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Your Body Practice with Julia McDonald
Helping women navigate midlife: little & often, all day long.
🌿 Fascia, movement & e-motion
✨ Certified Block Therapy Instructor
🌏 Sunshine Coast + Online
🔗 https://www.pain-freeliving.com.au/

16/10/2026

I looked in the mirror and felt like I’d lost a little of myself 😢
After having my baby in my early 40s, navigating postpartum, perimenopause and sleep deprivation, I wanted to bring more life back into my face.

This led to The Fascia Lift.

It’s a 75-minute class that works from the feet up, releasing tension through the whole body. Then we finish with the neck, jaw, scalp and face, for a natural lift, definition and radiance.

Using Human Garage fascial manoeuvres and Block Therapy, we combine movement, pressure and breath. There's no forcing, just flowing.

✨ No experience needed
✨ Come to one class or all eight
✨ Take home techniques you can use for life

📅 Fridays, 9:00–10:15am
🌹 8 weeks starting October 23
📍 Station Pilates, Building 1, Level 1/310 David Low Way, Bli Bli (undercover parking)
💛 First class $29 · Concession $19

Only 12 spots available.

👉 Tap Book Now, or use the link in my bio.

10/10/2026

Sunshine Coast... 15 years of chronic pain and fatigue. Three months after I discovered fascia release, I was pain free.
If you’re living with persistent pain, tension or a body that never quite seems to relax, I want you to know there’s another approach worth exploring.
I tried all sorts of things, but nothing made a lasting difference. Then I found fascia release, and everything changed.
Now I’m sharing what I’ve learnt at The Fascia Reset, my introductory fascia release workshop in Mudjimba.
We’ll explore the two techniques that changed my life: Block Therapy and Human Garage Fascial Maneuvers. You’ll learn how to work with your fascia to ease tension and support mobility, and you’ll leave with techniques you can use yourself at home, long after the workshop ends.
📍 Mudjimba (North Shore Community Centre)
📅 Saturday 17 October
⏰ 9:30am (90 minutes)
💲 $55 Adult / $35 Student Concession
If you’re curious about fascia, have tried everything for persistent pain, or simply want to understand your body better, this is for you.
🎟 It’s a small group and spots are limited.
Book here: https://events.humanitix.com/the-fascia-reset

09/10/2026

Sunshine Coast... 15 years of chronic pain and fatigue. Three months after I discovered fascia release, I was pain free.

If you’re living with persistent pain, tension or a body that never quite seems to relax, I want you to know there’s another approach worth exploring.

I tried all sorts of things, but nothing made a lasting difference. Then I found fascia release, and everything changed.

Now I’m sharing what I’ve learnt at The Fascia Reset, my introductory fascia release workshop in Mudjimba.

We’ll explore the two techniques that changed my life: Block Therapy and Human Garage Fascial Maneuvers. You’ll learn how to work with your fascia to ease tension and support mobility, and you’ll leave with techniques you can use yourself at home, long after the workshop ends.

📍 Mudjimba (North Shore Community Centre)
📅 Saturday 17 October
⏰ 9:30am (90 minutes)
💲 $55 Adult / $35 Student Concession

If you’re curious about fascia, have tried everything for persistent pain, or simply want to understand your body better, this is for you.

🎟 It’s a small group and spots are limited. Book via the link in the comments.

07/10/2026

What do you do with anger?
Most of us have learnt to either let it all out or push it down and keep going.
But anger is a whole body experience.
You can feel it as tension through your muscles, fascia, jaw, belly and breath.
Your nervous system can go into a state of stress and activation before you've even had time to think about what's happening.
So rather than judging the anger or pretending it isn't there, what if you gave your body a way to move through it?
Movement. Breath. Touch. Sound.
Simple ways to work with your body when you're feeling angry, stressed or overwhelmed.
This body awareness is what I love exploring through fascia. Not just talking about how we feel, but noticing what is happening in the body and having simple tools to work with tension before it builds.
Emotion are waves, the trick is to let them run their course and find a way to do that without harming yourself or others.
You don't have to suppress everything.
And you don't have to explode either.
Sometimes you just need to give the energy somewhere to go.
Try the practice next time you feel angry and let me know how you go!

