The human Body was never designed to hold onto the stress response.
It's supposed to be a temporary thing.
Your body is designed to tense up for survival when it feels threatened or in danger. It does this to prepare you for running or fighting an attacker.
This can present in your body in the following ways:
- Lower back pain
- Poor digestion
- Freezing hands and feet ,
- Poor immune system so you catch everything that’s going round,
- Tired and irritable all the time.
- Emotions all over the place.
If you are living with any of these symptoms, you may be stuck in the stress response?
Holding onto stress and tension for a long time can leave us feeling weighed down, slowly draining our joy and vitality, and leading to long lasting illness and pain.
But you don’t have to just put up with it and put on a brave face.
I help people to resolve stress, tension and pain in two ways:
TRE - Tension/ Trauma Release Exercises
A gentle set of exercises that tap you into your body’s natural shaking mechanism so that you can literally shake away the tension or trauma you’ve been holding.
I recommend 5 sessions over 5 weeks
Yoga Therapy
Taking into account the whole person from all aspects of their life, I teach simple breath led yoga that can be practiced in short ‘snacks’ when needed such as when you’re waiting for the kettle to boil.
I recommend 10 sessions over 10 weeks
Both of these methods will empower you to learn how to gently release tension, stress and trauma, by bringing awareness back into your body and calming the thoughts in your mind, leaving you feeling more grounded and building resilience.
These are incredibly simple tools that can be learned in a short amount of time and then you have them for the rest of your life to help you to calm yourself and bring yourself back into balance.
Do You feel like the real you is trapped somewhere inside a malfunctioning body?
When we are in the stress response, we are supposed to either run or fight or do something else to discharge the tension. If we can’t do this, sometimes the body will shut down, leading to us feeling like we want to hide away, or sometimes it can cause other more serious illness.
It’s supposed to be a temporary thing. We were never supposed to live in the stress response.
Unfortunately, modern life doesn’t work like that.
You’re always on the go, busy busy, never finding time to stop and rest.
You’re running on adrenaline and your body goes into survival mode and then has no way of discharging that tension, so you just hold onto it, causing all kinds of problems in your body.
Changing your job may not be an option, and you can hardly leave your family, there must be something you can do?
Your Doctor either can't really put their finger on it, or so far hasn't come up with anything useful or lasting.
well, lets have a look at other mammals...
All mammals have a built in mechanism to release tension and stress.
Mammals shake, it discharges the fight flight energy if they haven’t been able to run or fight.
Look at what a dog does when it's scared. It shakes.
Well,
humans have this capacity too. We have just forgotten how to do it. And society has told us for too long that it is wrong. So we just hold onto the stress and tension.
All you want is a little peace and to let go of this tension which is causing you so much pain.
What would be helpful is something accessible and easy to do that doesn’t take up too much of your day.
I get it, you’re busy.
Something that you can sneak into a five or ten minute break, or after a long drive, or before an interview.
Or something that will relax you before you go to sleep.
You need something that you can safely practice at home without having to sign up for years of expensive therapies.
So what’s the solution?
The human body is an incredible organism which is designed to survive and keep going.
And it will if you ignore it.
Your body is designed to tense up for survival when it feels threatened or in danger. It does this to prepare you for running or fighting an attacker. Which is why sitting hunched over a computer all day sends you more into the stress response.
Are you living in Survival Mode?
At a deep ancient level in the brain, every day stress can be perceived as danger, so the body does what it does best and goes into survival mode, the stress response.
You tense up, ready to spring into action if needed. You start to curl into a ball to protect the organs on the front of the body.
Your heart rate speeds up and your breathing becomes fast and shallow, and your system floods with adrenaline and cortisol.
The tension is usually held around the chest area or lower back and shoulders and can cause pain.
Your body switches offline any peripheral systems not needed for survival, such as digestion, circulation to hands and feet, reproductive system.
These systems stop working properly because your body is trying to conserve that energy because it thinks that it's needed to fight or run away.
Is this your experience?
If So, how can you work with me to feel better?
You don't have to normalise "Everyday Stress"
Now, if you were in actual danger, you might be able to fight or run away, therefore discharging that fight flight tension, and switching the rest of the body’s systems back online.
However, sometimes we are unable to discharge the tension because it’s too dangerous to run or fight, so we shut down completely, wanting to hide away; or it’s ‘just’ everyday stress, at work for example.
So it's not appropriate to run away or fight your boss or colleagues, and therefore the tension remains stuck in the body causing you pain and discomfort.
The human body was never designed to hold onto this stress response.
If any of this resonates with you...
I invite you to stop for a moment and allow me to guide you
to gently release the tension and emotional weight that you’ve been carrying.
I can Help in these ways
TRE - Tension/Trauma Release Exercises
A gentle set of exercises that tap you into your body’s natural shaking mechanism so that you can literally shake away that Stress, tension and trauma that you’ve been holding. I recommend 5 sessions over 5 weeks
Yoga Therapy
Simple breath led Therapeutic yoga that takes a holistic view of your life, over 10 different areas, from movement and breath through to diet and lifestyle. This is designed so that it can be practiced in short ‘snacks’when you’re waiting for the kettle to boil. I recommend 10 sessions over 10 weeks
Reiki and Crystal Healing
Reiki is a relaxing therapy that uses the universal life force energy which is directed through the hands of the practitioner to heal your body.
Crystal Healing uses powerful Himalayan crystals and small gemstones to amplify energy coming from the Pleiades, channelled through the practitioner's hands.
If You are unsure please book a Free 15 minute discovery session to find out more and see if you want to work with me.
Both Yoga and TRE can be taught to you in a few sessions and then you can take them away and use them at home to support your life.
I offer 1:1 sessions, online and in person.
These will be a series of weekly or fortnightly sessions that will help you to learn and embed the method so that you can practice safely at home.
If this sounds like something you'd like to try, I will empower you to rediscover the joy in your life — so you can return to being the peaceful, happy person you were always meant to be.
These methods can be transforming to your life but they only work if:
- You are prepared to put some work in on your own between sessions. About 15 - 30 minutes a day
- You come to the booked sessions.
- You are prepared to arrive on time so that you can get the most out of the session.
- You follow the advice given during the session.
- You come with an open mind.
- You are prepared to try to bring these methods into your lifestyle.
These methods may not work for you if:
- You don't have time to practice between the sessions - you just won't get the most from them
- You miss your appointments.
- You arrive late - because there won't be enough time in the session to do it justice.
- You are looking for a quick fix and a cure all.
- You have a fixed idea of what to expect.
If you don't have time at the moment it might be best to leave it until you can make a bit of space in your life for you.
Both Yoga and TRE can be incredibly transforming when you bring them into your life, but in order to really reap the full benefits you also have to put a bit of work in, to make the practice a positive and lasting habit in your life.
Initially when learning TRE you will have to dedicate some time during the week. Once your body is used to the tremoring, and you can access it easily, then you can use it as and when you need to. This is when it becomes a useful tool in your life.
If it’s a short term relaxing therapy that you’d prefer, I also offer Reiki and Crystal healing.
You Deserve to Feel Calm, Happy, and Free From Stress, Tension and Pain.
This doesn’t have to define your life.
It’s time to let it go, shake it all away and reconnect with your true self.
This is your birthright.