About Us
We are a group of passionate chiropractors who provide quality and life-changing health care.
We support our practice members by providing Network Spinal (NS) chiropractic entrainments, Somato-Respiratory Integration (SRI), Trauma Release Experience (TRE), Monthly Events, and more.
Our Team
In early 1993 she introduced and pioneered Network Chiropractic in Australia by opening up two clinics, one in country Victoria and one in Melbourne. She has spoken at several Dynamic Growth conferences (Australia’s version of D.E. in the USA), Chiropractic Colleges and various other organisations along with frequent information and demonstration nights that she created in Melbourne to help educate Australian Chiropractors and the general public alike.
Shelley introduced The 12 Stages of Healing and SRI to Australia in late 1994. She was on SRI international teaching staff from 1995, working countless Transformational Gates and teaching programs throughout USA, Europe and Australia. She inspired Dr Donny Epstein (founder of Network Chiropractic) to begin his twice yearly teaching visits to Australia in 1996 and was in charge of running registrations and functioning as auxiliary teaching staff through to 2000, when she took time off to begin her family with her partner, Dr Vinnie Monaco (also former NSA staff teacher).
The births of her 3 children were monumental to her growth and healing process, both personally and as a practitioner, each successive birth bringing a level of depth and presence to her work that she would not have thought possible!
After developing a further two NSA practices on the Gold Coast in the past 10 years, Shelley has now set up her 5th Network practice, on the Sunshine Coast, QLD.
Shelley has a unique way of bringing together her profoundly encompassing healing journey and her extensive clinical experience when she works with you, whether in teaching, or in putting her hands on your body. She is passionate about the healing process, and is constantly in awe of the ability of the human Body-Mind to regenerate and re-organise itself, from the mildest stresses that are recurrent everyday through to the most horrific traumas one could possibly imagine. She has seen discs regenerate on XRAY, the Innate Wisdom of the body bend 1cm thick Harrington rods in order to straighten a scoliosis, a child unable to cry for more than 15 years of her childhood, cry her first tear.... She is passionate about facilitating pregnancy and natural childbirth as a rite of passage for women and babies receiving care immediately following birth.
With more than 30 years’ experience, she has assisted thousands of people to transform their bodies and their lives.
She looks forward to assisting you too!
Dr. Shelley Axford
B. App. Sci. (Chiropractic), Level 3 Certified Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) Chiropractor, Somato-Respiratory Integration (SRI) Wellness Educator / Facilitator, Trauma Release Experience (TRE) – Level 2 Instructor
Dr Shelley Axford graduated from Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne (now RMIT) with a Bachelor degree in Applied Sciences (Chiropractic) in 1991. After her first year in practice a life-threatening illness saw her bed-ridden for 6 months with chronic eczema complicated by episodes of septicaemia and chronic fatigue syndrome. During this period she nearly died twice; once due to severe septicaemia and once due to an adverse drug reaction….. Thus began her healing journey.
Dr Shelley was introduced to Network Spinal Analysis in Paris in 1992. Though attending as a Chiropractor to learn this new methodology, she saw it as an opportunity to heal herself and spent the rest of 1992 attending workshops and receiving care in dozens of Network offices across the globe. Network care literally saved her life.
Dr. Stefan Jovanovski
B. Health. Sci / B. App. Sci (Chiropractic)
After having received wellness chiropractic care in Melbourne since age seven with his entire family, Dr. Stefan felt an inspired calling to pursue this natural modality to help others heal.
He graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 2017 and has been serving the communities of regional Northern Territory (Katherine) and tropical North Queensland (Townsville) since then.
Dr. Stefan developed a particular interest in understanding the complexity of the upper cervical spine (upper neck) and was one of the first two Chiropractors in Australia to have completed the entire Blair Upper Cervical technique course. During Stefan's years in Townsville he had begun to see and feel just how much more there was to healing and wellness than many of us are taught to understand.
His passion led him to explore the connection between stress, emotional experiences we encounter throughout our lives and how the nervous system expresses this through our physical bodies. Realising how our bodies express either wellness or illness through a dynamic state of intelligent and deliberate signs based on lifestyle choices and environmental exposure, his interest pushed him to pursue more tonal / energetic chiropractic techniques. By doing so, deeper and longer lasting changes were witnessed in his clients both physically and emotionally.
Furthermore, as Stefan watched profound changes take place in his own partner’s health through Network care, the pathway became crystal clear.
Dr. Stefan is both excited and grateful to be part of the community at Spine of Life, and to work with people who genuinely wish to take their health and understanding to new heights.
Honesty and integrity are aspects he holds strongly in his work. When interested in a craft, mastery is the only option for him.
He is also a self-taught pianist and singer (when nobody’s looking!) and spends a majority of his spare time engaged in creative leisures and complaining about never getting time to read any of his books.
He looks forward to helping you express who you’re meant to be.
Dr Hayley Adami
B. Health. Sci / B. App. Sci (Chiropractic)
Growing up in Melbourne, Hayley took every chance she could get to spend a day at the beach. Spending most of her money on flights to Queensland and other sunny destinations around the world. Always the first one in the water and the last to get out!
She fell in love with the Chiropractic philosophy from the age of 16, after being referred for a skin condition. Which of course, her body took care of quite quickly. She also noticed a considerable change in the strength of her immune system, which would always leave her with tonsilitis during exams. Hayley was obsessed with the innate wisdom of the body and couldn’t wait to share that with the world.
She graduated from RMIT University obtaining a Bachelor of Health Science /Bachelor of Applied Clinical Science (Chiropractic) in 2019 and has completed further post graduate training in Network Spinal Chiropractic. Hayley has had the privilege to work in the heart of Melbourne, Dandenong ranges, Yarra Valley and now she is finally on the Sunshine Coast!
Dr Hayley is passionate about Network Spinal Chiropractic and its profound effectiveness in maximising your body’s communication, and honouring you as a physical, emotional and energetic being. She provides an energy rich environment for a “re-membering” of your body’s innate wisdom so that you can fully express your highest potential in everyday life
Jacky Haworth
Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) Practitioner
Jacky met Dr Shelley in 2008 when she attended her Level 1 demo night. She was so intrigued by what she saw and heard about Network Spinal Chiropractic that Jacky started attending immediately and has been an advocate ever since! She worked as a CA for Shelley at several of her business locations, whilst running her own Natural Therapy business, Healing from the Heart .
As a Numerology and Tarot Reader, yoga instructor and Reiki therapist, Jacky worked for many years at the award winning Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat and Eden Health Retreats on the Gold Coast. She became a TRE (Trauma Release Experience) provider back in 2012, and a Yoga Instructor in 2014. Her Reiki journey has spanned 22 years (she did some of her training in Hawaii) and facilitates Holy Fire Reiki workshops, and psychic development. Her education and experience has culminated in an offering of sessions which reduce stress, assist you to connect with your body and address the myriad symptoms of stress, anxiety and trauma.
At Spine of Life Jacky offers TRE and SRI. You may book individual or group sessions which may be life changing in many ways.
Jacky loves music, loves the beach, loves my two daughters to the moon and back, social time with friends and most of all she loves being with her two beautiful little granddaughters. They fill her cup to overflowing!
