About WMW

To achieve peak performance, you need every part of your body working at its utmost. So why don’t we train it that way? That’s what integrated training is all about: enhancing the body’s systems so they support and strengthen each other.

At Woody’s Movement Workshop we combine movement, breath-work, recovery, and mental resilience to super-charge performance and health. All wrapped in an environment that inspires and challenges you to thrive, not only in competitive environments, but in everyday life.

ABOUT DAVE

“I stopped taking pain medications. I stopped nursing my hips. I started moving with intent.”

I’m an integrated health specialist with specific focus on stress management, the ability to remain calm under pressure and peak performance training.

My own optimal health journey began in my 20s, when I suffered a surfing injury and the freedom I’d always felt in my body was replaced by increasing restriction and pain in my hips and lower back. The hip issues got progressively worse. I was forced to give up kickboxing, my surfing ability regressed, and by the age of 33 - desperate for a solution - I underwent hip surgery as my final hope.

Sadly, the operation was a failure and I experienced a rapid decline in hip function and a dramatic increase in pain. I was exhausted, irritable, and frightened by the prospect of living with chronic dysfunction or trying even more radical, bilateral hip replacement surgery. It was a low point in my life.

By then, I was seeing numerous specialists and it was during one of the many sessions that I decided I would stop relying on others. It was time to take control of my own recovery and physical health. 

I went hard, leaving no stone unturned. I looked deeply into human physiology and applied my knowledge of health science (I’m an intensive care paramedic and spent many years as a surf lifeguard) to better understand my own body and its functions.

I began to understand that much of my pain and dysfunction was not being caused by my bone spurs and hip impingement but by years of adaptation to these conditions. 

Our bodies adapt to our routines and specialisations, whether it’s sitting in a chair for 8 hours a day or building or going surfing. It doesn't matter what it is: repetition and poor posture create muscle imbalance.

It was a lightbulb moment. Everything connected and I spent a year relentlessly focusing on my body, taking an integrated approach to training and addressing dysfunction. I stopped taking pain medications. I stopped nursing my hips. I started moving with intent.

Today my body is firing on all cylinders. I still have hip dysfunction, but I have created strength and stability around it. I train and surf every day and continue to learn about the human body and how to achieve optimal health, not only for myself, but for every one of my clients.

Our bodies want to heal themselves; we just have to give them the right stimulus. By using an integrated, all-inclusive approach we create physical and mental strength, resilience, and lasting balance.