About
Jenny is an experienced soft tissue practitioner and educator. She has a wealth of knowledge shares her wisdom and skills in manual therapy in her courses online and in person. Her current project is to offer physical and emotional wellbeing for the non-ambulatory elderly with touch therapies as the foundation for healing.
Experience
Melbourne-born, Jenny qualified as a soft tissue therapist in 2005 acquiring extensive experience in bodywork as a practitioner, presenter and teacher. In the early years, she worked in several multidisciplinary clinics in Melbourne including palliative care massage at the Royal Women’s hospital and invited to practice at her lecturer’s clinic. A promising beginning that forged the way for many more rich experiences.
She later expanded her horizons internationally where she pioneered and specialised in the Bowen technique (a gentle muscle release bodywork method), teaching the mechanisms through her courses.
Inspired by various methodologies from east and west, Jenny eventually set out to create her own healing technique. ElderHeal™ is close to her heart and celebrates the natural way of connecting and healing – through the power of touch.
Join Jenny for an informative, practical and empowering weekend workshop to help your loved ones! No massage tables needed. Learn methods without the heavy demands on your body and energy.
“ At the intersection of science, spirituality and heart-intention is where my work nestles between. ”
Jenny’s experience with her beloved mother is at the heart of the creation of ElderHeal™.Â
Jenny recently cared for her elderly mother with dementia in an aged care home. An understaffed and overwhelmed system unfortunately only provides basic needs care, leaving many residents deprived of the love, care and profound healing which touch therapy can provide. Similarly family members often feel powerless..
Jenny's approach to healing.
When Jenny started to develop the course, she soon discovered how many skills and knowledge she truly acquired over the 20 years in bodywork and surprised herself! This practice is a harmonious and effective blend of many elements from different techniques – creating a “therapies kaleidoscope“. Â
Jenny’s approach has grown into one that merges remedial with a more science-based foundation together with holistic and spiritual that draws from eastern wisdom, with energy medicine weaved in. The result is a holistic practice that is truly unique and that fosters wellbeing and healing of the body, mind and soul: something that has long been forgotten for aged care.
Curriculum
Summary of my biography
Since 2005 I have been immersed in healing and bodywork, in practice and study. From 2012 till 2022 I spent much time living in other countries, expanding my network tremendously as my experience and knowledge. During that time, I created a science-based online course about the mechanisms of the Bowen Technique called The Biology ofBowen.
In more recent years, as I embrace my forgotten authenticity and desire to express this out to the world, my work has evolved into a more coherent expressive part of who I am and what I truly believe and health, healing and the entire divine cosmos of which we are. As such, the merging of a science-approach with a deeply resonating spiritual-energetic approach has become the foundation of what I do and teach in my workshops. I look forward to working with you!
Jenny Petridis
Soft Tissue therapist and Teacher
Dip. Remedial Massage
Cert. Bowen Therapy
Additionally:
- The Importance of Symmetry (workshop)
- Applied Myoskeletal Therapy: Upper Body & Lower Body (workshop)
- Advances in Fascia Research (3-day workshop, R. Schleip)
- The Alexander Technique (The feet & neck workshop)
- Therapeutic Yoga Levels 1 and 2
- Peter Hess® Sound Massage Levels 1 and 2
- Reflexology
- Thai Massage
- The Biology of Bowen (my online course)
- Presenter at BodyWisdom (Congress, Spain 2026)
- Presenter-Teacher Fascia Congress (Argentina 2013 & 2014)