October Newsletter

Hiya, lots went on in October, clinic in Totnes is getting busier, and I have been busy doing breathworks in Exmouth and another talk at the Healing centre there on the TZLA.club Plasma Machine that I have been enjoying for a year now.

I have booked up a breathwork in Totnes on 20th November (Birdwood House) so am beginning to advertise that one. Hopefully it will be the first of many.

I have been having a lot of work done for myself, with regular Transformational Breathwork in Teignmouth, Shiatsu in Ashburton and have started back after a long break doing Chi Gong, Tai Chi and from November, Sword Form with an excellent teacher in Paignton. I have found that working on yourself definately deepens your work and connection with others.

There are lots of good things coming in November such as formulating/formalising my coaching.

This all started a few weeks ago when I was listing the five different types of sessions I do for people:
1. Standard Physio Assessment – where a person wants to know what structure they have injured or what condition they have from their injury mechanism and symptoms. I do a few tests and discuss the pattern of symptoms history aggravating and easing factors/activities/movements and then treat with trigger points and massage or laser acupuncture and infra red or other means to rehab and heal the injury or problem as soon as possible.

2. NeuroPhysio – this can be highly complex or straight forward. For some clients I have seen over many years I may just help them walk as far as they can (which is sometimes the only time they ever get to walk) or stretch them out to ease their stiffness. Or I’ll work on ativating their trunk or give them complex exercises to challange what they believe they can or cant do (I helped a client lie on his front on my massage table this week even though he was convinced that it would be impossible, getting people to jump is another).

3. Deep nourishing bodywork – I have been lucky enough to be able to go on many courses all self-funded, and have learnt many bodywork systems from Bowen, to Zero Balancing, Neurolink, elements of Network chiropractic, myofascial release, upledger craniosacral and many more. I put all of these together and create depth and stillness that people rarely get a chance to feel. The aim is to create a gentle safe still place to release whatever needs or is ready to be released. I love to do this for a full 45 mins but even just ten mins can change a persons state and ease nagging aches and pains.
***** I’m going to be offering 30 minute Bodywork sessions (no assessment and special testing) for the Bodywork Fair prices of just £25 once a month – See Nov Newsletter *****

4. Laser acupuncture with the ThorLX2 professional BioPhotoModulation machine that I have, can read levels of electrical resistance in the skin and treat areas which are blocked (by pain inflammation or previous injury and it will feedback the level of blockage and whether the meridian is either deficient or excessive and bring that back towards optimal with the nearinfrared laser instead of a needle. The laser applicator can numb pain (very useful in dentistry) and get deep into the ligaments and tendons in the body. The large infrared applicator can treat larger muscles like around the spine and lower back and soon warm up tight or painful areas leaving people’s tight sore inflammed joints or muscles much easier most of the time.

5. Coaching
Although I could easily call what I have been doing over the past 20years plus, health coaching, I have often wondered about other types of coaching. Now coming up to my 60th year I finally feel I have enough advice and strategies for people to formally start offering coaching and will call Transformational Coaching. I have been into Sydney Bank’s Three Principles for a long time, and I think I bought 6 copes of Clare Dimond’s ‘Real’ for friends and family after seeing her and others do a talk in Exeter ten years or so ago. It is a lovely easy pared down version of what I thought the Three Principles was about. Recently I’ve listened to ‘Supercoach’ by Michael Niell (not just once as its sooo rich in wisdom). When I finished the Higher Brain Living training in Chicago ten years ago which also contains coaching as a part of it, I did a few sessions for Jamie Smart who was just finished writing his ‘Clarity’ book, again based on the principles or what Michael Neill called the Inside Out Revolution. Jamie discussed his overview with me that he was offering to corporate customers at that time.
Now with the books I discussed at the end of the last newsletter I am finally getting the clarity of my message for others based on the wisdom I have gained from my physio work, motivating others, focusing on Positive Mental Attitude, doing a ton of Psychotherapeutic approaches and integrating all kinds of perspectives in health and well being, into a series I’ll be offering over ten sessions for groups in Totnes and possibly in Exeter.

There are many other types of sessions like one-on-one breathwork, for migraines or fibro, chronic fatigue and polymyalgia which all require gentle bodywork and Infra Red along with discussions about the gut and maybe to get food tolerances checked with a nutrition informed Dr, homeopath or a good kinesiologist.

Then there are the elderly I might see at home (mainly in Totnes) who need help getting them back on their feet. Usually from a zimmerframe back to a stick or no stick and a bunch of lesser type sessions.

I was suprised that the coaching came up, but that day a client had asked if I could help with his depression and I replied I didnt know (obviously counselling is the usual route) but bodywork helps and there are many strategies for state changes he could try and I could help him change his thinking and create change in his life to move out of that ‘stuck’ place – he was up for it 🙂 and is doing well.

Also I have been paying a lot of attention to nutrition and supplimentation along with exercise and breathwork for many years and really getting into the Terrain theory of health.
I have finally found a ‘new’ (currently used mainly in six non-english speaking countries over the past ten years) probiotic that can survive the antibiotics that pervade our food and water and can survive the journey to the gut intack and able to colonise to bring the gut back to health which is a game changer for people who struggle with bowel conditions, low energy, brain fog, auto-immune conditions, skin issues, allergies etc I’ll be sharing this product with some of my clients who may benefit and will be featuring this product by December on my website and offering details in my clincs. I’m not a Doctor (although Drs only get maybe one lecture in nutrition in their five year medical traing) and dont have degree or other qualification in nutrition so you will have to do your own due diligence or speak to one of my many friends who are Naturopaths and Nutritionists to talk with them about their advice for realistic strategies.
Exciting 🙂

Call 07956 409300 to experience the above