What Is Kinesiology: My Story & Your Journey Through Sessions
The Morning Everything Changed
Picture this: You're 29, building your life, and suddenly your body betrays you.
One morning, I woke up unable to move my legs. The doctors delivered their verdict with clinical detachment: permanent paralysis. My future, as I'd imagined it, was shattered.
But in that hospital bed, something shifted. Instead of accepting defeat, I chose curiosity. What if my body could heal? What if there was another way?
With the guidance of a kinesiologist and neuro-physiotherapist, I didn't just walk again—I discovered that healing happens in layers most people never explore. Physical, yes. But also emotional, mental, and energetic. It was like finding a secret language my body had been trying to speak all along.
That revelation became my life's work.
Kinesiology gave me back my life. Now I help others remember they have the power to reclaim theirs.
Why This Matters Now More Than Ever
We are living through a health crisis that affects millions:
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In Australia, around 5% of people live with an autoimmune disease—conditions that can affect energy, mobility, focus, and quality of life
Autoimmune disorders are among the fastest-growing chronic conditions in Australasia
In the US, about 15 million people live with an autoimmune disease
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Stress is now called the "epidemic of the 21st century"
In Australia, 59% of people report high stress about the cost of living, and 35% say health itself is a major stressor
Burnout is costing companies billions—between US$4,000–$21,000 per worker per year
Behind every statistic is a person living with fatigue, pain, and uncertainty.
If you're here, maybe this feels familiar:
Persistent fatigue or body pain that impacts your daily life
Autoimmune flare-ups that worsen with chronic stress
Anxiety or depression making symptoms harder to manage
A cycle of trying treatments that help a little—but don't create lasting change
Feeling like you're holding everyone else together while falling apart inside
You're not alone—and there is another way forward.
What Is Kinesiology? The Modality That Changed Everything
When I was 31 years old, I changed my career from the fashion industry after experiencing enormous change in my life. I was rebuilding my mind, body, and life after recovering from an MS attack that paralysed me.
A kinesiologist and neuro-physiotherapist helped me to walk again, so I was inspired to go back to school to study a fusion of Sports Science and Chinese Medicine and I found school that offered a Diploma in Sports Kinesiology. I learned about Chinese medicine, motor learning, nutrition, mind-body connection, anatomy and physiology.
My studies explored the body's connection structurally, biochemically, emotionally, and electromagnetically. This was the first time I had understood the body in such an integrated way, rather than seeing it in isolation.
I discovered that we don't think or function in isolation; there are many moving dynamic parts, all connected in a very powerful way. Kinesiology was one of the biggest gifts that has ever come into my life.
Here's How It Works:
We are dynamic human beings comprised of many moving parts. Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, I assess your body as a whole—structurally, biochemically, emotionally, and energetically.
Using muscle testing as a biofeedback tool, kinesiology accesses your subconscious mind (which controls 95% of your processes and reactions) to identify what imbalances need correction.
Think about it: We have all felt the connection between our brains and our bodies. When we are emotionally nervous, we can experience changes in our digestive or urinary systems. The mind and body are so connected. The brain controls and sends signals out to our bodies, impacting many of our functions.
The Ancient Wisdom Behind It:
Kinesiology is often described as working with an energy called Qi, that circulates through metaphysical meridians in the body. When the flow of Qi through our meridians becomes blocked, illness results. The purpose of Kinesiology is to promote the proper flow of Qi through the meridians, thus restoring health and wellbeing.
Our muscles are connected to the brain via the Nervous System and run through multiple meridians in traditional Chinese medicine. Via the muscles, Kinesiologists access the subconscious brain that oversees approximately 95% of our processes and reactions.
Our brain stores our memories and past experiences. It is from these memories and experiences that our core beliefs, behaviours, and habits are formed.
Kinesiology can access suppressed difficult emotions and limiting fear-based beliefs, stored in your body, subconscious brain, and nervous system.
Using the muscles as a biofeedback tool and accessing this important part of the brain, we can then understand what imbalances might need to be corrected, thus rewiring the bugs in the software and restoring balance in the body again.
When we get to the bottom of any emotional links to our physical symptoms or disease, it is like turning the tap off at the source of stress.
What Kinesiology Can Help With
This powerful modality can:
✓ Release stored emotional stress and trauma
✓ Identify limiting beliefs blocking your healing
✓ Restore balance to your nervous system
✓ Rewire stress patterns at their source
✓ Optimise your body's natural healing intelligence
Specific Conditions:
Autoimmune conditions and MS
Chronic stress and fatigue
Anxiety and emotional overwhelm
Sleep disturbances
Digestive issues
Pain and inflammation
Life transitions and relationship stress
Burnout and executive overwhelm
My Personal Experience: When I Sat Down at the Piano
When I studied kinesiology, it was like I sat down at a piano and I could just play. I just got it and could see how I could use my ability to feel energy in a way that could move it and unblock imbalances.
