Childhood trauma can cast long shadows over our lives, but it doesn't have to define your future. If you're ready to heal and transform, this post is for you. It was the morning of December 26th, and Emma (not her real name), a teenager at the time, found herself in the middle of a lagoon, [...]
Are you faced with the challenge of living with a chronic illness? Would you like practical tools based on Yogic principles to assist with the day-to-day management of your condition? Yoga therapy for chronic health conditions - with Joanna Nation - skilfully utilises the pillars of Kundalini yoga- movement, breath work, mantra, meditation- to [...]
Gong Sound Bath ~ To Soothe your Soul With Saskia Immerse Yourself in Healing Vibrations 7th December Saturdays from 3.15-4.45pm Gong Blessings Await Your Presence... Indulge in the transcendent experience of a Gong Sound Bath, guided by Saskia and accompanied by guest player Kim Slaviero. This event promises a soothing experience through the transformative power [...]
Finding ease & calm for the trauma-affected nervous system Trauma Recovery Program A 14 week Trauma-informed Yoga Program to support you to process & resolve trauma symptoms with Billie Atherstone This course is an evidence based course for people who would like to heal the traumatised nervous system. Research shows that the body stores trauma in muscle [...]
Trauma Sensitive Yoga for the Recovery from Trauma - TSY This course is created to establish a safe, predictable and non-judgmental space in which trauma survivors can begin to get to know their bodies again. TSY is an evidence based course for healing trauma, created by David Emerson from The Trauma Centre in Boston, [...]
Kundalini Running with Doug Wilson About Doug and the workshop Join us for an inspiring & motivational workshop with Doug Wilson. At the age of 31, Doug was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumour. After undergoing a 14-hour operation, and suffering extensive cranial nerve damage, he battled surgically induced meningitis, had to learn to walk [...]
An Overview of Kundalini Yoga for the Recovery of Childhood Trauma Program One of the symptoms people with PTSD* experience is to feel stressed or frightened even when they are not in danger. The nervous system moves into a fight or flight response, which is a typical reaction, to initiate an action to protect themselves [...]
“A birth is defined as traumatic if the woman was or believed she or her baby was in danger of injury or death and she felt helpless and out of control, this can occur at any point in labour and birth.”(Beck2004a) As a mother myself, I know plenty of women who have given birth. It’s [...]
Would you eat your placenta? After reading this you may wish you did! Placentas have been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as long ago as in the 1500’s, which is longer than modern medicine has existed. It has been continued to be used due to an abundance of great properties believed to make a [...]
Sun salutes strengthen and lengthen all the major muscle groups and bring deeper focus to the act of breathing. Each movement is coupled with the breath in a sun salutation. This means we get the chance to really focus on deeply inhaling and exhaling while we move. The benefits of bringing breath consciously into and [...]