Ithaca Wellness Canada

29/11/2025

Cyber Monday 25% Off! All Osteopathic Relaxation appointments for any date of your choice made on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd December at any of my locations and mobile service areas!

Book here www.ithacawellness.ca

Locations @

Dovira Care Integrative Health Clinic - 3020 Lincoln Ave, 109 Coquitlam BC

White Pine Wellness - 1078 Sugar Mountain Way, Anmore, BC, V3H 4Y7

Mobile in-house / at-work - Tri-Cities and Greater Vancouver

24/11/2025

Happy to be part of such a great team and offering treatments in such a lovely space! 😁

🌿 We’re thrilled to welcome Max Edwards, Osteopathic Manual Practitioner - DOMP, to Dovira Care Integrative Health Clinic! 🌿

Max joins us as an Osteopath and long-time health & wellness professional with a deeply personal journey into osteopathy.

After beginning his career in business, Max pivoted in 2004 to pursue his passion for fitness, becoming a Personal Trainer Level 3 and later managing elite health clubs in West End London. But it was his own experience with chronic neck, shoulder, and back pain — and the remarkable relief he found through osteopathy — that changed everything.

Osteopathy didn’t just ease his physical pain; it helped calm his nervous system and realign his entire sense of wellness. Inspired by this transformation, Max committed to studying osteopathy himself.
Fast-forward to today, he holds a DOMP from the National Academy of Osteopathy, is First Aid & CPR certified, a member of BCAOMP, and this year completes a 700-hour Bodywork Therapy Diploma at the Vancouver School of Healing Arts.

His expanding skillset includes Shiatsu, Reflexology, Ayurvedic Head Massage, Myofascial Release, Deep Tissue, Swedish Massage, Aromatherapy, Hydrotherapy, Sports Massage, and Hot Stone Massage — all integrated into his hands-on, whole-body approach.

Since moving to BC in 2022, Max has embraced the mountains, the community, and a lifestyle rooted in movement, balance, and mind-body-spirit exploration. His mission is simple:
✨ help people relax, reduce stress, release pain, restore alignment, and reconnect with themselves.

We’re proud to have him bring his passion, experience, and thoughtful approach to our patients.

📅 Max is now accepting new patients at Dovira Care — book your appointment today!
https://dovira.care

24/11/2025

Exploring the Synergy of Shiatsu and Osteopathy

Similarities and Differences Between Shiatsu and Osteopathy In life and nature, I have always found labels and categories to be relative on the one hand and useful as communication tools and agreements on the other hand. For example, when it comes to the body and different physical therapy modalities it has always seemed rather odd to me that we separate them, claim proprietary methods, even trademark them, when in fact the body is just the body....

Similarities and Differences Between Shiatsu and Osteopathy In life and nature, I have always found labels and categories to be relative on the one hand and useful as communication tools and agreem…

24/11/2025

For Osteopathy and Bodywork Therapy appointments here are my locations folks!

Monday - 10am to 8pm @ Mobile in-house/at-work service Tri-Cities and Greater Vancouver – Book here: https://ithaca.noterro.com

Tuesday – 2pm to 8pm @ Dovira Care Integrative Health Clinic, 3020 Lincoln Ave, 109, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 6B4 – Book here: https://dovira.janeapp.com

Thursday – 2pm to 8pm @ White Pine Wellness, 1078 Sugar Mountain Way, Anmore, BC V3H 4Y7 – Book here: https://ithaca.noterro.com

Saturday – 10am to 8pm @ Dovira Care Integrative Health Clinic, 3020 Lincoln Ave, 109, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 6B4 – Book here: https://dovira.janeapp.com

Sunday – 11am to 5pm @ Mobile in-house/at-work service Tri-Cities and Greater Vancouver – Book here: https://ithaca.noterro.com

If you have any questions about bookings or Manual Osteopathy & Bodywork Therapy please email Max at ithacawellnesscanada@gmail.com

We would like to respectfully acknowledge that Ithaca Wellness operates on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded shared territories of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Stó:lō (Sto:lo) First Nations. We give thanks to these nations who continue to live on and care for these lands and waters, and for their wisdom towards wildlife.

