I am amazed. I have to say, when I take the time to sense into my body and reflect on all it does, I find myself truly astounded and wowed. This natural organism, my body, through all the ups and downs I put it through, and that life throws at it, manages to keep everything […]
I’m thinking about my Lungs
November has been Global Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Did you know that? Lung Cancer awareness month has been going since 2004. It’s aim being to unite all people and organizations working to prevent and improve people’s lung health. Sounds good doesn’t it! There are so many ways to approach health, so a coalition and working […]
Crawling for Adults (and other developmental movement patterns)
What are developmental patterns and why are they important? Developmental Movement Patterns are the patterns that we all move through (from greater to lesser degrees) as we start life as a single cell organism and evolve towards walking on two limbs. Each developmental stage enables specific brain, co-ordination and emotional growth to occur. Re-visiting these […]
How Presence and Being in the Moment can be helpful for Real Change
Being present, that is ‘being in the place in question’, or being exactly where you are, could be viewed as the antithesis of change. In its nature, it implies no movement or action. However, if we look at being present, what is actually happening? Sitting writing this now, if I pay attention for a moment […]
How Judgement of Ourselves can inhibit Real Change
I live in a culture that is obsessed with change; with improvement, growth, expansion, moving on, getting over and the new. Depending where you’re reading this from, I would guess that you do too. Whether it’s relationships, home-life, business or health, this caught-up-ness in the next thing and doing or being better can take a […]
Summer Skin ~ Absorbing the Nutrients. Part 1.
As the season gradually shifts, and an additional layer of clothing – an external layer of skin if you like – is grabbed for, I am reflecting on the richness of this particularly good summer. The abundance of sunlight, the exposure of bare flesh, and the lightening of human spirits as the summer sun is […]
How touch and movement shapes us and can continue to
The basis of my therapeutic approach comes from science’s study of development, and the observations from care workers, parents, doctors, and body-workers. Perhaps on a more basic level, touch and movement have been used as instinctual tools, since the beginning of time. Evidence shows that there is both practical and psychological reasons for holding and […]