by amy | May 9, 2024 | Blog
For a very long time, productivity has been driving out creativity in me. What I mean by creativity is the creative urge, the impulse to make something, to bring something into being and a big part of it is to be able to feel and imagine. For as long as I can...
by amy | Nov 16, 2023 | Blog
The ‘Both-And’ aspects of Biodynamic Massage- Safety/ Relaxation and Exploration/ Charge Biodynamic Massage is different from regular massages in a number of ways and one of the ways is we can work with both the sympathetic and parasympathetic aspects of...
by amy | Jul 16, 2023 | Blog
In recent times, maybe prompted by COVID, there is much talk and interest on trauma. This is the first of a number of short blog pieces on the topic of trauma. I thought I would start by looking at what ‘trauma’ is. Surprisingly, it is hard to find definitions of...
by amy | Feb 3, 2022 | Blog
I have just come off a Tony Robbins ‘Ultimate Breakthrough Challenge’ and there was a lot of attention paid to ENERGY (every time this word was mentioned, it was in a HIGH ENERGY way). We did a lot of quick exercises to ‘prime’ the body to get the body moving and...
by amy | Sep 24, 2021 | Blog
How hands-on bodywork can help you re-gather and re-root Life events and transitions can leave us feeling a bit all over the place. Often, these transitions involve some form of leaving and some form of movement from known to unknown. Often, it doesn’t matter whether...
by amy | May 11, 2021 | Blog
A year of lockdown has made me wonder how we have been shaped by the pandemic. The lack of contact has affected each one of us in many different ways. A number of interesting articles have been written on mainstream sites as well as higher brow publications such as...
by amy | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog
I was having a coffee with a friend today who said Christmas was a particularly tricky time for her because of multiple bereavements over the years which all fell around Christmas time. Working in the NHS also reminds me of the flow of life and for so many, Christmas...
by amy | Mar 12, 2018 | Blog
It is accepted wisdom that effective time management is something we all have to be better at if we want to achieve what we want to achieve in life. The fact that the day is divided into hours, minutes and seconds means time is already cut and diced and is a...
by amy | Dec 22, 2017 | Blog
I am writing this blog from the Garden Clinic. It’s the last Friday before Christmas and it is extra quiet in here. Most people are either in their last-minute dash round the shops or winding down for Christmas. I can feel our collective energies ready for the...
by amy | Sep 25, 2017 | Blog
Suddenly, ‘sleep’ is gaining space on the airwaves and on the internet. The topic of sleep appeared in the Guardian yesterday and it was part of Radio 4’s Today programme this morning and- in a subsequent show. A book ‘Why we sleep?’ by Mathew Walker has just come out...
