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Finding Healing Through Therapeutic Art and Yoga: My Journey

How Therapeutic Art Can Help

Therapeutic art is a gentle yet transformative process. It’s about creating without focusing on the outcome, allowing the creative journey to unfold naturally. There’s no "right" or "wrong" way to make art. Everyone has an inner artist, and no prior experience is necessary. Here are some of the benefits I’ve personally seen and experienced:

Understanding Pain Through Self-Compassion: A Key to Healing

Understanding Pain Through Self-Compassion: A Key to Healing

Compassion is a powerful yet often overlooked tool in how we manage pain. By cultivating self-compassion, we can reduce the impact of both physical and emotional discomfort. It’s not just about relieving pain, but transforming our relationship with it to promote deeper healing and well-being.

Pain is complex, often causing frustration, self-blame, and isolation. Our natural response is to fight pain, leading to increased tension. However, self-compassion can help soothe the nervous system, providing both emotional and physical relief.

Two practical ways to practice self-compassion are:

  1. Supportive Touch: Calming the body with a gentle hug or hand on the heart to reduce stress.
  2. Positive Self-Talk: Speaking kindly to yourself, just as you would to a friend in pain.

By incorporating self-compassion into daily life, you can manage discomfort more effectively, allowing for greater healing. Compassion isn’t just emotional; it’s a powerful tool for achieving peace and wellness.

About me and yoga therapy

About me and yoga therapy

What is yoga therapy?


Yoga Therapy uses the yoga traditions of movement, breathing, and deep relaxation to promote all round health, as well as alleviate medical conditions. It is a personalised approach centred around your goals and individual needs. 

 

I use yoga as either primary or complementary therapy. For example, when I had a recent client who had whiplash, she went to a physiotherapist and an osteopath as her primary care. I used yoga therapy as a complementary therapy to help her manage the pain and recover from the accident, which left her in a heightened stress state. 

Self love - how I have learned to be more kind to myself

Self love - how I have learned to be more kind to myself

I know that it’s not always possible to be happy and positive. This wouldn’t be normal because our moods fluctuate depending on our circumstances. But when we work on being more compassionate to ourselves, it can change our outlook.

I’ve realised over the years, as I’ve deepened my knowledge of the practice of yoga, that ultimately we just need to be our authentic selves–and this starts with self-love. 

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‘You Gave Me Permission To Pause’

 

As a human race, we are constantly ‘doing’ – something exacerbated by the added pressure of immediacy when it comes to digital technology. But what happens when we rest? Are we fearful that when we pause we might not know ourselves? What happens when we simply give ourselves permission to pause, to breathe, to be in stillness, and to rest?

 


 

 


 

 


 

 

Natasha in her yoga studio in Barbados, with her hands on heart

I don’t know what to call myself, but this is what I do

What I bring to the sessions when I have a private one to one session is ME.  The experiences I have had living with hypermobility, pain, anxiety, burnout and, raising a family of 4 boys. To be fully present, to listen and then to find a plan that works for each beautiful unique person that steps into my yoga studio 
Taking it easy on social media

Taking it easy on social media

Over the summer I decided to take a social media break as I was feeling overwhelmed and finding that it was giving me a lot of anxiety. I felt I needed to keep up, I saw that my kids were becoming more distracted by their use of their gaming devices. I was helped by starting a course by Jane Clapp about social media
Mindful Eating

Mindful Eating

Why is it important to eat with purpose? Well, eating with purpose brings awareness to what we’re eating, it also helps us to use our senses and h...
Step Into The Uncomfortable

Step Into The Uncomfortable

I think this was a real lesson about stepping into the uncomfortable. It wasn’t only about being with a fear, but about how this can relate to moments in my life, and having moments of being incredibly uncomfortable.
Journey to My Mat

Journey to My Mat

Years later, the mat called to me again. I missed “me” on the floor with my thoughts and the connection I started, with learning about myself. As I kept growing, the call from the mat was then amplified, and I then embarked on my yoga teacher training.