Meet Hayden
Founder of NeuroHealth MovementFrom an early age, like most kids, I had a curious mind and loved being outside. Games, sport — it didn’t really matter what it was as long as I was moving.
Growing up in a small country town, sport was a big part of community life and how friendships were formed. As the years went on, it became more serious, and at a young age I was playing at a relatively high level. It was a double-edged sword. While it taught discipline, commitment and how to compete, it also came with an unspoken lesson — to ignore the body’s signals.
“Take some concrete, harden up.” “No pain, no gain.”
That mindset can be useful in certain contexts, but for me it came at a cost. Over time, my body became painful, my awareness of my own sensations dulled, and I felt increasingly disconnected — especially as I began working as a carpenter in an already demanding body.
The significant knee injuries, fracturing my knee cap, tearing ligaments, no cartilage remaining, the broken bones and not to mention the soft tissue injuries started to catch up. Simple movements start to provoke pain. Activities that should have felt natural and supportive instead felt threatening, unstable and unreliable. I was loosing trust with my body.
I spent years moving through pain and discomfort. I felt fragile and uncertain, and I tried many different approaches with little to no lasting improvement. Strengthening, pushing harder, and ‘getting tougher’ only seemed to reinforce the problem.
Eventually, frustration pushed me to start researching on my own. I explored different training styles and methods, looking for something that actually made sense of what I was experiencing. Without realising it at the time, I was already moving toward brain-based approaches. One day, a friend sent me information about the Functional NeuroHealth Institute, founded by Nick Moss.
For the first time, I found depth — and answers to questions I’d been carrying for a long time.
Now, I combine those teachings with insights from other mentors and similar approaches, not to fix people, but to help create the conditions for the body to heal, reorganise, and rejuvenate itself.
Now I use the same approach, along with other modalities, in order to help others reconnect with their bodies and move without pain.
NeuroHealth Movement is a practice that blends applied neurology, kinesiology and movement to help people move out of pain, restore function, and unlock performance.
Rather than just treating symptoms, I focus on the nervous system’s role in pain and movement—helping clients reset their body’s communication pathways, balance muscle activation, and integrate healthy movement patterns.
From there, we gradually load the body in ways the nervous system feels safe, which improves performance and builds resilience to stress.
My knee improved, my body opened and I started moving in a way that made sense again.
This shifted my nervous system into a more healing state, allowing it to relax more.
From there, other interventions and lifestyle modifications worked more effectively .