Metanoia Spinal Flow
AT SELFF STUDIO
Where nervous system healing begins
Welcome to Metanoia Spinal Flow, led by owner Makayla McIntosh and certified Spinal Flow Technique practitioner.
Makayla combines hands-on experience, deep nervous system understanding, and a passion for helping people reconnect with themselves and their innate healing potential.
You can change your diet, exercise more, meditate, or seek the next therapy — but if your nervous system is still dysregulated, you’ll keep looping in stress. Real, lasting change happens when your nervous system is functioning the way it was designed to.
WHAT IS THE SPINAL FLOW TECHNIQUE?
The Spinal Flow Technique is a gentle, yet powerful healing modality that works directly with the nervous system. Using light touch on 33 access points along the spine, practitioners communicate with the body’s innate intelligence to help release stored stress, tension, and trauma.
These access points relate to the entire nervous system — helping to restore communication between the brain, spinal cord, and the body. When these blockages are released, the body naturally shifts out of fight-or-flight and into its parasympathetic state — the state of rest, repair, and regeneration.
Spinal Flow focuses on seven key regions of the spine, known as Gateways:
• Base (coccyx and sacrum)
• Foundation (pelvis and lower spine)
• Power (lower lumbar)
• Centre (mid-thoracic)
• Passion (lower cervical)
• Pause (upper cervical, C1–C2)
• Awaken (cranial and brainstem region)
Each gateway plays a vital role in the flow of life force energy through the spine. When one or more are blocked, the nervous system can’t communicate effectively — leading to symptoms like pain, fatigue, anxiety, hormonal imbalances, and disconnection.
Through this gentle yet deeply effective process, Spinal Flow helps reawaken your body’s innate healing wisdom so you can return to ease, balance, and vitality.
WHY WORK WITH THE NERVOUS SYSTEM?
Everything begins and ends with your nervous system. It controls every cell, organ, and function in your body — as well as how you feel, think, and respond to stress.
If your nervous system is overloaded, even the best lifestyle changes or therapies can only go so far. When you regulate the nervous system, your body can finally digest, sleep, repair, and thrive again.
Spinal Flow is not about chasing symptoms — it’s about addressing the root cause. When your nervous system flows freely, your body has everything it needs to heal.
Meet Makayla
As the first certified Spinal Flow Practitioner in Toowoomba, Makayla McIntosh has supported hundreds of people through their healing journeys — from pain and exhaustion to reconnection and vitality.Makayla combines hands-on experience, deep nervous system understanding, and a passion for helping people reconnect with themselves and their innate healing potential.
HER PASSION FOR THIS WORK BEGAN THROUGH HER OWN EXPERIENCE OF PROLONGED STRESS AND BURNOUT, DISCOVERING THAT HEALING BEGINS WITHIN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
A wife, mother of four, and lifelong learner, Makayla understands what it means to juggle life while still showing up for yourself. Her approach is intuitive, grounded, and compassionate — meeting each person exactly where they are, and helping the body do what it was made to do: heal.
Makayla is also a proud member of the Spinal Flow Event Team, working alongside founder Dr Carli Axford at international immersives and training, supporting practitioners and participants around the world.
