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21 Aug

How Mindful Somatic Movement influences your Nervous System

I have received lovely emails and feedback recently from readers around the world about my blogs. They have loved hearing about the brain and how somatics supports various areas of their Central Nervous System. So today we are going to look at an area I have often referred to in previous blogs, The Limbic System. The Limbic system is the part of the brain involved with behavioural and emotional responses. It is involved with survival such as feeding, reproducing, caring [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog brain, fight flight, free ebook, Hypervigilance, limbic system, mindfulness, movement, nervous system, sensory motor amnesia, somatic, somatics Comments Off Read more...

14 Aug

How to Reduce Stress & Recuperate with Somatics

When working with clients who have or continue to suffer with stress, anxiety or trauma involves a great deal of empathy, kindness and developing a delicate manner. Stress and trauma creates a huge impact on the nervous system. It changes the actions and behaviour of the muscular system due to the influence the limbic system (CLICK HERE to read more) and the postural reflexes have on a soma (whole person, mind and body). To read more about postural stress reflexes, [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog anxiety, audio, binaural rhythm, body scan, free ebook, mindfulness, neurobiology, re-connect, repressed emotion, sensations, sense and feel, soma, soma scan, somatic breathing, stress, trauma Comments Off Read more...

07 Aug

Getting to the ROOT CAUSE of Pain & Stress with Somatics

Somatic Movement and Education continues to mushroom in popularity as an approach to reducing pain and improving mobility throughout the world. The powerful effects felt from Somatics is thanks to our amazing mind and body, in particular our nervous system. In this blog, we are going to look at what the main parts of our nervous system do and how Somatics can help support a healthy and resilient soma (mind and body). In order to fully understand your amazing soma, [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog anxiety, brain, fight/flight/feign, habituation, homeostasis, mindfulness, nervous system, neuroscience, new format, rest & digest, soma, stretching, trauma Comments Off Read more...

31 Jul

What does your Posture reveal about you?

Posture and pain often go hand in hand. In today’s blog we are going to consider what our posture reveals about us and how we reverse and reduce the issues we may be currently dealing with. Somatics looks at how your brain communicates to your muscles, so with this mind, I would like to discuss posture and pain from a Clinical Somatic Educator’s point of view. What is Somatics? Somatics involves internal awareness with movement. Somatic education and movement empowers and [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog brain map, free ebook, habit, neurofeedback loop, pandiculation, posture, reflex, scoliosis, sensory motor cortex, software update, special offer, subconscious actions, subconscious behaviour Comments Off Read more...

24 Jul

How Stress impacts on your Mind and Body. How Somatics can help.

At some point in your life you will suffer with stress and anxiety. At times, events can be very difficult and the stress can last for a long time. When you do suffer with stress, many neurophysiological changes happen. In today’s blog we will look at how stress can affect your neurophysiology and how Somatics can help. The Effects of Stress As a Clinical Somatics Educator, I will often see the effects of stress within a clinical session or a movement [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog broca's area, dis-empowering beliefs, empowerment, free ebook, glucocorticoids, hippocampus, memory, mindfulness, neurogenesis, repressed emotion, speech, stress Comments Off Read more...