by Steve Haines | May 16, 2024 | Embodiment
My goal as a bodyworker is to help people – whether they are working with trauma, pain or anxiety – reconnect to a sense of wholeness and include more in their sense of self. Embodiment is key to this process – when we feel at home in the space... by Steve Haines | Jun 21, 2021 | Cranial, Embodiment, Feeling, Touch
Did you know there are two types of touch? It is useful to understand the difference between quick touch and slow touch. Quick touch goes along big, thick A fibre nerves. These nerves are like motorways. Slow touch is different, it goes along slow, thin C fibre... by Steve Haines | Mar 9, 2021 | Embodiment, Exercise, Feeling, Injury Prevention, Pain, Touch
About Touch Is Really Strange When did you start working on the book? The idea for a book on touch has been in my head since 2019, but definitely a lockdown project. The Really Strange series has been huge fun and continues to get heartwarming feedback. There have... 
by Steve Haines | Feb 24, 2021 | Embodiment, Safety, Touch, Trauma, TRE
Overview Connection to the body is the foundation of connection to self, connection to others, and connection to the natural world. Transference is when feelings, attitudes, associations originally experienced with important people from the past are transferred onto... 
by Steve Haines | Dec 19, 2020 | Embodiment, Pain, Safety, Trauma
Links between pain and trauma Polyvagal theory developed by Dr Stephen Porges is very influential in the trauma world. The essence of polyvagal theory is that feeling safe is the fundamental drive for humans. If there is the perception of danger... 
by Steve Haines | Aug 12, 2020 | Embodiment, Pain
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...
