Every new client is required to complete a client form and provide informed consent before a Spinal Energetics practitioner proceeds with a session. 

Clients are responsible for providing accurate information about relevant physical and psychological health conditions, medications, pregnancy, recent injuries or surgery and other circumstances that may affect participation. 

The practitioner is responsible for reviewing this information within the boundaries of their professional scope. If Spinal Energetics is not appropriate, or the client's needs require assessment or care outside the practitioner's qualifications, the practitioner should not proceed and should refer or recommend appropriate support where relevant. 

The following guidance applies to in-person and online sessions, including one-on-one and group sessions. Course participation may have additional requirements because students both give and receive practical work. 

Pregnancy and postpartum 

Spinal Energetics is not suitable during the first trimester of pregnancy. Sessions may be considered during the second trimester where no other contraindications apply. 

We do not recommend commencing Spinal Energetics for the first time during the third trimester. If you are already familiar with the practice and are in your third trimester, please speak with HQ or your practitioner before booking so your circumstances can be considered. 

Following birth, suitability should be considered individually. Recovery can vary significantly depending on the birth, surgery, complications and general health. Please disclose that you are postpartum when booking so your practitioner can determine whether it is appropriate to proceed. 

Children and adolescents 

Spinal Energetics is not suitable for children under 12 years of age. Clients aged 13 to 17 require a parent or legal guardian to provide consent and be present during the session. 

Older adults 

Suitability for older adults should be considered according to the individual rather than age alone. A practitioner may need to consider mobility, bone health, recent injury or surgery, general physical health and the person's ability to participate comfortably. Where there is uncertainty, the practitioner may decline or modify the session or recommend that the client seek advice appropriate to their health circumstances. 

Physical and psychological contraindications 

Spinal Energetics should not be provided where a person's current physical or psychological condition makes participation inappropriate, or where their needs fall outside the practitioner's qualifications and scope of practice. 

Contraindications include diagnosed severe PTSD; psychosis or schizophrenia; an acute manic episode associated with bipolar disorder; recent significant physical injuries, fractures and/or surgery; epilepsy or a history of seizures; a history or diagnosis of aneurysm; significant cardiovascular or heart conditions; severe asthma; and psychiatric hospitalisation, acute emotional crisis or spiritual emergency within the previous three years. 

Any other medical, psychiatric or physical condition that may significantly affect a person's ability to participate safely should be disclosed and considered before proceeding. 

Medication 

Clients should disclose relevant medications on their client form. Medication use should not be described broadly as unsafe simply because a medication affects the brain or nervous system. Where a medication is relevant to alertness, capacity, movement, psychological stability or another aspect of participation, the practitioner should consider this alongside the client's current presentation and their own scope of practice. 

Alcohol and other substances 

Clients must not attend a Spinal Energetics session while under the influence of alcohol, illicit substances or plant medicines where these may impair their judgement, capacity to consent or ability to participate safely. 

Spinal Energetics practitioners must not incorporate illicit substances or plant medicines into Spinal Energetics sessions. 

Animals 

Spinal Energetics practitioners are not trained or authorised through Spinal Energetics to provide the modality to animals. 

A group session is not intended to be a stronger or more advanced version of a one-on-one appointment; it is valuable because the context is different. The presence of other people introduces rhythm, relationship, shared attention and unpredictability, all of which can change the way an experience unfolds. 

Research into interpersonal synchrony has shown that people interacting together can display coordination across behaviour and, in some circumstances, physiological activity. Importantly, the science is nuanced: synchrony is context-dependent, the effects reported across studies are variable, and more synchrony is not automatically better. That makes it more useful to us as a point of inquiry than as a marketing claim. It reminds us that human beings are responsive systems whose experience can change in the presence of others, without requiring us to pretend that science has explained every aspect of a Spinal Energetics group. 

From an Eastern perspective, relationship and context have never been entirely separate from the person. A group session allows these different ways of thinking to sit beside the lived experience itself. Some participants become more aware of the room and the people around them; some become more absorbed in their own internal experience; others notice very little difference from individual work. None of these responses is more correct than another. 

The potential benefit is therefore not a promised outcome, but the opportunity to encounter Spinal Energetics within a shared field of attention and to notice what becomes different or what remains entirely one's own. 

A group Spinal Energetics session allows several people to experience the practice within the same shared environment. Each participant has their own table, their own attention and their own individual experience, while the practitioner works across the room. What makes the group format particularly interesting is that individuality does not disappear simply because an experience is shared; if anything, the differences between people can become more apparent. 

