In The Press

I sit down with the incredible Ian O’Dwyer, movement coach, fascia educator, and co-founder of Feel SOMA, for a powerful conversation on the vital role fascia plays in women’s health, particularly for those aged 40 and beyond.

Together, we explore what fascia actually is, why it matters, and how it directly influences mobility, recovery, and emotional wellbeing.

Ian shares practical strategies for supporting fascia, including hydration, breathwork, and movement variety, with special attention to the challenges of menopause.

This isn’t your average anatomy lesson. It’s about unlocking the body’s wisdom, embracing fluid flow, and learning to work with your body, not against it.

Vanessa Leone and Ian O’Dwyer (OD) take a fresh look at the concept of rehabilitation, challenging the traditional view that focuses solely on physical recovery.

They explore how true rehabilitation must also acknowledge the emotional and mental aspects that accompany injury, pain, and healing.

The discussion highlights the importance of recognising emotional responses and the role they play in shaping movement, resilience, and overall wellbeing.

Practical strategies are shared, including innovative recovery tools such as vibration, percussion therapy, and fascia-focused approaches.

Listeners will gain valuable insights and actionable advice to support their own healing journey, or guide clients more effectively.

In this episode of Purpose Driven Movement, host Tarek welcomes returning guest Ian O’Dwyer, Co-Founder of Feel SOMA, for a deep dive into the fascinating world of fascia.

Together, they explore how fascia acts as a living, moving matrix that stores emotion, adapts to stress, and flourishes through variability and play. The conversation challenges conventional thinking around recovery, highlighting why it can never be one-size-fits-all.

They also question the growing popularity of contrast therapy, explaining how it may cause more harm than good if applied without awareness.

Ultimately, listeners are encouraged to rethink recovery, embrace holistic coaching, and unlock greater human movement potential.

In this engaging conversation, Vanessa Leone and OD explore the multifaceted nature of exercise programming, emphasizing the importance of listening to one’s body, the emotional aspects of movement, and the need for personalized approaches to fitness.

They discuss the balance between routine and variety, the significance of recovery, and practical strategies for implementing change in exercise habits.

The dialogue highlights the role of play in movement and encourages listeners to rethink traditional fitness paradigms, making exercise a joyful and integral part of life.

Host Vanessa Leone and Ian O’Dwyer (OD) explore the powerful concept of fluidity in the human body. Their discussion highlights the interconnected roles of fascia, movement, and the lymphatic system in supporting overall health and resilience.

They dive into the fascinating relationship between emotional wellbeing and physical fluid flow, showing how one directly influences the other. OD shares practical, accessible strategies for enhancing fluidity, including the use of breath, awareness, and playful movement.

The conversation emphasises applying knowledge in meaningful ways, empowering listeners to create change in their own lives and experience the benefits of greater vitality, balance, and lasting wellbeing.

Vanessa Leone and ‪Ian O’Dwyer‬‬ discuss the importance of fascia in movement, health, and performance. OD explains how fascia, which encases every structure in the body, plays a key role in communication, fluid flow, and force mitigation.

They explore the differences between “Viking warriors” (stiffer individuals) and “temple dancers” (more flexible individuals), emphasising the need for personalised training approaches.

The conversation covers common misconceptions about stretching, the impact of hydration on tissue health, and how certain exercises, like box jumps, can affect the body. They conclude with practical insights on optimising movement for longevity.

In this episode, host Vanessa Leone is joined by Ian O’Dwyer to unpack the complexities of fitness measurement and assessment. Together, they emphasise the importance of context, personal experience, and self-awareness in shaping healthier, more sustainable approaches to movement and wellness.

The discussion explores the role of biofeedback, the influence of language in guiding fitness outcomes, and the critical need to understand pain, posture, and movement patterns. They highlight the value of daily self-appraisal, hydration, and nutrition, alongside Ian’s innovative concept of “mobilisers” for restoring tissue function.

