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Movement
as medicine.

Find your path

What are you trying to achieve?

Select your goal to see the recommended treatment focus.
Your goal

Move without pain

Primary focus
Flexibility
Restoring range of motion is usually the fastest route to reducing pain. When muscles and connective tissue are restricted, everything upstream and downstream compensates. That compensation is often where the pain lives.
All four treatments are used - here's how each contributes
  • Flexibility
    Primary focus. Targeted stretching and mobility work to restore the ranges your body has lost.
  • Primal movement
    Retraining the fundamental patterns that pain has distorted over time (squat, hinge, carry).
  • Strength
    Building support around the joints and structures that have been under strain.
  • Skills
    Relearning how to move through daily activities without triggering pain.
All techniques above are used throughout the session as needed.
Your goal

Better posture

Primary focus
Primal movement
Posture is a movement problem, not just a sitting problem. Retraining the fundamental movement patterns the body is built around, particularly the hinge, squat, and carry. Creates lasting postural change that stretching alone cannot.
All four treatments are used - here's how each contributes
  • Primal movement
    Primary focus. Rebuilding the foundational patterns that posture depends on.
  • Flexibility
    Releasing the restrictions that pull the body out of alignment in the first place.
  • Strength
    Developing the capacity to hold good position without effort over time.
  • Skills
    Translating the improvements into how you actually sit, stand, and move day to day.
All techniques above are used throughout the session as needed.
Your goal

Get fit

Primary focus
Strength
Whether the goal is losing weight, building muscle, or getting back into training, strength is the foundation. Building it in a way that is sustainable and appropriate for where your body is right now, not from a generic program from the internet.
All four treatments are used - here's how each contributes
  • Strength
    Primary focus. Progressive loading built around your current capacity and your goal.
  • Skills
    Learning to move well under load so you can train harder without getting hurt.
  • Flexibility
    Maintaining range of motion as you build strength so nothing gets chronically tight.
  • Primal movement
    The fundamental patterns that underpin all good training (squat, hinge, push, pull).
All techniques above are used throughout the session as needed.

Training Focus

Four tools. One integrated approach.
The difference

Most treatment asks where it hurts. We ask why.

Typical approach
Movement therapy
Treats the site of pain
Addresses why the pain keeps returning
Generic exercises or stretches
Movements selected specifically for your body
Feels better for a week or two
Builds lasting change over time
You come back when it flares up
You leave with tools to manage it yourself
Pricing

Different session,
same price.

Movement training sessions are the same length and price as massage - because the two are integrated, not separate. If you want a more comprehensive approach, Guru Training takes this further.
Per Session
$130
50 minutes
  • Movement assessment and pattern analysis
  • Hands-on massage and soft tissue work
  • Personalised daily movement program
  • Video demonstrations to take home
Watch

Posture snacks.

Lower Back
YouTube · Hobart Massage Guru
Core
YouTube · Hobart Massage Guru
Shoulders: Tabletop Reaches
YouTube · Hobart Massage Guru

Things people usually ask.

No. Movement training is about where you are now, not where you think you should be. Sessions are built around your current capacity and adjusted as you progress.

Physio typically focuses on diagnosing and treating a specific injury or structure. Movement training looks at how you holistically and functionally move your entire body. The two can complement each other well.

Often yes, and sometimes it's more useful for long-term issues than acute ones. Chronic pain frequently involves movement patterns that developed as compensation and never got corrected. That's exactly what this work addresses.

Sessions start with an assessment of how you're moving, followed by exercises and massage on the table if time allows. You'll leave with a program to do before the next session — that work in between is where most of the progress happens.

That varies depending on the issue and how long it's been present. Some people notice significant change in two or three sessions. Others benefit from a longer structured program like Guru Training. Armani will give you a clear picture after the first session.

Yes. Poor posture is almost always a movement pattern problem, not a willpower problem. Identifying which patterns are off and giving the body better alternatives is one of the most common things addressed in sessions.

