BODYWORK & BREATHWORK FOR SELF-DISCOVERY AND EMOTIONAL HEALING
Are you at a crossroads in life, feeling stuck, or looking for a new direction? I use bodywork and breathwork to help people to live more fulfilling lives by working through emotional barriers held in the body.
I believe that the body – particularly the heart – is a useful guide, and that many of the answers that we seek can emerge by being willing to feel the sensations that the body holds,.
By journeying into the body using the breath, touch, movement and sound we can become more present with ourselves, our needs, our gifts and skills, and the legacies of the past that have held us back. Life can be lived more consciously, and we can have a more direct experience of who we really are and what we want.
I work with you to help you:
Deepen self-knowledge: identify what matters to you, what your values are, what is true for you
Identify and experience unhelpful behavioural patterns and unresolved emotions from within the body so that they can dissolve
Open up to your full range of emotions and feel your aliveness
Meet the parts of you that are longing for your attention so that they can heal
Improve your sense of connection to yourself and to others
Step into your power and develop new ways of supporting yourself
Explore what gives you a sense of purpose and meaning in your life
HOW I WORK
Using a trauma-informed approach, I offer three ways of working
Life Purpose Work – coaching-style work, using a blend of creative techniques to help you identify what makes life meaningful for you, to build a vision for yourself and to take action. This work is conversational and uses breathwork and self-touch
Body and Breathwork – a direct conversation with the body using touch and breath for self-discovery and emotional healing. This work is done on a massage table using touch and movement.
Breathwork Massage – a more gentle combination of massage and breathwork to help with stress and overwhelm, as well as chronic pain that has been fully investigated with no underlying cause or treatment available
Read on to learn more about each of these practices and for pricing and booking information.
LIFE PURPOSE WORK
“The sessions woke up dormant aspects of my personality, as well as helping me to find new parts of myself, and they were fun and interesting. Right from the start, I learnt so much about what holds me back, and I am now taking on projects I never thought I would be doing”
In these sessions I help clients find their spark of joy, motivation and a sense of what is meaningful to them. I blend together a variety of techniques to create an optimum environment for people to access and explore their inner wisdom.
The intention is to enable clarity to emerge from these sessions by exploring what has led clients to where they are now, the avenues they took or didn’t take, and what is within them that is still waiting to be expressed. Along with creating clarity, these sessions are a forum for deciding what action to take and to take steps towards a more meaningful and purposeful life.
The techniques I use include:
Embodied breathwork to connect with the wisdom of the heart and the emotions. This involves coaching you to breathe into your body if an emotion arises during our conversation
Dialogue to uncover your life themes, choices and passions
Metaphor cards to invite self-reflection
Practical worksheets to turn ideas into action
BOOK A FREE 30 MINUTE LIFE PURPOSE REVIEW SESSION
Here are two articles that will give you more information. Click on the button below if you would like to book in for a free 30 minute life purpose review session.
Initial sessions cost £60 for 60 minutes. I encourage my clients to undertake this work as a process. To enable this I offer packages of 6 sessions, which give a more favourable rate. You can find more information about this on the Services page
Sessions take place online via Zoom, or in-person at Clinic 124, Whitstable. You can book in for these sessions using the buttons below.
“These sessions have let me delve into myself and express my emotions in a safe place without judgement“
Body and breathwork sessions are done on a massage table, usually onto bare skin. We work together to activate energetic points on the body so that whatever it is holding onto can be discovered, felt and ultimately released.
The breath plays a key role in the work: by taking a conscious breath, clients come into connection with themselves at a deeper level and experience themselves in new ways. When this happens, life usually begins to change.
Sessions begin by connecting with the energy of the heart, which holds the wisdom of who we really are. Heart energy can become blocked when we experience trauma or are treated in unloving ways by ourselves and others. The defences that form for self-protection become obstacles to really knowing ourselves and our desires.
This process can reveal physical sensations, emotions and memories that need attending to. A willingness to breathe towards the experiences and to really feel them is the magic ingredient for bringing about expansion and change.
The work challenges clients to let go of control, old coping mechanisms, and anything else that has been keeping them out of the flow of their own lives.
BREATHWORK MASSAGE
A breathwork massage a good starting point for people who are not sure that they are ready for a body and breathwork session. During these sessions I coach you to use your breath to connect with the places that have become tight and contracted in your body, including between the shoulder blades on the back, which is an area that commonly holds emotional content.
For anyone who suspects that there is a link between physical and emotional pain and would like to explore it gently this would be a good option. I use grounding techniques to help people to anchor themselves in their bodies, which can be helpful for people who are feeling highly stressed or overwhelmed.
The emphasis of this massage is on the emotional, rather than the physical, so it would not be a substitute for a remedial or sports massage.
These sessions cost £60 for 60 minutes and they take place at Clinic 124, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1BW. Please see the Services page for more information if you wish to benefit from a reduced rate by buying a block of sessions. As with Life Purpose Work, committing to a series of sessions provides a more sustained approach to change, and the packages have been designed to allow you to benefit from an initial session before committing to a full package. Bookings can be made via the clinic website by clicking on the button below.
