What Are You Allowing To Grow Fertile In Your Mind?

Hello! How are you? I hope you are having a brilliant week. I am currently in Sydney for the second half of this week sharing Total Somatics with some wonderful people. It is so lovely to see how Total Somatics is impacting so many lives and creating long term changes. At the weekend, I held a members' workshop on Nerve health and mobility with pandiculation. It was great to explore and feel the huge shifts and changes [...]

Your Mindset Matters

Hello! How are you? I cannot believe we have almost completed the first month of the year! Where has that time gone? Thank you for all your lovely comments and feedback from January's podcast theme on Mindset. It has been fantastic to hear how so many of you have found it to be a super booster for the start of the new year. On Saturday, I released the final podcast episode for January, entitled "Your Mindset Matters." [...]

Somatic in September WEEK TWO

Welcome to week 2 of Somatic in September! I hope you enjoyed bringing somatic awareness into your daily life by first and foremost focusing on creating a self care practise. Consider the following video as I discuss the theme for this week. THE POWER OF THOUGHT This week we are going to consider the power of your thoughts. Within your brain you have an area known as the Reticular Activating System (RAS). It acts as a filter which influences your perception on [...]

Mindful in May – Week 4

I hope you have had a good week. This week we are going to consider another aspect of Total Somatics' Mindful in May theme. Check out my video below as I discuss this week’s theme. Our mindset and self-talk play a huge role in the area of our Somatic (mental, emotional and physical) health and wellbeing. The way we view the world around us, interpret events, scenarios and interactions with people all comes down to our perception. We have two [...]

How our Mindset influences the Perception of Pain

In recent years Pain scientists and neuroscientists have declared that our mindset heavily influences our perception of pain. In today’s blog we are going to delve into this fascinating area and understand why this is true. The Brain’s Filtering System Within your brainstem (the unconscious part of your brain) lies a region known as the Reticular Activating System (RAS). The RAS consists of a bundle of nerves which start at the top of the spinal column and extends upwards by approximately [...]