Five Ways to Prevent Injury (or Recover More Easily)
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...
TRE featured on www.patient.info
Can shaking exercises improve stress and PTSD? Great article on TRE on www.patient.infoSteve Haines is a leading TRE provider, teaching in locations worldwide. He says what makes TRE special is that it focuses on relieving stress and trauma by triggering a natural...
Anxiety is Really Strange, Isn’t It?
Anxiety is most commonly framed as a psychological problem. My clinical experience for over 20 years has been that by safely connecting to the body, people become less anxious.
Embodiment Podcast – Steve Haines on Bodywork, Trauma and Feelings, Dec 2019
Here is podcast of me being interviewed by Mark Walsh. At the start there is some framing of how I believe cranial work works, the importance of feeling and the limits of energy models. For TRE folks at 00:34:30 we discuss TRE, including some responses to critiques of...
My favorite Books About the Body, Mind and Health
If you’re looking for something interesting to read over the Winter break, I can recommend the following books, as well as my own series; Pain, Trauma and Anxiety are Really Strange. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith...
Shake It All About – TRE in Metro, London 2019-11-28
TRE, the new exercise craze born out of a war zone I’M lying on my back with my knees bent and slightly apart, and my legs are twitching uncontrollably. For some reason, rather than making me anxious this strikes me as utterly hilarious — I just have a mental picture...
Webinar: Working with Trauma via Relational Touch 2019-10-29, Steve Haines
This webinar was designed to explore how 'Relational Touch' supports embodiment and grounding to heal trauma. When our physiology is stuck, we are stuck. Understanding the protective reflexes of 'fight-or-flight' or 'freeze' is a key piece in working with trauma....
Webinar: Relational Touch 2019-09-26, Steve Haines
https://vimeo.com/manage/362675753/general “Touch, my studies show, is the primary language of compassion, love, and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation.” -Keltner, D. (2009) Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. 1st Ed, W. W....
Floating is Not Necessarily Good
As a young child, one of my clients learnt to dissociate when her parents were arguing. When I first started treating her, and did not understand the dissociation model I now work with, we both thought the sessions were productive because she consistently reported a...
Being Sensitive May Be How We Can Become Less Sensitive!
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 feeling, and how we can get better at learning how to manage intense feelings....
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Five Ways to Prevent Injury (or Recover More Easily)
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...
TRE featured on www.patient.info
Can shaking exercises improve stress and PTSD? Great article on TRE on www.patient.infoSteve Haines is a leading TRE provider, teaching in locations worldwide. He says what makes TRE special is that it focuses on relieving stress and trauma by triggering a natural...
Anxiety is Really Strange, Isn’t It?
Anxiety is most commonly framed as a psychological problem. My clinical experience for over 20 years has been that by safely connecting to the body, people become less anxious.
Embodiment Podcast – Steve Haines on Bodywork, Trauma and Feelings, Dec 2019
Here is podcast of me being interviewed by Mark Walsh. At the start there is some framing of how I believe cranial work works, the importance of feeling and the limits of energy models. For TRE folks at 00:34:30 we discuss TRE, including some responses to critiques of...
My favorite Books About the Body, Mind and Health
If you’re looking for something interesting to read over the Winter break, I can recommend the following books, as well as my own series; Pain, Trauma and Anxiety are Really Strange. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith...
Shake It All About – TRE in Metro, London 2019-11-28
TRE, the new exercise craze born out of a war zone I’M lying on my back with my knees bent and slightly apart, and my legs are twitching uncontrollably. For some reason, rather than making me anxious this strikes me as utterly hilarious — I just have a mental picture...
Webinar: Working with Trauma via Relational Touch 2019-10-29, Steve Haines
This webinar was designed to explore how 'Relational Touch' supports embodiment and grounding to heal trauma. When our physiology is stuck, we are stuck. Understanding the protective reflexes of 'fight-or-flight' or 'freeze' is a key piece in working with trauma....
Webinar: Relational Touch 2019-09-26, Steve Haines
https://vimeo.com/manage/362675753/general “Touch, my studies show, is the primary language of compassion, love, and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation.” -Keltner, D. (2009) Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. 1st Ed, W. W....
Floating is Not Necessarily Good
As a young child, one of my clients learnt to dissociate when her parents were arguing. When I first started treating her, and did not understand the dissociation model I now work with, we both thought the sessions were productive because she consistently reported a...
Being Sensitive May Be How We Can Become Less Sensitive!
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 feeling, and how we can get better at learning how to manage intense feelings....