WELCOME TO ALIVE PHYSIO & WELLNESS
Located in Melbourne's inner eastern suburb of Hawthorn, our mission is to solve your chronic and complex pain, so that you have the capacity and knowledge to start your wellness journey.
Our Services
Physiotherapy
- Manual Therapy – Fascial Counterstrain
- Manual Therapy – Cranial Sacral Therapy
- Manual Therapy – Visceral Mobilisation
- Therapeutic exercise
- Dry needling
- Kinesiology taping
- Orthotics/Posture control insoles
- Telehealth
Yoga
- One on one sessions
- Group classes
- Telehealth
Types/style of Yoga
- Flow & Restore Yoga for Women
- Accessible / Chair Yoga
- Restorative Yoga
- Flow Yoga
Meditation
- One-on-one meditation
- Meditation and Mindfulness for beginners (Max group of 10)
- Meditation can help with:
- Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations.
- Building skills to manage your stress
- Increasing self-awareness.
- Focusing on the present
Kinesiology
- one on one consultation
- Kinesiology can help with:
- Identify their goals and clear the blockages that stop them achieving success.
- Empower clients in their chosen profession or business, to help them grow follow their dreams.
- Success orientated people achieve a work-life balance, with joy and harmony.
- Young children and young adults achieve success at school and university, by instilling them with confidence in their own abilities.
- Clients with a focus on sports, reduce physical ailments and improve their performance and recovery times.
- Clients overcome weight and physical issues.
- Clients overcome anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression.
"To us wellness is so much more than simply not being sick or injured. It is about getting a balance between physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual health, which means that one can’t be separated from the other"
Our Values
Engage
We communicate respectfully, understand your symptoms and look deeper into their causes in order to find a true solution.
Educate
We share our professional experience and expertise using an evidence-based approach.
Empower
We create a treatment plan that gives you the tools to manage your physical condition for long-lasting change.
Our amazing team
Nadeesha (Nad) Perera
Physiotherapist / Clinical Director
After graduating from La Trobe University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy, Nad worked in the public hospital system, private practice and Royal Military College (Duntroon) before setting up his own practice in 2007.
His clients appreciated his expertise, great service and understanding and the business grew exponentially. He loves working with individual patients and creating effective treatment plans to help them with their movement and pain issues.
Nad’s professional expertise includes:
- Headaches
- Nerve pain
- Digestive issues
- Complex pain syndromes
- Spinal pain and dysfunction
- Sport and physical performance
- Immunity issues which impact on day to day movement
Throughout his career Nad has continued to build upon his skills and now specialises in manual therapy (which includes cranial sacral therapy, visceral manipulation, strain and fascial counterstrain), dry needling.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Physiotherapy (La Trobe)
Certificate of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy (Curtin University)
Graduate Certificate of Manipulative Manual Therapy (Canberra)
Certificate of Nutrition for Physical Therapist (Florida)
For more detailed qualification please click on the linkedin.
Nad - Physiotherapist
Clinical director
Shilani Perera
Meditation teacher/Practice manager
I have been the Practice Manager of Elite physio (Canberra) and now Alive Physio & Wellness since 2007 working with my husband Nad Perera. I’m also a mum to my two amazing kids, Rhiannon and Declan. I worked as a HR/Industrial Relations Officer in APS (Australian Public Service) and several private organisations prior to working in our own clinic.
Meditation has been a part of my life for many years. Meditation was first introduced to me through my family, my culture, being born in a Buddhist country. At the time, I practiced meditation without knowing much about it and why it was important. I have meditated on and off throughout school and university life and enjoyed the benefits that came with the practice.
However, I only came to a deep understanding of the practice since 2013 with our move from Canberra to Melbourne. It was a challenging experience as I lost many things in my material world, my identity as the practice manager and the stable structure I had built over in Canberra. I questioned everything about my life including my existence. I naturally fell back into the practice for relief from stress and anxiety, but discovered myself in that process. Coming back to Melbourne really opened my eyes to look within and explore who I was rather than blaming my outer world for how I was feeling. I realised that the answers lied within me, not anywhere else or anyone else.
I no longer simply survive and float through life. I now have a purpose and that is to share my knowledge, wisdom and insight with others, to create a space and guide others to discover who they truly are through the practice of meditation. In 2020 I decided to formalise my experience and knowledge by completing the Certificate in Guiding and Teaching Meditation and Mindfulness through the Australian Centre for Meditation and Mindfulness.
Many patients have come through our Clinic and I have noticed one common theme. They all want to suffer less pain, or no pain and find happiness. What I’ve also observed is that many are unaware of the mind-body connection, which is critical for healing and overall well-being. Awareness is everything, if you are aware of your body, your thoughts, emotions and your feelings, you have a choice as to how you react to life.
