Hello and isn’t it a relief that Spring is here and 2025 has officially started now the flowers and sun are out even if its still pretty chilly:)
I’ve been struggling for a while to find a clinic in Exeter that I can facilitate both my clients in wheelchairs as well as those with good mobility and I’ve found a new one that’s just opened in Sowton on the Honiton Road, EX1 4RU. There is a Domino’s and a Subway at the front, a car park round the back and a few disabled spaces outside the Good-Life Clinic entrance when you drive around past the gym to the far side of the building.
I’ll be there on Mondays at the moment and may start doing Thursday’s as well in the summer depending on how things go in Torbay/Totnes and Exeter.
So please call or text me on 07956 409300 if you’d like an appointment for actual effective hands-on therapy rather than just a sheet of exercises and experience Laser and Red Light treatments to speed up healing of injuries or painful areas.
Mike 🙂

Although ZenPhysio has been a good brand name, I’m making it more specific to my location as the majority of my home visits are now in Torbay and Totnes with some clients even going back as far as my first clinic in Torquay near the harbour in 2003.

I’m still keeping a Monday in Exeter to see my clients from the M.S. Centre where I was working in for 20yrs. Home visits where I live though, makes more sense and is what I enjoy, although I dont mind an occassional clinic day. If people need or want equipment like active/passive bikes however, I still refer them back to The MS Centre in Exeter or WestBank in Exminster.

I’m doing a lot more in-depth bodywork including a combination of Massage, Bowen Technique, Zero Balancing and CranioSacral including stimulating the intestines/bowels to work better and allowing release from the structures of the body.

The Thor LX2 laser system I’m using also is amazing for accelerated healing which is going very well especially for fractures and sprains, bursitis and arthritis and clients love Infrared for their lower backs.

So for Torquay Physiotherapy, Paignton Physiotherapy, Totnes Physiotherapy, Totnes Neurophysio, Physio Home Visits in Torquay, Paignton, Totnes, I’m just making it a bit clearer with Torbay and Totnes Physiotherapy.

It’s expensive getting home visits these days with some physios charging £80-90 to visit a care home, nursing home, or persons’ home, so £50 per 45 minute visit is very good value and a special for TTPhysiotherapy for the next few months.

Thanks to Devon Creative for the new logo 🙂

I have had to switch around clinics in Exeter and Torbay. This has led me to consolidate my days in Exeter to just Mondays, but in two clinics, one for good/quite mobile (Heavitree Chiropractic) and one for good disabled access.

Sadly, I couldn’t move My Living Options clinic to another day, so Exminster Westbank is my new Monday afternoon clinic. It is ten minutes from my old clinic at the MS Centre and has a gym and a lift up to the assessment/treatment room and they are a very proactive centre who offer transport and many other activities for locals in need. It is also closer to my base in Totnes.

Torbay and Teign Chiropractic were keen to have me for a full day on Wednesday to see their clients and it’s a good place to work.

These changes will lead to slightly less travelling and more time to work on new projects and still provide useful sessions for those I already know in Exeter and new people in Totnes and Torbay.

There are open days approx the 3rd or 4th Saturday of each month.

Mike does 30min sessions of general bodywork based on such techniques as Bowen/CST/Zero Balancing/MyoFascial work. He gives general physio advice but focuses on a relaxing deep somatic experience. The suggested donation is £15 and spots book up quick so call ahead or get there early.
These have been going on all of 2024.

He also did a series of Breathwork seminars recently based on his experiences of workshops with Dr Stanislav Grof and the late Leonard Orr and also does one-on-one sessions and looks forward later this year to doing longer workshops of an hour rather than the usual 30mins for those that have been to the 30min sessions.
Let Mike know if you or have a group who would be interested.

His workshop on using Ken Wilber’s Integral work for self work and adding an energy boost technique went well in February. It was fun and i hope those who attended are keeping up with their resolutions 🙂

If you would like Mike to do a talk for your group on Physiotherapy/ Complementary approaches/ Holistic Physio for MS, Parkinsons or other Neurological conditions or the Naturopathic and Holistic Approach for General Health with a colleague – Aly Whitley – Let me Know.

