Category Archives: Yoga & Pilates
Understanding the complexities of balance and the right actions to improve it can improve our health and lower the chance of accidents.
Most of us understand that a good balance of physical activity, a good diet and well-managed stress levels are conducive to better health.
“How should I breathe?” is a question that comes up very often in my movement work and other therapeutic conversations.
in Mindfulness, Other Therapies, Psychotherapy, Sports Injury, Yoga & Pilates
How The Freeze Response May Keep Injuring You
In my mind it is not a coincidence that we get war on the back of a two year pandemic. We are all under-resourced and not at our best.
in Meditation, Mindfulness, Other Therapies, Sports Massage, Therapeutic Massage, Yoga & Pilates
Why Does Chronic Pain Need a Holistic Approach?
We experience pain somewhere because our nerves detect an issue and helpfully flag this up to our central nervous system.
“What You Resist Persists” is a popular saying and it applies to mental health as well as to movement health.
5 top tips that are less known in physical fitness and that yet make a powerful difference to your physical health and movement ability.
in Joints & Muscles, Other Therapies, Sports Injury, Sports Massage, Yoga & Pilates
How To Run Healthily
Many of us have picked up running over the past year as an activity, as it is outdoors and does not require any equipment.
Pilates is one of the most suitable forms of exercise to support your body after a diagnosis of Osteoporosis. However even when practising Pilates, we need to consider this condition and make some changes to our usual Pilates routines in order to give our bones what they need.
Tight and uncomfortable hips are very common. Particularly in practices like Pilates. Tight and overworked hip flexors can really get in the way of comfort and achievement.
