Yoga is a timeless pragmatic science evolved over thousands of years promoting the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of human beings. Yoga invites you to create some silence, stillness and space in the mind and body so you can feel a sense of inner peace. Regular practice has been scientifically proven to have benefits for your physical and mental health. Yoga can help you to manage the symptoms of your long term health conditions. It can also boost your energy levels and help you to manage daily stress whilst reducing body wide inflammation.
Do you ever feel like you're on the treadmill of life and no matter how much sleep you get, you're still exhausted? Or maybe you're not getting any sleep at all... Yoga will give you simple but effective tools to give yourself the break you are searching for.
Sophie teaches Therapeutic Yoga as she's a qualified Occupational Therapist with over 10 years of clinical experience in the NHS and is currently undertaking an 18 month training course to qualify as a Yoga Therapist too! Yoga Therapy treats health conditions which can prevent/ reduce or alleviate chronic pain, structural, physiological and emotional suffering or limitations as part of a holistic approach to your overall health and wellbeing.
The hardest part is getting to class, the rest is easy!
Reiki [which is pronounced ray-key] is a Japanese word that means "Universal Life Force Energy". It's an ancient form of healing which works to create spiritual, mental and physical harmony in the mind and body. It was re-introduced to Japan in the mid-nineteenth century by Dr Mikao Usui.
It is system of healing that is either completed by placing a hand gently on the body or hovering over parts of the body, depending on your preference. Reiki triggers instant healing power; it can be used for self-healing, healing others, animals, plants and even situations past and future.
Though Reiki isn't just for when you are ill; it can assist in you living your life to the fullest, encouraging a sense of balance, control and management throughout your days. Reiki is a holistic approach to your health and helps you to promote, prevent and manage symptoms of your general health and/or long term illnesses.
What's brilliant about Reiki is that it channels itself wherever it is needed most. By stimulating the body's natural healing ability at the deepest level, it removes physical and emotional blockages that may have been causing illness, inflammation or emotional upsets for a very long time.
Reiki practitioners are not healers; because of its attunement procedures practitioners can be considered an instrument to channel Universal Life Force Energy from the source to the you. Sophie runs community Reiki Clinics and deliveres 1:1 treatments.
Occupational Therapy (OT) helps you live your best life at home, at work – and everywhere else. It’s about being able to do the things you want and need to do. OTs look to help you overcome challenges in managing symptoms that affect you going to work, enjoying your hobbies or simply doing everyday activities, like cooking or cleaning. OTs focus on increasing independence and wellbeing. It’s a science-based, health and social care profession that’s regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council.
Activities of daily living are what OTs refer to as ‘occupations’. With her career in OT Sophie has learnt to see beyond diagnoses and limitations in order to work with clients to move towards their hopes and goals. OT has provided Sophie with a wealth of experience in holistic assessments that include life events, physical and mental health, alongside cognitive and mental abilities and how these aspects affect people doing what they want to do in the environment they want to do them in. Sophie uses this experience in her holistic therapies and is able to plan Yoga, mindful meditation classes, Reiki sessions and Yoga coaching 1:1s targeted at achieving your personal goals.
This collaborative focus is practical, realistic and personal to you in order to help you achieve the breakthroughs you need to enjoy your everyday life. This support could give you a renewed sense of purpose in order to create new opportunities and change the way you feel about yourself and your future.
Physiotherapy is also a science-based, health and social care profession that’s regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council. Physio assists people to restore, maintain and maximise their strength, function, movement, and overall health and well-being.
Julianne has in-depth knowledge of how the body works and is able to assess, diagnose, and treat symptoms of illness, injury and disability. Julianne's specialism is in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, therefore her clinical skills focus on the muscles and joints, posture and movement and involve working with people to restore the body when this has been affected by an injury or illness.
Physiotherapy includes rehabilitation, as well as prevention of injury, and promotion of health and fitness. Physiotherapists often work in teams with other health professionals to help meet an individual's health care needs.
In the 1920s Joseph Pilates developed the Pilates Method. Pilates is a system of repetitive exercises performed on a yoga mat or a chair to promote strength, stability, and flexibility. These exercises develop the body through muscular effort that stems from the core. The technique cultivates awareness of the body and can support everyday movements that are efficient and functional for your activities of daily living.
Pilates has been shown to improve balance as it targets muscles including the glutes, hips, pelvic floor and lower back. Similar to Yoga, the Pilates Method encourages breath awareness and is widely used in rehabilitation settings.
Julianne is qualified in APPI Pilates Matwork Level One and enjoys combining these concepts into her physiotherapy practice.
Julianne is also qualified in Acupuncture as part of her Physiotherapy practice. Acupuncture is a treatment derived from ancient Chinese medicine. Fine needles are inserted at certain sites in the body for therapeutic or preventative purposes. It is now used in many NHS GP practices, as well as in pain clinics and hospices in the UK.
Western medical acupuncture (dry needling) is the use of acupuncture following a medical diagnosis. It involves stimulating sensory nerves under the skin and in the muscles.
This results in the body producing natural substances, such as pain-relieving endorphins. It's likely that these naturally released substances are responsible for the beneficial effects experienced with acupuncture. A course of acupuncture is usually recommended because it can take a few sessions for you to see improvements.
Traditional acupuncture is based on the belief that an energy, or "life force", flows through the body in channels called meridians. This life force is known as Qi (pronounced "chee" or the Ki "Key" in Reiki). Practitioners who use acupuncture in the traditional way believe that when Qi does not flow freely through the body, this can cause illness. It's also believed acupuncture can restore the flow of Qi, and so restore health.