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....
Too fidgety to meditate? Try TRE – TRE® article in The Times
The new tension-release techniqueThe latest relaxation technique is perfect for people who can’t sit still 'If you have no patience for mindfulness and you’re too fidgety to meditate, a new approach to tackling stress has just reached the UK’s most...
How to Create Safety in Trauma Healing?
The very nature of trauma is that it is overwhelming - it’s more than the organism can cope with. Trauma shatters our worldview and rules of fairness and justice no longer seem to apply. Trauma often leads to a spiritual crisis and a profound re-evaluation of meaning....
Anything Can Work Some of the Time. Nothing Works All of the Time.
Anything can work some of the time. Nothing works all of the time. This phrase works really well to illustrate the complexity of working with pain. Pain is dependant on multiple, diverse, interacting variables. Pain is a perception due to the interplay of biological,...
Four Ways to Creatively Manage Pain
There’s an awful lot of pain around. There was a huge survey done in Europe recently: 1 in 5 people experience chronic pain. They have persistent or severe pain for more than six months. For many of them, the median time was a number of years. The really exciting news...
Relational Touch – Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in 200 words
'Humans are polyrhythmic. With skill, the rhythms sometimes coalesce into a feeling of wholeness. Touch is enormously powerful. Non-doing, ‘relational touch’, that listens without fixed agendas, supports coherent rhythms and order to emerge. There is a distinct...
Body Maps and Interoception: Liberated Body Podcast from 2014
https://www.liberatedbody.com/podcast/steve-haines-lbp-015/ 'Steve Haines talks about biodynamic craniosacral therapy, body maps and how they become strange or distorted. Interoception and why there is more pain in areas that are more poorly mapped. The huge role the...
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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....
Too fidgety to meditate? Try TRE – TRE® article in The Times
The new tension-release techniqueThe latest relaxation technique is perfect for people who can’t sit still 'If you have no patience for mindfulness and you’re too fidgety to meditate, a new approach to tackling stress has just reached the UK’s most...
How to Create Safety in Trauma Healing?
The very nature of trauma is that it is overwhelming - it’s more than the organism can cope with. Trauma shatters our worldview and rules of fairness and justice no longer seem to apply. Trauma often leads to a spiritual crisis and a profound re-evaluation of meaning....
Anything Can Work Some of the Time. Nothing Works All of the Time.
Anything can work some of the time. Nothing works all of the time. This phrase works really well to illustrate the complexity of working with pain. Pain is dependant on multiple, diverse, interacting variables. Pain is a perception due to the interplay of biological,...
Four Ways to Creatively Manage Pain
There’s an awful lot of pain around. There was a huge survey done in Europe recently: 1 in 5 people experience chronic pain. They have persistent or severe pain for more than six months. For many of them, the median time was a number of years. The really exciting news...
Relational Touch – Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in 200 words
'Humans are polyrhythmic. With skill, the rhythms sometimes coalesce into a feeling of wholeness. Touch is enormously powerful. Non-doing, ‘relational touch’, that listens without fixed agendas, supports coherent rhythms and order to emerge. There is a distinct...
Body Maps and Interoception: Liberated Body Podcast from 2014
https://www.liberatedbody.com/podcast/steve-haines-lbp-015/ 'Steve Haines talks about biodynamic craniosacral therapy, body maps and how they become strange or distorted. Interoception and why there is more pain in areas that are more poorly mapped. The huge role the...