Liz Bennett

Physiotherapy, Clinical Pilates, Yoga Teacher

Meet our Physiotherapist Liz Bennett  who can integrate hands-on treatment, needling, Clinical Pilates and Yoga into your rehabilitation pathway.

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Liz Bennett

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Opening Hours

Reception Hours
Monday – Saturday
9am – 5pm

Practitioner Appointments
8am – 6pm

Therapy Works
Suite 3b/367 Barrenjoey Rd
Newport NSW 2106

(02) 9999 5544

Introduction

With decades of clinical experience behind her, Liz can help you restore movement after injuries, illness or surgery, and support you in ongoing self management and prevention strategies including Physiotherapy, Clinical Pilates, exercise and therapeutic Yoga.

Liz works with you to manage the underlying causes of dysfunction, assessing and treating the whole person, not just the symptoms. Her mission is for every one of her clients to progress towards the things in life that bring them meaning, independence and better quality of life, be that surfing, riding bikes or picking up your grandkids.

You can expect to be provided with quality hands-on assessment and treatment, including massage and acupuncture.

Liz offers a diverse skill set of holistic and evidence based strategies for people living with chronic pain, arthritis, acute injuries and rehab. She is a trauma informed and pain aware practitioner.

As Liz has practiced and taught yoga for over twenty years, she has particular interests in hyper-mobility, spinal pain and hip problems, all of which are conditions which often draw people to yoga, but can be aggravated through an inappropriate or uninformed approach.

Liz is a Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Australia, Yoga Therapy Committee member, and past presenter at the Australian Yoga Therapy Conference. As an Applied Anatomy teacher she has delivered many Yoga Teacher Trainings and workshops on injury prevention.

Founder of Balanced Practice Yoga in Warriewood, Liz and Amelia Disspain run Balanced Practice Yoga Teacher Trainings and Total Escape Retreats in Byron Bay, Portugal and Bali.

She’s passionate about making Yoga and Pilates accessible and tailored. Whether an experienced practitioner or beginner, Liz can help you to develop and adapt a routine individualised to the needs of your body, no matter what your age.

On her days off, Liz loves to do Pilates or yoga and she is a passionate mountain biker. She balances an active lifestyle with Vipassana meditation and spending time with her family.

Her mentors include the Canadian pain specialist, Physiotherapist and Professor Neil Pearson, and Yoga Therapists Vina Shah and Saraswathi Vasudhevan.

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Qualifications and Trainings

  • Bachelor of Applied Science in Physiotherapy, (1999, University of South Australia) MAPA.
  • Clinical Pilates  Polestar Pilates
  • Svastha Yoga of Krishnamacharya Therapy Program  Svastha Yoga International
  • Teaching Groups and Teaching Individuals  Pain Care Aware – Neil Pearson
  • GLA:D® Australia Training
  • Continence and Women’s Health Level 1 Australian Physiotherapy Association
  • The Sports Thorax  Thoracic Ring Approach   Dr Linda-Joy Lee Connect Therapy
  • The Sports Pelvis and Hip.  Dr Linda-Joy Lee Connect Therapy
  • Anatomy Trains and Body Reading Thomas Myers
  • Chest, Breath and Abdomen  Thomas Myers
  • Muscle Energy Techniques The Pelvis Part 1+2  Barbara Hungerford
  • Ayurveda and Yoga  Dr Abilash Anand and Saraswathi Vasudhevan
  • Hyper-mobility Disorders Functional Synergy
  • 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training  The Yoga Institute
  • 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training  Yoga Synergy
  • Yoga for Kids and Families Teacher Training  Rainbow Yoga
  • The Applied Anatomy and Physiology of Hatha Yoga  Yoga Synergy
  • Yoga Anatomy Principles and Practices
  • Clinical Pilates  Dance Medicine Australia
  • Acupuncture Training Program    Australian Physiotherapy Association
  • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment   Management Consultancy International
  • Shiatsu Certificate The Shiatsu Centre of South Australia

Liz can assist in the management of:

  • Back and neck pain
  • Musculoskeletal injuries
  • Sports injuries
  • Chronic pain
  • Arthritis
  • Osteoporosis
  • Headaches
  • Scoliosis
  • Prehab prior to surgery or rehab following a surgery or fracture immobilisation.

Services

  • Diagnosis and hands-on Physiotherapy treatment
  • Post operative rehabilitation
  • Movement education and exercise prescription
  • Joint mobilisation and massage
  • Trigger point needling
  • Individual and group clinical pilates
  • Arthritis exercise and rehab classes
  • Pain care aware classes
  • Breathing and posture education
  • Yoga therapy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Clinical pilates

Physiotherapist, Yoga Teacher, Pilates on the Northern Beaches

Find out if I can help you below! Get in touch with me today via phone or the contact form below and let’s discuss your case.