“Trapped in a Tight, Tense Body”& Self Esteem

Hello! How is your week going? Firstly, thank you so much for all your lovely feedback regarding The Menopause Summit. So many women were surprised at how much information they were unaware of. Many thought that menopause really only included leading up to and just after periods stop. However, the experts taught how until we take our last breath, the changes in hormones have other impacts on our health. So it was wonderful [...]

Brain & Gut Health awareness

Hello! How are you? Recently The Total Somatics members enjoyed a LIVE workshop with Nutrition expert, Rebekkah Finnigan. She discussed the importance of Brain and Gut Health. If you are a member of Total Somatics and missed the LIVE workshop, it is available to watch on REPLAY within the "Recordings" section of the membership. So please check it out! Rebekkah was so brilliant, I invited her to be in one of my podcasts. So [...]

Reducing inflammation & boosting immunity with a Somatic Lifestyle

Hello, how has your week been? I hope you are keeping safe and well. As many of you may be aware from my recent blogs and podcasts, The Total Somatics online membership has created a “Lifestyle” section to deepen members' awareness to creating a somatic lifestyle. Over the years, I have found that many clients will practice Somatic Movement, reap the benefits but in a short amount of time, their aches and pains will return. This is often due to [...]

How Stress & Inflammation are connected

Hello, how are you? I hope you are keeping well. During the last few weeks I have been involved in online interviews with different organisations. They have been asking me how the current world climate and our own emotional, mental and physical health can influence wellbeing. On top of this, earlier in the week I was asked to present a webinar to practitioners around Australia and the subject was centred around a fascinating field of psychoneuroimmunology. Very soon I [...]

The Important Link Between Your Nervous System & Immune System

In this week’s blog we are going to consider the strong link between your nervous system and immune system. We will consider how Somatics can help with improving the function of these two amazingly intricate systems. Your Amazing Soma If you are a regular reader of my blogs you will know that I often refer to your mind and body as your Soma. In Somatics we refer to the soma as a huge sensory organism which absorbs emotions, experiences, habits, behaviours, [...]