I learned to use the technique as a tool to heal my own imbalances. The results were so outstanding that I decided to dedicate my life to helping others do the same.
Kinesiology helps me to get to the cause of stress in my mind and body. It helps me to navigate life, it brings guidance and clarity. It connects all the dots and solves a puzzle of many moving parts.
We are made of physical, mental, emotional, intuitive, intellectual, biochemical, spiritual, and energetic parts. Taking an integrated approach was a game changer for me.
In every session, I feel like I have returned back to myself. I experience an alignment of my mind, body, and spirit. I feel lighter, clearer, and more relaxed. I am better able to manage stress and take on life's challenges with a positive and resilient mindset.
The Bend Like Bamboo Method: Built on 6 Pillars of Health
After my recovery, I developed the Bend Like Bamboo Method based on a simple but profound truth: True strength isn't about being unbreakable—it's about knowing how to bend without breaking.
Just as bamboo remains rooted yet flexible, I guide you through developing unshakeable resilience while maintaining your authentic self.
The Bamboo Method is built on six evidence-based pillars of health:
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Retrain your mind to bend, not break
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Restore strength and energy
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Nourish and fuel your body
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Strengthen relationships and emotional wellbeing
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Calm the nervous system, reduce stress
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Build clarity and self-awareness
Unlike programs that only address one part of the puzzle, The Bamboo Method is different. In my Heal and Thrive Programs you are working with a trusted leader in resilience who understands both the science and the lived experience of chronic conditions and burnout.
Your Journey: What Happens in Sessions 1-6
Whether you're in my HEAL Program (for autoimmune conditions and chronic stress) or my THRIVE Program (for executive burnout), the journey unfolds over six transformative sessions. Here's what to expect:
Session 1: The Foundation - Understanding Your Stress Response (1.5 hours)
What Happens:
Your initial session begins with a 30-minute discussion where we get to know each other, your goals, and your symptoms. This isn't just information gathering—it's the beginning of understanding the deeper patterns at play.
Next, we commence 15 minutes of mindset coaching where you'll learn tools that will help you integrate the session, rewiring your brain to fire growth and repair pathways instead of survival and stress signals.
Then, you'll experience your first 45-minute kinesiology session on a massage table or via Zoom if you prefer a virtual session. In session one, we focus on mindset tools that can help you be more aware of what is causing a stress response in your nervous system.
What You'll Discover:
For everyone, the stress response is unique. But once discovered, this awareness and understanding can promote repair and a mindset that promotes positivity and performance.
You'll learn how to find a deeper anchor within yourself that will shift your relationships, your ability to manifest, and your capacity to heal.
What Causes Stress? We'll Explore:
Constant worry
Always wanting to be in control
Always being hard on yourself
Not feeling like you are enough
Not allowing others to nurture you
Blocks to receiving and creating financial stability
Unable to receive support in your life
Emotional conflicts with family and loved ones
Navigating change
Death and grief
Living your life to someone else's expectations
Setting the bar too high so you never feel successful
What You Receive:
Follow-up notes from your session
eBook: Resilience
Introduction to The 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 (1.5 hours)
What Happens:
We begin with a 15-minute check-in to review how you're feeling mentally and physically after your last session. Sessions are typically 2-4 weeks apart, giving your nervous system time to integrate the shifts.
In session two, you'll learn about the state of mind that promotes stress, degeneration, and inflammation—that feeling of being disengaged and living on autopilot.
Through kinesiology, you'll discover how to be more present and connected. We access a more flexible state that promotes growth and repair pathways, mood stability, positivity, and healing.
The Feeling We're After:
Remember the honeymoon stage of love? Or how relaxed you feel on a holiday? That's the state your body needs to heal and thrive. This session teaches you how to access it daily.
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 (1.5 hours)
What Happens:
After our 15-minute check-in, session three focuses on stretches and exercises that promote fitness, detoxification, and endurance. Your mind-body functional movement program will be customised to your physical and emotional needs.
This isn't about pushing your body harder—it's about helping you destress and let go of negative emotions that you're ready to release.
I'll assess any physical symptoms or pain in your body and work to aid correction, addressing you structurally, biochemically, emotionally, and energetically.
The Four Layers We Address:
Structural: Posture alignment, fascia, cranial work, TMJ, tendon and ligament stress, pain
Biochemical: Nutrition, hormones, toxins, gut health
Mental-Emotional: Emotional links to physical ailments, coaching to change old fear-based belief patterns
Electromagnetic: Your energy system—the most malleable state, connected to physical, emotional, and biochemical aspects
What You Receive:
Follow-up notes from your session
eBook: Happy Body
A customised movement and stretch mind-body program
For HEAL clients: This session often brings relief from chronic pain patterns and inflammation as we address both the physical structure and the emotional holding.
