Conscious Boundaries
Boundaries do not need to be justified or defended – learn to honour your conscious boundaries.
Finding Safety – Vagus Nerve and Neuroception
Going beyond Habit Alas our nervous systems are prone to faulty wiring – responding from habit and expectation just as our minds do. A lot of our responses are born out of habit. If we have felt unsafe in a certain environment in the past – or out of your safety zone – we will […]
Finding Connection – Vagus Nerve and Empathy
Our nervous system is listening intently – to us and the world around us. We are constantly picking up signals through the senses and our viscera – triggering gut instinct and sparking an intuitive sense. We need to start listening. Often our minds over-rule these gut instincts or visceral messages – our nervous system is […]
What makes our Therapeutic Yoga Massage Training Unique?
Become an Embodied Massage Therapist. Discover what makes this massage style unique.
Embodied Retreats
A journey of Discovery on an Embodied Retreat
Embody Your Sankalpa
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 the felt sense of the […]
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 gently exfoliate the body and […]
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 of us have a natural […]
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 ribs – place the palm […]
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 skin and muscles of our […]