From my mid-20s onwards, the question ‘how do we feel?’ has been a fascination for me. How do we construct our experience? What are our beliefs and how does that affect our experience of our bodies? Volunteering with people with learning difficulties and then working...
Shaking can release long-held tension patterns and promote new feelings of connection and ease. It is a novel stimulus to the central nervous system. New stimuli, approached with safety and curiosity, can support learning and growth. TRE®, Tension and Trauma Releasing...
There is an intelligence and self-regulating principle at the heart of the human experience. Our bodies are always striving for health and trying to optimize their balance, and they do that very intelligently. There are millions of years of evolution behind the...
One of the strongest results I’ve had using Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy was with a stressed lawyer, who’d come with acute/chronic shoulder pain. It was so bad that she couldn’t drive anymore, and could only work part-time, but she was a very busy, and very...
Just being there is no small thing. When we are present with someone’s expressions of their life force, there’s a profound effect created that brings about healing. When you experience this, a wonderful healing takes place and there is a natural relief of your...
One: Too Much Load Can Lead to Injury People who are not sleeping, or resting, who are managing lots of stress, are emotionally out of balance and whose nutrition is poor are more likely to experience pain and get injured. When people are training they often are very...
Helping people with anxiety has traditionally been seen as the territory of mental health professionals. Anxiety is most commonly framed as a psychological problem. My clinical experience for over twenty years has been that by safely connecting to the body, people...
As a young child, one of my clients learnt to dissociate when her parents were arguing. When I first started treating her, and didn’t understand the dissociation model I now work with, we both thought the sessions were productive because she consistently reported a...
Feeling is hard. My aim is to make it simple I’m a passionate and persistent champion of embodiment. As a bodyworker, all my work is aimed at supporting people to find health and happiness by connecting to the body. Whatever has happened to you, whatever your belief...
When we’re looking to reduce pain and anxiety, developing skills and words about how to interact with the feeling states inside you is really important. In this blog, I’m going to explore the art of feeling, and how we can get better at learning how to manage intense...
It may be five years since the first covid lockdowns, but in some ways we’re still navigating very disrupted times culturally and politically. In these challenging times, we can resource ourselves by acknowledging the feeling states inside of us. For me, the body is...
The very nature of trauma is that it is overwhelming – it’s more than our organisms can cope with. Trauma often shatters our worldview and rules of fairness and justice no longer seem to apply, which can lead to a spiritual crisis and a profound re-evaluation of...