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Pick a time that works for you.
Want the complete version?
Guru Training combines movement with massage, habits, and detox over a full month, then sends you home with a program that lasts a year or more.
0421 520 126 armani@hobartmassageguru.com.au
176 Macquarie St, Hobart TAS 7000

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Primal movement

The foundations your body is built around
Primal movement patterns – squat, hinge, push, pull, carry, rotate – are the movements the human body is built around. Most chronic pain and postural problems trace back to dysfunction in one or more of these. Restoring them is often the most direct path to lasting relief.

Particularly effective when there's no clear injury but something has felt "off" for a long time, or when pain keeps recurring without an obvious cause.
Posture
Chronic pain
Foundations
Full body

Skills

Motor control and movement quality
Skills training develops specific movement patterns and the motor control to perform them well. Whether that's returning to a sport, managing a daily activity, or simply learning to move in a way that doesn't hurt. Quality of movement matters as much as quantity.

Particularly effective when pain is linked to how you move rather than how much, or when previous injury has disrupted your movement patterns.
Sport-specific
Daily movement
Rehab
Motor control

Strength

Building capacity that lasts
Strength training builds the muscular capacity to support your joints, stabilise your posture, and handle the demands of daily life or sport without breaking down. Most people are surprised to find that getting stronger is one of the most effective ways to reduce chronic pain.

Particularly effective when pain is linked to weakness, instability, or joints that aren't being adequately supported by the surrounding muscle.
Posture
Joint support
Chronic pain
Sports performance

Flexibility

Range of motion and tissue health
Flexibility work restores and improves range of motion in the muscles and connective tissue. Without it, the body compensates by loading the wrong structures and creating new pain elsewhere. Essential for moving freely and recovering properly.

Particularly effective when movement feels restricted, stiff, or when pain appears at the end range of common actions like bending or reaching.
Stiffness
Mobility
Recovery
Postural restriction

Nervous system regulation

Calming the system down
When the nervous system is in a chronic stress state, physical symptoms follow: tension, fatigue, pain sensitivity, poor recovery. This approach focuses on downregulating the system rather than loading more pressure into already-reactive tissue.

People dealing with stress, anxiety, burnout, chronic fatigue, or conditions where tension keeps returning no matter how much bodywork they get.
Stress
Anxiety
Chronic fatigue
Burnout

Kinesiology taping

Between-session support
Elastic tape applied to the skin to support joints and soft tissue without restricting movement. It stays on for several days, providing feedback to the nervous system and reducing load on an area between sessions.

Most useful when an area needs ongoing support during daily activity or sport while it's recovering.
Rotator cuff
Back pain
Tendonitis
Joint support

Postural work

Neuromuscular retraining
Looks at the patterns driving your posture, not just the muscles that are tight, but the movement habits and compensations your body has developed over time. Works on the neuromuscular system to rebuild how you carry yourself.

People with desk-related neck and shoulder issues, whiplash history, or patterns that keep coming back despite regular treatment.
Poor posture
Whiplash
Neck strain
Chronic compensation

Sports massage

Movement and load-related injury
Addresses soft tissue damage from repetitive movement or physical load. Works across the full range of a joint, targeting the tendons, ligaments, and muscles involved in the injury pattern. Can be used during training blocks, not just post-injury.

Active people, tradies, anyone doing physical work or sport with an ongoing niggle.
Tendonitis
Plantar fasciitis
Frozen shoulder
Pinched nerves

Trigger point therapy

Referred pain patterns
Trigger points are tight spots in muscle tissue that send pain to a different part of the body. A point in your shoulder might be causing your headache. The technique involves sustained pressure on the trigger point until it releases.

Particularly effective when the location of your pain doesn't match where you'd expect the source to be.
Headaches
TMJ
Rotator cuff
Referred pain

Remedial massage

Deep tissue work
Slow, sustained pressure applied through the deeper layers of muscle and fascia. The pace matters. Working too fast doesn't allow the tissue to respond. Sessions focus on the specific areas driving your symptoms, not a full-body sweep.

Best suited to people with chronic or recurring pain, postural issues built up over time, or conditions like sciatica and carpal tunnel.
Back pain
Sciatica
Chronic tension
Carpal tunnel