Love is an essential human emotion. But is self love? Maybe as much as self hate? Love yes, but when that love is poured out into the world for all to bath in, that love radiates from every cell in our body, and becomes a gift for all around us.
Read MoreAnxiety can be illusive. We can look calm and collected on the outside, but feel chocked and nauseas inside. Sometimes our anxiety is so intense there's no way of hiding it. But no matter how hideous it is... it is sadly normal
Read MoreIt can feel like Panic attacks spontaneously arise, but they are often building for weeks or months, and subtle threat responses like appeasement or socially acceptable behaviours like people pleasing can underpin their rise.
Read MoreGeneralised Anxiety is debilitating because the brain has become expert at being anxious. But all kinds of generalising exist. We can generalise balance, maths puzzles, baking, board games, painting, playing instruments. And we can generalise ease, comfort, calm, confidence, joy, pleasure, playfulness…
Read MoreIf you are quick to get anxious excitement is not a great reframe. Anxiety and Excitement are highly sympathetic states - Elevated heart rate, blood in the muscles, BUTTERFLIES in the stomach, SPEEDY, wriggly and sweaty. (they share about 80% of the same neurology). What we need is something completely different.
Read MoreThe word triggered is becoming a catch all for feeling upset, hurt, overwhelmed, agitated, stressed, anxious, angry, embarrassed… But diluting its meaning is not helping anyone and in some cases it’s hurting the PTSD community and those who are living with serious conditions.
Read MoreThere’s a prevailing idea in the social zeitgeist... YOU are triggering me. My awful experience is YOUR fault. But it’s backwards and it doesn’t allow for mature consensual relationships.
Read MoreFeldenkrais is one of the most consensual movement practices I know. We mostly move alone, at our own pace, respect our limits and rest when we want. As a touch practitioner I’m sensing the limits of each clients body with precision. But this last decade I’ve been interrogating what it is to be a truly consensual practitioner.
Read MoreOne of the tenants of Feldenkrais is to go with the flow, we call it ‘going with the pattern’. We allow the nervous system to do what it is doing. We go with its preference and its bias. This is deeply comforting for the nervous system and it softens with thankfulness.
Read MoreRead MoreThe more I learn about the Autonomic Nervous System the more I trust it with my life. After all it's been co-ordinating the lives of animals for millions of years. I think it knows what it's doing!
Speaking with Heidi Carroll and Kym McGregor on the Somatic Philosophies that underpin how I work as a practitioner with clients with anxiety.
Read MoreSpeaking with Joe Webster I talk through the multiple ways Feldenkrais can be used to help us manage stress and anxiety.
Read MoreFeldenkrais is a method for adulting, for learning to live consciously, and untethered, for embracing the challenges, joys and anxieties life offers us and for discovering how we want to do this thing called life, our way, with personal authority.
Read MoreHave you heard of poo shock? Maybe you have experienced it! It’s when you go on holidays and can’t poo for days! Or maybe you get a sudden case of gremlin fatigue on holidays? Or you just can’t sleep a wink! Holidays are meant to be relaxing but they are not always!
Read MoreLying down is good for so many things. But did you know an afternoon lay down can be more effective than air conditioning to ward off heat stroke?
Read MoreEver felt stuck in a rut? In the upright position, we are habituated in our personalities, and habituated in the way we are engaged in the world. When we lie down, all of that falls away. We surrender to gravity and we give up those habituated patterns and enter a state where our mind and muscles are in more of a blank slate space.
Read MoreGrounding need not be a to-do list, a series of precisely controlled actions, and it definitely need not be a prefrontal cortical activity. Because grounding is simply the truth of being human on planet earth. Grounding is a noun. Whether we want it or not, we are grounded, it is an undeniable truth.
Read MoreI am a nighttime walker. Having never settled on a routine of Netflix at night, when my work day is done, if I'm not ready for books in bed, I'm called outside to wander. There is something wonderful about seeing your city at dark.
Read MoreThe Parasympathetic Nervous System is such a delightfully noisy nervous system. It's not loud like the cheering, peacocking sympathetic but it is a wonderful witchy pot of gorgeous gurgles and hissing.
Read MoreBeing an audience member brings me so much joy. Watching students in their final showcase, in their debut with a company, finding their 'voice' with a new work, or when they move onto the BIG arena. But it also makes me reflect on how I often feel like an audience member to my own life.
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