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Gentle Ortho-Bionomy on the Sunshine Coast. No forced manipulations — just the information your body needs to self-correct.

Advanced practitioner & instructor
Rob holds a B.Nat.Res (UNE) and is an Advanced Practitioner and Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy. He believes in ongoing learning and is constantly studying to broaden his knowledge. He practises on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
If you want to go deeper into how the body self-corrects, his book Exploring Your Intelligent Body is a practical companion to the work in session — mindfulness and simple self-care exercises for musculoskeletal, mental and emotional dysfunction.
Listen now to Rob’s Exploring Your Intelligent Body on Spotify“Upon receiving treatment during a volleyball tournament I had immediate relief of some of my shoulder pain. The exercises helped my shoulder sit in a stronger position.”
“Highly recommend. Rob is very knowledgeable and skilled at what he does. I always walk out feeling so much better, and he genuinely cares about making sure your body is moving well and functioning as it should.”
“I have had a lot of bodywork done over the years — decades of it. What Rob does works… it creates a shift, a tangible shift that has you walking out of the treatment feeling considerably better than when you walked in. Rather than forcing anything to happen, it’s almost like a physical suggestion is made to your body that it knows how to heal.”
“A master of his craft. As a professional bodyworker myself I’m very picky with who I let work on my body. Rob not only knows his stuff, but he offers a genuinely good quality treatment, focusing on a gentle and targeted approach. If you’re after a really good bodywork session, get on his table.”
“I’ve finally sorted out my posture after hunching all my life after Rob’s treatments. So grateful!!”
“I have been having trouble with my lower back for a few years now. I have had a few treatments and already the results are remarkable. I can move around freely without pain. I would highly recommend Rob for treatment.”
“In one session Rob has helped me gain some belief that my whiplash is on the way out — he was able to talk to me and my body in a way I felt heard, with my overall symptoms lessening inside the session.”
“Having dealt with chronic body pain for the last several years, I am deeply relieved to have found Rob’s service. After just one session the majority of my pain has vanished. Honestly feels like he has given me a new body. This has been the most profound and transformative session I have received.”
“Tried everything. Five stars doesn’t even come close to the gratitude, results and benefits I have received from Rob’s treatments. My L5 kept going out of alignment — I’ve been hospitalised from the pain. I arrived in a back brace, 10 seconds off calling an ambulance, and left walking and at ease in my body from one session.”
“I pulled my rotator cuff and had two months of weekly physio with no real results. After the first treatment with Rob I had half my range of motion back. After the second I was doing full push-ups again.”
“Before I saw Rob I could not lift my arm up past my shoulder. Two sessions later I can. If you are a cynic I suggest you see Rob — you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.”
“Within one session I was feeling a lot freer and I wasn’t getting the aches and pains that I was regularly getting.”
“A patient with severe disabling pain from degenerative spinal and facet joint disease was remarkably improved after three sessions. She is generally pain free and no longer requires analgesic medication.”
How it works
Ortho-Bionomy developed out of Osteopathy in the mid 1970s, so it has been around for about 50 years. It treats your body as an intelligent system — with a protective mechanism that helps you avoid injury, and a self-corrective mechanism that heals when something goes wrong.
Think of a sprained ankle: your weight shifts automatically to spare the sore joint. When pain persists, the body simply needs two things.
Specific input so the nervous system can understand the dysfunction — where the bones are, how the joints are moving — and choose a better pattern.
When the protective mechanism relaxes your body can change faster. Feeling safe speeds up the healing process. Forced or painful techniques often make the body feel threatened, which makes the body brace — which slows the very change you want.
Working with the nervous system is far more efficient than trying to “fix” the body. Ortho-Bionomy also works with the relationship between suppressed emotion and the physical body. Grief, stress and heartbreak change how you function. When those patterns get stuck, we release the body — and the emotions release themselves. There is no need to discuss the trauma.
Approaching the body differently leads to different results.
If you have tried many different forms of therapy and are still suffering with chronic pain, Ortho-Bionomy may be what you are searching for.
Book a session todayDiscover Ortho-Bionomy
Watch Rob Rich introduce the work. Then notice what a session is actually like: clothed, unhurried, and aimed at the pattern — not just the sore spot.
What people come in with
Ortho-Bionomy helps a wide range of musculoskeletal and nervous-system conditions — including complex pain after car accidents, falls or other impacts.

