New Esplanade business creates full circle moment

A TORQUAY resident, health practitioner and endurance athlete with a passion for recovery and helping others has opened a new business along Torquay’s waterfront, as he looks to continue the work he has spent years perfecting.

Tim Altman’s new recovery and wellness location on The Esplanade, aptly named “The Esplanade”, is up and running after more than two years of searching for a suitable location.

The business provides the community with a range of recovery and wellness tools to be used at their disposal, including sauna, breathwork, meditation, ice baths, float therapy and massage.

A naturopath practitioner with 25 years of experience, Mr Altman said he has explored natural techniques yielding the optimal results in alleviating illness, increasing health and sometimes performance.

 

 

“I’ve seen people who have been fighting chronic fatigue and chronic illness for 20 years and more, and I know how helpless people can feel,” he said.

“So it’s great that I can share these modalities with people through the business. I got lucky that I found a mentor to help me through my struggles and now, in a sense, I can play that role.

“It’s been a big lead-up to getting this business up and running and we can’t wait to share it with Torquay and the Surf Coast.”

Mr Altman’s journey from debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome in the late 1980s through to the mid-1990s came as a result of pushing too hard by combining training for Australian Olympic kayak qualification with his full time university studies.

Little had known about chronic fatigue at the time and it was not recognised by the mainstream medical profession, which led to Mr Altman seeking help elsewhere.

He then met Russian Doctor of Medicine Dr Vagif Soultanov, who provided natural medicine techniques and between four to six months of treatment to Mr Altman.

Mr Altman credited Dr Soultanov’s work as a life-changing moment and was inspired to learn more about the natural therapies that once helped him.

Techniques such as sauna therapy, herbal medicine, therapeutic fasting, respiratory therapy/breathwork, nutrition and energetic medicine are now used in everyday applications at The Esplanade.

Since officially opening the business a fortnight ago, Mr Altman has been pleased with the community’s response so far.

“Over my many years of sauna therapy and recovery methods similar to that is that it’s so community oriented, and we want to replicate that here,” he said.

“We have saunas that can be a little more intimate and can fit a max of two people, but we also have larger sauna that can fit more.

“We’re flexible with customers, we accept walk-ins, but we also have membership options available for people to enquire about.”