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26 Feb

How to boost your Brain – part 3

In this week’s blog we will consider the final article of the 3 part series on how to boost your brain. In the last few weeks we have considered various ways we can improve neurogenesis, the creation of new brain cells. Today we will consider the most powerful way to increase neurogenesis and how easy it is to implement into your daily activities. Exercise Brisk walking, weight bearing exercise and aerobic exercise have all been shown to stimulate neurogenesis. The reason [...]

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25 Sep

Somatic in September WEEK FOUR

Wow! Where have the weeks gone?! We are into our final week of the theme “Somatic in September.” How have you been during the last few weeks? This week I would like to add a new awareness to our theme. Let me explain more in the following video. MOVEMENT IS MEDICINE If you are a regular follower of my blog posts on Instagram (total.somatics) or Facebook (Total Somatics) you will know that for many years I have used this expression, Movement [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog anxiety, audios, back pain, discount code, Dr Sarah Wilson, habits, headaches, hip flexor issues, hip/shoulder issues, mental health, migraines, movement, posture, sitting, top tips, workplace Comments Off Read more...

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...

12 Jun

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 [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog awareness, body awareness, breathing awareness, focus, mindfulness, mindset, movement, personality, rib release, scan, soma, soma scan, somatic movement, somatically aware Comments Off Read more...

17 Apr

The Power of Pandiculation

In todays’ blog we are going to look at why the three step process used within Somatics known as pandiculation helps to release chronically tight muscles which reduces pain, allows you to move freely and improves your posture. Pandiculation Pandiculation is such a funky word and It rolls off the tongue! Pandiculation is the 3 step process used within somatics to release chronically tight muscles to allow for free movement, improved posture and a reduction in pain. Let me explain what [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog anxiety, brain map, education, empower, limiting beliefs, mindfulness, mindset, movement, neurotags, PAIN, pandiculation, perception, posture, stress Comments Off Read more...