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 [...]

Mindful in May & BEYOND

We are into our last task for May. However, don’t allow your practice to stop after this month! Continue to develop a somatic lifestyle. At the end of this blog, I will provide a link so you can review all the videos, audios and podcasts for future reference. When we start developing a mindful approach to daily activities, we create a healthier lifestyle and approach to everyday challenges. Allow me to highlight this week’s theme in the following 1 minute video… Task [...]

Increasing our Somatic awareness to the brain and gut connection

In this week’s video of Total Somatics: ‘Mindful in May’ released on Monday 22nd May on the Total Somatics Facebook page (available on You Tube after May 2017) we considered applying mindfulness to our eating habits. In today’s blog we are going to delve deeper and increase our somatic awareness to just how important the brain and gut connection truly is. Your gut is an amazing part of your body because it is known as ‘the second brain’ due to [...]