Experience a body-changing Adaptive Bodywork session—then learn exactly how and why it works.

The Adaptive Bodywork One-on-One Mentorship Program is a personalized, self-paced pathway that guides you from curious receiver to confident practitioner, with certification you can stand behind.

This mentorship deepens both your professional skills and your personal embodiment—helping you reconnect with your body’s innate intelligence.

• ◆ Why Mentorship
• ◆ The Journey
• ◆ What You’ll Gain
• ◆ Investment
• ◆ Apply Now

Imagine not just receiving Adaptive Bodywork — but having the skill in your own hands to create the same powerful change for others. This isn’t just about learning to guide others—it’s about reclaiming your own physical wisdom and grounding into your body.

Group workshops can be exciting, but they often move too quickly and leave little space for personal feedback. Everyone is expected to move at the same pace, whether they are ready or not.

Unlike workshops, this mentorship adapts to you. You learn at your own pace. Each phase progresses only when you feel ready, with individualized feedback on every stroke and sequence. Instead of fading into the background of a crowded room, you become the focus — guided, corrected, and supported every step of the way.

And it’s not just about learning techniques—it’s about coming home to your own body: cultivating a profound intimacy with yourself, and a clarity that anchors everything you do.

This mentorship unfolds over a minimum of 11 sessions, each 90 minutes long. Every phase builds on the last, guiding you from first-hand experience to full professional certification.

📍 Session 1: Receive a full Adaptive Bodywork session (no commentary).
📍 Session 2: Receive a narrated session with stroke-by-stroke explanation.

Milestone: You understand both the feel and the logic of Adaptive Bodywork, while also beginning to notice how your own body responds. This first step is not only technical—it’s an awakening of embodied awareness.

Each segment of the body trajectory is demonstrated by the mentor, then immediately replicated by you.

📍 Session 3: Side-lying, right side (hip → knee → foot; left adductors; hip → shoulder → neck).
📍 Session 4: Side-lying, left side (mirror sequence).
📍 Session 5: Supine anterior chain (ankles → knees → hips → thorax → shoulders → neck).
📍 Session 6: Prone posterior chain (head/neck → shoulders → thorax → hips → knees → ankles → feet; closing work).

Milestone: By the end of Session 6, you’ve both received and delivered the entire trajectory.

Some mentees move through in just four sessions; others revisit segments until mastery. The pace is always yours.

Beyond technique, this phase also teaches you how to sense continuity in your own body—how movement flows through chains of fascia, how breath organizes posture, and how presence can be felt as much as it is practiced.

This phase ensures your touch, sequencing, and flow align with the professional standard.

📍 Session 7 (Early Triadic): Mentor and mentee alternate on a third client, who provides comparative feedback.
📍 Session 8: Deliver a full session on the mentor with live corrections.
📍 Session 9: Focused remediation of weak areas.
📍 Session 10 (Final Triadic): A second calibration session on a third client, alternating larger segments for comparison.

Milestone: By the end of this phase, your application is refined, consistent, and fully aligned with the Adaptive Bodywork standard. You’ll also notice a shift in yourself: greater sensitivity in your hands, clearer alignment in your body, and a confidence that comes not just from skill but from embodied integration.

Deliver a complete Adaptive Bodywork session on the mentor, unassisted.

Certification criteria:

1. Stroke fidelity and tissue purchase

2. Sequencing and global arc

3. Flow and continuity

4. Intent and responsiveness

5. Professional presence

Certification is awarded once these standards are demonstrated. If additional refinement is needed, remedial sessions are prescribed before re-examination.

Milestone: You graduate with confidence, proven competence, and full certification. But perhaps most importantly, you leave with a new relationship to your own body—more precise, more attuned, and more resilient. This mentorship is not only professional training; it’s a personal evolution. If refinement is needed, you’ll have the opportunity to revisit and strengthen any areas before certification — ensuring you succeed with confidence.

• Learn at Your Own Pace: Move forward only when you’re ready, with feedback tailored to you — and space to absorb not just the technique, but how it feels in your own body.

• A Complete Framework: Step by step, you’ll gain the entire Adaptive Bodywork trajectory, from first contact through closing integration.

• Embodied Understanding: You won’t just memorize strokes — you’ll learn to sense structure, direction, and intent in your own body, so you can reproduce them with confidence.

• Direct Mentorship: Work one-on-one with John Sutherland, founder of Adaptive Bodywork, receiving precise, real-time feedback.

• Professional Certification: Demonstrate your ability in a full-body session and graduate with certification you can stand behind for life.

Compared to most professional trainings, this mentorship represents extraordinary value.

11 sessions minimum: 90 minutes each
Rate: $150 per session
Total program: $1,650 CAD

Additional sessions are only recommended if you need more time to refine your skills before certification — ensuring you succeed with confidence.

This is not just tuition — it’s a career-launching investment.
At $1,650, you receive the depth of a full series combined with the individualized support of one-on-one mentorship. You gain flexibility, exclusivity, and a certification you can truly embody.

This mentorship isn’t just about mastering techniques — it’s about becoming the kind of practitioner who radiates presence and delivers change that lasts. You’ll leave with a skillset that sets you apart in your profession, and a deeper connection to your own body that makes you more resilient, confident, and alive in everything you do.

Whether you’re launching a new career or deepening an existing practice, this is your chance to gain not only professional mastery but also an embodied clarity you’ll carry into every part of your life. This mentorship isn’t just a training — it’s a return to yourself.

👉 Apply Now to Begin Your Mentorship Journey

Yes — I’m ready to step forward with confidence, competence, and certification.

“I didn’t just learn the strokes — I gained the confidence to deliver them. This mentorship gave me the structure, feedback, and support I needed to feel ready to work with clients.”

— A.J., Certified Graduate

John Sutherland is the founder and senior instructor of Adaptive Bodywork Structural Integration. A certified Anatomy Trains Structural Integration therapist and former elite athlete, John brings over four decades of experience in movement, bodywork, and metabolic health.

He treats every client as if they were an aspiring world champion—not because of ego, but because everyone deserves to feel that invested in.

John teaches Adaptive Bodywork workshops, works one-on-one with clients in Montreal, and continues to embody the very principles he teaches. His work is grounded, rigorous, and unapologetically transformative.

Begin the Work

This is your invitation.

To return to yourself.
To come back into the body.
To stop compensating—and start evolving.

Begin with a single session.
Walk out changed.

Visit adaptivebodywork.com or email john@adaptivebodywork.com to begin.

Book a session: Here

This is the work of coming home to your body.

Adaptive Bodywork is more than therapy; it is a pathway to discovering your fullest potential. By addressing the body as a coherent, interconnected system, we not only alleviate physical ailments but also enhance your overall quality of life. We invite you to step into a state of poise, where every movement is synchronized with your intentions, where clarity and enlightenment are not just concepts, but experiences.

Join us at Adaptive Bodywork to journey beyond traditional boundaries of health and well-being. Embrace a life where you are continuously aligned with the Flow state, embodying a serene strength in every aspect of your being. Visit our website to explore how our unique approach can be tailored to your personal needs and start your transformation today.

Through this narrative, we aim to clearly articulate the broad spectrum of benefits provided by Adaptive Bodywork Structural Integration, encouraging potential clients to experience a profound transformation that touches every aspect of their lives.

🔹 Start Your Journey to Harmony and Health – Book Your Session Today!

The Adaptive Bodywork Team

We warmly invite you to experience the profound impact of our specialized manual therapy. Join us at Adaptive Bodywork, where together we explore a rewarding pathway to a more harmonious existence, unlocking the extraordinary possibilities inherent in the science of human structure and movement.

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