Posts by Jan Trewartha
Does your Caesarean Scar cause you problems?
Did you know that scars can generate adhesions, which can cause pain in other areas of the body? Here at the Body in Harmony clinic, we see a lot of women with Caesarean scars. They may not come initially for ScarWork, but complain of back, knee or hip pain, typically. However, the first thing we do is…
Read MoreHow do you make choices and which brain do you use?
“The latest scientific research shows that you have three brains! You have the complex, adaptive and fully functional neural networks or ‘brains’ in your heart, your gut and your head.” According to the promotional text for the book “mBraining” by Grant Soolsalu and Marvi Oka. So what do we mean by this? We all know…
Read MoreThe Art of Fascial Unwinding
– the power of this most subtle of therapies…. Fascial Unwinding is one of the subtle therapy skills, enabling the therapist to connect with and follow the fascia as it uses their touch, their facilitation, to ‘go home’. Traumatised or damaged tissue sometimes needs a reminder or nudge to return to its normal state of…
Read MoreStop the world I want to get off!
This is your chance – will you take it? When I was a child there was a catchphrase: “Stop the world I want to get off!” – with photographs of the globe spinning madly. This was in fact the title of a 1960s West End and Broadway show that became a film….. not that I knew that…
Read MoreThe destructive power of fear . . . and how to overcome it
In this time of global crisis, the constant media focus is whipping everyone up into a state of crippling fear. I wanted to share with you below, a couple of recent quotes from key media titles and then share an exercise to help you de-stress and rebalance your body. TUT (online) said in their daily…
Read MoreScars and how they affect your relationships
Has your operation affected how you – and your partner – feel about your body? So, what can you do about it? When you have surgery leaving very visible scars, it can really affect how you feel about your body and, sometimes, partners to whom image is important, or who have an aversion to scars,…
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