At the same time, human beings are remarkably responsive to one another. We fall into rhythm during conversation, unconsciously mirror aspects of posture and expression, become quiet when a room becomes quiet, and can coordinate movement without deliberately deciding to do so. Research into interpersonal synchrony examines this tendency for aspects of behaviour and physiology to become temporally coordinated during social interaction. It is a developing field rather than a complete explanation, but it offers a useful Western lens for considering why the presence of other people can alter an experience. 

Eastern traditions have long approached the individual as existing within a wider relational and energetic context rather than as a completely separate unit. Spinal Energetics does not suggest that interpersonal synchrony and an energetic field are scientifically equivalent ideas. They arise from different frameworks. What is interesting is the question they share: how separate are we, really, from the environment and people with whom we are interacting? 

A group session gives that question a practical context. One person's movement, stillness or change in state may alter the quality of attention in the room, while another person may remain almost entirely absorbed in their own experience. There is no expectation that the group behaves as one, and no need to decide that every shared moment has a single mechanism behind it. The value lies partly in being able to notice what changes when an individual practice becomes a shared one. 

New clients are welcome to attend group sessions provided no individual contraindications apply. 

Spinal Energetics is not suitable during the first trimester of pregnancy. 

Sessions may be considered during the second trimester, provided no other contraindications apply. You do not need to see a particular type of Spinal Energetics practitioner simply because you are pregnant, but you should always tell your practitioner about your pregnancy before the session. 

We also do not recommend beginning Spinal Energetics for the first time during the third trimester. In the same way that someone may choose not to commence a new body-based practice late in pregnancy, we prefer that a person's first experience of Spinal Energetics occurs at a more appropriate time. 

If you are already familiar with the practice and are in your third trimester, please contact HQ or your practitioner before booking so your individual circumstances can be considered. 

There is no single number of sessions that is right for everyone. An initial session can be a useful way to experience the practice and decide whether you would like to continue. 

For people who want to explore Spinal Energetics further, we generally recommend beginning with three appointments. This gives you time to become familiar with the practice and to notice how your responses may differ across more than one session. 

There is no expectation that everyone follows the same schedule, and your practitioner can discuss frequency with you based on your individual circumstances and preferences. 

Not everybody moves during a Spinal Energetics session, nor is movement something we are trying to achieve. It is simply one possible expression of response, alongside changes in breath, sensation, attention, emotion, sound or a growing sense of stillness. Sometimes what is happening can be seen quite clearly from the outside; at other times very little is visible, even though the person may be having a rich internal experience. 

We tend to give more significance to what we can see, particularly when something is dramatic, but visible intensity and personal depth are not the same thing. A large movement is not automatically more meaningful than a small shift, and stillness is not necessarily the absence of a response. The body does not need to perform for the session to have value. 

For the practitioner, the question is therefore less 'How do I make this person move?' and more 'What is actually present here?' That change in emphasis matters. When movement is no longer the destination, it can be understood as one part of a much broader language of response. 

An online Spinal Energetics session explores the practice without physical proximity, which can initially seem like a contradiction for work that is so closely concerned with the body. Yet much of human connection already occurs without touch. The tone of a voice, the rhythm of an interaction, facial expression, attention, expectation and the feeling of being observed or understood can all influence the way we respond, even when another person is not physically beside us. 

Within an online session, the practitioner works through focused attention, observation, verbal guidance, breath, movement and processes specifically adapted to the remote format. The client remains in their own environment, which can itself change the quality of the experience; for some people this creates familiarity and ease, while others prefer the immediacy of being physically in the same room. 

Spinal Energetics also includes an energetic understanding of connection, although we do not use quantum physics or another scientific theory to claim that remote energetic interaction has been proven. There is value in being able to say both things at once: we know that human beings influence one another through many forms of non-physical interaction, and there are aspects of energetic experience for which the mechanism remains an open question. The absence of a complete explanation does not require us to invent one. 

Online and in-person sessions are therefore related rather than interchangeable. Each offers a different context through which attention, relationship and response can be explored, and neither requires the person to produce a particular kind of experience in order for the session to be meaningful. 

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Session fees vary according to the practitioner and appointment type.

• Initial one-on-one session: $220

• Return one-on-one sessions: prices vary by practitioner

• Group sessions: from $79

• Initial group session: $129

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