Listeners are encouraged to adopt a mindful, personalised approach that deepens connection with the body and inspires lasting change.

In this episode of Meant to Move, host Vanessa sits down with Ian O’Dwyer (OD), renowned movement coach and co-founder of Feel SOMA. OD shares his journey from semi-professional sport and plumbing to becoming a global movement mentor and educator. He highlights the importance of inclusivity, emotion, and interoception, tuning into internal body signals, to guide effective and enjoyable practice.

Through stories and experience, OD illustrates how personalised movement strategies can prevent injuries, enhance resilience, and bring joy. Advocating intuitive, low-risk approaches such as grounding, fascia awareness, and fluid flow, he connects emotion, intuition, and physical wellbeing, offering listeners a refreshing, holistic perspective on health, movement, and wellness.

In this episode, host Vanessa Leone welcomes Ian O’Dwyer to discuss the controversial aspects of fitness and how a more holistic approach can transform health and wellbeing. Together, they emphasise the importance of fascia, the influence of emotional and mental states on physical health, and the often overwhelming atmosphere of traditional gyms.

The conversation explores the evolution of fitness practices, highlighting recovery, functional training, and a shift in how masculinity is expressed within fitness spaces. This engaging dialogue encourages you and your clients to listen more closely to the body, embrace movement with curiosity and joy, and prioritise long-term wellness over short-term outcomes.

Host Vanessa Leone is joined by Ian O’Dwyer, founder of Feel SOMA, for an engaging conversation on movement, fascia, and overall wellbeing. Together, they explore how emotions and physical motion are deeply intertwined, highlighting the vital role that joy plays in human performance.

The discussion unpacks fascia and tensegrity, illustrating how the body operates as a dynamic, harmonious unit rather than isolated parts. With Ian’s decades of coaching experience and Vanessa’s insightful questions, listeners gain a deeper appreciation of the connection between science and practice. You’ll leave with practical tools and techniques to enrich your training, enhance recovery, and elevate both client results and personal wellbeing.

This interview with Ian O’Dwyer on Feel SOMA is an opportunity to gain a deeper appreciation of tissues muscles, connective tissue, bones, joints, combining a scientific rationale with a systemised approach to affect the neural, mechanical and fluid systems of the body.

Ian, somewhat of a fitness industry maverick, shares his wisdom and understanding of the body, coaching, and enhancing the way the body moves. In a chat that is as informative as it is entertaining.

All this and more in what is a fascinating discussion with the highly experienced, motivating, visionary and one of the best blokes in the fitness industry that is Ian O’Dwyer.

OD catches up with Jake and Callan from Corrective Culture and it made for one powerful conversation on self-care, movement and listening to the tissues.

Available to watch on Corrective Culture’s YouTube and also available to listen to on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Enjoy!

In this first episode of the LifeTime Talks – Training podcast join host Jason Stella and PTAG and Feel SOMA co-founder Ian O’Dwyer discuss…

What he learned about motion from working with horses. The four self-applied applications to help improve performance. How and why using “Play” with your clients to improve their health and well-being. How he has used in session observation to adjust programming.

How he found working with bony sections led to easier tissues changes. Explanation of what needs to be included when discussing “Tissues”. Explains how to do 3 mobilizations that are “must do’s” to help people move and feel better. How to connect better with your clients!

If a Movement Guru, Philosopher, Healer, International Presenter, Wizard and Teller of Shit Jokes all lived in one body, that body would belong to Ian O’Dwyer.

As always, this was an insightful and fascinating conversation with one of my great Mates and as always, there was a fair degree of silly-ness and laughter.

When it comes to treating, healing, training and optimising the human body, OD is possibly the most intuitively gifted person I know. And I know many. Enjoy.

I have had the pleasure of presenting countless workshops worldwide with my guest, Ian O’Dwyer. As co-founders of PTA Global, we have collaborated extensively in multiple companies and consulting projects across the health and fitness industry. Ian is one of the people I most respect and admire.