30/09/2026

If you’ve been stuck in a long term health struggle, you’ll know it’s not just your body you’re dealing with.

It’s the thoughts running in the background too.

Am I ever going to feel better?
Can my body actually heal?
Can I trust it again?

This simple fascia manoeuvre has become a really meaningful one for me.

As you hold the position, breathe and quietly say:

I trust my body.
I trust myself.
I believe in my body.
I believe in myself.

Because for me, one of the biggest shifts in my own healing journey wasn’t finding another thing to try.

It was starting to believe that feeling well again was actually possible.

Try it for 20 seconds, a few times a day for the next three days, and notice any shifts in how you feel about yourself and your body 🍃🌹🙌❤️

28/09/2026

One day I heard a message that planted a tiny seed of hope. This is me passing it on. 🌱

For years I lived with chronic fatigue and chronic pain.

I used to be really active. Gym, running, hiking, yoga, swimming. But year by year, I had to give each one up, until even the walk to the bus stop hurt.

By 35, I was scared of what 55, 65 and 75 might feel like. I was heading for a diminished quality of life.

I tried every type of conventional and alternative therapy. Each one helped a little, but it always felt like I was pushing uphill.

Then a friend sent me a video about fascia.

Something in me just knew. My problem was my fascia.

I've been a student of fascia ever since. First with simple tools you probably have at home, then Block Therapy, and now Human Garage Fascial Manoeuvres.

It changed the way I move, stand, breathe and feel in my body.

The real test came when I walked over 60 km across four days in Carnarvon Gorge. After each walk, I spent an hour on the mat working on my fascia. By the evening, it honestly felt like I hadn't walked at all. I had no pain!!!

That experience still blows my mind when I think about where I started.

And it's why I share this work.

If you're living with chronic pain or tension, or your body just doesn't feel as free as it used to, I want you to know there are things you can explore with your own two hands.

Because sometimes, all it takes is one little seed of hope to change the direction you're heading.

I share what I've learned through my workshops and weekly classes.

Online Coming soon.
For in-person events on the Sunny Coast, check the comments for details.

The Fascia Lift is a short series is focused on fascia release for the head and face, but with a whole body approach. Be...
23/09/2026

The Fascia Lift is a short series is focused on fascia release for the head and face, but with a whole body approach. Because your face doesn't exist in isolation. The fascia throughout your body is connected, and tension and restriction elsewhere can influence how your head, neck and face look, feel and move.

We'll be exploring hands on fascia release techniques to support facial circulation, ease tension, reduce that puffy, heavy feeling and work towards greater facial definition and symmetry. And of course, a natural lift is a lovely bonus!

These techniques have helped me address a lifetime of migraines and vertigo, and more recently brain fog (thanks perimenopause!), so I'm really curious to see how they land with others.

You can join us for any or all of the 8 weeks. You'll learn techniques you can adapt and weave into everyday life, so you can continue practicing at home.

📍 Station Pilates, Bli Bli
🗓 Fridays at 9:15am
⏳ 75 minutes
🍃 8 weeks only, starting October 23
12 spots per class due to studio size

If you're feeling curious about fascia release, or you're ready to nurture yourself in a whole new way, I'd love to see you there
The studio is limited to 12 students per class.

22/09/2026

Chronic pain doesn’t always start with an injury. Often, it starts with tension.

And many of us are accumulating it throughout the day without even realising.

Sitting. Bracing. Stressing. Staying in the same position for hours.

Then we try to balance it all out with an hour of exercise.

But what about all those little opportunities to move and release tension throughout the rest of the day?

I believe in Little & Often. Bringing movement and fascia release into your everyday life, in ways that work with your current routine.

Imagine getting to the end of your day feeling like you’ve moved your body, rather than spent the day holding it?

Or reaching the end of the working week without feeling like you need to completely reset yourself.

That’s the power of those little moments, repeated often.

That’s what we’ll explore together in The Fascia Reset.

📅 Saturday 17 October | 9:30–11am
📍 Northshore Community Centre, Mudjimba
🎟 $55 | $35 concession
👥 Just 14 spots

Come experience Little & Often in your own body.

You'll find the booking link in the Comments.

14/09/2026

Your body feels different lately. Stiffer. More tense. Heavier. And no matter how much you exercise or stretch, it’s not shifting.