For THRIVE clients: This session typically releases the physical tension from chronic stress—the tight shoulders, jaw clenching, and neck pain that executives carry.
Session 4: The Nourishment Factor - Cellular Healing Through Food (1.5 hours)
What Happens:
After our 15-minute check-in, session four focuses on how to nourish your body on a cellular level with fresh, local, and sustainable whole foods.
You'll learn the common denominators from studies on foods that maximise repair, which foods to focus on, and which ones to avoid.
The Practical Part:
Learn how to prepare 625 delicious recipes with ease at home that will help you eat better and feel better. This isn't about restriction—it's about abundance and nourishment.
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 (1.5 hours)
What Happens:
After our 15-minute check-in, session five explores how to give your mind and body the best environment to adapt to change.
You'll discover how to promote repair in your mind and body with the power of meditation. Learn how to wash and empty your mind of old and redundant beliefs and stories from your past, and choose new reactions, thoughts, and habits that support the systems of your body.
The Ripple Effect:
A deeper connection within you leads to stronger and more fulfilling relationships in your life. When you're regulated, you regulate others around you.
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 the 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 (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 you can rewire the brain to be more positive and solution-focused. This tool also helps you stay focused on your ongoing journey, supporting a maintenance program.
The Lasting Tool:
Journaling becomes your daily anchor—a way to check in with yourself, track your progress, and maintain the shifts you've created.
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 have mastered the art of bending like bamboo, you now have the tools to boost resilience in your life with flexibility.
Change is a constant in life, and our ability to manage stress and change can determine how happy, healthy, and successful we can be in our lives.
Maintenance sessions are available anytime you feel the need for 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
"YOU are the most amazing woman… inside and out. I'm blessed to have crossed your path in my life. I'm not sure if you're fully aware of the impact you have on people's lives. You're not only inspirational, but your impact is massive. You change people's lives. You live it and breathe it. A teaching Angel." - Lucia
"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
Why HEAL and THRIVE Are Different
You'll receive personalised kinesiology sessions that uncover hidden stress patterns holding back your body's ability to heal.
Unlike programs that only address one part of the puzzle, HEAL and THRIVE are different:
You work with a trusted leader in resilience who understands both the science and the lived experience
You receive tools that last for life—not quick fixes that fade away
Evidence-based methods combined with compassionate, practical support
That's why HEAL and THRIVE aren't just another wellness option—they're the most logical and complete choice for anyone seeking true healing and resilience.
The Science Behind the Magic
Our meridians and energy networks resemble electronic wiring. Using aids like acupuncture and muscle testing, we test your energy circuits in the same way that electrical engineers 'troubleshoot' a printed circuit board, searching for electrical 'pathologies'.
Our energy system is our most malleable layer and is connected to the physical, emotional, and biochemical aspects of the body. The traditional Chinese medicine technique of Kinesiology can reset your entire system, helping you to let go of stress and any barriers that may be impacting happiness and wellbeing.
Who This Is For
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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
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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
Whether you're facing health challenges, stress, or seeking transformation on your wellness journey, this comprehensive 4 - 6-month immersion 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 whilst maintaining your authentic self.
It's time to reduce stress, calm symptoms, and restore your energy.
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.
Book Your First Session
HEAL Program (Autoimmune & Stress):
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THRIVE Program (Executive Burnout):
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Not sure which program is right for you?
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Website: https://www.bendlikebamboo.com
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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.
Now, as a Kinesiologist and Resilience Coach specialising in stress regulation, I witness daily miracles as leaders transform their relationship with stress, reclaim their energy, and discover they're far more resilient than they ever imagined.
Kinesiology gave me back my life after paralysis. Now I help others—whether they're healing from autoimmune conditions or burnout— helping them to remember they have the power to reclaim theirs.
Not just as leaders, but as the incredible humans they've always been.
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.
WHO THIS IS FOR:
✓ CEOs and executives experiencing stress or burnout
✓ People with autoimmune conditions seeking healing and transformation
✓ Leaders wanting to build sustainable high performance
✓ Leaders navigating chronic health challenges while maintaining demanding careers
WORK WITH AMANDA:
HEAL Program (Autoimmune & Stress):https://www.bendlikebamboo.com/heal-bamboo-method
THRIVE Program (Executive Burnout): https://www.bendlikebamboo.com/thrive-bamboo-method
Foundations Program (The Bamboo Course): https://www.bendlikebamboo.com/bamboo-foundation
Free Clarity Call: https://calendly.com/amanda_campbell_/15min?month=2025-11
Free Resilience Toolkit: https://www.bendlikebamboo.com/heal-subscribe
Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/680729421231191
The Podcast on Itunes https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-bend-like-bamboo-resilience-podcast/id1536494209
The Podcast on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3bu07WcTq6VDbzTlK197zw
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