Shaun Hoult
BSc (Clinical Sciences), MHSc (Osteopathy)
Hello, I’m Shaun!
I’m forever curious about all things health and have always strived to understand the whys in life.
I received my qualifications in Osteopathy from Victoria University, Australia, in 2010 and have provided care to those in need ever since.
I have a comprehensive understanding of the mechanics and dynamic interactions of the body, providing great specificity in my treatments. My methods of thinking have led to various teaching positions, lecturing in biomechanics and tutoring in advanced osteopathic technique within Victoria University’s Osteopathy program (Aus), leading on to tutor in a range of post-graduate osteopathic courses, working alongside some of the most highly regarded osteopaths in Australia and the UK.
I’m forever curious about all things health and have always strived to understand the whys in life.
I received my qualifications in Osteopathy from Victoria University, Australia, in 2010 and have provided care to those in need ever since.
I have a comprehensive understanding of the mechanics and dynamic interactions of the body, providing great specificity in my treatments. My methods of thinking have led to various teaching positions, lecturing in biomechanics and tutoring in advanced osteopathic technique within Victoria University’s Osteopathy program (Aus), leading on to tutor in a range of post-graduate osteopathic courses, working alongside some of the most highly regarded osteopaths in Australia and the UK.
"The body functions as a whole and it is only as a whole that we should attempt to comprehend it.” ~~ Erich Blechschmidt
Please see the ‘My Approach’ section to learn more about what I do!
My journey through osteopathy
Personally, I come from a place of understanding that while most healing approaches may be great for many, they often have nuance and are not always the solution for all. I’ve had plenty of my own trials and tribulations and through my search to heal I have explored many of the various avenues available, witnessing both their benefits and their limitations.
For me, throughout my developing years until I was 20 years of age, I was exposed to many various physical traumas and injuries, competing internationally in karate whilst also playing a range of sports, mainly Aussie rules football. As the subsequent pain and instability accumulated, I found exercise would only exacerbate the problems. This led to spending my university years literally wasting away with inactivity and as you can imagine, I only got worse with a lack of movement. Whilst the time off provided me a chance to, instead, develop my skills as a sports trainer for four years, both the lack in benefit and the exacerbation that the more vigorous side of osteopathy offered me then led me to cranial osteopathy.
Cranial Osteopathy helped to gradually clear old traumas from my tissues and allowed me to move again. I was out of pain, I worked my way out of wearing rigid orthotics (Seriously, I recommend avoiding at all costs!) and found myself able to join the work mixed netball team.
In 2011, I then began my professional career as an osteopath, providing cranial osteopathy, studying extensively on how to better use my hands to help people heal, seeing great results for others who were also not responding to rehabilitation or the more vigorous styles of treatment.
With my first move to London in 2016, I found love in a whole new fun and welcoming world. Unfortunately, as is often the way, I was not practicing as I preached. Living a lifestyle of late nights, alcohol, take-away and cheap ready made supermarket food. All whilst playing high level netball 2-4 times a week with the newly formed Knights Men’s Netball team, travelling the country providing practice matches for the likes of the women’s Superleague teams and the England Net’s squad. As fun as it was, I was living unconscious of my decisions and the unsustainable lifestyle only led to an exacerbation of what was underneath the surface. Leaky gut with IBS, food intolerances, large microbiome imbalances and nutritional depletion were just some of the issues that led to greater stress on my health and an inability to recover after exercise. Days in bed after each game with chronic fatigue and frequent illness, followed by developing arthritis and ligament tears in both hips, I returned to Australia at the end of 2019 to reset.
The one benefit of spending three years in the most locked down city in the world whilst my health was at it’s lowest, was that I then had the opportunity and the desperation to take a deep-dive studying and implementing all things health, outside of hands-on treatment. Whilst I feel I always had some level of understanding in theory, this exploration has made me realise just how detached we are from the fundamentals of nature and how important our environmental and psycho-emotional influences are. Whilst new traumas, accidents, surgeries and psycho-emotional stressors have presented their own challenges, I am grateful to the many insights gained whilst on this path of recovery, to be returning to what’s important in life and I am looking forward to sharing all that I’ve learnt and am still learning along the way.
For me, throughout my developing years until I was 20 years of age, I was exposed to many various physical traumas and injuries, competing internationally in karate whilst also playing a range of sports, mainly Aussie rules football. As the subsequent pain and instability accumulated, I found exercise would only exacerbate the problems. This led to spending my university years literally wasting away with inactivity and as you can imagine, I only got worse with a lack of movement. Whilst the time off provided me a chance to, instead, develop my skills as a sports trainer for four years, both the lack in benefit and the exacerbation that the more vigorous side of osteopathy offered me then led me to cranial osteopathy.
Cranial Osteopathy helped to gradually clear old traumas from my tissues and allowed me to move again. I was out of pain, I worked my way out of wearing rigid orthotics (Seriously, I recommend avoiding at all costs!) and found myself able to join the work mixed netball team.
In 2011, I then began my professional career as an osteopath, providing cranial osteopathy, studying extensively on how to better use my hands to help people heal, seeing great results for others who were also not responding to rehabilitation or the more vigorous styles of treatment.
With my first move to London in 2016, I found love in a whole new fun and welcoming world. Unfortunately, as is often the way, I was not practicing as I preached. Living a lifestyle of late nights, alcohol, take-away and cheap ready made supermarket food. All whilst playing high level netball 2-4 times a week with the newly formed Knights Men’s Netball team, travelling the country providing practice matches for the likes of the women’s Superleague teams and the England Net’s squad. As fun as it was, I was living unconscious of my decisions and the unsustainable lifestyle only led to an exacerbation of what was underneath the surface. Leaky gut with IBS, food intolerances, large microbiome imbalances and nutritional depletion were just some of the issues that led to greater stress on my health and an inability to recover after exercise. Days in bed after each game with chronic fatigue and frequent illness, followed by developing arthritis and ligament tears in both hips, I returned to Australia at the end of 2019 to reset.
The one benefit of spending three years in the most locked down city in the world whilst my health was at it’s lowest, was that I then had the opportunity and the desperation to take a deep-dive studying and implementing all things health, outside of hands-on treatment. Whilst I feel I always had some level of understanding in theory, this exploration has made me realise just how detached we are from the fundamentals of nature and how important our environmental and psycho-emotional influences are. Whilst new traumas, accidents, surgeries and psycho-emotional stressors have presented their own challenges, I am grateful to the many insights gained whilst on this path of recovery, to be returning to what’s important in life and I am looking forward to sharing all that I’ve learnt and am still learning along the way.
Please see the ‘Health’ section for an introduction into the fundamentals of health.