You are not broken.
That is the first thing Kusal Goonewardena wants you to understand. After nearly thirty years of clinical practice and close to 100,000 patient sessions, he has heard one version of the same story thousands of times: the persistent back pain, the exhaustion that sleep does not resolve, the tightness that no treatment seems to fix. And almost every time, the person sitting across from him believes their body has failed them.
It has not.
Drawing on neuroscience, clinical experience and emerging research into the nervous system and vagus nerve, Your Body Is Not Broken explains why pain, tension and fatigue are often protective responses rather than signs of damage.
Featuring a simple three-minute daily reset built around breathing, movement and recovery, this is not a book about doing more. It is a book about finally understanding what your body has been trying to tell you, and giving it the conditions it needs to do what it has always been designed to do.
Kusal Goonewardena is an APA Titled Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist with nearly thirty years of clinical experience and close to 100,000 patient sessions. He is the founder of Elite Akademy Sports Medicine in Melbourne and serves as Head of Sports Medicine for the Elite Athlete Program at the University of Melbourne, where he is also completing a PhD in muscle fatigue.
Throughout his career Kusal has worked across elite sport, clinical practice, and university education, applying a systems-based approach to human performance, pain, recovery, and nervous system function. He supervises doctoral researchers at the University of Melbourne and teaches the methodology at the heart of this book to physiotherapy students and practicing clinicians.
Your Body Is Not Broken is his fourth book. His previous titles include Back Pain: Bridging the Gap Between Mind and Body, 3 Minute Workouts: High Intensity Fitness Fast!, and Natural Healing: Quiet and Calm.
* Most people believe their body is failing them. The aches, tightness, fatigue, and stress feel like proof that something is wrong. But after nearly thirty years and close to 100,000 patient sessions, Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist Kusal Goonewardena has found something different.
* Your Body Is Not Broken reveals why your body is protecting you, not betraying you, and teaches a simple three-minute daily reset to calm the nervous system, restore energy, reduce tension, and improve recovery.
* No equipment. No complicated routines. Just a practical new way to understand your body, and finally work with it.
* Written by a clinician with nearly thirty years and close to 100,000 patient sessions, not a wellness influencer or a theorist.
* Grounded in the neuroscience of how the nervous system drives pain, tightness, and fatigue, explained clearly for a general audience.
* The three-minute reset is genuinely achievable in real life, at a desk, in a car, in a kitchen, between meetings.
* The vagus nerve is introduced as the unifying physiological mechanism, accessible, evidence-based, and increasingly recognised in mainstream health conversation
Publicity:
* Kusal has an established presence across clinical, academic, and sporting networks in Australia and internationally. He is the Founder and Director of Elite Akademy Sports Medicine with an active patient base and ongoing clinical education program. Opportunities to outreach across health and wellness, inspirational media and supported by his direct access to academic and high-performance sports networks, podcast, newsletter and active professional relationships in the USA, UK, India and Sri Lanka.
