09/11/2023
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Mental Health & Well-Being Global Summit
Free & Online September 12 - 18, 2023. Begin the journey to better mental health & well-being today. Featuring an extraordinary lineup of 60+ speakers including Deepak Chopra, Gabor Maté, Andrew Weil, Michael Singer, Tara Brach, Jewel, don Miguel Ruiz, Wim Hof, Thema S. Bryant PhD, Sharon Salzberg ...
10/19/2022
Pain Reprocessing Therapy — See How It Works — This Might Hurt
A comprehensive description of Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), including an explanation of the new research demonstrating its effectiveness, background on what neuroscience it is based on, and videos and other resources for how people can learn more from one of its innovators, Alan Gordon, LCSW.
07/05/2018
Why we pandiculate and do not stretch
Quite a Stretch: Stretching Hype Debunked
Stretching science shows that it doesn't do most of what people hope it does. Detailed article.
06/08/2018
Joseph Pilates knew that breathing properly was essential. 60 years later Thomas Hanna explains in his book The Body of Life how bad breathing habits, such as shallow breath, is strongly connected to major health problems such as hearth diseas. I think Joseph and Thomas would have worked well with each other.
05/31/2018
Great opportunity to go deeper into your somatic practice, to finally release those tense muscles, to learn more about yourself, to get a head start on getting rid of that chronic pain!!
The lovely Somae Osler, clinical somatic educator (in last year of training) is coming down from Duncan for a day to see clients. There is only one spot left:
Saturday June 9th
2.30 - 4pm
$75 payable by cash or cheque
This is a clinical, hands-on session to realease tight muscles. If you are intereted please pm me!
05/23/2018
The concept of pain is a lot more complicated than most of us believe. It can be purely structural, a combination of structural and psychological or purely psychological. Our thoughts trigger emotions and emotions are always physical. Somatics takes in account the mind and the body because it realises they are one.
100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it.
Chronic pain often has no physical cause. Psychotherapy can reduce the suffering.
05/22/2018
Got chronic pain? Have you tried everything but nothing truly helps? Find the root cause of your pain and learn how to get rid of it through Somatics!
90 minute clinical hands-on somatic sessions open for booking on Saturday June 9th 1pm or 2.30pm available. A session is $75. The lovely Somae is coming to Victoria from Duncan. She is in her last year of her 3 year mentored clinical training.
If you have never done any somatics before you will need a 15 minute introducion before the session. Please pm me if you are interested to finally get rid of your pain.
04/21/2018
Interesting article about pain.
Why Most People Are Wrong About Injuries and Pain - SimpliFaster
Although we grow up believing that injuries and pain are closely linked, this is not always the case. Various studies between tissue damage and pain show that we can have one without the other. Pain, it turns out, is a relatively complex problem, relying on environmental context and a host of other....