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SelfWise Healing is about understanding your health in terms of natural energy balance.

SelfWise Healing is based on understandings about human energy described as Polarity Therapy.

SelfWise Healing sessions with Polarity Therapy help us re-discover the natural wisdom and healing potential that is within each of us.

SelfWise Healing sessions relieve stress, support pain management and provide sustainable healthy practices.

Chris McGrath PhD, MEd, BA, Dip Ed, Dip Teach, Grad Dip Music, PTP, Cert IV Massage, Quantum Bioenergetics Certificate … is a lifelong learner. I have always been interested in learning and understanding our human journey ….

Director SelfWise Healing:

I am committed to helping you understand your health journey and stay healthy. “Good health and healing must combine all aspects of our being”.

Polarity Therapy helped me overcome constant back pain. I trained as a Polarity Therapist and now Polarity Therapy provides a basis for my understanding about human energy and health.

I am author of SelfWise – tools for the journey and sustainable health choices. As well as providing a range of natural therapies, I teach meditation, Tai Chi and Qi Gong and Yoga, offer Polarity Therapy sessions and trains therapists in Polarity Therapy. I have been President of the Australian Polarity Therapy Association for a number of years, and I am an enthusiastic member of the International Polarity Education Alliance and Tai Chi Association Australia.

SelfWise ideas and practices come from my everyday living, my worklife and my retreat work.

Breathwork, meditations, healthy nutrition, exercise, natural therapies, music and sound, Polarity yoga, Tai Chi & Qi Gong moving and mindfulness are all important aspects of my daily life. I call the practices “tools for the journey”. Sustainability is an aspect of existence we all have to face on many levels. Personal health practices like practices of stewardship on our planet are necessary and common sense. They should be simple and cost effective. Practices that are worthwhile have to be sustainable.

These beliefs, understandings and practices led to providing retreats. SelfWise Healing and Selfwise Retreats have been evolving for years. People at retreats requested more and more information, wanted more SelfWise Healing sessions and handouts. Eventually it became easier to put everything together into book form. This book is titled ‘SelfWise – tools for the journey and sustainable health choices’. It is available for sale on this website.

SelfWise Healing is a multi facetted approach to healing. It is continually evolving and this website summarises what it is about … at this time.

I began learning and practising meditation techniques and yoga in 1971. Tai Chi and QiGong became important in my life when I sold my farm on the North Coast of NSW and returned to Sydney in 1983. I have been enjoying and sharing the benefits of these healing techniques for many years with individuals, small classes and large groups.

My Polarity Therapy journey began in the late 1990s. One session and a dedicated approach to Polarity Yoga and in particular, the squatting position relieved my constant back pain. A couple of years later I decided I wanted to learn Polarity Therapy. My journey as a formal, full time therapist began after this training.

This lead to a management/therapist role at Crystal Lodge in Katoomba, NSW. Then private practice at Avalon NSW and Manyana NSW.

I returned to live in Sydney in 2011. Trincomalee Cottage, in Lovett Bay, Pittwater became my new home. The energy there was wonderful for breathing, creating and sharing SelfWise Healing. I taught Tai Chi and Health QiGong in the northern beaches area. I provided Polarity sessions in Sydney CBD and in Elvina Bay. Also in this period I taught Polarity Therapy in Elvina Bay and Spain.

In 2016 we moved to the Sunshine Coast in Southern Queensland. At Peregian Beach, the ocean was at my front door. In this period I taught Polarity Therapy in NZ and Australia and offered Polarity Therapy in the Noosa region as well as teaching Tai Chi , Qi Gong, Tai Chi Ruler “Chih” and Meditation classes.

In 2017 we moved to stunning Tasmania and initially lived on Mt Barrow outside Launceston. This was the home of our Southern Cross Mountain Retreat.

In June 2019 we moved back to the coast – beautiful St Helens near Bay of Fires, NE Tassie. Here we enjoy the strength of the southern ocean, clean air, peace and quiet and all the natural beauty of unspoilt Tasmania.

I offer Polarity Therapy training in Bali, here in St Helens and in Sydney May 2020.

In St Helens we offer Polarity Therapy sessions, Tai Chi & Health QiGong and Yoga classes. And I teach a Tai Chi & Health Qigong class in Fingal.