Come home to
your BODY
Somatic healing and embodied movement practices to help
you put the piece of your life together as you find your way home.
What’s it like living in your body?
It may be that daily stress is eating away at your life and your body is paying the price.
Perhaps you’ve been struggling for so long with chronic illness that you can’t imagine ever being well again. You’re tired and cranky that your body seems to be giving up on you and you’re not even that old!
It could be that your body is changing – it’s not as agile or supple as it once was and just doesn’t work the way it once did. Call it wear and tear, or physical pain, whatever, but you feel it is letting you down and you’re ready to find a way back to feeling good in yourself.
Or you feel the burden of our emotional stress is taking its toll; holding up the healing process, keeping you stuck in anxiety, exhaustion and painful body symptoms.
And yet somewhere within you there is an inner knowing , an inkling, that you could be healthier, happier, more comfortable in your own skin, and you want to know how to get there.
The journey I take you through will gently untangle your chronic stress so your body begins to find it’s own way out of pain and ongoing illness –and not just of the body but of the mind too?
Here’s the different ways we can work together to create the life that you always wanted
Somato-Emotional Release
Discharge the fight or flight response frozen in your muscles and nervous system that activates pain, stress and inflammatory diseases and let’s help
you return back to full vibrant living . As part of that process we’ll tap into the power of neuroplasticity to help you rewire your stress response and regain your life.
Therapeutic Bodywork
Rewire your brain for pain-free living and eliminate chronic muscle tension
Wake up everyday without any worries about nagging pains or limitations, . Instead, you feel anticipation for the possibility of pain-free movement, freedom and exploration in the day ahead.
Somatic Movement
Release your old anxieties, self-doubt or traumas so that your body doesn’t bear the burden . Instead feel the freedom of being able to manage your emotions and calm your nervous system so you can finally show up for life – centred, empowered, and truly your true self.
- Imagine never doubting yourself physically
- Imagine breaking the cycle of stress that keeps you stuck.
Waking up everyday without any worries about nagging pains or limitations. Instead, you feel anticipation for the possibility of fun and exploration in the day ahead.
Imagine what your life would be like that if you could release your old anxieties or traumas so that your body doesn’t bear the burden.
Through movement, breath and somatic body-based
interventions we undo the frazzled state of too much,
too fast and never-quite-enough that we live in when
demands are seemingly endless. …
Come join me in our playful unraveling of the most
ancient part of our nervous system
Somatics goes straight to the root of the problem; your brain and nervous system – rewiring your muscles back to neutral taking you out of pain and giving you back control of your movement enabling you to enjoy life without pain or stiffness.
Specifically designed to speak to your nervous system, it’s basically a mindfulness practice that works directly with the movement cortex.
It’s a kind of change-your-brain, change-your-body, change-your-life methodology.
And it is very accessible to anyone and everyone
Healing the layers of stress that stay trapped in the muscles, bones, tissues and fascial layers of our nervous system – and our brains
What we can help with
Health Issues
Explore stress and trauma stored in your deep core that results in low energy, back pain, headaches, digestive issues, Fibromyalgia, arthritis, and feelings of anxiety. Discharge the fight or flight response frozen in your muscles that activates pain, stress and inflammatory diseases and let’s help you return back to full vibrant living.
Anxiety and Stress
If you’re ready to find how to be really at ease in your body and in full vibrant health the secret to this way is in your nervous system. (That’s where all those physical, mental, and emotional blocks still holding you back are stuck.) The good news is: they can all be cleared out. And I can help you do it.
Pain
Living with chronic pain can be confusing and overwhelming. You might feel like you have completely lost control of your body, your health, and your life. SomaMoves is a specialized form of neuromuscular movement that activates and re-educates your brain releasing chronic pain, enabling you to enjoy a life without pain or stiffness
Insomnia
This is your destressor programme, your time to unwind, easing body and mind to prepare you for a great night’s sleep. Embodied Yoga, Mindfulness and Sleep Science is at the core of these programmes and will leave you ready for sleep night after night.
Mobility
We are born into bodies that love movement – movement that brings you vibrancy so that you move better, get stronger, think clearer, and feel more energetic and alive than perhaps you ever have. Live the active lifestyle you want — without pain, stiffness and injury.
Ageing Better
By working with the brain through neurosensory movements you are peeling away years of pain and stiffness — literally allowing your body to regenerate new patterns of mobility on a neuromuscular level that is long lasting. It’s like taking a swig from the fountain of youth. Who doesn’t want that?
