PNI Australia Foundation
Welcome to the Wonderful World of PNI (Psychoneuroimmunology)
At PNI Australia we are dedicated to introducing innovative and creative PNI approaches and information into the public consciousness.
In 2014 we were the first PNI site in Australia to raise awareness of the mind-body connection and the need for integrative health and wellness care.
Since 2014, PNI Australia has championed the role of PNI (psychoneuroimmunology) in enhancing wellness. We’ve helped bring the science of self-induced wellness into the awareness of modern health, wellness and creative recovery modalities.
Now, in this new era, we’re integrating AI-supported PNI practices with a focus on emotional regulation, nervous system support, and creative neuroplasticity. Our offerings include The Switchboard, a framework for real-time emotional redirection and embodied healing.
We believe this practical, innovative, and life-affirming wellness tools that help individuals reconnect to their innate capacity for joy, insight, and self-trust — tools that support the mind, body, and spirit in everyday life.
Framework
We promote holistic unity in wellness by offering a fundamental understanding of PNI (Psychoneuroimmunology) through the free courses available on this site, and the Switchboard.
The PNI Awareness Course is Information
The course highlights the wellness benefits of unified personal and professional mind-body care, and how 'direct associated care' raising the self-care aspect of each individual and self-induces wellness whilst receiving the best in mind-body care.
Our mission is twofold: to raise awareness of the unifying wellness benefits within the science of PNI, embrace the Era of AI and continue to keep PNI independent.
PNI offers unique wellness initiatives that highlight our innate ability to generate wellness within by seamlessly blending various wellness modalities to calm our nervous system and trigger a life-enhancing chemical response within ourselves, ultimately strengthening immune function.
While our approach is firmly rooted in science, the true beauty of PNI lies in understanding the inseparable connection between the mind and body and our capacity to be innovative and self-creative in ways that enable us to re-create ourselves. By embracing this interconnectedness and actively participating in self-initiated change, individuals can undergo profound and transformative experiences.
We understand that each person's journey is unique, and we encourage individuals to take ownership of their well-being and their capacity to be professionally supported whilst being self-supportive.
PNI Free Awareness Course
The PNI Awareness course delves into the unity of mind and body care, providing insights into its intrinsic nature, and highlights how we can combine professional care, self-care, and self-efficacy to provide us with a way to enhance our wellness potential.
PNI is for The People
We aim for PNI to remain independent and not be represented by one wellness modality or health establishment. PNI is a multi-functional area of science with many applications and intervention options. We can do more for ourselves and others emotionally, physically, spiritually, creatively, and energetically.
Comprehensive Framework
PNI is a comprehensive framework that explores the interconnectedness of various factors impacting our well-being, including thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and physiological responses. It is not meant to be a cure for a specific condition but rather a broader approach to understanding and enhancing overall wellness.
By recognising the complexity and versatility of PNI, we can explore its integration with diverse health and wellness modalities, allowing for a more comprehensive and inclusive approach to promoting well-being for all individuals. Ultimately, PNI is for everyone, emphasising that its principles and insights can benefit all of us in our pursuit of optimal health and wellness. It encourages collaboration and integration with other modalities, recognising that the synergistic effects of combining different approaches can lead to a more comprehensive and practical wellness experience.
By embracing the broad scope of PNI, we can maximise its potential and promote a holistic understanding of wellness that extends beyond specific illnesses or interventions.
Robert M. Hutchins. 'It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think. '
Whatever you seek, keep your self-development upbeat and live-enhancing.
PNI Awareness
The science of 'PNI’ reminds us to be aware of ourselves: our perception of the world, our preoccupations, and the interrelated pathways of pathology that govern us.
PNI Australia
PNI Australia highlights the benefits of integrating the principles of PNI into a range of wellness and health modalities whilst drawing attention to each individual's capacity to self-generate wellness.
Join us in creating human connection by embracing the inherent healing and wellness within ourselves and others.