Also I’m rolling out a new Workshop series with Lyn Avis in 2024 to integrate various aspects to help us Be more and Feel more.
‘Winning the Consciousness Game’ – including Breathwork, Energy Cultivation, Understanding Triggers, Integration, Using your Intuition and Feeling what Happiness is Like (:

Oh yes and and I’m still working on the books 🙂

Michael is a part of the new Health Source Clinic opening in the last weeks of 2023. He has some events there, mainly Breathwork ‘Tasters’ where he will discuss the three breath work modalities of Dr Stan Grof’s Holotropic Breathwork, Leonard Orr’s Rebirthing & Wim Hof’s Method, and then with some gentle relaxation and some music to take you around the world as you breathe, you will be guided to focus on your breath for 30 mins. This is a short breathe and there will be plenty of time for sharing (if you wish), and integration. Bring a pillow and blanket (better to be too warm than cold) and call Michael beforehand with any questions. This is not deep therapy, counselling or psychotherapy, it is a simple short demo of paying attention to connected breathing and the focus, body awareness, dream-like and other profound states which may be experienced.

There will be a further Breathwork on 8th February 2024 – same times and place.

On 26th January 2024, at the same address and times, Michael will offer a perfect way to start your 2024 by showing attendees, the Integral work of Ken Wilber (American philosopher/writer) and how to use it to choose Action Points to change your life in a small or large way with a simple daily energy promoting practice to ‘anchor in’ and boost your resolve and clarity. This workshop may be repeated after 6 weeks.

The suggested Donation for these workshops is only £10 per person.

After 20 years at the MS Centre in Exeter, I am now focusing my attention closer to home in Totnes. I am starting a new clinic in Totnes with a great group of like-minded practitioners with space for training, talks, classes, new health promoting technologies as well as 5 or 6 treatment rooms (HealthSource.uk).

ExeterNeuroPhysio.co.uk will still be around as I will keep a room in Exeter at Heavitree on Mondays and am looking for a decent place on thursdays with good access for wheelchairs/buggies with parking attached (if you know of any, let me know). I could well be doing home visits whilst I search for a perfect space. I’d love to establish or join a complementary/medical multi-disciplinery centre in Exeter and have some excellent practitioners (counsellors/ bodyworkers/ hypno /homeopathy etc) who are interested, so watch this space.

Sadly the beautiful old listed MS Centre has been for sale for some time now and I’m not sure how their plans will work out.

Torbay and Totnes Neurophysio (TT Neurophysio.com) – I’m doing home visits in and around Torbay and Totnes as well as getting the new clinic going for general physio, neurophysio, deep bodywork and am looking at doing more end of life care, as its deep, profound and there is a lot of it about sadly.

For the past few months I’ve also been working at a chiropractic clinic in Torquay on wednesdays as it was getting quieter in the MS Centre.

I’m still doing Breathwork ‘tasters’ in Totnes and will continue to do them monthly as people get so much from them. Last time a lady experienced ‘Unconditional Love’ during her first breathwork experience. Talk about hitting the jackpot!

Mike has been keeping busy since the lockdowns of 2020/21 as a lot less people were coming to the centre with the fear of catching covid.
Things have pretty much returned to normal now in the centre but Mike cut his time at the centre down to Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from July 2022. He has been organising events in 2022 at the Kenton Victory Hall every 8 weeks with the next being on 19th November 2022 from 1.30 – 4.30 where you can come along and sample a 30 min session with Mike for a suggested donation of £10 but there are many other great therapists offer tasters from reflexology to acupuncture to readings and all sorts for everyone.

He has also been running Breathwork workshops where he discusses his experience with Dr Stan Grof’s Holotropic Breathwork, Leonard Orr’s Rebirthing and Wim Hof’s amazing cold and breath holding and connected breathing. These generally involve an intro chat followed by a 30 minute experience of the breathwork with a relaxation intro and music to help the Breathing experience. He has run 4 of these so far in 2022 and will be doing more in the near future.

There is a lack of healthcare at the moment, a lack of staff and many who have left due to the stress of the covid years. So physio also is very hard to access with long waiting times so if you would like a zoom consult for 40 minutes at a cost of £45 then with his 20 years experience he can talk through your problem(s) and offer professional advice, likely with stretches, exercises and support/reassurance.

With Mike’s well honed hands-on skills he is currently exploring PEMF (a Dr friend offered Mike the use of the amazing Hofmag system for a month or so (PEMF as used for elite athletes and racehorses), and sound therapies such as biofield tuning with another practitioner as his understanding of light (such as with the LX2 Thor laser system) and sound can also play an important role in well being.