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...
‘Mind the Gap’, Emotions and the Body
https://vimeo.com/338392078 This is a short video on how emotions emerge from the body and how we can learn to negotiate with raw feeling states. Enjoy! Affect is the first experience of the physiological state of the body. Emotions, thoughts and memories co-emerge as...
How can we be less sensitive?
https://vimeo.com/338245305 This is a short video on the importance of feeling, on how nerves can get sensitised and some tips to be less sensitive. Enjoy! How can we be less sensitive? Danger chemicals from immune cells and stress hormones sensitise nerves. Simple...
What is Shaking Meditation? – Byrdie article
Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) teach you how to relate to intense feelings in a grounded and self-regulated way by releasing tension and waking the body up. In the right context, the feelings generated by shaking can also be a powerful stimulus to come out of old,...
Stressed? Just shake it off!: Angela Neustatter puts 2019’s weirdest wellness trend to the test
TRE in The Daily Mail - 21 Jan 2019 'Lying on the floor one morning, I watch as my legs begin to tremble. Then my tummy wobbles like a half-set jelly. A few minutes in, and my body is positively shuddering, even though I am doing nothing to make this...
Evening Standard Magazine: Meet the Mind Healers
TRE in Evening Standard Magazine - 18 Jan 2019 Meet the Mind Healers: Steve Haines, Trauma Releasing Exercises 'A key feature of trauma is the shutdown, or freeze response. Haines literally shakes out the nervous system, relaxing tight muscles and...
Top Santé: Shake It Off
TRE in Top Sante - 7th Jan 2019 Shake it off - Could making your muscles quiver and shake help release tension and anxiety from your life? Do a quick scan of your body now - are you clenching your jaw? Are your shoulders tensed up around your ears? If you...
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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...
‘Mind the Gap’, Emotions and the Body
https://vimeo.com/338392078 This is a short video on how emotions emerge from the body and how we can learn to negotiate with raw feeling states. Enjoy! Affect is the first experience of the physiological state of the body. Emotions, thoughts and memories co-emerge as...
How can we be less sensitive?
https://vimeo.com/338245305 This is a short video on the importance of feeling, on how nerves can get sensitised and some tips to be less sensitive. Enjoy! How can we be less sensitive? Danger chemicals from immune cells and stress hormones sensitise nerves. Simple...
What is Shaking Meditation? – Byrdie article
Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) teach you how to relate to intense feelings in a grounded and self-regulated way by releasing tension and waking the body up. In the right context, the feelings generated by shaking can also be a powerful stimulus to come out of old,...
Stressed? Just shake it off!: Angela Neustatter puts 2019’s weirdest wellness trend to the test
TRE in The Daily Mail - 21 Jan 2019 'Lying on the floor one morning, I watch as my legs begin to tremble. Then my tummy wobbles like a half-set jelly. A few minutes in, and my body is positively shuddering, even though I am doing nothing to make this...
Evening Standard Magazine: Meet the Mind Healers
TRE in Evening Standard Magazine - 18 Jan 2019 Meet the Mind Healers: Steve Haines, Trauma Releasing Exercises 'A key feature of trauma is the shutdown, or freeze response. Haines literally shakes out the nervous system, relaxing tight muscles and...
Top Santé: Shake It Off
TRE in Top Sante - 7th Jan 2019 Shake it off - Could making your muscles quiver and shake help release tension and anxiety from your life? Do a quick scan of your body now - are you clenching your jaw? Are your shoulders tensed up around your ears? If you...