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Rebalance your body. Reset your life.
A modern wellness system combining ancient wisdom and modern science — learn to treat yourself, support your family, Find a practitioner or become a certified Active Balance therapist.
Join thousands who are using Active Balance to reduce pain, improve health, and transform lives.
Whether you want to treat yourself, support your loved ones, or become a certified therapist—Active Balance empowers you at every level.
Thousands of people are using Active Balance to:
✔ Relieve chronic pain, tension and stress
✔ Improve posture, mobility, and energy
✔ Support loved ones at home with natural techniques
✔ Build rewarding careers helping others professionally
Rooted in over 3,000 years of Japanese healing (Amatsu Medicine) and developed over 50 years by Dennis Bartram, Active Balance is a complete health system. It fuses hands-on experience, ancient philosophy, and cutting-edge research into one powerful, practical method for real results.
How will you start your Active Balance journey?
Start Your Active Balance Journey
🧘 1. Treat Yourself
Learn simple, powerful techniques to align your body, calm your nervous system, and reduce pain —anytime, anywhere.
→ Access our free videos, webinars, mini-classes & bespoke employee wellness packages.
👨👩👧 2. Support Family & Friends
Discover easy-to-use techniques to help loved ones naturally—through movement, pressure points, and stress relief.
→ Join our Friends & Family workshop & download the Home Care Workbook
💼 3. Become or Find a Practitioner
Train with us to become a certified therapist, or connect with one of our trusted practitioners near you.
→ Start your professional training or find a therapist now
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Re-discover how to REBALANCE YOUR JOINTS. Learn what our ancestors knew
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Active Balance ~ Health’s best kept secret
Are you tired of pain, stress, and feeling out of balance? Active Balance combines ancient wisdomwith modern science to help you move better, feel stronger, and live pain-free.
For the first time, ancient wisdom meets cutting-edge science in a complete system designed to restore balance, eliminate pain, and unlock your full potential. Inspired by the Amatsu Medicine, the art of self-protection, Active Balance fuses breathwork, acupressure, postural correction, bodywork and myofascial release into a powerful, transformative approach that no one else is offering.
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Over 5 decades of experience
Dennis Bartram, a master of movement, healing, and ancient wisdom, has spent over 50 years refining the art of Active Balance—a revolutionary system that fuses 3,000 years of knowledge from Hichi Buku Goshin Jutsu with modern science to create a complete approach to health and transformation.
Through his deep understanding of breathwork, acupressure, postural correction, and myofascial release, Dennis has unlocked the secrets to pain-free movement, peak performance, and total mind-body alignment. His teachings empower individuals to heal themselves, protect their energy, and master their own well-being—bringing together techniques that no one else is offering.
Active Balance is more than a method—it’s a movement, a breakthrough, and a path to unlocking your full potential. Under Dennis Bartram’s guidance, you’ll discover how to restore balance, eliminate pain, and thrive in ways you never imagined.
Why choose Active Balance?
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Body alignment.
Fix Your Pain.
Our interactive video workbook is designed to teach you about your body, why it hurts and what you can do yourself to help fix it.
Learn our unique Body Alignment Treatment, to relieve sciatica, back neck and joint pain, headaches and inflammation in just a few minutes a day!
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Get back to nature
We are not meant to live in artificial settings, discon-nected from the healthy needs of our body, from nature.
When our body and mind becomes disconnected from nature and natural principles the result is joint re-strictions, stress painful conditions and mental health conditions, depression, anxiety and many more.
Reset your body, through self treatment, natural move-ment and breathwork on our ’Get back to Nature’ Re-treats
We don’t go ‘Natural’, we return to Natural!
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Wellness Articles
POSTURE & its effect your HEALTH!
Posture refers to the position and alignment of the body in relation to gravity. It involves the proper alignment of various body parts such as the head, shoulders, spine, and pelvis. Good posture allows the body to maintain balance, distribute forces evenly, and...
Is FASCIA the KEY to fixing musculoskeletal problems?
Fascia is a relatively newly understood tissue, and scientists are only now starting to understand its role in the alignment, function and movement of our bodies. Fascia is a connective tissue that surrounds and supports muscles, bones, organs, and other structures in...
BAREFOOT SHOES! Do they work?
Our feet are designed to be widest across the toes, as babies we can see this clearly. However most modern footwear isn’t designed with the shape of our feet in mind, and can crowd the feet, and actually change the shape of the foot over time, basically causing our...