tactile analgesia from brain coupling

The biological basis of sex shows our species to be naturally diverse and for nature to be very flexible on this issue

Bodies are more system than machine. Welcome to age of systems biology.

Our somatosensory system links seeing with feeling so why not protect yourself from unnecessary trauma?!

What if the best thing you could do for your health & wellbeing this New Year was absolutely nothing?

To understand why lying works, we need to dig deep into our evolutionary past when our minds were simpler, more engaged with somatic experience.

Life constrains and restricts change for some very good reasons.

How ‘hunches’ can save our life, how our unconscious mind trounces our conscious mind in assessing danger and sizing up dodgy characters, and why cardboard policemen work.

This is how to gain the most from movement therapies: practice, yes, BUT explore slight adjustments and modifications, enjoy, engage.

How manual static compression influences body tissues

What an incredible workspace bodyworkers have: living, minded, whole systems

What is bodywork and why do we need it? How to find the right sort of practitioner for you!

Belly breathing for relaxation

Bodywork can induce relaxation by adjusting the information your brain receives about your situation:

· Removing ‘alert’ information

· Adding ‘safe’ information

21st century live-imaging techniques allow us to explore whole bodies doing what they do while whole and alive. Organs and tissues are seen to have functions we never knew they had and exciting new organs have been discovered.

We do not have a body and a brain. We are a body-brain system. This is an important distinction. Systems biology is a new way of looking at how bodywork works.