PNI course content is provided under the headings: 'Free PNI Course'
After reading the information on this site, you can take the PNI Awareness Test and download your PNI Awareness Certificate
- Be passionate about PNI
- Enjoy learning about the science of wellness
- Add PNI Awareness to your range of skills
- Gain your PNI Awareness Certificate
- Build your business by combining mind-body care
- Relay practical, useable wellness information
- Help others to self-generate wellness
- Be innovative
- Self-creative
Summary
1. The PNI Course Information is Free.
Read the information in the sections'Free PNI Course' P1 + P2
2. Reduced Cost Learning Certificate
To purchase the PNI Awareness Certification, follow the steps in the 'Certification' section.
On successful completion of the test, you will be able to download your PNI Awareness Certificate.
An awareness of PNI can deliver significantly improved outcomes within a vast range of modalities, such as:
- Alternative and Complementary Medicine
- Bibliotherapy (Book Therapy)
- Chiropractic Care
- Counselling
- Creative and Expressive Arts
- Fitness Coaching
- Hypnotherapy
- Life Coaching
- NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
- Nutrition
- Personal-Development-Coaching
- Pilates
- Psychology
- Self-Care-Awareness
- Wellness Coaching
- Yoga
- and many other modalities
Attain your PNI Awareness Certification today.
Further information is provided in the PNI Awareness Certification section, highlighted in the link above.
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FEEDBACK
That sounds like an exciting and holistic approach to wellness! Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is a fascinating field exploring the connection between the mind, nervous, and immune systems. Individuals can take proactive steps to improve their well-being by understanding this intricate relationship. It's great to see organisations like PNI Australia promoting awareness of PNI and offering free information and support.
Keep up the fantastic work in spreading awareness and highlighting creative wellness!
The content on this eduactional site effectively communicates the comprehensive nature of Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) and its role in promoting overall well-being. It emphasises that PNI is not a cure for specific conditions but rather a framework for understanding and enhancing wellness on multiple levels.
By including the interconnectedness of various factors, such as thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and physiological responses, highlights the holistic approach of PNI. Additionally, stressing the importance of collaboration and integration with other wellness modalities reinforces the idea that PNI can complement and enhance existing approaches to health and wellness. Overall, this content provides a clear and simplified overview of PNI, encouraging individuals to explore its potential and integrate its principles into their pursuit of optimal wellness.
Julia Telling Neuro Psychological Immunology (S.A.C Dip)
PNI Australia (2014–Present)
Julia Telling Founder, PNI Wellness Facilitator, Content Creator/Developer
In 2025, the term 'PNI Facilitator' was adopted to reflect the evolving landscape of mind-body and body-mind wellness, and the integration of creative, AI-supported, and nonclinical modalities into psychoneuroimmunology-informed work.
- Julia began independent study and development of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)-based resources in 2012.
- Founded PNI Australia in 2014 as a public resource to make PNI education accessible and practical.
- Developed a free PNI learning course (with optional certificate) to support practitioners in applying PNI to their own modalities (available on this site)
- Served as content creator, informal educator, and community guide.
Recent Studies
Sydney Health Executive Education (2025) Certificate of Completion PNI Relaxation & Guided Imagry (GI) Applied use of the mind-body connection using metaphors and symbols to support self-inducing wellness, nervous system recovery, and emotional balance.
AI-Intergrated Emotional Content Design (2024-2025 Independent Study) On-going development of The Switchboard Neuroscript™ a proprietary PNI-informed framework blending storytelling, metaphor, and AI-response support to model self-regulation and innovative wellness.
PNI 2014
Practical PNI
I simplified PNI because I needed to understand the nature of PNI from the perspective of personal development, which lead to the business development aspects becoming visible due to the need for modality intergration, so the mind and body was not treated separately.
The mind heals the body and the body heals the mind, this can be viewed as entwinement.
We cannot treat the body without considering the mind, and vice versa. Aspects covering this entwinement is covered extensively and practically through the free course avaliable on the site.
After you have read the information, you have the option to check your understanding of PNI by taking the PNI Awareness test and attaining the learning certiifcate.
