ElderHeal

07/07/2026

Hands-On Healing in Castlemaine 🌿
Hello Castlemaine community

For 4 months, I'll be calling Castlemaine home and offering 1:1 private ElderHeal sessions from a peaceful home based practice.

My work is a gentle integrative practice, using various hands-on techniques which combine therapeutic touch and nervous system-regulating care.

Sessions are designed to help older adults feel calmer, connected and comfortable in their later years. Sessions can address many varied health concerns from musculoskeletal pain, mobility, lymphatic stagnation, joint inflammation, mobility, nervous system dys-regulation, immune system weakness, and anxiety.

No oil is used. Sessions provided on massage table or - usually, in the comfort of an armchair/recliner and similar.

After more than 20 years working as both a somatic practitioner and educator I'm looking forward to meeting people locally and supporting the wellbeing of the elder community in this beautiful town and surrounding areas.

Bookings are now open.

🔗 Learn more / Book a session: https://jennyelenihealth.com/sessions

🏷️ $90: 45min session

Warmly,

Jenny 🌸

Founder of ElderHeal™
ElderHeal

Dip. Remedial Massage.
Adv. Bowen Therapy.
Reflexology.
Therapeutic Yoga (Lvl I & II)
Sound Massage (Peter Hess©)
........More details on website:
https://jennyelenihealth.com/elderheal

ElderHeal™ supports the wellbeing of our elders through gentle therapeutic touch techniques, connection and compassionate care—what aged care should be about.

25/06/2026

🍂 Comfort. Connection. Wellbeing.
Sessions in Castlemaine
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Gentle and adaptable.
Many people worry about touching an older loved one for fear of causing discomfort or harm.

ElderHeal™ is designed to be gentle, adaptable and respectful of each person’s comfort, health circumstances and level of mobility.

Learn more:
https://jennyelenihealth.com/elderheal/

25/06/2026

ElderHeal™ is now available in Castlemaine VIC. 🍂

🍂 Comfort. Connection. Wellbeing.

A gentle therapeutic touch practice designed specifically for older adults.

Provided on an armchair or recliner for maximum comfort and ease for your loved one.

Sessions may be provided at home clinic, client's home, or within residential aged care settings.

🏷️ $90: 45min ElderHeal™ session
📅 Available: July—Oct 2026

🔗 Links:
https://jennyelenihealth.com/elderheal

Warmly,

~ Jenny 🕊️

23/12/2025

Dear everyone,
Thank you for supporting my work, following this content, liking, sharing and simply acknowledging the importance of healing and therapeutic touch therapies for our elders for their physical and emotional wellbeing.

If you'd like to attend an ElderHeal workshop (Melbourne) to learn touch techniques and holistic therapies to care for our elder community, please get in touch.

Wishing you and your loved ones a lovely Christmas and a beautiful New Year.

Love,
Jenny 🕊️

https://jennyelenihealth.com/elderheal

10/11/2025

Aged care is a business. And it's failing.

This is a personal story, and still brings up so many emotions.

This photo is of my beloved Mum and me about a decade & half ago.

Her last months on this earth were in aged care.
She and all residents receive NO touch, except for basic needs and standard routines like washing, giving meals etc.

Babies die without touch.
Elderly wither away, physically, emotionally and spiritually without therapeutic touch.

Therapeutic touch, comforting touch, mindful healing touch – provides not only healing of pain and discomfort, but offers feeling of connection, safety, sense of being a part of a community.

We are social creatures.
Sometimes solice is fine and good.
For the elderly, it slowly kills them.

Read my story about me, mum and ElderHeal.
🔗My Story:
https://jennyelenihealth.com/elderlycare/mystory

🔗Learning ElderHeal-Touch Therapies for elder care:
https://jennyelenihealth.com/elderheal

(I'll soon write another lengthier, much more detailed and very candid article about all that occurred, uncover more about our broken system in aged care in Melbourne. At least from my eyes and experience.)

Enjoy my blog.
There are other one's there.

Love,
Jenny🕊️

08/11/2025

Open facial expression, kind and friendly voice tone, eye contact - creates social connection and safety.
This is science.
This is based on the work of Stephen Porges' Polyvagal theory.

This is important and so very needed for our elderly - many whom have little connection, little touch and feel vulnerable.

During a healing session with ElderHeal, almost the entire session, is with the client facing the practitioner. This can be done seated or lying supine on a massage table. This is the perfect opportunity to cultivate
vental vagal tone.
Increasing vagal tone upregulates the nervous system.
You client or loved one feel safe, feels noticed, feels they are part of something, feels seen.

Applying the touch techniques, with intermittent acknowledgement of the face, smiling, eye contact, voice tonation - has a deeper healing effect.

Try it.

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Warmly,

Jenny 🕊️

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ElderHeal: Touch therapies for the wellbeing of our elders.

🔗 https://jennyelenihealth.com/elderheal

👀I'll be setting new 2026 dates for the next Elderheal weekend course soon.

It all depends on YOU and your commitment to learn.

👉Please register your interest in the weekend course for ElderHeal, by sending me an email:
📧 [email protected]

A group of 4 is the minimum number!
📍In Melbourne.

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08/11/2025

Hands-on on the neck goes deep..

Most elderly will have weakening or perhaps atrophy of muscles, weakening of bones, dehydrated soft tissues, reduced lubrication in joint, brain fog, headaches, and the list could go on. Some of these factors are inevitable as one ages (loss of bone mass etc.) where others were never the norm (cognitive decline).

Applying gentle manoeuvres (of which I teach) at the base of the neck especially, can soothe the autonomic nervous system, induce relaxation, ease anxiety and stress, and of course, improve neck + head movement too which helps brain health (more blood flow to brain).

Often, we might focus hands-on healing on their hands, feet and back, perhaps upper back, and rub rub, rub. This is great. But, there are very special, specific areas that deserve attention and gentle, mindful touches to achieve the desired outcome.

Many elderly, whether at home or in assisted living, nursing homes, or hospitals, are under chronic stress, feel anxious and have a disregulated autonomic nervous system.

You, we, they - practitioners can help them tremendously with just a few simple techniques - of which I can teach you - to ease and calm the nervous system.

Additionally, you will help to reduce pain, and inflammation, and bring overall more alertness to their state of being.

I'm passionate about helping our elderly age with dignity and grace and as little pain and suffering as possible.

Final thoughts..
We're all going to get there some day, and we are all going to depart this physical world someday (and perhaps it's already written in our soul contract) – why not help each other get there a little more gently and with a lot more TOUCH.

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ElderHeal: Touch therapies for the wellbeing of our elders.

🔗 https://jennyelenihealth.com/elderheal/

👀I'll be setting new 2026 dates for the next Elderheal weekend course soon.

It all depends on YOU and your commitment to learn.

👉Please register your interest in the weekend course for ElderHeal, by sending me an email:
📧 [email protected]

A group of 4 is the minimum number!
📍In Melbourne.

Warmly,
Jenny 🕊️

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