Your Journey Through the Bend Like Bamboo Method: Sessions 1-6

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What to Expect When You Commit to Your Healing

In Part 1 What is Kinesiology, we explored what kinesiology is and how it works with the body as an integrated whole. Now, let's talk about what happens when you step into the Bend Like Bamboo Method.

Whether you're navigating an autoimmune condition through the HEAL Program or working through executive burnout in the THRIVE Program, the journey unfolds over six transformative sessions. Each one builds on the last, creating a framework for sustainable healing and resilience.

This isn't a quick fix. It's a complete recalibration of how your nervous system responds to stress, how your body holds emotion, and how you show up in your life.

Here's what to expect.

The Foundation: Six Pillars, Six Sessions

The Bend Like Bamboo Method is built on six evidence-based pillars of health:

  • Retrain your mind to bend, not break

  • Restore strength and energy

  • Nourish and fuel your body

  • Strengthen relationships and emotional wellbeing

  • Calm the nervous system, reduce stress

  • Build clarity and self-awareness

Each session focuses on one pillar while building on the foundation laid in previous sessions. And while the structure is consistent, every session is tailored to what your body needs in that moment.

Sessions are typically spaced 2-4 weeks apart. This gives your nervous system time to integrate the shifts and allows new patterns to take root before we move deeper.

Session 1: The Foundation – Understanding Your Stress Response

Duration: 1.5 hours

What Happens

Your first session begins with a 30-minute conversation. We talk about your goals, your symptoms, and what brought you here. This isn't just information gathering—it's the beginning of understanding the deeper patterns at play.

Next comes 15 minutes of mindset coaching, where you'll learn tools to help integrate the session. These tools rewire your brain to fire growth and repair pathways instead of defaulting to survival and stress signals.

Then you'll experience your first 45-minute kinesiology session—either on a massage table or via Zoom if you prefer virtual sessions.

In this first session, we focus on identifying what triggers your stress response. For everyone, this looks different. But once you understand your unique patterns, you gain the awareness needed to shift them.

What You'll Discover

You'll begin to see how chronic stress has been running in the background—showing up as perfectionism, people-pleasing, constant worry, or the inability to receive support.

We explore patterns like:

  • Always wanting to be in control

  • Setting the bar so high you never feel successful

  • Not allowing others to nurture you

  • Living your life to someone else's expectations

  • Emotional conflicts with family or loved ones

You'll learn how to find a deeper anchor within yourself—one that will shift your relationships, your ability to manifest, and your capacity to heal.

What You Receive

  • Follow-up notes from your session

  • eBook: Resilience

  • Introduction to the full Bend Like Bamboo program

For HEAL clients: This session often reveals how chronic stress has been contributing to symptom flares and immune dysregulation.

For THRIVE clients: This session typically uncovers how perfectionism, people-pleasing, or control patterns are fuelling burnout.

Session 2: The State Shift – From Autopilot to Presence

Duration: 1.5 hours

What Happens

We begin with a 15-minute check-in to see how you've been feeling—mentally, physically, emotionally—since our last session.

In session two, we explore the state of mind that promotes stress, degeneration, and inflammation. That feeling of being disengaged, living on autopilot, going through the motions.

Through kinesiology, we shift you into a more flexible, present state—one that promotes growth, repair, mood stability, and healing.

The Feeling We're After

Remember the honeymoon stage of love? Or how relaxed you feel on holiday? That's the state your body needs to heal and thrive. This session teaches you how to access it daily—not just when life slows down.

What You Receive

  • Follow-up notes from your session

  • eBook: Happy Mind

For HEAL clients: This session often creates dramatic shifts in pain levels and fatigue as your nervous system learns it's safe to downregulate.

For THRIVE clients: This session typically results in better sleep, clearer thinking, and the ability to be present with family without the mental chatter of work stress.

Session 3: The Body Connection – Movement & Release

Duration: 1.5 hours

What Happens

After our 15-minute check-in, session three focuses on movement, stretches, and exercises that promote fitness, detoxification, and endurance.

Your customised mind-body movement program isn't about pushing harder—it's about helping you release stress and let go of the emotions you're ready to move through.

I'll assess any physical symptoms or pain and work to aid correction, addressing you on all four layers:

The Four Layers:

  1. Structural – Posture alignment, fascia, cranial work, TMJ, tendon/ligament stress, pain

  2. Biochemical – Nutrition, hormones, toxins, gut health

  3. Mental-Emotional – Emotional links to physical ailments, shifting fear-based beliefs

  4. Electromagnetic – Your energy system, the most malleable layer

What You Receive

  • Follow-up notes from your session

  • eBook: Happy Body

  • Customised movement and stretch program

For HEAL clients: This session often brings relief from chronic pain patterns and inflammation as we address both physical structure and emotional holding.

For THRIVE clients: This session typically releases the physical tension from chronic stress—tight shoulders, jaw clenching, neck pain that executives carry.

Session 4: The Nourishment Factor – Cellular Healing Through Food

Duration: 1.5 hours

What Happens

After our 15-minute check-in, session four is all about nourishing your body on a cellular level with fresh, local, sustainable whole foods.

You'll learn which foods maximise repair, which ones to focus on, and which ones to avoid—based on research and what your body specifically needs.

The Practical Part

This isn't about restriction. It's about abundance and nourishment.