He has a unique perspective on both the human body and the person within it, helping clients, many travelling across the world, achieve remarkable results through his skilled, empathetic and holistic approach to movement. Ian empowers clients to take responsibility for wellbeing, sharing a philosophy that wellness is both a path to freedom and to living inspired lives.

Ian O’Dwyer is one of those unique individuals that doesn’t fit into any particular box or have any specific title or approach to his work.

OD watches, observes and then combines his unique ability to analyse movement with an outstanding knowledge of anatomy and human movement to produce outstanding outcomes.

The Fitness Industry Podcast’s Bel Fong, discusses with Ian O’Dwyer of Feel SOMA, Self-Osteo Myofascial Applications, giving clients what they need physically, mentally and emotionally, and the importance of self-care for trainers.

Ian O’Dwyer guides clients to optimal performance, identifying positive mindset and movement patterns. He coaches the human being, not the human body. His ability to facilitate cutting edge science and research on many topics into practical solutions has empowered wellness professionals to lead their clients to more efficient and effective results.

Motion and emotion are so tightly intertwined that you simply can not change one without changing the other? My guest is OD (Ian O’Dwyer), one of the most forward-thinking and utterly brilliant minds that has rolled out of the fitness industry and we are extremely fortunate to house him right here, by our sides, in Australia.

What OD does in the realm of human movement optimization and assessment has been accurately described as magic! His understanding and intuition about the integrated human body is truly incredible having been refined through decades of hands-on experience.

OD (Ian O’Dwyer) explores the mental, emotional and physical health benefits of fun, laughter and play, we discuss the way emotion ‘lives’ in our body and talk about slumpy posture (kyphosis), biofeedback, having hard (but necessary) conversations, life in lockdown, self-experimentation, finding our optimal operating system and self-awareness.

Privilege of hosting a live webinar featuring the “Godfather of PLAY and Recovery,” Ian O’ Dwyer. For those of you unfamiliar with the name, Ian O’ Dwyer is one of the Co-founders of PTA Global, so it’s safe to say that he is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to success in the fitness industry.

Ian O’Dwyer is a body-whisperer. Well, that’s what I call him. More typically, he might be called a functional movement specialist but I’ve known him for decades and consistently, I have seen him do incredible ‘hands-on’ things with (seemingly) broken bodies (including mine) and sometimes, it’s in as little as two or three minutes.

Plumber to Personal Trainer. Ian O’Dwyer (OD) shares his story, and some invaluable lessons about what it takes to succeed in the Health and Wellness Industry. From droving cattle in his first paying job, to now running an International Education Company, Feel SOMA.

Self-Care is a Life Choice Great discussion with one of the fitness industry godfathers, friend and mentor Ian O’Dwyer. Ian is co-founder of Feel SOMA and owner of OD on Movement Performance Centre. We chat about his philosophies on self-care and the great work Feel SOMA are doing to leave behind a lasting legacy.

Discover how to move, feel and live better. Learn how stress shows up in your body, the signs to listen and look to identify the stress and what to do to manage it. If we listen to our tissues, they give us essential feedback!!

Ian O’Dwyer and Rodney Corn have over 50 years of combined practical & Professional experience in the Health & Fitness Industry enhancing the lives of coaches, trainers, clubs, and clients all around the world.

Ian O’Dwyer is one of the leaders at the forefront of the fitness industry. The turn of the millennium brought the world of functional training to the fitness industry; in 2007-08, the elite PT’s shifted focus to the role that fascia plays in movement control and function.

Ian offers direction on empowering clients in the wellness industry to see themselves as their own healers. Ian reflects on the role of emotional stress in athletic performance and provides insight into the importance of recovery to move and live optimally.

Craig Harper and OD speak about defining function and where it fits into the world of conditioning the world of everyday challenges. Can people move safely and effectively and optimise their quality of life? If not? Why not??