Approaching the body differently leads to different results.
What to expect
01We start with what you would like to work on. Then you lie on a massage table — fully clothed.
02A sore neck is rarely just a neck. We look at the lower back, pelvis, feet, thoracic spine and shoulders to find the postural pattern underneath.
03Most people leave deeply relaxed. The body can take two or three days to integrate the changes that happen during the session. Mild new sensations are often a sign that the broader underlying pattern of dysfunction is releasing.
04The last part of the session is simple exercises. Do them and you get the best results. If anything feels too strong, text Rob — you may just need a tweak.
Common patterns
These are the stories Rob hears most often — and the patterns of dysfunction that usually sit underneath the painful conditions people experience.
For athletes
“Less energy for the basics. More power when you ask for it.”
Long hours of training lay down fascia patterns that support your most common movements — and restrict everything else. You feel it as “tightening up” when you push to the limit.
Releasing those patterns reduces injury risk, restores range, and means less energy for the basics. A tennis serve and backhand both need rotation through shoulder, ribcage and pelvis. Increasing the range of movement and freedom of movement in both directions increases power in both directions.
Small changes in how the pelvis works can lengthen your gait — the easiest way to cover more ground in running sports. Athletes often recover faster after sessions too.
Train with a body that cooperatesReal results
From frozen shoulders and training accidents to headaches that finally ease — these are the people who tried a different approach. Rob has 31 five-star Google reviews.

“It has now been around 10 months since receiving treatment from Rob and my shoulder has still zero pain. He has truly changed my life.”
An awkward landing playing touch football injured Larry’s right shoulder. Fifteen years of physio and living with pain followed. After one hour with Rob the pain dropped; after two more sessions and simple exercises it went from a constant 7/10 to zero — and stayed that way.
Larry Thompson
Hervey Bay

“After only a couple of appointments with Rob my body was back in its natural position and my running and recovery time had improved dramatically.”
Ben Naug
Beachfit Outdoor Fitness

“I dislocated my shoulder and six months later it still hadn’t healed. After one session with Rob I was amazed at how much it improved.”
Dr Mark A. Williams
NSW
Press play to hear clients describe what changed after sessions with Rob.
“Amazing. I am not having as many headaches. My back pain is better and my chest pain is less. I’m feeling a lot better and I have a lot more energy.”
Bev Whish Wilson
Tin Can Bay
“I found it to release a lot of tension in the joint and eased the pain dramatically… a lot of pain relief nearly down to no pain at all.”
Dane Karolak
Maryborough
“Ortho-Bionomy has made the most enormous difference to my life.”
Jean Wood
Hervey Bay
“Ortho-Bionomy is completely different to any therapy I’ve ever had. I would recommend it to anybody.”
Louise McLean
Hervey Bay
For students
Learning Ortho-Bionomy is a way of discovering how your body works — and how to help it self-correct, without forced manipulations. Rob teaches the practitioner program on the Sunshine Coast. These two ebooks are a free starting point before you join a course.

Free PDF · 9 pages
How the practitioner program fits together — Phase 4 through 7, proprioception, and why each course is a piece of the puzzle rather than a set of forced techniques.
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Free PDF · 9 pages
The work is based on principles, not recipes. This ebook introduces how those principles apply to your own body, your clients, and the rest of your life.
Download ebookReady for the hands-on training? Ask Rob about upcoming practitioner courses when you get in touch.
Enquire about coursesMake an appointment
Call, text or send a note. If you cannot make a booking, please let Rob know as soon as you can so the time can go to someone else.

Cancellation within 12 hours of an appointment, or a no-show, is charged at the full session fee.

Free PDF · 6 pages
Gentle Ortho-Bionomy exercises you can do at home while you are pregnant — for lower back, SI joint, sciatic and coccyx discomfort. A free PDF from Rob Rich.
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