Relaxation Therapies
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.
Find out more more on Yoga Therapy, Yin Yoga, and classes by clicking each word.
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BREATH THERAPY
Breath Therapy - Is done as 1-2-1 tuition and although techniques can be learnt in one go, it may take several sessions to become fully familiar with them to do them by oneself. Some breathing techniques (Pranayama) are taught in classes.
Understand the role the breath plays in controlling stress and anxiety and how you can turn parts of the brain on and off via breath techniques to completely change your own personal climate. You can begin to notice how the breath tells the mind what to think, why and how this is so and what you can do about it to put yourself back in control. Learn from neuroscientific research how your mindset can improve your breathing and your attitudes to stress. Any condition that has a stress component, that is to say either caused by stress or causes stress (estimated to be as many as 80 per cent of all cases that are presented at GP surgeries), can be substantially helped and improved.
The Breath
An astonishing 95% of our energy comes in from the breath; 70% of what the body eliminates goes out through the breath. The breath, then, is the first place we should look to affect change. Science shows nearly everyone in our society is currently over-breathing, making this a number one culprit behind stress, insomnia and disturbed sleep, anxiety, depression and negative thinking, chronic pain, asthma, migraine headaches, panic attacks and even back problems and weight gain.
The optimal rate for adults to breathe is between 3 and 6 breaths a minute. We typically are taking between 12 and 20. The result is, we are clinically 80 per cent stressed before we've done anything. By balancing the breath we can bring back balance to our systems. After all, panic breathing leads to panic. Short, shallow breathing leads to feeling anxious or on edge. These all come under the term breathing pattern disorders, which can also come about after illness.
Breath Research
Neuroscience shows that there is a breath rate for you that is your own personal sweet spot where head, heart, lungs and the major organs of the body all resonate and a coherent, synchronised rhythm waves and pulses throughout all your systems. This brings with it a harmony, wellness and great feelings of relaxation, zest, energy and control quite unlike anything you're probably currently experiencing. It's simple and effective.
Whatever it is you'd like to improve in life, there's a breath for that. Be it general health improvements, better sleep, reducing stress, pain management, increasing strength, optimising performance, stopping intrusive thoughts, bringing a greater depth to meditation or simply upping the quality of life and its longevity, there are easy ways of achieving what you'd like by working with the breath.
As the buddha said "the path to enlightenment begins and ends at the breath".
MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS
Meditation and Mindfulness - various techniques to quiet the mind or to stimulate positivity, often using silent Japa (repetitions of phrases, aphorisms or Sanskrit mantras either spoken or in the mind) and often using mala beads.
Again, done as 1-2-1 session as a one off or as course. Meditation, visulaisation and mindfulness are also part of the yin/restorstive class held online on Wednesdays
KIRTAN
Meditation using chanting and soundwork. Words and sounds chanted change our brain waves through vibration in the surrounding tissues. It also helps to release seratonin - our happy hormone. We all know how good we feel when we sing in the shower or car (whether we can or not!). Well, chanting and soundwork (and especially Kirtan), works in a similar way but without the need to worry about remembering words or whether we are in tune! Often chants are mantra - strings of sacred Sanskrit words, although they can be just sounds or what are known as Bija or seed sounds if you prefer. You may be worried by the idea of chanting in another language and if there's any religious conflictions. I would answer that to say that if any Indian deities are involved in the chanting, it is more to evoke what elements or qualities they stand for, as in protection, prosperity, creativity or health. So, why not in English you may ask? why is an opera in Italian / Latin? because it sounds better and has more emotion and feeling. The same is for Sanskrit. The syllables have profound vibrational effects on out psychology and physiology.
Specific meditation techniques and soundwork is usually done as 1-2-1 session. There is currently no Kirran group session held.
TRAKATA & DHRISTI
This is meditation through gazing at an object, usually a flame that is at eye level. This is very cleansing for tired eyes as well calming for the nervous system and mind. Dhristi is a point of focus used in yoga poses or as a meditation at a yantra, which is a piece of art specifically designed for meditation. Again usually done as 1-2-1 session as a one off or as course.
VISUALISATION
Using similar techniques that are used in hypnotherapy to take you to a more calmer place. To allow the mind to dream whilst still being awake. This again changes brainwave patterns into a more relaxed state, switching our bodies from the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) to our parasympathetic nervous system. This is usually done as treatment with the person seated or laying and the practitioner guiding the client through visualisation and relaxation. Some of these techniques are given in the yin/restoraive class on Wednesday evening.
YOGA NIDRA
Often called Yogic sleep. The mind is directed to travel around each part of the body instructing relaxation to that part of the body. Sometimes we tense and release at the same time. Sometimes we imagine each area of the body that we visit to light up in our minds as though taking direct energy to it. This is usually done as treatment with the person seated or laying and the practitioner guiding the client through visualisation and relaxation.
Some of these techniques are given in the yin/restoraive class on Wednesday evening and at the end of other classes.
SOUND THERAPY
Using instruments such as drums for therapy. Usually done in groups and at workshops but can be as a 1-2-1 session. Kirtan classes is chanting call and response and voicework - class is on a Wednesday evening. Click here for more details.
REIKI, CELTIC REIKI & PRANIC HEALING
Reiki is a the Japanese hands on healing technique from Japan that allows the body to self heal via energy that is channelled to the person. This is done as treatment with the person seated or laying and the practitioner placing hands on or above the body guiding Reiki energy through to the client. Crystals can also be used in the treatment, but all would be discussed prior to treatment what is required. Celtic Reiki is similar but uses more grounding energies. Pranic Healing is more based in the Yoga traditions.
See more on Reiki here
EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE, THOUGHT FIELD THERAPY & EFT ENERGY
These modalites are all very similar in that all use tapping points on the body, with phrases, breath and an intention to change how we feel and can be used for any emotional or phydical state. Its a combination of Chinese Acupuncture / Acupressure points, NLP, breathwork, basic pscychotherapy techniques and mindfulness. the client is taken through the points for their needs and learns them to be able to do whenever they want to.
SMALL PRINT
Private sessions and therapies must be cancelled within 24hours, otherwise full fee is payable.
You are expected to provide all correct details about your health via the health form prior to attendance for classes or private sessions and YOU are responsible for your own health and level of practice at all times.
Block booked private sessions have time limit of use, see full T&Cs.
Private Sessions
in your home, 60 minutes £60.00, £75 for 90minutes
Private Live Zoom 60minutes £35 £60 for 90 minutes