Explore How We can
Work together:
Somatic Therapy
In-person . Online
What if, by simply changing the way you literally MOVE through the world, you could untangle the tensions of chronic pain , self-sabotaging habits and unhealthy emotional patterns?
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Somatic Therapy uses gentle resistance to your movement and with heightened sensory awareness, your nervous system receives new information that allows muscles to unwind and find a new lengthening and releasing of the knots of tension that constrict our movement and cause pain. .Your body begins to find it’s own way out of pain –and not just of the body but of the mind too.
Group Classes
In-person . Online
Somatic Movement gives you back the movement possibilities/potential that you had before chronic pain, exhaustion and lack of mobility became part of your life.
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Living with chronic pain, exhaustion , stress and on-going health issues can be confusing and overwhelming. You might feel like you have completely lost control of your body, your health, and your life. Somatic Yoga is a specialized neuromuscular movement class that activates and re-educates your brain releasing chronic pain, and tiredness enabling you to enjoy a life without pain or stiffness.
Somato-Emotional Release
In-person . Online
This body based therapy is for those times when there are no words, when words are not enough, or when words get in the way, It offers a space where the nonverbal language of our bodies can be unlocked to release the layers of emotional anxiety and overwhelm that keep us spinning.
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Anxiety and emotional trauma keeps us in a cycle of fight and flight , keeping us triggered with worry and agitation. Somato-Emotional Release seeks to address this by calming the fear centres of the brain and regulating our emotional brain to bring us into a place of restful ease , facilitating you in your return to wellness. – whether that’s relief from chronic pain, emotional distress, nervous system overwhelm or other health-related challenges .
Show me how
This is for you if …
You’re starting to feel a bit-over-the-hill even though you’re not that old yet.
You know that the stress of juggling your life is what’s creating tension ; you’re ready to find a way to resolve those stresses
so you can live life fully again.
You’re frustrated – you’ve tried everything, but the pain keeps returning
You’re determined to never take another pain-killer and are looking for a way to rely on YOURSELF to feel better instead of
on pills & surgery
It’s getting difficult to do the things that you love to do – even the simple things like getting up off the couch is becoming an effort.
You’ve many years left in you and you want to stay as active as you possibly can so you get to enjoy them all.
Perhaps you’ve been struggling for so long that you can’t imagine ever being well again…
What makes this work so effective
Muscle-Forgetfulness
Muscles with sensory-motor amnesia – muscle forgetfulness – have learned to stay so contracted that no matter what you do—stretching, massaging, or drugging the muscles—they will not relax for the long term.
Somatics is different – it’s designed to train your brain to eliminate chronic muscle pain and wake up your movement memory !.Somatics gives you back the movement possibilities/potential that you had before chronic pain and lack of mobility became part of your life.
Somatics is different – it’s designed to train your brain to eliminate chronic muscle pain and wake up your movement memory !.Somatics gives you back the movement possibilities/potential that you had before chronic pain and lack of mobility became part of your life.
Steeped in sensory Neuroscience
More and more research is telling us that to have a healthy brain and life we MUST put the focus on our body! And to have a healthy body we must engage and re-wire the neural pathways so that we create long-term health and resilience in the tissues, fascia, muscles and nervous system – Bye-bye pain and anxiety
Neuro-Regulation
When pain occurs, the brain interprets and modulates these sensations like volume controls for the pain, by dialing it louder or quieting it down. You’ll learn effective ways to control and re-regulate the volume controls. This in turn allows our fight-flight-freeze response to re-set back into the healthy state of rest- digest allowing our healing response to kick back into operation again.
You’re in charge
You’re in charge
You’re in charge
As it’s the brain that decides when to contract and when to let go it’s obvious then that no-one can do this for you – but your brain knows exactly how to do this work. ! What we do for you is to show you how to re-train your own brain so that you become the expert in your movement brain and therefore the expert in your own well-being throughout your life-time.
Emotional Equilibrium
Our bodies are designed to respond to our feelings. We’ll explore how your emotions contribute to pain. You’ll learn how to become aware of emotional triggers and how to reverse the pain brought on by emotions.
Mindfulness in Motion
Training our sensory awareness – which is our sense of ourselves from the inside out – runs like a golden thread throughout , and is the basis of all mindfulness practices. With sensory-motor amnesia in a certain area, it can feel like a dead zone. There is very little awareness except for the sensation of pain. Bringing awareness back sends new information to our Movement Brain to look for less stressful ways to move and be in our world
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