Meet our practitioners
Each of us operates independently and is a specialist in our field. We’re committed to building a thriving studio where clients come to build lifetime vitality through strength, movement and whole body health.
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The Well is a group of experienced body health practitioners, who are passionate about improving our clients’ quality of life through improved body strength, flexibility and mobility.
Founder of The Well
Jen Rice
Jen is the founder of The Well Whole Body Studios, a boutique gym and wellness space established in 2021. With a passion for movement science, her and her team design workouts that fuse strength training, core conditioning, cardio, myofascial release, and mobility—all tailored to help the body move as nature intended.
A certified Personal Trainer since 2002, Jen specializes in biomechanics and corrective exercise, with a current focus on supporting peri/post-menopausal women. Jen has recently completed Stacey Sims certification, Menopause 2.0 course. Drawing from her own journey, she combines evidence-based training with intuitive movement strategies to help women thrive during this transformative life stage.
Rooted in Vancouver, British Columbia, her approach bridges science and soul—where every session educates, challenges, and reconnects clients to their body’s innate wisdom.
When Jen isn’t at The Well, you’ll find her outdoors—running trails, swimming in open water, hiking hills, or gardening. A former triathlete (who raced everything from sprints to long-course in her 20s), she now channels that same discipline into helping others build sustainable, joyful strength—no matter their age or phase of life.
Pathway Physiotherapy
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As an avid climber and lover of the outdoors, moving well and keeping strong have always been important to Andy. He qualified as a physiotherapist in the UK in 2007. His climbing and his work made him more curious to understand how to influence the whole body, not just the bits that hurt. He went on to study Tom Myers’ ‘Anatomy Trains’ and Douglas Heel’s ‘Be Activated’ technique.
Andy equips his clients with tools to perform better, and to prevent or manage their injuries. He will look at your whole picture health, going back to basics to identify where your habits, compensations and imbalances may have been tripping you up. With better building blocks, he’ll support your journey to a strong, more able and resilient you.
Andy Scott
Kate & the team work with a range of clientele from athletes, weekend warriors and working professionals to people wanting to better their quality of life. We understand that wellness is a journey, not a destination.
A very special interest of ours is treating pregnant women, to bring comfort through the transition to motherhood, it is a real honour to then treat their newborn baby and further as they grow into children. Kate and her team frequently work with a referral network of GP’s, Sports Doctors, Midwives, Massage Therapists, Kinesiologists, Personal Trainers, Medical Herbalists and Acupuncturists.
All team members are registered with the Osteopathic Council of New Zealand, Osteopaths New Zealand, and are ACC registered providers.
Yoga Therapy Works
Yoga therapist, educator, and health care provider Dr Jane Hardcastle has been helping people with their health for over thirty years. Originally qualifying as a registered nurse in the UK, Jane has held senior nursing, education and leadership roles in England, Scotland, and New Zealand before bringing this skillset, knowledge, and experience together as a yoga teacher and registered yoga therapist over the last ten years.
Yoga therapy is a multidimensional approach to health that integrates Western medicine and Eastern philosophies to find a path to optimal health that is right for your unique body-mind at any stage in life. Whether it's movement, rehabilitation, breathwork, bodywork, lymphatic therapy, or body-mind therapies for mental health and trauma recovery - Jane will work with you in whichever way(s) work best for your health.
Jane Hardcastle
Massage Therapist
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Performing ballet from 1985 until 2009, I sustained numerous injuries, and sports massage therapy was the best way for me to recover from them as well as improve my performances. My experience with the ability of sports massage to help with sports injuries, body alignment, improving posture, and optimising blood flow and relaxation has led to my profession and passion. For the past 15+ years I have practiced as a qualified sports massage therapist including deep tissue massage and soft tissue massage and led rehabilitation exercise classes including Yoga & Pilates.
My clients range from office workers and gym goers to elite rugby, baseball and cricket sporting teams. My joy is to see my clients’ recovery as well as to help maintain top condition in order to improve their quality of life and achieve their sporting goals.
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Robin Smith
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Robin is an experienced personal trainer, former physiotherapist and CrossFit coach with a strong focus on functional fitness, somatic awareness and therapeutic movement.
With a background in exercise science, embodiment coaching and therapeutic yoga, she works with people to develop strength, movement capacity and physical resilience through training that is evidence-informed, individually tailored and sustainable.
Personal Trainer & Clinical Nutritionist
Alaina is a qualified personal trainer and registered clinical nutritionist and she believes that exercise is one of the best things you can do for your body! Alaina has recently certified as a Core Confidence Specialist to even better assist in her clients journey of movement.
She loves supporting her clients to achieve their health goals through both fitness and nutrition. She designs her programs around helping each person exercise and eat in a way that compliments their daily life. Her own passions are for the outdoors, particularly mountain biking, rock climbing and hiking and anything that makes exercise fun!
