Dr John Surie in clinic with a client
About

Over a quarter century in clinic. A lifetime in the work.

Chiropractor. Somatic practitioner. Founder of The Entrain Method. I have been studying the body in one form or another since I was ten years old, and practising professionally since 1997. The Entrain Method is the codification of everything I have learned along the way.

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His Story

How I got here.

Dr John Surie portrait
A single thread, pulled tight

I started martial arts at ten. I learned to meditate at eleven. I started yoga the same year, and I have not stopped since.

By the time I was old enough to choose a profession, I had already been training my body and my attention for nearly a decade. So when I went into chiropractic, I was not starting from scratch. I was formalising one piece of a much larger education that had been running in the background most of my life.

That education kept widening. Three black belts in three different martial arts styles, earned over the years from masters who taught more than technique. Ten years studying traditional Chinese medicine with a Chinese healer in New Jersey, learning to read a body the way the East has read bodies for thousands of years. Years of mentorship in bodywork. Deep training in the chiropractic techniques that earned their place in my hands — Network Spinal Analysis, Sacral Occipital Technique, Applied Kinesiology, and others I draw from when the body asks for them.

I have been practising professionally since 1997. I have owned and run clinics in New York City, Northern New Jersey, and on the Gold Coast in Australia. I have taught hot yoga since 2010 and practised it seriously since 1999. I founded Fire Shaper and grew it to eleven studios at its peak before scaling it back to a leaner four-studio model — partly because the model I had built could sustain it, and partly because I wanted to put more of my time back into the work I am here to do.

None of this is a credentials list. It is a single thread, pulled tight over forty years, all of it pointing at the same question: what does it actually take to help a body come back to coherence.

The answer, after all of it, is simpler than the path. It is the practitioner. Not their technique, not their toolkit, not the modality they trained in last. The state they hold while they work. The clarity in their own field. The signal their body is giving the client's body to organise around.

That single recognition changed how I worked. It changed who walked out of my clinic and how. It changed the kind of practitioner I was raising up, because once you see it, you cannot unsee it, and you cannot go back to running technique on top of incoherence and call it healing.

The Entrain Method is the codification of all of that. Forty years of training, twenty-five years of clinic, every modality I have ever studied, distilled into a system other practitioners can actually learn. Not a style. A way of working that produces a different result, on a different timeline, with a different ceiling.

This is what I am here to teach. And this is what I am here to keep practising, every day, with every client who walks through the door.

His Methodology

What makes the approach different.

Most bodywork starts with the symptom and works backward. Find the tight spot, release it, send the person home. The hands do the work. The practitioner is the technician.

I do not work that way.

I work with three layers at the same time, because the body lives in all three at once.

Structural.

The skeleton, the joints, the mechanics. What is stacked, what is tilted, what is compensating. This is the chiropractic eye, and after a quarter century of clinic it reads a body in seconds.

Fascial.

The web that holds everything else in place. Fascia is where old patterns live — bound, locked, waiting. When fascia shifts, structure follows. When fascia stays bound, no adjustment holds for long.

Energetic.

The current that runs through the whole system. Some call it the nervous system. Some call it qi. The name matters less than the fact that it is there, it is measurable, and it responds to a coherent practitioner the way iron filings respond to a magnet.

The hands are not doing the healing. The hands are drawing attention to where the body is ready to reorganise.

That is the difference. A coherent practitioner does not transfer energy and does not fix a problem. They hold a clear, settled, fully present field, and the client's own system entrains to it. The body does the rest. It always has. It just needs a clearer reference point than it usually gets.

This is teachable. It is not a gift, not a personality, not something you either have or you do not. It is a trained capacity, built over time, in a specific sequence, with a specific set of tools. That sequence is The Entrain Method.

His Credentials

The lineage behind the work.

I am not interested in stacking initials after my name. I am interested in what each piece of training actually built into how I work today. Here is the lineage.

01

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies

Fully qualified chiropractor in active clinical practice since 1997. Deep training in Network Spinal Analysis, Sacral Occipital Technique, Applied Kinesiology, and other foundational chiropractic methodologies. The structural eye and the diagnostic precision come from here.

02

Martial Arts & Meditation

Studying martial arts since age ten. Black belts in three different styles, earned over the years from masters who taught far more than technique. Meditation since age eleven — long before it was a wellness trend, and long enough that it stopped being a practice and became a way of standing in the world.

03

Traditional Chinese Medicine

A decade of study with a Chinese healer in New Jersey. Learning to read a body the way the East has read bodies for thousands of years, and how that reading layers over the structural and fascial work I had already trained in.

04

Yoga & Breathwork

Practising yoga since age eleven, alongside my martial arts training. Practising hot yoga seriously since 1999. Teaching hot yoga since 2010. The personal practice is the ground I stand on as a practitioner before any client walks in.

05

Founder & Builder

Owner of clinical practices in New York City, Northern New Jersey, and on the Gold Coast. Founder of Fire Shaper, scaled to eleven studios at its peak, now operating a leaner four-studio model that lets me put more time into the healing work. Founder of an organic skincare company. Founder of a peak-performance company that supplied next-generation cooling vests to the military, Olympic athletes, and individuals in medical need. The business experience is not separate from the practitioner work — it is what lets me build training programs and ongoing memberships that actually scale.

His Mission

What I am building, and why.

There is a generation of bodyworkers, manual therapists, and movement practitioners who have hit a ceiling.

They are technically excellent. They have the training, the hours, the hands. And they can feel, every day, that there is more available than they are producing. They watch their clients improve and plateau. They watch their own bodies pay the price of the work. They wonder, quietly, whether twenty more years of this is sustainable.

I have spent the last decade answering that question for myself, and the answer turned out to be a method, not a mindset. A teachable, repeatable, measurable way of working that solves both problems at once. The client gets a different result. The practitioner stops bleeding out into every session.

The Entrain Method exists so that practitioners do not have to choose between mastery and longevity.

That is the mission. Train practitioners who can sustain a thirty-year career, hold a coherent field in any room, and produce results their clients can feel inside the first session and trust over time. Build a global lineage of people working this way. And keep the clinic doors open on the Gold Coast for the people who want the work directly from the source.

This is the work. This is what I am building. Whether you are here to receive a session, train as a practitioner, or simply find out what is possible — you are in the right place.

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