Active Balance

19/01/2026

A Free Live Class on Health, Movement & Longevity with Dennis Bartram

In the Blue Zone regions of the world, people in their 90s and 100s are still squatting, walking, moving freely — and living with clarity, purpose, and resilience.
They understand something we’ve largely forgotten:
Health isn’t just about treatment.
It’s about how you move, think, eat, and care for your body every day.

In this FREE live online session, Dennis Bartram shares insights from:
• 55 years of clinical and movement experience
• Osteopathy, fascia science & alignment
• Ancient Japanese medicine (35+ years training in Japan)
• Longevity research & real-world observation
This session explores:

✨ How natural movement keeps the body young
✨ Why posture and alignment matter as we age
✨ The link between movement, mental wellbeing & resilience
✨ Simple ways and techniques to support long-term body alignment & health — starting now

🟢 FREE live online class
🗓 Tuesday 20/1/26
⏰ 3:00pm (40–50 mins)
💻 Live on Zoom
⚠️ Spaces limited
👉 Link in comments to join

18/01/2026

A Masterclass in Movement, Health & Alignment | FREE LIVE CLASS

This Tuesday, Dennis Bartram (75) shares the essence of a lifetime dedicated to understanding the human body — how it moves, heals, adapts, and stays well over time.
From back, neck and knee pain…
to headaches, lymphatic flow, posture, longevity and daily self-care — these live Age-ility classes bring together the most effective elements of Dennis’ work, grounded in:

• Osteopathy & structural alignment
• Fascia & myofascial release
• Nerve gliding & isometrics
• Acupressure & ancient Japanese medicine
• 35+ years training under Dr Masaaki Hatsumi in Japan
• Wisdom drawn from texts and teachings over 3000 years old

This isn’t about pushing the body.
It’s about working with it.

✨ Learn how to look after your body
✨ Move with more ease and confidence
✨ Support your nervous, immune & lymphatic systems
✨ Build strength, balance and long-term health

🟢 FREE introductory live online class
🗓 Tuesday 20/1/26
⏰ 3:00pm (40–50 mins)
💻 Live on Zoom
⚠️ Spaces limited
👉 Link in comments to reserve your place

18/01/2026

17/01/2026

Move Freely Again — Age-ility Classes with Dennis starting NOW! 🌿

Over a lifetime of study and clinical work, Dennis Bartram has seen one truth again and again:

When the body is aligned, everything works better.
His new Age-ility classes are designed especially for people who want to:

✨ Move more comfortably
✨ Reduce stiffness and pain
✨ Improve balance and stability
✨ Feel confident and capable in their body
✨ Age with strength, ease and natural mobility
✨ help support your body systems (immune, digestive, lymphatic)

Blending over 50 years of research — including osteopathic principles, fascia science, neurophysiology and 35+ years of direct Amatsu training under Dr Masaaki Hatsumi — Dennis teaches gentle, intelligent movement that supports your body’s natural design.
Each 40–45 minute class helps you realign your structure, calm your nervous system and restore the natural movement patterns your body remembers.

This is not exercise.
This is movement as medicine.

FREE INTRODUCTORY ONLINE LIVE
Age-ility class with Dennis Bartram - 20/1/26 @ 3pm

Link below (in comments) 👇🏽 to reserve a spot (spaces limited)

11/01/2026

An aligned body is a highly functioning body - but only when you understand how fascia and neurology truly interact

A few clips from our latest podcast 🎙️

Watch the full episode 👇🏽 (link in comments)

Active Balance blends ancient wisdom of Dr.Hatsumi with modern science researched for over 50 years by Dennis Bartram, to give you simple steps to:
✅treat yourself and your family
✅get certified and open your own business helping others

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31/12/2025

Why nerves really get “TRAPPED” — and what’s really causing your pain

🧠 Nerves are dynamic structures — they are meant to glide smoothly through the body in between the muscles bones and fascia.
Pain begins when imbalance causes that glide to disappear.

⚠️ What creates the problem?
• Misaligned joints
• Uneven muscle tone
• Restricted fascia
Together, these create drag, pressure and inflammation along nerve pathways.

🔗 This is why symptoms often show up far from the original cause —
• Foot pain linked to hip distortion
• Headaches linked to shoulder imbalance
• Digestive issues linked to spinal and fascial tension

🌀 At Active Balance, we don’t chase symptoms.
We look at how the entire body works together — structure, soft tissue, nerves and organs.
✨ When balance is restored, pressure normalises, nerves regain freedom, and function improves.

🧭 Active Balance has been developed from over five decades of research by Dennis Bartram, blending Western therapeutic sciences with traditional Japanese movement and healing principles. Alongside disciplines such as osteopathy, applied kinesiology, and cranial and visceral work, Dennis’s understanding was shaped through direct mentorship under Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi and Dr. Stephen M Levin.