My main hope is that the information provided forms an informational relay and understanding of PNI and PNI becomes mainstream in terms of the scienfic credibility that underpins it's capacity to intergate effectively into other modalities, whilst empowering the capacity of each individual to self-induce-wellness.
Your contribution by purchasing the learning certiifcate that keeps this website up and running and the PNI awareness literature in the public domain.
Informational Relay
I have provide the content in small digestible sections to help with informational relaying and referral to clients to help aid understanding.
I hope you enjoy the course, and I hope we get to see the changes we need to be unified in our separate modalities and our capacity to self-induce-wellness.
PNI is inherently holistic and encompasses the intricate interactions between the mind, the nervous system, and the immune system.
Breaking down extensive scientific into practical principles of PNI for personal and business development highlights how individuals can independently benefit from the science of PNI.
Please forgive any grammatical and or typing errors.
By focusing on PNI information it can serve as pathways for understanding the intricate co-dependent nature of the mind and body, and the deeper aspects of our inherent nature.
We can aim to focus on combining mind and body care in a direct way, by integrating modalities in the form of interelated professional care, together with each individuals capacity to self-care, and build self-efficacy to be well and stay healthy.
In other words personal professional care needs to be interwoven to combine which the nature of our non-fragmented selves. Throughout this site this relationship is maintained as it's highlights the mind is the body the body is the mind, a beautiful entwinement of which we can go deeper into providing care and direct attention to cause of suffering.
We can empower people to play a larger part in their treatment plans, through effective relaxation that users the imagnation to promote self-care and self-awareness that algine with the reality of being well, and staying healthy.
PNI Independence
By limiting its application to a singular modality or illness, we risk narrowing down the potential benefits and opportunities for wellness that PNI offers.
Within the content on this site I have focused on the personal development life-enhancing aspects that are continuously evolving in science.
To avoid over-associating Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) with any specific illness or intervention technique, regardless of its success. Focus here is on not letting PNI be a figurehead of one intitution, as it is the science of wholeness. I would say it is the spirit of science, not to lose it's status but to highlight how the application of teh information is progressive in nature, and uplifting in effective application.
Public Awareness
Health and wellness professionals the public need to be aware of mind-body and body-mind care.
For more information, read the free course information available on this site. We can IDENTIFY where emotions live in the body and use interventions to help relieve and release emotions that are creating discomfort and dis-ease.
We can work with the body to communicate with the mind in a way that enables emotional easing to take place and vice-versa: working with the mind to communicate with the body in a way that enables each individual to access commmunication pathways that do not separte the mind and body but entwine it. The mind is the body and the body is the mind. The mind communicates with the body.The body communicates with the mind.When we deal with the mind and body separately we reduce the capacity of healing because the holistic unifying benefit is lost; the cost of this lack of identification is immeasurable.
Self-Inducing Wellness
Belief is any treatment plan that we undertake is papramont to success, this is why belief in our capacity to self-generate wellness is a much needed inclusion in all aspects of wellness and recovery.
Each individual has a part to play in their own healing, and our wellness capacity and capability can be implemented by understanding Bespoke Holistic Wellness Planning. This service can help other professionals like doctors, for example, as it reduces the pressure of having to explain the need for additional care. The mind and body are interelated and wellness is powered up by belief in ones course of action in the art of being well and staying healthy.
Wellness Narrative
Further to the above, attaining the ability to navigate our beliefs and unify personal wellness narratives with professional care is where bespoke wellness resides; understanding PNI enables us to become unified personally and professionally.
What we think we fee. We have the option to release emotions from the mind into the body, and let the mind relax and regenerate.
We hold a lifetime of hold emotions within us and PNI holds the way to emerge into life as leading science, a practical performance fully intergrative energentic glue if you like to bring health and wellness into a new era.
Thank you for reading.
A DECADE LATER! PNI is now Popular!
Thegrowing popularity of the PNI can be in part attributed to the informational relay and application of the benefits of PNI to a range of modalities, qualifications and skills.
