Relaxation Therapies mostly involve techniques and tuition that can be learned and applied at home or as one off treatments or a course of treatments and tuition. YOGA THERAPY Yoga Therapy / Yin Yoga and Restorative yoga - a very slow meditative form of yoga for specific healing. Restorative and Yoga Therapy are usually done as 1-2-1 session or as course. --- BREATH THERAPY Breath Therapy - Is done as 1-2-1 tuition and although techniques can be learnt in one go, it may take

In January 2024 I had an operation on my foot and I knew it was going to take a while to heal being that it's a weight bearing joint and it has to heal despite gravity always going to make it swell for a lot longer than anywhere else on the body would. The day after the operation was pretty horrendous and that's when I needed something other than painkillers every 4-6 hours to get me through as they were super strong and not doing my tummy any good, so I wanted to limit them

What is yoga therapy? Yoga therapy is a truly holistic modality in that it recognises that our health and well being depends on a complex interplay of physical, mental, emotional, environmental and lifestyle factors. What is the difference between a yoga teacher and yoga therapist? A yoga teacher often has only one 200 hour training course to their name with maybe some specialities via extra training, but usually their main 200 hour training is very limited on using yoga for

I’m now an Associate of the Newson Health Menopause Society set up by Dr Louise Newson @My Menopause Doctor. I always want to try to keep up to date with the latest evidence-based research and information along with offering fitness, lifestyle and therapies to support women through menopause and have been doing this long before the media frenzy around it in the last year. It’s good that people are talking about it, but some headlines haven’t been entirely accurate. Along with

People keep asking ‘why Zumba all of a sudden, don’t you like yoga anymore?!’ So, here is my blog post about that. I have always liked to dance or at least attempt to! As a kid I would often be outside in the garden with my Walkman on or jumping about in the living room playing music pretending to be some singer or another and dancing. If it wasn't that then I was pretending to be drummer and air drumming! At most of my schools I hated PE and sports days, but loved performan

Original Post: May 2010 If you suffer from any form of pain, whether chronic or acute, it may not be necessary to rely on traditional medicine such as pain medication to relieve it. There are many natural pain management techniques that are available to try so it is just a matter of finding the best one for you. Some of the most popular are outlined below. Pain Management Technique #1: Acupuncture In acupuncture, fine needles are inserted into the skin in order to u