📩 If you’d like to learn how to apply these techniques —
for your own body or as a professional qualification —
you can join our mailing list to find out more (link in comments)

21/12/2025

Struggling With Pain💥Stiffness or Stress? Active Balance Classes Coming to help you in 2026! ✨

Through the imbalances of daily life — one-sided habits, repetitive stress, sports, old injuries and long hours of sitting — our bodies gradually become slightly twisted, asymmetrical and out of alignment… often without us even realising.
Over time, this puts pressure on joints and nerves, creates inflammation, restricts movement — and leads to pain 💥In these classes, Rochelle Monique Oliphant will guide you through simple, effective techniques designed to gently unwind these patterns and bring your body back toward balance ✅

Each 40–45 minute session is designed to help your body feel lighter, calmer and more open.

Blending our Active Balance Technique to integrate breathwork, fascia release, natural movement and gentle yoga-influenced elements — resetting your whole system from the inside out.

For the first time ever, we’re bringing Active Balance to you through guided classes that help you:
✨ Reduce pain & tension
✨ Release stress
✨ Improve mobility & posture
✨ Calm and reset your nervous system
✨ Feel more connected, grounded and aligned.

Created from over 50 years of Dennis Bartram’s research — blending osteopathic principles, fascia science, neurophysiology and traditional Amatsu concepts — these classes make it simple to care for your body every single day.

Rochelle’s Active Balance Flow classes launch in 2026.

Join our mailing list for more information👉

Join the early access list here (link in comments)

Your journey back to balance starts soon ✨

17/12/2025

New classes for 2026!! ✨

For decades, people have asked Dennis Bartram the same question:

“What can I do myself at home to help my body?”

After more than 50 years studying osteopathy, fascia science, neurophysiology, natural movement, and over 35 years of direct training under Dr Masaaki Hatsumi in traditional Amatsu, the answer is finally here.
Introducing Active Balance Classes — launching 2026.

A brand-new way to help you:
🌿 Reduce pain & tension
🌿 Reset your nervous system
🌿 Improve posture & mobility
🌿 Feel calmer, stronger and more aligned in your daily life

For the first time ever, we are offering two unique class styles:

💠 Age-ility with Dennis — a gentle, powerful class designed to help you move better at any age, improve balance, reduce stiffness and restore natural ease.
💠 Active Balance Flow with Rochelle — combining breathwork, fascia release, natural movement and yoga-inspired elements to help your body feel open, grounded and deeply aligned.

These classes blend ancient wisdom with modern science to give you simple techniques that support your body naturally — every single day.

We can’t wait to share more with you.
If you’d like early access to updates, bonuses and priority booking:

👉 Join the mailing list for more information and class dates (link in bio)

2026 is going to be a transformational year. ✨

14/12/2025

"In my master's time, men learned how to stop a sword.
But now, we must all learn how to stop the slow blade the one called stress, confusion, loneliness, poor food, and poor sleep."

When an injury shatters her dreams of elite gymnastics Kai finds herself lost - physically emotionally, and spiritually. But a chance meeting draws her into a world she never expected: one of quiet teachers, forgotten wisdom, and the subtle power of breath, balance, and body awareness.

Guided by unexpected mentors and her own unravelling, Kai must learn a new way of living one that breathes rather than forces, one that heals rather than hides.

Blending physical intelligence, breathwork, natural movement, this is a journey for anyone who has ever felt stuck, burned out, or broken.
and longed to feel whole
again.

The Secret of the Opening Flower is not a self-help manual or a performance strategy. It's a reminder: that inside you is a deeper intelligence. And when you slow down, listen, and spiral open - you just might remember who you really are.

✨ Exciting News!! ✨

Over the last while, we’ve been quietly working on something special — a way to bring the skills, wisdom, and lived experience behind Active Balance into a single story.

The Secret of the Opening Flower is a fiction novel that weaves together real healing principles, movement, breathwork, and ancient Japanese wisdom — inspired by the life’s work of Dennis Bartram and the lineage of Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi.

It’s not a manual.
It’s not a self-help book.
It’s a story — designed to be felt.

🌿 For those who feel stuck or searching
🌸 For those ready for a shift
🎄 A really thoughtful Christmas present for a loved one

📖 The Secret of the Opening Flower — available now. (Link in comments)

10/12/2025

07/12/2025

SIGN UP TO OUR NEXT COURSE NOW!

If you want to understand more, to help yourself, or your family, or if you want to become an ACTIVE BALANCE PRACTITIONER, or add these tools to your existing skill set, sign up to our mailing list for more information and upcoming courses and seminars 🤗

Active Balance has been developed over 50 years by Dennis Bartram to put the best and simplest techniques together in 1 place.
To help you understand the body, why it goes wrong and how to help fix it!