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Are your feet having a ball?
We often forget all about our feet, hanging around there on the end of our legs, but we’d be lost without them! Because of the full connectivity of the fascia (a connective tissue of the body), what happens in the feet is directly translated elsewhere in the body – and vice versa. Therefore, you can…
Read MoreWhy don’t we slow down in Winter?
I used to work really hard then collapse on holiday, sleeping for the first three days on the beach, totally resistant to ‘doing’ anything. A friend of mine, now retired, worked ridiculous hours, had regular breaks and insisted she was fine, but every holiday developed a bad cough which forced her to lose more than…
Read MoreIn search of ikigai
“The Oxford English Dictionary defines ikigai as “a motivating force; something or someone that gives a person a sense of purpose or a reason for living”. More generally it may refer to something that brings pleasure or fulfilment.”[1] It is a person’s own decision what occupations to pursue as part of their search for ikigai, because each of us…
Read MoreReconnecting to body and mind through yoga
Yoga, an ancient art – outdated, irrelevant today? Yoga has, no doubt, changed a lot from the original as the teachers over different centuries have taught it through the lens of different approaches, fads and belief systems, but its essence, I suspect, has stayed the same. What was the original aim of yoga though? A…
Read MoreThe invisible world of the tree
Tree hugging has long been looked down up as a ‘new age’ activity. Yet as Carol M. Davis pointed out in her Fascia, Interoception and Self Care webinar with The Fascia Hub[i] in December ’20, hugging whether it be a tree or a person, stimulates the ventral vagus, producing oxytocin, one of the ‘happy’ hormones.…
Read MoreHum your way to health and calm
Humming – the key to efficient breathing and calm OK, I know that hummingbirds don’t actually hum to make that amazing noise, but I’m allowing myself some poetic licence! Leon Chaitow, now passed but very much a giant in the world of fascia when he was with us, wrote a charming piece called, Humming my…
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