Blog | Bodyawareness

Get to know us - Interview with Nisarga

06.02.2020

My motivation comes mostly from love. I am a very tribal person and I deeply care about my tribe and my family and friends. This motivates me a lot, I want to show them that I walk my talk, that I can provide for them and inspire them. This feeling of support for my tribe and community gives me immense power and energy to "move the mountains".

Magic of the touch

06.12.2019

If the baby is born as premature and cannot be touched by the parents, are more likely to be exposed to have more inflammations and diseases through their lives. There is something tremendously precious in the touch. Touch is love. Our heart is the center of love and compassion. When we touch someone we love and care we feel something amazing is happening to us with the presence of love.

Be Here and Now: the Art of Meditation - Active Meditation

01.10.2019

Everyday we live in the constant rush of obligation. We are surrounded by a multitude of stimuli which bombard us at every moment. It is often very difficult to focus on ourselves and what is here and now because our head prompts us with thoughts of what has been and what will be. But, all of us can learn mindfulness.

How to Deal With Pain?

03.06.2019

It is estimated that soft tissue contractions cause 95% of headache and pain of the body. We can list here lumbar pain, sciatica, jaw pain (of TMJ tempo mandibular joint), fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, shoulder pain, neck pain, knees or hips, and also most frequent back pain, which affects every fourth person. The most difficult situation takes place when the pain persists for weeks.

Daily Energy and Vitality - How to Take Care of It?

15.04.2019

Our fast pace of life, work, duties and social pressure stress us all out and kill our energy. We often think we are doomed to such an existence because we cannot eliminate most of the things we have to do. What we can do, however, is to introduce certain practices into our daily rhythm which enable us to safeguard and renew our energy and vitality of life. So, what is worth doing?

How to help yourself in stressful situations

04.04.2019

Along with anxiety and fear hyperventilation creeps in unknowingly manifested through shallow, irregular breathing of the upper part of our lungs, and in time, also withholding the breath. When hyperventilation sets in, the level of carbon dioxide in the blood plummets, which makes capillaries narrow down and close, which means stopping the blood flow to the cells, and what follows is lack of fresh oxygen in the cells. This, in turn, leads to such reactions such as emptiness in the head, nausea, vertigo etc. In stressful situations the rhythm of breathing changes as well as the amplitude of in-breaths and the tension in the shoulders.

My journey becoming vegan

06.03.2019

... and starting celebrating my body, heart and spirit. If you were around me 20 years ago, in 1999, you would have had a huge breakfast with me including a big piece of meat, probably a sausage, with eggs, cheese and all other breakfast ingredients on the table. I wouldn’t have even imagined a meal without meat. For me, any dishes without meat could not be nutritious enough.

Power of the breath

06.01.2019

When was the last time you took a deep, conscious breath? Today? Yesterday? Don’t remember? Stop right here and take one now…. a slow, deep breath in…and a slow, full breath out…do you feel the difference? It’s easy to just forget that we are breathing. It happens automatically whether we are aware of it or not, and as with many of the functions that our bodies just take care of by themselves, we often don’t pay much attention to or indeed appreciate our breath very much. And with our bodies doing all the work for us, it is fair to say that this most vital function is widely under-used and under-rated.

The art of deep bodywork

29.10.2018

Stated most simply, the goal of Core Integration is to enable one to move and balance from the core of the body, from the centre line of gravity. This has both physical and psychological and spiritual aspects, which we can discuss separately. To experience from the core is to take responsibility for our lives!

Therapists's inner compass - eleven steps

23.10.2018

Several colleagues, friends, and students have asked me recently what I thought makes someone a successful therapist and how they themselves could become more successful as a therapist. The answer came to me few weeks ago while out for a morning jog on a sunny beach in Goa, India. Point after point began to reveal itself and a basic framework appeared in my mind.

Emotional trauma in bodywork sessions

02.03.2018

Underneath most of our myofascial holding patterns is repressed emotional trauma. We know that emotional trauma is held in the soft tissues of the body. The concept of tissue memory is fundamental to our understanding of the connection between bodywork and emotional trauma release. Releasing emotions in sessions has a lot to do with the bodyworker’s intention as well as the character of the client.