You'll receive access to 625 delicious recipes that make eating well simple, sustainable, and enjoyable at home.

What You Receive

  • Follow-up notes from your session

  • eBook: Happy Food (loaded with recipes from my former business Nourissh)

For HEAL clients: This session often creates significant shifts in inflammation, energy levels, and digestive symptoms as we identify foods that support vs. hinder your healing.

For THRIVE clients: This session typically transforms the relationship with food from fuel-on-the-run to intentional nourishment, improving energy, focus, and sleep.

Session 5: The Deep Connection – Meditation & Relationships

Duration: 1.5 hours

What Happens

After our 15-minute check-in, session five explores how to create the best internal environment for your mind and body to adapt to change.

You'll discover how meditation promotes repair—not just as a stress-relief tool, but as a way to wash and empty your mind of old, redundant beliefs and stories.

We work on choosing new reactions, thoughts, and habits that support your body's systems rather than working against them.

The Ripple Effect

When you're regulated, you regulate the people around you. A deeper connection within yourself leads to stronger, more fulfilling relationships in your life.

What You Receive

  • Follow-up notes from your session

  • eBook: Connection

For HEAL clients: This session often creates breakthroughs in relationships that have been strained by chronic illness, and deepens your ability to receive support.

For THRIVE clients: This session typically transforms how you show up as a leader, partner, and parent—present instead of distracted, calm instead of reactive.

Session 6: The Daily Practice – Journaling & Integration

Duration: 1.5 hours

What Happens

After our 15-minute check-in, session six focuses on setting up your day with intention and gratitude.

Using the power of journaling, you'll discover how to rewire your brain to be more positive and solution-focused. This tool becomes your daily anchor—a way to check in with yourself, track your progress, and maintain the shifts you've created.

The Lasting Tool

Journaling isn't just reflection. It's active reprogramming of your thought patterns and a maintenance tool for everything you've built over the past months.

What You Receive

  • Follow-up notes from your session

  • eBook: The Bend Like Bamboo Journal

For HEAL clients: This session solidifies the practices that keep symptoms at bay and creates a roadmap for navigating future flares with resilience.

For THRIVE clients: This session establishes the morning and evening routines that prevent burnout from creeping back in and maintain sustainable high performance.

After Session 6: Maintenance & Mastery

After you've completed the six sessions, you'll have the tools to bend like bamboo—to meet life's challenges with flexibility instead of rigidity, with resilience instead of resistance.

Change is constant. Your ability to manage stress and change will determine how happy, healthy, and successful you can be.

Maintenance sessions are available anytime you need a tune-up. Just as you'd service your car regularly, your mind and body benefit from ongoing support as you navigate new challenges, transitions, or stressors.

Real Client Transformations

"My sessions at Bend Like Bamboo have totally changed my life in ways I never thought possible. When I first went to see Amanda I had health issues, severe depression, and felt completely run down. She has helped me completely turn my life around." – Monica

"Amanda's knowledge, intuition, and passion resulted in positive outcomes in just two Zoom sessions. But the real magic happened when I committed to longer-term work with her program." – Sarah

"I feel more in control of my bladder symptoms. I used to have to go every 10-15 minutes! This really affected my quality of life. Now I can go out without worrying." – Martha

"I feel like a completely different person since seeing you last Saturday. I'm really loving reading your book, and I'm really enjoying doing the Nasal Breathing and Journaling." – Harriet

"When I first met Amanda two years ago, I couldn't have imagined the profound transformation that would unfold. Through her integrated approach to mind, body, and spirit as a gifted Kinesiologist and healer, she has helped me clear past traumas and make way for extraordinary growth." – Lisa

Is This Journey Right for You?

HEAL Program (Autoimmune & Chronic Conditions)

This journey is for you if:

  • You're living with an autoimmune condition like MS, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, or chronic fatigue

  • Your symptoms flare with stress

  • You're tired of treatments that only address symptoms, not root causes

  • You want to understand the emotional and energetic patterns contributing to your condition

  • You're ready to reclaim your energy and quality of life

THRIVE Program (Executive Burnout & High Performance)

This journey is for you if:

  • You're a CEO, executive, founder, or high-achiever

  • You're successful but burning out

  • You struggle with stress, sleep, and sustainable performance

  • You know something needs to change but don't know where to start

  • You want to lead from a regulated, powerful place instead of constant activation

Your Next Step

This comprehensive 4-6 month journey teaches you the ancient wisdom of bamboo—the power to bend with life's storms without breaking.

Just as bamboo remains rooted yet flexible, I'll guide you through developing unshakeable resilience while maintaining your authentic self.

As Melbourne's 5-star-rated Kinesiologist and trusted autoimmune disease and MS specialist with over 12 years of clinical experience, I'm here to be your partner in resilience and recovery.

I know what it feels like when your body feels like a stranger, when stress becomes your constant companion, when you're holding everyone else together while falling apart inside.

You're not broken. You're not too far gone. And you're definitely not alone.

A Final Thought

The Bend Like Bamboo Method was born from those dark days when I learned that true strength isn't about being unbreakable—it's about knowing how to bend without breaking.

Your journey to wholeness begins here, where every session is tailored to your unique needs and supported by both traditional healing wisdom and modern neuroscience.

You have the power to bend without breaking. Let me show you how.

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