Why stretching has very little effect on tight muscles

Hello! How are you? It feels like ages ago since I last wrote to you with my latest podcast! Hopefully you joined me for The Total Somatics FREE video series recently. It was great sharing so much with you and hearing from you all. The areas of Pain and Stress Relief, which I covered within the video series are so important for our long term health and wellbeing. Following the video series, I opened [...]

Why stretching is an inefficient way to release tight muscles.

Hello, how has your week been? I hope you are keeping well and have been enjoying my podcasts. This week I will be delving into why stretching is becoming more and more an outdated method to efficiently release tight, tense muscles. Neuromuscular science has made huge leaps and bounds in recent years, thanks to the various methods to scientifically measure the efficacy of techniques and practices. Within this episode, I discuss the science behind the [...]

The issues with working from home!

Over the last few months people have learned to adapt to a new way of living and working.  Many feel it will make humankind stop and consider habits and behaviours which had become the ‘norm.’ In many instances, these habits and behaviour didn’t really help human kind or the environment.  So the resilience and ingenuity of mankind created a new way of living!  Granted many have found challenges associated with it, but thankfully due to technology we are able [...]

How to improve Posture

In this week’s blog we are going to look at how we can improve posture. With permission from my clients, I will also show you posture photos of clients before and after somatic movement, so you can see the huge shifts in muscle tension and structure. Getting to the Root Cause For years we have been encouraged to stretch out muscle tension. We have been encouraged to use hard foam rollers to roll on tight muscles or stretch our chest muscles [...]

The Benefits of using Somatics to Ease Muscle Tightness Before & After Exercise

If you are involved with a sport, repetitive activity or suffer with muscle tightness and pain, did you know Somatics can help you ease your discomfort? In this week’s blog I am going to explain why Somatics is fantastic to add into your fitness regime to allow your muscles to fully release. Thus, helping you to gain greater power and improve recovery time. Working intelligently with your muscles For many years people have stretched, tugged, yanked, twisted, drugged, heated, cooled and [...]