Ithaca Wellness - Manual Osteopathy & Bodywork Therapy

22/11/2025

Max is offering an intro rate for new clients- $120/hr!

Osteopathy is covered under some extended benefit plans. These benefits may renew in January, be sure to check your employee plan to verify.

To book with Max on Thursdays from 2:30-8:30 click this link: https://ithaca.noterro.com

11/11/2025

I love any kind of practice that helps people feel more relaxed, relieved of pain, less anxious, less depressed, eased of trauma, more joyous, and feeling tickety-boo, as they say in England. Two physical therapies that particularly resonate with me are Osteopathy and Shiatsu. And they share many similarities in philosophy and even some of the same techniques. That’s why I have studied both modalities and use a blend of each in some treatments....

I love any kind of practice that helps people feel more relaxed, relieved of pain, less anxious, less depressed, eased of trauma, more joyous, and feeling tickety-boo, as they say in England. Two p…

11/11/2025

I wrote a small post on the differences between Osteopathy and Chiropractic Care and thought it would be useful to do the same for Physioptherapy. When I say that I do Osteopathy a frequent reply I get is "What's that?" or "Osty-what?" or more often "Is that like a Chiropractor or Physiotherapist?" In Canada, where I currently practice as a Manual Osteopath and Bodywork Therapist, Osteopathy is still a growing and largely unknown physical therapy, and yet it's one of the most effective treatments for pain reduction, stress relief and maintaining good health....

I wrote a small post on the differences between Osteopathy and Chiropractic Care and thought it would be useful to do the same for Physioptherapy. When I say that I do Osteopathy a frequent reply I…

05/11/2025

When people ask me what I do for a living and I say "Osteopathy" the most frequent reply I get, sometimes with a nonplussed expression, is "What's that?" or "Osty-what?" or more often "Is that like a Chiropractor?" This exchange even happens in my conversations with a lot of healthcare professionals. In Canada, where I currently practice as a Manual Osteopath, Osteopathy is still a growing and largely unknown physical therapy, and yet it's one of the most effective treatments for pain reduction, stress relief and maintaining good health....

When people ask me what I do for a living and I say “Osteopathy” the most frequent reply I get, sometimes with a nonplussed expression, is “What’s that?” or “Ost…

20/10/2025

Happy Monday everybody! This is me back when I had long hair! 🥸 I don't miss the daily maintenance! 🤣

20/10/2025

Firstly, can osteopathy reduce stress? Absolutely it can. Of course, from one person to another there isn’t one single cause of stress. How a stressful situation and tension lands in me differs from how other people might experience that same experience. Some of us have very strong emotional responses that sends the body into emergency mode while other people’s minds…...

Firstly, can osteopathy reduce stress? Absolutely it can. Of course, from one person to another there isn’t one single cause of stress. How a stressful situation and tension lands in me differs fro…

19/10/2025

Mobile Osteopathy & Bodywork Therapy - Relieve pain, restore movement, and feel your best - wherever you are.

Serving communities in and beyond!

Physical therapy in the comfort of your own home!

Try it for yourselves and see if manual osteopathy is the ultimate relaxing stress buster and pain dissolver for you!

Max Edwards, Osteopathic Manual Practitioner & Bodywork Therapist @ Ithaca Wellness

If you have any questions about Osteopathic Relaxation bookings or Manual Osteopathy & Bodywork Therapy Treatment for pain relief, please email me at ithacawellnesscanada@gmail.com or call 778-929-6143

14/10/2025

Breathing and Manual Osteopathy. Your Breathing Might be the Answer to Everything: How a Back Injury Damaged My Breathing and Entire Health for Over a Year. In 2023 I had the unenviable experience of picking up a light dumbbell at home and having what honestly felt like an 11 out of 10 on the pain scale shoot through my lower back....

Breathing and Manual Osteopathy Your Breathing Might be the Answer to Everything: How a Back Injury Damaged My Breathing and Entire Health for Over a Year In 2023 I had the unenviable experience o…