David Hall's experience as a Physiotherapist and health promotion facilitator over many years make the "Move well" workshops very valuable for participants. For details on David see about us.

These sessions simplify the often large perceived hurdle of achieving physical wellbeing. David achieves this by teaching tactics for incorporating exercise and body awareness into a busy schedule. With this heightened insight you can improve your physical wellbeing and decrease posture related pains with only minor adaptations to your lifestyle.

The "Move well" workshops incorporate practical exercises and stress management tools that participants can easily use, including using theratubing at home at work.

The "Move well" sessions combine well with Ros and Belinda's material. Suggested topics include

1. Four keys to a healthy spine
2. Practical stress management exercises
3. Massage for beginners
4. Tai Chi for beinners
5. Understanding and overcoming pain
6. The "Office wise" exercise routine

What can I do to improve my spine if I have degeneration already?

What can I do to prevent spinal wear and tear leading to pain?

How do I know if my spine is strong or flexible enough to exercise?

This workshop allows participants to perform their own guided self assessments of their spine. Direction and advice is then provided promoting core strength, spinal flexibility, neural flexibility and body awareness.

I can feel stress in my body but how can I release it?

I've heard of meditation but how can it help me?

What options do I have to recognise and relieve stress physically?

This workshop focuses on our physical responses to stress and teaches practical tools for relief of muscle tension, altered breathing and heart rates and other physical symptoms of stress.

When is it safe and appropriate to massage?

What are the potential benefits of massage?

How can I do this effectively on my friends and family?

This workshop is performed in pairs through light clothing and sitting upright in a chair. It focuses on the neck and shoulders and covers basic techniques of massage including stroking, petrissage, hacking and cross friction massage.

How can Tai Chi help ease joint and muscle pain?

What benefits can there be in such a form of exercise?

This workshop is a practical look at Soong style Tai Chi, as taught by Dr Paul Lam. It provides a good platform for beginners to experience this ancient martial art and feel its potential benefits.

What are the truths and myths srrounding the perception of pain?

What factors influence the existence and strength of pain?

How can better understanding of pain help prevent it?

In this workshop David draws on extensive personal, research and clinical experience and presents pain to participants in a way many have never considered. Pain demystified and put in perspective, this understanding being a crucial step in the prevention, management and overcoming of pain.

If i work at a desk all day, how can I stop from slouching?

What exercise is important for an office worker?

I know it's good to take breaks at work, but what should I do in those breaks?

The Office wise routine is a simple five exercise routine that can be done anywhere. The only equipment required is a theraband or theratubing which are provided in the workshop. This routine is a realistic, quick and effective solution to posture related pain among office workers.