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During Your Practice
Please note – all classes/recordings are designed to be relaxing, friendly and enjoyable.
At all times you are in charge of your well-being and therefore are under no obligation to participate in anything that you are uncomfortable with.
At no time should you ever feel any pain or distress, at any point you can reduce your movement or take a break and join back in when you feel ready to.
Something I often recommend is to sit or stand still and imagine your body doing the movement. Sounds strange but it has huge benefits.
This is stated here as energy movement, breath-work, meditation and healing techniques are, by their very nature, methods in which we can release withheld stress, trauma and tension from the body, mind and spirit.
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All participants will be asked to sign this waiver document on their first visit.
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Meditation or Breath-work and It’s Challenges
Whilst I am a huge advocate for meditation and breath-work it’s part of my daily practice, I’m going to say it here – it may not be for everyone. Here’s why.
For anyone who has suffered or is suffering from severe anxiety, trauma, depression, PTSD or other mental health issue, meditation/breath-work can actually have a reverse effect on these individuals.
This is due to the very nature of the practice itself, which on a basic level, is to take us inward to observe the nature of Our Self.
Therefore, if we have unresolved trauma, anxiety etc, we are likely to come face to face with it and this can result in very strong (often unpleasant) responses on various physical, biological and emotional levels.
I speak from personal experience in this when I first began meditating in 1995 (aged 22) on an 11 day silent retreat in a Thai Monastry. Little did I know I held trauma within me, even less that there was a concept of carrying ancestral trauma from familial generations.
I have continued to practice meditation/breath-work since 1995 and today it can offer me profound insights. BUT I have had to take my own journey with it and I will say from the get go, yes it has offered the most profound levels of healing for me but that doesn’t mean pleasant.
So, if you feel you fall into this category or you have already experienced the unpleasant side effects of meditation, my personal recommendation is little and often. Perhaps 5 minutes of breath awareness a couple of times a day and go from there.
I have created a 5 minute recording specifically for this, it’s on my Guided Medtation Media Folder. It’s basic, nothing fancy, just sit with your breath for 5 minutes and make sure you are fully back in your physical body at the end. I show you how to do this on the recording.
Another helpful tool, is to make sure you move regularly (read daily), nature walks, cyle rides, swimming, gym, burpees in the kitchen – anything.
Before sitting for a longer meditation perhaps follow one of my short movement videos to ‘warm up and release some tension’.
I hope this is of some help to those of you who can relate to this. xx
Internity - the state of being within 