Deep Well Learning is shaped by the work and training of Matt Sincock.

It draws from a long path of study, practice, and return

— across movement, clinical training, and teaching.

It did not begin in one place, and it did not follow a single line.

Matt’s early interests were movement and story.

He grew up bushwalking around the northern beaches of Sydney, Australia,

while also becoming absorbed in books, stories, and the narratives people carry.

Movement came through practice —

first Judo, later Taekwondo, and then many years of Shotokan Karate.

From an early age, there was a question:

How do the stories we tell relate to the way we live in the body?

After school, this question began to take form through practice.

Matt studied remedial massage and yoga,

learning to feel the body directly.

During this time,

he encountered Traditional Chinese Medicine at a workshop with Michael Wynn,

who had studied with Masahiro Oki in Japan.

There was an immediate recognition.

Here was a language that connected the natural world, movement, and the stories people carry.

This study of traditional Chinese Medicine continued over several years

under Michael Wynn.

The training did not take place in a studio.

It took place in the Australian bush.

Qigong, meridian-based yoga, shiatsu, martial arts and macrobiotic cooking

were all part of the training.

Learning through workshops involved hiking for ten days at a time,

moving through remote environments, with few comforts, like the 

 Snowy Mountains, Hinchinbrook Island, the Kowmung River, the Blue Mountains, and West Head. 

Movement was no longer something practised in isolation.

It became something necessary.

The body learned differently in that environment

through terrain, fatigue, hunger, distance, and adaptation.

Understanding was not explained.

It emerged.

Alongside this, Matt continued to explore the nature of story.

He studied within a Bachelor of Arts,

and later ran a video shop for many years.

There, another form of observation developed:

Listening to the stories people told about themselves,

and how those stories shaped their perception.

This became a study of how people make sense of experience —

and how meaning is formed and reinforced.

In 2007, Matt returned to formal study in  Shiatsu and Oriental therapies, acupuncture, yoga, qigong, 

and later postgraduate study in Chinese herbal medicine.

This deepened engagement with Chinese medicine as a complete system.

But the original question remained:

How does this relate to what is actually happening in the body during practice?

Across these different paths —

movement,

wilderness training,

clinical work,

story,

and teaching —

a common question remained:

Practice continues alongside clinical work.

Matt still trains in Qigong with Simon Blow,

and continues to teach regularly.

He runs a private clinic and a weekly community clinic,

and has taught movement classes for over a decade.

Teaching develops not from theory,

but from what people are already experiencing.

This work continues through

practice,

teaching,

and the ongoing refinement of how Chinese medicine can be understood within movement practice.