In this week’s blog I have included a video which has been available on my Total Somatics Facebook page. I receive many questions about Somatics and so I will be creating videos to answer your questions. Many ask if Somatics is for a specific age group. The answer is No. Somatics is for all ages.Enjoy my video which accompanies this blog at the end of this article….When I am teaching Mindfulness with Total Somatics sessions online www.TotalSomatics.com I often [...]
In this week’s blog I am going to discuss how sitting for long periods of time can have a negative effect on your health. We will consider the common statement made which is “sitting is the new smoking.”As the Founder and Somatics educator for www.TotalSomatics.com, I see many clients with back pain and limited movement due to their office jobs. Many have invested in stand up desks to reduce being seated for hours on end. This is a brilliant [...]
In this week’s blog I am going to discuss the fantastic effects Somatics has on your posture and how you move on a daily basis.If you follow Total Somatics on Facebook or Instagram, you will recall last week I posted a before and after photo of a client who gave me permission to publish the photo. He has made amazing progress with his personal Somatics practise. Let me tell you about my client, whom I will called John.John is [...]
In this week’s blog I will be discussing what muscle memory is and how Somatics is a much more efficient way to release tight and tense muscles than stretching. Mindfulness with Total Somatics centres around releasing chronically tight muscles, reducing pain, improving mobility and providing skills to empower and educate you to take back control of you health and well being. Mindfulness with Total Somatics (www.TotalSomatics.com) works at changing muscle memory. What exactly is muscle memory?To begin with, there’s no [...]
In this week’s blog I am going to discuss an area which plays a huge role in how we can improve our overall health and well being. As someone who has embraced somatics by learning Total Somatics online or in my classes, as a subscriber to my blogs or as a follower on social media; you know that I often highlight the very close link between our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health. Collectively this is referred to as [...]
Today I am going to discuss the importance and benefits of Somatic breathing. Breathing is a subject which I find clients have many questions about. But one question which jumps out to me is,“There are lots of breathing techniques to help improve the quality of my breath. But which one should I really be trying? It’s very confusing.”It is a good question. I would agree there are lots of breathing variations out there. But I always encourage them to [...]
In previous blogs I have discussed how our internal awareness to the way we move and control our muscles can be very challenging. But why? Surely as intelligent adults we have full control of how we move our body. Unfortunately this is not the case! In today’s blog I am going to discuss what this awareness actually is, why we cannot control certain muscles and how we can REGAIN coordination and control areas of our body which have been [...]
In my previous blog I discussed how we can self manage chronic pain. Many would agree that one of the main causes for chronic pain stems from inflammation. But interestingly enough, scientific research in recent times has shown a strong link between stress and inflammation. I’m sure you would agree that the words inflammation, anti inflammatory, stress and anxiety are expressions used a lot in modern day society. So it is no surprise that these two key words, ‘stress’ and ‘inflammation’ are [...]
From time to time we may suffer with pain. But for some, pain is a daily issue which can overwhelm and restrict their quality of life. Chronic pain can last way beyond the expected time for healing and repair following surgery or a trauma. To deal with chronic pain certain pharmaceutical drugs such as codeine or other opioids are administered. Research by DC Turk on ‘the clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of treatments for patients in chronic pain’ revealed [...]
Today’s blog will consider how we can use neuroplasticity to work in harmony with our somatic movements and visualisation.If you attend my classes either in person or through the Mindfulness with Total Somatics online programs, you will know that I often discuss these three subjects and highlight how we actively work on them everyday.Sometimes when we are new to somatics, want to create differentiation to the brain (eg, change the speed of our movements) or suffer with chronic pain, [...]
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