Me, Myself & I

 Hellooooo online community. 

It's super lovely to begin the journey of being apart of what I'm hoping will be a wonderful, insightful, expansive & supportive community. Having never been one that's naturally drawn to interacting in this way I feel like this is one of my first challenges - and I am but a few hour in & embracing all that you have to offer & am excited with what I am going to be able to learn & ways I will be able to explore new thoughts, theories & approaches. 

So a little about me? Then you can understand who I am, my background, methods of work, areas of interest and what I'm hoping to gain from this module & platform. 

Well, 'I' (whoever that construct is) am a 'Movement Therapist'. I use movement as the primary tool to help clients gain the most out of themselves & their bodies. Working across a broad range of professions, and with people from a multitude of backgrounds and set ups. My work includes: specific injuries & rehab for short periods of time; longer durations & methods as a way to assist performance in another sport or injury prevention and also coming from a deeper holistic prospective - releasing tension, trauma and creating greater harmony internally & externally. I love my work & enjoy the variety constant changes and challenges it offers. Being a certified trainer, yoga teacher, pilates instructor, dry needle therapist, fascial therapist & having studied multiple other modalities across both the western and eastern worlds - including different energy medicine techniques & additional anatomy and physiology courses - I try my hardest to meet the client where they are at, in a style that helps them. 

The body 'soma' fascinates me. How can this dense mass of tissue be so magical, beautiful, complex and detailed? How can it hold all answers yet be nothing at the same time? How can it be all we know, yet we don't understand it? It is the most wonderful piece of art & science we have, each one of us having been gifted our own unique version of this incredible machinery and we take it for granted. It manifests our thoughts, holds onto our traumas and truly is a vehicle and vessel for our soul. And this is one of the reasons I adore working with it. It is constantly communicating with us, but we rarely listen. I've therefore found movement one of the key ways to let it speak, release and be at ease and want others to experience this too. 

With the current rise in mental health and trauma related problems I'm finding more & more people needing a broader range of methods and tools to help them, not only survive but thrive with all that is happening. I truly believe a deeper connection to the body, a greater understanding will enable this. And this is therefore my greatest area of interest. 

I'm hoping that during this module, course and across this platform I will be able to discuss and be opened to new ways of thinking, new texts and teachings, different ways to explore movement, trauma and our soma to help help others & myself heal.