Chris Toal – Director
Chris is a MNZ RMT Deep Tissue and Sports Massage Therapist ScarsAway® Bodytool® Therapist and Educator. Bodywall® trainer TRE Trauma Release Exercise® therapist and is a former tutor at Wellpark College of Natural therapies.
More about Chris
Chris is in his 60’s and enjoyed successful careers in both the motor and oil industries before his life turned around when crewing on “White Cloud” in the 97 Trans Tasman yacht race. On their way to a 2nd place finish the crew were left battered and bruised by five days of severe storms. This left Chris with considerable loss of function and in need of damage repair. Deep tissue massage solved the problem, became an interest, and from there bodywork turned into his life’s passion.
Chris collected a many injuries and broken bones while successfully competing in Offshore Power boating, Superbike motorcycle racing and Offshore Yacht racing, however it was when he discovered that the deep seated emotional and physical injuries from his early childhood were impacting his ability to function and affecting his current behaviours and relationships he set about resolving these issues. This led to the developing and acquiring a unique range of treatments designed to release physical and emotional pain trapped in the body.
After a year tutoring at Wellpark College of Natural therapies he returned to his deep tissue and abuse survivor work plus the refinement of these new therapies. Bodytool® ScarsAway®, the patented Bodywall® rehab / training system and TBT© Tennis Ball Technique for deep tissue self care in the home al flowed from this work.
Chris is also a feature writer with articles appearing in Fitness Life Magazine and trade journals and has been a regular columnist for Grownups New Zealand.
Chris holds a number of directorships of companies functioning in the health sector and is a Director of: Wellness at Work Ltd, Azolla Health Ltd, Director Bodytool Ltd, ScarsAway (Aust) Pty Ltd, Bodywall Ltd and Bodywall Physiotherapy Ltd
Alla Kalinina – Aesthetic Therapist
Alla is a qualified FUSAF FFVS Rehabilitation Instructor and Aesthetic Therapist.
More about Alla
Since 1999 Alla has been busy investing her time obtaining and applying her skills in fitness, rehabilitation and fitness training. She holds a BSc in Fitness Physical and sports training from Ukraine National Technical University in Kiev. Alla has also completed additional studies in Yoga, Pilates level 1&2, Basic Aesthetic Cosmetology and holds a level 3 Certification in Modern Choreography.
Her students have successfully competed at many of Ukraine’s national dance festivals winning in the Modern Category at Cervona Ruta-99 and Alla was lead choreographer of the show-ballet “SV”. With a passion for rehabilitation among her many qualifications she is a Port De Bras© instructor and is now certified by Port De Bras© for training this wonderful and gentle rehab method in NZ. She is also an Aqua Aerobics instructor and is well known in Ukraine for working with children with Down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy. A total dance nut Alla is also a Zumba instructor.
Alla is highly communicative with a great sense of humour and speaks several languages English and Polish (spoken) Italian, Russian, Ukrainian (fluent).
Since December 2015 she has been completing her training in Bodywall® rehabilitation-fitness training and ScarsAway® dermal rehabilitation therapy.
Injury Consultation & Advice
Spending Months In Treatment With An Unresolved Injury? Maybe We Can Help!
We often successfully treat unresolved injuries by treating what we call masked injury events. These are injuries that happened at the same time as a major injury but simply got shoved to one side and ignored at the time only to haunt you later on for months or even years with chronic pain. This occurs because the primary injury was considered extremely urgent, more urgent than the secondary or masked injury the one that is now causing all your problems!
An example would be a fall on your butt and an injury to your coccyx. The searing pain and the threat to your spine get’s all your attention. What you didn’t realise at the time was that you also badly tore an abdominal muscle because your abs were busy keeping your head from whacking into the ground. So those torn abs are now shortened with pain and your spinal muscles have to adjust to compensate. Now both these muscle groups are crushing the intervertebral discs causing them to bulge and deliver stabbing sharp pain into your lower back and months or even years later you have a chronic lower back pain that no one can treat.
When you get desperate enough you may even try to solve it surgically. Which is really not your best option; read more here and here.
Often things that can seem unrelated are totally tied together! When we assess you with our exclusive Body Audit© we take all these things into account. And remember we offer No Change No Charge treatments! Give us a call if you need some advice or ask for an info pack.