Creating a calm, friendly and peaceful space for you to "land” safely in with however you are feeling or whatever you are experiencing is really at the heart of what I do. Throughout a session I will return to this concept again and again to ensure I am listening well to the moment-to-moment needs of your body and mind.
Welcoming “You” to Physically Land
For a number of years neuro-psychologists, scientists and therapists have been recognising the integral importance and benefits of safety, connection, friendliness and warmth to the way the body works on a physiological level. As mammals and primates this is part of our evolutionary heritage and when our unique needs are met for social connection and co-regulation our bodies and minds feel good.
The Journey In
Your decision to come and make some space for yourself can have real power. In booking an appointment there is a part of you that trusts that relaxing your body and mind’s tension is necessary or possible.
Communication and connection that feels right for you, taking time to arrive in the room and its environs together, is an important stage of the treatment. Landing in yourself through touch that meets your needs and is directed by the body’s requests all signals to your nervous system that it is safe to be as you are feeling and let go of your tension a little.
Arriving in Presence: Connecting with Rest and Repair
By focusing on welcoming, listening and landing through kind touch, together we are trying to influence your body to deactivate pathways of stress and activate pathways to rest and repair. Reaching this point allows you to calm your breathing and heart rate, increase digestion, let go of muscle tension and begin to feel a sense of rest, repair and positive experience. This signals to your body and mind that it is ok to feel safe, relaxed and responsive in connection to the environment and another person.
Meeting your Tension. Meeting you where you’re at
In our modern lives, connecting with rest offers a beautiful tonic to the demands that we live with daily. It can also offer a doorway into connecting you more deeply to what you’re experiencing, enabling you space to let go of tension, or a pause to notice habitual reactions and postural tendencies that may not be serving you anymore.
A slow and mindful pace aims to enable you to process and integrate what you’re feeling.
A lot of people leave a session feeling more centred, spacious, or grounded. Alternatively, they may feel more clarity about why they have been feeling the way they have. From this state of ease or understanding, they may begin to get insights into what will help them to live more happily in their body and mind in order to live well in their lives.