Bruce Lipton and Dr Joe Dispenza now promote the holistic benefits PNI, and focus is on energy, how we can move it, modulate it, and re-create our world.
Dr Judy Lovas is a leading advocate in PNI Relaxation, and provides support to those who want to learn the clinical application of evidence- based relaxation techiques for chronic conditions.
The PNI Awareness Test
PNI Australia continues to offer practical insights into how our thoughts, interactions, and inner responses influence our wellbeing. As we moving into a new era of AI-intergrated wellness, we are also exploring how developing our creative capacities can help us to navigate new states of being well and staying healthy.
PNI helps to bridge the gap in personal and professional care as we become aware of our ability to self-induce wellness and power up any professional treatment or recovery plan.
Learning Certificate
You can test your understanding of PNI by reading the course content, taking the PNI Test, and receiving yourPNI Awareness Certificate.
PNI Implementation
PNI belongs to the people.
It is how we apply scientific information that makes the difference.
PNI can be integrated into various professions without losing its independent status.
PNI is a pathway to unity in wellness.
Thank you for participating.
Submissions of Content Overview
We welcome submissions of content from professionals in the health and wellness sectors.
The PNI Australia website holds the course information for the PNI Awareness Certificate.
All published content will contain the author's name and relevant website link.
With your submission, please include your full name, occupation, web link, youtube, podcast information ect.
For more information, and with kind consideration 'contact us'
Dr. Hooman Zahedi | Chiropractor | Health Advisor | Author
Complete Chiropractic
Dr. Hooman Zahedi, an esteemed chiropractor based in Australia, is renowned for his pioneering work in introducing the Advanced Biostructural Correction (ABC)™ technique to the country. Operating from his renowned clinic, 'Complete Chiropractic.'
Author
Dr. Zahedi is the author of 'Straight Forward' and, together with his dedicated team, has embraced a holistic approach to healthcare, emphasising the interconnectedness of the mind and body, and the need to give space and understanding for phyiscal-emotional wellness and recovery.
Dr. Hooman Zahedi
'Julia's creation and free publication of her written work is inspiring, valuable and original, particularly in a practical, educational context.
Not Overlooking Emotional Physical Triggers
Julia Telling is an expert in the personal development aspects of PNI, and for me, I was particulary interested in the importance placed on not overlooking emotional triggers that are activated through physical manipulation of the body. Recognising and addressing these physical-emotional triggers is central to achieving emotional relief and elevating physical wellness.
After working with Julia in 2014 through her personal development program 'PNI Lifespace' I recognised the importance of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) and how it enhances the effectiveness of chiropractic care. To that end I collaborated with Julia to provide comprehensive PNI training for my staff and the general public. These PNI presentations proved a resounding success and equipped individuals with a deeper understanding of the natural emotional responses that can manifest during chiropractic treatments, and how identifying and making space to physically allow emotional-physical release enhances the treatment process.
Invitation
Julia now invites health and wellness professionals to embark on the journey of obtaining their PNI Awareness Certification. This certificate is a valuable foundation for initiating meaningful dialogues with clients, and the genral public to emphasise the importance of harmonising personal and professional care to ensure that the mind and body are seen as interconnected rather than isolated elements within separate care modalities.
PNI Awareness Certification
Through the free course information evryone can gain the additional practical knowledge necessary to culivate a holistic approach to health by recognising the profound impact of emotions and mental well-being on physical health and vice versa.
By promoting a more comprehensive understanding of the intricate relationship between body and mind, and the mind and body we can embrace the direct assocative aspects and bring forward the best in Holistic care and self-development.
I hope you enjoy the course content, and Julia's practical approcah to PNI.
Having your certificate on display generates a talking point on how 'emotions live in the body not just the mind' and it extends the service you offer, by heightening awareness of the need for emotional care during physical interactions and vice versa.
I'll leave you with this thought. Be inspired and build on what you read, and see for yourself the benefits of combining care, and building your clients self-awareness.'
For more information PNI Awareness Free Course