24/06/2025
How are you responding, emotionally, to the news media that you consume? As the horrors of the world play out daily on our phones, TV's, and print media, are you beginning to feel overwhelmed and helpless?
If you are, in this video, I explain 4 psychological conditions that lead us towards those emotional states of overwhelm and helplessness.
These are normal responses to abnormal events and circumstances.
By understanding our mind and psychology, we have the agency and control over understanding why we feel the way that we do.
21/06/2025
Take a moment to consider your Life.
Life isn't permanent, and no-one has made it out of this alive.
Every day, every hour, every second, every moment - will never, for eternity, be experienced again.
Take a look around you right now. Take notice of the sight, the sounds, the sensations against your body. This moment will never be experienced again.
This moment, no matter how banal, is precious.
The trick is for us to every now and then take time to realise how precious our experience of each moment is.
Breathe in, breathe out, take notice of this precious moment right now, smile to yourself, and enjoy your day.
20/06/2025
How does this physical therapy help my clients who are suffering from stress, anxiety, grief, or trauma?
In this video, I talk about the biology of how physical touch improves mental health and wellness.
19/06/2025
Working with chronic conditions, whether that's physical or mental/emotional ailment, requires a specific kind of therapeutic environment. This is because you have lived with your suffering for longer than most people understand.
What do you get from me, apart from healing treatment?
You are:
🙌 Listened to fully without judgement
🙌 Accepted for who and what you are
🙌 Understood from your lived experience
Healing is more than just hands-on. Healing starts with treating you as the individual and unique person you are 💫
17/06/2025
One of the most common and frustrating symptoms of Perimenopause and Menopause is 🔥Hot Flashes🔥
In this psychoeducation video, I explain the what, how, and why of Hot Flashes, so that you can have a better understanding of what, how, and why you feel the way that you do.
When we better understand our body and mind, you take back control over why things are happening the way that they are.
16/06/2025
✨️ NEW SERVICE ✨️
As a certified Personal & Professional Life Coach, I am now opening my diary to clients for in-person and online Life Coaching.
As 'Daren Knight - The Reality Coach', I help busy midlife men and women identify and overcome the obstacles stopping them from moving towards their goals and aspirations, and design the plans needed to achieve the life they want to live.
1:1 Life Coaching sessions are held in-person in Naas Co. Kildare, or online from wherever you are in the world.
Follow me at Daren Knight - The Reality Coach (also at .realitycoach on Insta) to book me as your Life Coach, or to learn more about what Coaching is and how it can help you live the life you want.
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Amatsu therapy is a modern adaptation of a physical therapy that has been used for thousands of years in Japan. It is based on ancient principles of natural movement and can be used to help many musculoskeletal and lifestyle related conditions, as well as supporting the restoration of general health and well being.
For thousands of years, the Japanese Ninja (Shinobi) warriors practiced their martial art fighting skills alongside an ancient orthopaedic healing therapy called ‘HichibukuGoshin-jutsu Ryu’. Within this covert organisation, healing practice knowledge was passed down from Master to student through the secret “Amatsu Tatara” scrolls. The current holder of the scrolls is Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi, receiving his Shinobi training from Tosh*tsugu Takamatsu (1889-1972), who is recognised as the last of the battle-tested Shinobi Masters.
Amatsu was made known to the outside world in the 1980’s, when Dr.Hatsumi made the decision to train three European martial arts practitioners. Between them, Dennis Bartram, William Doolan, and Chris Rowarth had backgrounds in osteopathy, chiropractic, psychotherapy, physiotherapy and natural medicine. Developing Dr.Hatsumi’s eastern healing art teachings into modern western medical frameworks, Amatsu training schools were later established in Ireland, the UK, and Europe.
As a unique therapy modality, Amatsu adopts a whole-body approach, identifying and treating the source of injury, illness, or ailment, and not just the symptoms.
In ancient Irish history, ‘Danu’ is the oldest of all Celtic goddesses and could be seen as being Mother Earth. In the Irish Gaelic language, a ‘Dún’ is a Fort or place of safety. Bringing the modern adaptation of an ancient Japanese healing modality to a calming healing space in County Kildare, Dún Danu Amatsu Clinic aims to bring balance and peace to body and mind.
Dún Danu Amatsu Clinic is a registered member of the ‘Association of Neuromuscular Physical Therapists’ (ANMPT), and is recognised by LAYA Healthcare for Client rebates.
