Sankalpa is a conscious intention – but it is also translated as our heart’s desire or heart’s intention. I feel this is an important way of working with Sankalpa as it takes the intention from purely being a mental construct, conceptual, a wish or a hope and grounds it in …
Ayurvedic Yoga Massage
Awakening the Body with Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Ayurvedic Yoga Massage is a dynamic and deeply therapeutic massage. It fuses the sister sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga creating a strong deep tissue massage with assisted yoga stretches. The massage combines deep tissue massage with sesame oil and ayurvedic herbal powders which …
Healing Power of Touch
Why I became a Bodyworker and Massage Therapist – Adam DivineI became a massage therapist because I genuinely wanted to help people either biomechanically or emotionally; chronic pain, stress and tension are commonplace and massage seemed like an area I could really delve into and quite literally get hands-on. Some …
Breathing – Being
Two Simple Breath Techniques to De-stress Breath Awareness in the Belly – Anchoring awareness in bodily sensation and feeling into it’s associated or habitual emotions is the key to dissolving stress and attachment. Make a fist with your right hand and gently press into the upper abdomen just below the …
Fascia as a Sensory Organ
Fascia in its grossest sense is connective tissue, fibres and nerve receptors. In its more subtle sense it is prana, movement, connectivity and union. Fascia interconnects the lungs, the expansive movement of the inhale and the felt-sense of the breath in the nostrils. Fascia interconnects the heart and the beat; the …
Beyond Memory
How we construct an idea of the self… and how we can get beyond it… In a recent mindfulness session I was invited to sit with uncomfortable sensations in the body and watch my mental/emotional reaction – to sit and be present with the triggers and the stories they ignite. …
Beyond the Body Map
Getting to the root of disembodiment Some of us live in a mind map of the body. For some, it is easier to check in to the body through the map in the insular cortex of the brain because we have suffered trauma or feel a sensitivity to feeling into …
Embodied – Structural Awareness Technique
Our unique conscious bodywork technique develops mindfulness in the body. By becoming aware of our posture and bringing ourselves into alignment, we start to move with efficiency and grace, our breathing becomes more fluid. Standing tall in the world becomes effortless. So much of our body’s energy is wasted in …
Mindfulness on the Mat
Making Space to Breathe – a simple embodied breath awareness technique Place one block vertically under the head… take another block horizontally and place between the shoulder blades. You can rest your legs knees bent and feet flat to the ground, or soles of the feet together and knees open …
Interoception – Mindfulness in the Body
Interoception is Mindfulness in the Body – listening to the body and learning to inhabit the body in a new way. Interoception is tuning us into the subtle language of the body. In yoga, we tend to work with proprioceptive cues (shoulders away from the ears/ reach to the sky …