The AIR Care Team

The Autoimmune Immune Repair Care Team — a curated panel of evidence-based practitioners and specialists working alongside Bend Like Bamboo to deliver true whole-person care for our clients healing from chronic symptoms, and thriving through the challenges of work, leadership and life.

Why a team, not just one practitioner

Autoimmune conditions, chronic illness and sustained burnout don't get solved by one modality. They never have — and they're more connected than most people realise.

The same dysregulated nervous system that drives autoimmune flares is the one that drives executive burnout. The same chronic inflammation that shows up as fatigue and brain fog in a HEAL client also shows up as exhaustion and overwhelm in a THRIVE leader. The presentations are different. The physiology underneath is the same.

That's why healing and high performance — both sit across multiple layers: the nervous system, nutrition, movement, hormones, sleep, gut health, emotional processing, environmental exposures, leadership and identity. A single practitioner can support some of these. None can hold them all.

Bend Like Bamboo isn't just a kinesiology | coaching service anymore. It's the hub of a curated team of trusted, evidence-based practitioners, each a specialist in their own field — working alongside Amanda to support our clients across every layer that matters.

When you work with Bend Like Bamboo, you don't get one practitioner. You get a team.

Seven pillars of care, one integrated team

Every client and every condition is different — but the architecture of whole-person care is the same. The AIR Care Team is built around seven pillars, each held by named specialists Amanda personally trusts and refers to.

How the AIR Care Team supports your healing

We start with you

Every journey begins with Amanda — mapping where you are now and what your nervous system, body and life are telling us.

We bring in the team you need

Where another layer of support will accelerate your healing — whether that's gut health, hormone testing, somatic therapy or rehabilitative movement — Amanda connects you with the AIR Care Team practitioner who's the right fit.

You're supported by a circle, not a silo

Instead of cobbling together a team yourself, you have one already curated. Everyone in your AIR Care Team understands the BAMBOO Method, the mind-body connection, and the kind of care our clients deserve.

Meet the practitioners standing alongside us.

MOVEMENT & PHYSICAL REHABILITATION

Ihsan Tuncel

Movement Specialist & Wholefood Cooking

Ihsan combines therapeutic movement with wholefood cooking to support clients in rebuilding strength, energy and a sustainable relationship with their body. His work meets people exactly where they are — gentle enough for those navigating chronic fatigue, structured enough for leaders rebuilding their physical foundation.

NUTRITION & GUT HEALTH

Peter Gibson

Naturopath — Nutrition & Gut Health

Peter is a naturopath specialising in nutrition and gut health, with a deep interest in the role of the digestive system in autoimmune conditions, fatigue and overall vitality. He brings an evidence-based, clinically grounded approach to identifying food sensitivities, repairing gut function and building anti-inflammatory protocols that actually hold.

Damian Brown

Naturopath & Nutritionist

Damian is a naturopath and nutritionist whose work supports clients across autoimmune disease, chronic stress and complex health presentations. His clients describe his approach as thorough, kind and refreshingly practical — and he's also an endorser of Amanda's book Bend Like Bamboo.

FUNCATIONAL TESTING & EPIGENETICS

Denise Mokadsi

Gut Health, Functional Testing & Epigenetics

Denise specialises in gut health, functional testing and epigenetics — bringing precision diagnostics to clients who've been searching for answers conventional medicine hasn't been able to give them. Her work uncovers what's happening at the cellular and genetic level, so the rest of the care team can build a strategy that's specific to you.

Matt Rowe

Quantum Healing & MS Coach

Matt is a quantum healing practitioner, MS coach and author, and the founder of the Symptom Free MS Summit. His work bridges energetic, mindset and physiological layers of healing — and his own recovery story makes him a uniquely powerful guide for HEAL clients navigating MS and other autoimmune conditions.

BODYWORK & STRUCTURAL CARE

Dr Mike Rowan

Osteopath, Naturopath & Traditional Chinese Acupuncturist

Mike is a rare practitioner who holds osteopathy, naturopathy and traditional Chinese acupuncture under one roof — meaning he can address structural, biochemical and energetic dimensions of health together. He's also one of the endorsers of Amanda's book Bend Like Bamboo, and a trusted clinical voice in the AIR community.

Darron Goralsky

TMJ & Jaw Pain Specialist

Darron specialises in TMJ and chronic jaw pain — an area that's often overlooked and yet deeply connected to nervous system regulation, stress, posture and chronic tension headaches. For clients carrying physical stress in the head, neck and jaw, his work is often the missing piece.

LEADERSHIP, IDENTITY & COACHING

Ross Judd

Leadership Coach

Ross is a leadership coach who works with executives and founders on how they lead — not just what they do. His work meets THRIVE clients at the strategic and identity layer, complementing the nervous system and somatic work that anchors their transformation with Amanda.

Lisa Johnson

Founder of The Elements Kit — Leadership & Team Transformation

Lisa is the founder of The Elements Kit, an archetype-based system for leadership and team transformation. Her work helps THRIVE clients (and the teams they lead) understand the patterns driving their behaviour and create cultures where people can thrive sustainably.

Jeanie Iberlin

Transformational Coach

Jeanie Iberlin is a transformational coach whose work guides clients through the deeper identity shifts that often accompany healing and personal change. For both HEAL and THRIVE clients navigating who they are becoming, her work creates the space for that emergence.

Business in Heels

Women's Business Community & Network

Business in Heels is a national community supporting women in business through connection, mentorship and growth opportunities. Amanda is their Resilience Ambassador — a role that reflects the deep alignment between her work and the community's commitment to women leading sustainably. For THRIVE clients building or leading their own ventures, Business in Heels is a values-aligned community that extends the AIR Care Team beyond the clinical layer.

KINESIOLOGY & COACHING

Coming Soon

Bend Like Bamboo Kinesiologist

Our in-house kinesiology team is growing. A second Bend Like Bamboo kinesiologist will be joining Amanda soon — trained in the BAMBOO Method and ready to extend the nervous system, mindset and somatic work that anchors care for our HEAL and THRIVE clients. If you're a values-aligned kinesiologist interested in joining the team, we'd love to hear from you.

Whether you're healing or leading — the team is with you

Maybe you're navigating an autoimmune condition, chronic illness or symptoms medicine hasn't been able to explain. Maybe you're a leader running on empty, knowing burnout is closer than you'd like to admit. Wherever you are, the truth is the same: real recovery — and real performance needs more than one set of hands.

Our HEAL clients are supported by the AIR Care Team as they rebuild their nervous system, repair their gut, regulate their hormones and reclaim their energy. Our THRIVE clients are supported by the heal and leadership teams to address the physiological drivers of burnout and stress— because high performance is a whole-person undertaking too.

When you work with Bend Like Bamboo, you don't have to find the right specialists. They're already here, already aligned, already part of your team.

You don't have to heal — or lead — alone.

Book a free clarity call and let's map what whole-person care looks like for you, and which members of the AIR Care Team can stand alongside us in your journey.

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