The Importance of Mindful Eating

Hello! How are you? I hope you are having a brilliant week. xx This week the Total Somatics members had a guest expert workshop with Suz Jeffreys. Suz delved into the importance of mindful eating to nourish our health and wellbeing. It was fantastic being part of this enlightening workshop. It was such a great workshop that I asked her to stay on so I could interview her for Somatic Movement & Mindset Podcast. This [...]

Creating Total Somatic awareness throughout your day for better health

Hello! I hope you have had a brilliant week and are enjoying my weekly podcasts. xx In this week's podcast I discuss how important it is to create a daily Total Somatic awareness to your activities and pursuits. The reason for this is because many of the actions we perform throughout the day are unconscious or subconscious. It is these things that over time, create a cumulative effect on our health and wellbeing. This cumulative effect [...]

Your Mind & Body Connection

In this week’s blog we are going to explore the close connection between your mind and body and why you should consider them both when you want to address your health issues and goals. The Close Connection Your mind and body are very closely connected, the one heavily influences the other. Consider for a moment, when you have suffered with emotional or mental struggles and felt completely overwhelmed and low, did you notice how it impacted on your body? Maybe it [...]

Developing Mindfulness in your Somatics Practice

In today’s blog we are going to delve into a particular area of our somatic movement practice and understand the benefits of it. When I chat with clients I love to hear how their somatic practice is progressing. I often hear wonderful comments, highlighting how they’ve embraced this amazing movement practice to reduce their pain, improve their posture, increase their mobility and enhance their mindfulness skills. From time to time I hear clients say that they are very brief with [...]

Somatic Movement is Medicine

In today’s blog we are going to consider why Somatic Movement is so beneficial for our Somatic (mind & body) health & well being. “The mind’s first step to self awareness must be through the body.” - Dr George A Sheehan How many times have you woken in the morning and taken your first few steps only to notice the level of tension you have in your body? Often we may notice the restriction in our movement and the level of pain [...]