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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.
Our sessions are a style of Yoga called Therapeutic Yoga which support you in managing both acute and long term health conditions. This can include prevention/ reduction or alleviation of chronic pain and/ or other physical health conditions which involve structural and physiological changes and symptoms of mental and emotional suffering.
The hardest part really is getting to a session, the rest is easy!
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: Meaningful interests and activities of daily living are what OTs refer to as ‘occupations’.
Our sessions are run by a qualified and trained OT which helps the Yoga Therapy instructor to see beyond diagnoses and limitations in order to personalise Yoga practices to the needs of the individual to support people in achieving their unique hopes and goals.
Yoga Therapy sessions combine conservative treatments focused on self-management practices and the biopsychosocial approach.
Therapeutic Yoga sessions look to enhance your quality of life with an emphasis on reducing suffering, managing symptoms and cultivating a pleasant and sustainable practice. Sessions include health education because we know that it's helpful for people to understand basic anatomy and physiology that underpins their conditions and how this affects wider psychological and social factors which further impacts on emotions and cognition.
Our sessions are also taught be an instructor trained in Trauma-informed Yoga. This is a specialist branch of Yoga which helps people recover from the impact of trauma on the body, brain, emotions and sense of self. This helps to facilitate a safe, comfortable and empowering environment for attendees.
This holistic health service is practical, sustainable and personal to you in order to help you achieve the breakthroughs you need to enjoy your everyday life. The therapeutic Yoga sessions will create space in the mind and body, transform your life and change the way you feel about yourself.
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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.
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.
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.
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.