Meditation and mindfulness is not a new thing. It has been around for decades. There is so much research and evidence out there that supports the practice. Now more than ever, being calm and finding peace within ourselves is something you can do to help reduce stress and overwhelm. My goal is to make meditation part of everyones’ daily routine no matter what your lifestyle is or how time poor you are.
What can mindfulness and meditation help you with?
- Reduces stress, anxiety, and depression
- Improves sleep
- Improves concentration and productivity
- Encourages compassion and self-acceptance
- Encourages a healthy lifestyle
- Helps with decision-making
- Reduces loneliness
- Reduces pain
- Reduces our reactiveness to the world outside of us
I have studied and achieved the following qualifications:
Bachelor of Business (Management) – Monash University 2001
Certificate in Guiding and Teaching Meditation and Mindfulness – Australian Centre for Meditation and Mindfulness 2020
Registered Meditation Teacher – Meditation Association of Australia
Shilani - Meditation teacher
Practice manager
Barbara Fitzpatrick-Haddy
Yoga teacher
Barbara of Shamanaka Yoga is a registered Yoga teacher who specialises in teaching
Yoga to women and children. She developed and teaches Flow & Restore Yoga for
Women and Unwind and Restore Yoga for Women. She is passionate about helping
women find balance and harmony in their lives through a more feminine Yoga practice
which supports hormonal systems, cycles and assists in stress management through
gentle and restorative Yoga poses and mindful self-compassion techniques.
With a unique and particular focus on how Yoga can support women entering into pre-
menopause, peri-menopause and menopause, was in part due to her own curiosity and questions as to how her Yoga practice could support her in her 40s and beyond.
She is also trained and certified in Women’s Yoga and Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga (including Mums ‘n’ bubs) under Ana Davis of Bliss Baby (Byron Bay) and is certified in Restorative Yoga under Lizzie Lasater and Judith Hanson Lasater (USA).
Barbara is also specially trained and certified in Children’s Yoga and Yoga for Children with diverse needs, including Autism, ADHD and additional physical needs.
She teaches Yoga in schools as part of wellbeing programs, after school Yoga classes, and school holiday workshops, as well as specialised Yoga classes for corporates “Bring your child to work days.” Barbara teaches weekly Yoga in-house classes for corporate and not for profit organisations as part of their wellbeing programs.
In 2020 she undertook further studies in Accessible Yoga with Jivana Heyman (USA), a style of practice which at its core invites inclusivity and agency, by incorporating Chair Yoga encourages students with diverse needs, or limited mobility to experience the form of Yoga poses adapted for their specific needs. Adapting poses invites students to be more kind and compassionate to self, particularly during times of change either physically or emotionally, to feel empowered and embrace a positive mindset of what “I can do” as opposed to “what I cannot do”. She teaches regular Accessible and Seniors Yoga classes.
Barbara - Yoga teacher
Manju Deo
Kinesiologist
I have been in the corporate world for many years and have firsthand experienced how the relentless stresses, deadlines, sales targets, etc had impacted my life and taken off my path, resulting in physical problems, mental challenges, emotional insecurities, low self-esteem, unhappy relationships, just to name a few. I was introduced to Kinesiology when finding my way back from the death of my husband and mother. It helped me so much at the time and without realising it, it helped me grow and come out of my shell. Feelings of not being good enough, not skinny enough, not smart enough, not rich enough, etc started to disappear.
I decided that I wanted to help women and men achieve a peaceful and empowering balance in life, where they can manage their career and family life, whilst still achieving their personal pursuits of happiness and realising their dreams. I know it sounds impossible, but I can help you reach these goals.
- Through Kinesiology I work to perform the following:
- Help clients identify their goals and clear the blockages that stop them achieving success.
- Empower clients in their chosen profession or business, to help them grow follow their dreams.
- Help success orientated people achieve a work-life balance, with joy and harmony.
- Help young children and young adults achieve success at school and university, by instilling them with confidence in their own abilities.
- Help clients with a focus on sports, reduce physical ailments and improve their performance and recovery times.
- Help clients overcome weight and physical issues.
- Help clients overcome anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression.
To be able to help you with the above, in addition to being a client and a practicing Kinesiologist, I have studied and achieved the following qualifications.
- B.Sc. in Science
- Certificate IV in Kinesiology
- Diploma of Kinesiology
International Diploma of Kinesiology - Post Grad as a Kinesiopractor.
- Qualified Faculty trainer
- Registered practitioner with AKA and AIK
- Registered clinic supervisor and mentor
Click on the link below to my website.