Built from research.
Born from experience.

Dejan Jasovic

The long way to the right place

Dex completed a degree in health science, then sat the GAMSAT with the intention of going into medicine. He had the results. He had the path. Then his third child arrived, and he made a deliberate choice. Being a present father mattered more than the decade of sacrifice medicine would require from his family right now. He deferred, and took some time to figure out what was next. That time did not go to waste. Dex is currently studying a Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology, deepening the clinical foundation that underpins everything at Mind Over Matter Practice.

What came next was a personal reckoning. Dex had lived with anxiety since childhood. It was not something he had ever fully resolved. Managed, worked around, pushed through, but not resolved. While training Muay Thai, he stumbled across cold therapy. The effect was immediate and undeniable. Not just physically, but mentally. The clarity after a cold plunge, the shift in his nervous system, the reduction in the background noise of anxiety he had carried his entire life , it stopped him in his tracks.

He did what he always does. He went to the research. Why did it work? What was the mechanism? What else existed that could support the body and the mind in this way? He found float therapy, hyperbaric oxygen, neurofeedback, contrast protocols, infrared. He found a field of evidence-backed recovery modalities that were either buried in academic literature or available only in major cities, accessible to people who could afford premium wellness facilities.

Living in Victor Harbor, there was nothing. No facility that offered these modalities with the science behind them, the safety protocols built in, and a practitioner who understood the physiology. So he built one.

Every modality at Mind Over Matter Practice is backed by published, peer-reviewed research. Every science page on this site references primary literature. Every claim Dex makes in a consult or a session he can trace to a study. This was a founding principle, not because it makes good marketing, but because it is the right way to operate when you are working with people's health.

Safety was the other founding principle. Dex noticed that facilities offering these services rarely had systematic safety monitoring in place. At Mind Over Matter Practice, vitals are taken before every session. Blood pressure, temperature, oxygen saturation. HRV analysis is available for those who want it. The foundation of the business, and eventually the client monitoring app currently in development, is built on the principle that if you are going to ask someone's body to adapt, you need to know where that body is starting from.

Morgwn Jasovic

The other half of everything

Morgwn's path into health was its own journey. She studied exercise physiology, medical radiation and naturopathy, a breadth that reflects a genuine curiosity about how the body works at multiple levels. Before she could complete those studies, family became the priority. Three children, a husband in the middle of his own pivot, and a life being built in Victor Harbor.

When Mind Over Matter Practice began to take shape, Morgwn did not step into a supporting role. She stepped in as an equal creator and partner from the beginning. That included the research. Morgwn went through the literature alongside Dex, building the same foundational understanding of how these modalities work at a mechanistic level. She can read a study, understand the physiology behind it, and relay what it means to a client on their health journey in plain language. The science is not Dex's domain that Morgwn translates for people. It is something they both built together, so that every person who walks through the door is supported by two people who genuinely understand what is happening in the body and why.

The business is as much hers as it is Dex's: the operations, the client experience, the marketing, the content, the voice of the brand. The combination of their backgrounds matters. A health science and naturopathy graduate with deep mechanistic knowledge of recovery physiology, alongside a partner with study across exercise physiology, medical radiation and naturopathy who approaches the body from multiple angles. Two people who built this because they needed it, in a town that needed it, and who decided that evidence and safety were not optional extras but the entire foundation.