Maybe you sit at a desk for hours. Maybe you drive a lot. Maybe you’re constantly on your feet. Or maybe you’re doing plenty of exercise but your body still feels tight, restricted and uncomfortable.

What if the missing piece isn’t more exercise, more discipline or pushing your body harder?

The missing piece? Your fascia.

Fascia is the connective tissue that runs through your entire body. When it becomes tight and restricted, it can leave you feeling stiff, compressed, heavy or just not quite right, no matter how much you move.

And it’s something you can learn to work with yourself.

I’ve created The Fascia Reset Workshop for those who are ready to stop simply putting up with everyday aches, tension and stiffness, and start learning what they can actually do about it.

In 90 minutes, you’ll explore simple fascia release techniques, movement, breath and sound that you can bring into your everyday life.
This isn’t about forcing, stretching or trying to “fix” your body.
It’s about learning how to work with it.

You’ll leave with practical tools you can weave into your everyday life, because the things that make the biggest difference don’t need to take another hour of your time.
Little & Often.

If your body has been trying to get your attention lately, this is a powerful place to start.

🍃 The Fascia Reset Workshop
📍 Mudjimba, Sunshine Coast
⏰ 90 minutes
📅 Saturday 17 October
🏷️ $55 general | $35 concession & young adults

Learn how to manage your own aches, tension and pain, rather than relying on someone else to fix it for you.

🎟️ Spaces are limited I Book your place: https://events.humanitix.com/the-fascia-reset

It was never really about feet. 👣Recently I’ve shared a lot about our foundation:Toes. Calves. Balance. Movement.But if ...
13/07/2026

It was never really about feet. 👣
Recently I’ve shared a lot about our foundation:
Toes. Calves. Balance. Movement.
But if I’m honest, this has never really been about feet alone.
It’s about what they make possible.
Foot health is about so much more...
It’s about mobility, balance, and walking confidently through life.
It’s about having the foundations to keep doing the things we love as we age.

As I've grown older, I've found myself thinking less about fixing pain or improving posture for its own sake.
And much more about the kind of life I want to be living twenty or thirty years from now.
I want to walk on beaches. Hike through national parks. Travel.
Get down on the floor to play with future grandchildren one day... and get back up again with ease.
I want to keep saying yes to adventures, rather than quietly wondering whether my body will cope.

A lot of that has been inspired by watching my own mum. She's 72.
In recent years she's walked both the Camino de Santiago in Spain and the Kumano Kodo in Japan.
She still heads out each week for Parkrun.
She'll happily tackle challenging hiking trails with the whole family.
And now, watching her with my little Jack has been one of life's greatest gifts.
She gets down on the floor to play with him. Carries him. Crawls around beside him.
Moves with a confidence and freedom that so many people lose years, even decades earlier.

She taught me something...
Ageing is inevitable. But how we age is influenced by the choices we make every day.
Of course, none of us can control everything.
Life happens. Bodies change.
But I do believe we can influence far more than many of us realise.
Through everyday movement. Through body awareness.
Through understanding how our bodies are designed to move.
Through caring for the systems that support us, including our fascia.

Our feet are one of the most overlooked places.
They are our foundation… Every step. Every walk. Every hike. Every staircase.
Every time we catch ourselves before a fall.
Every time we confidently step onto uneven ground.

Our feet, fascia and movement patterns are connected in ways we are only beginning to understand.
This is especially important for anyone who has experienced chronic pain, stiffness, reduced mobility, or simply feels disconnected from their body.

I care so deeply about helping people reconnect with their feet.
I want more people to keep moving, exploring, and doing the things they love for as long as possible.
That's why I created the 28 Day Foot Foundations Challenge.
Not to create perfect feet. But to build greater awareness, mobility, balance and strength from the ground up.

If you've been following along over the past few weeks and something has resonated...
If you've found yourself looking at your feet a little differently...
Or you've been thinking, "Maybe now is the time..."
I'd love to have you join us.

The 28 Day Foot Foundations Challenge begins Wednesday Morning, and registration closes tomorrow.
If it feels like the right time for you, I'd be honoured to have you with us.
You can find all the details and register via the link in the comments.

Because we're not just caring for today's body.
We're caring for the body we'll be living in twenty years from now. ❤️

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