YOGA TO SUPPORT GOOD MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH
After struggling for many years with the symptoms of PTSD and having tried countless talking therapies it wasn’t until I developed a regular yoga practice within an environment that suited me that I began to unravel the trauma that was held tight within my body and alter the pathways that had been created in my brain. For the first time in my adult life I began to be able to regulate my nervous system, find a place of safety and calm within myself and finally control the fear that had largely controlled my life. It quite simply transformed my whole life and it is for this reason I trained to become a yoga teacher. After my initial Teacher Training I made it my mission to understand why this practice had helped me so much when nothing else appeared to work. I subsequently found those answers when I trained with Heather Mason of The Minded Institute in Yoga for PTSD and later in Yoga for Anxiety and Depression. I have since trained under the Yoga in Healthcare Alliance, undertaken further Meditation and Yoga Nidra for mental health training and completed a 300 hr Transpersonal Yoga Teacher Training in therapeutic yoga with Shaura Hall and my training continues. Having personally experienced and further witnessed the effects of the practice on others I have absolute belief in its potential to bring about real change to quality of life and of the possibilities it offers. I am committed to sharing practice safely with respect, integrity, honesty, love and compassion.
Whether in recovery from illness, managing pain, struggling with trauma, anxiety or depression a one to one therapeutic practice can be a pathway back to yourself and to feeling well. The practices provide the means to unravel what is being held within the body, they support recovery and the discovery of new and more beneficial ways of being. The practices become a toolkit for negotiating life and all the turbulence that it holds, the resources it offers empowers us to take our healing into our own hands. As with any therapeutic practice, it is important to find a practitioner that you connect with and that has the skills that best suits your particular needs. Please do get in touch with any questions or just to have a chat about this work and if I am not the practitioner for you, my hope would be to point you in the direction of someone who is.