Get to know yourself more intimately through a relationship with your own body using somatic inquiry and embodied movement.

Food for your soul – How often do you check-in with yourself?

Regular “checking-in” can help improve your mental, emotional and spiritual health.

My workshops are held regularly in Colchester, Essex.

 SPACE TO EXPLORE

These workshops are perfect whether you’re struggling, and suffering from the effects of stress or trauma, or simply seeking guidance on how to connect with yourself at your core level.

My workshops are always as trauma-sensitive as possible.

 WHY TRAUMA-SENSITIVE?

We live in a fast-paced, and challenging world with many curveballs along the way. We can all feel the effect of trauma or stress in our body at times and some of us hold it in there for months, or even years.

Healing stress or trauma in the body is a way to overcome physical, mental, emotional and spiritual pain, allowing you to realign your life for greater happiness, health, emotional balance and personal success.

We can’t think our way out of trauma or stress; it is held in the body, not the mind. So, feeling our way out of it using Movement, Mindfulness, Breathwork, and our body’s language, can be helpful.

When we are triggered and in fight or flight, stimulating the vagus nerve is a great way to reset and help us re-centre and re-balance, reducing anxiety, stress, anger and creating peace back in the body.

The vagus nerve acts to counterbalance the fight or flight system and can trigger a relaxation response in our body. It is one of the cranial nerves that connect the brain to the body. When this nerve is activated our physiological response is to reset; reset our heart rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure and as a result, we may reduce feelings of anxiety, anger, and stress, and in turn, this may have a positive effect on our mind, mood, digestion and immune response.

We will use the bodywork to release any trapped energy that might be stored in the body by powerful emotions experienced from trauma or everyday emotions like anger, fear or anxiety.

Somatics enhances human function and body-mind integration through movement awareness. We move because it feels good rather than goal orientation and this allows us to get to know our own body on a deeper level. We learn to listen to what our body is communicating to us.

Tools we will use – meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and bodywork.

I also use a guided journey into a deeper somatic awareness, working through the 5 layers of the human form – physical, breath, energy, emotional and intuitive body.