Do you hold tension or stress in your body and want to know how to release this? Do you know how your breathing affects your emotional state and energy levels? Practice Principal Suzanne and Senior Physiotherapist Campbell have been working on developing 2 online courses based on their areas of expertise: Fascia, and the Respiratory System, respectively. These courses have been designed to give you the tools and know-how to develop a deeper connection with your body. Suzanne and Campbell know that developing a better understanding of these systems helps to promote body awareness, self-regulation, energy management and stress reduction.

– Okay, so I’m gonna share with you 00:03 one of my first big bugbears about trauma. 00:07 So, when we refer to trauma we talk about 00:12 possibly childhood trauma, severe emotional dysfunction, 00:15 things like PTSD. 00:18 There may be like, near-death experiences, 00:21 there may be significant grief, 00:23 there may be neglect as a child. 00:25 My personal, and I guess the viewpoint 00:28 that a lot of people share on trauma is, 00:31 trauma can be little micro-traumas. 00:33 So, trauma can be things that are built up 00:38 over a long period of time.

– So, have you ever had a pain, 00:04 been anxious, been stressed, been depressed, 00:07 and just been told to just stay positive, or be grateful? 00:11 Now, being grateful is a really awesome thing. 00:13 I do a gratitude journal. 00:14 I’m really grateful for lots of things in my life. 00:17 But I think that positivity 00:18 and happiness is just a rubbish metric, 00:22 and there’s a lot of writers who agree with this idea. 00:26 If you’re constantly pushing this positivity, 00:28 what you’re doing is you’re actually pushing 00:31 the crap further down into

– So one of the things that really bugs me in the treatment 00:04 of any sort of trauma, emotional disfunction, 00:08 even things like anxiety and depression, 00:10 which are really rampant in our society today, 00:13 is this one size fits all approach. 00:15 So you’ll notice at Wellness Embodied, 00:18 we offer a lot of different services, 00:20 we have physio massage, craniosacral, we do bioceuticals, 00:24 which are practitioner-grade nutritional products. 00:28 We sell DoTERRA, we sell supports, and so on. 00:31 And I will be the first person to say 00:33 that we don’t have

– Hi everyone. 00:02 Suzanne from Wellness Embodied in Cairns. 00:06 Now, something you may or may not know about our practice is 00:09 that we have a really keen interest 00:11 in the emotional implications associated with physical pain 00:16 and also physical pain associated with emotional trauma. 00:22 And so, I’m actually making a series of videos on trauma 00:26 just dealing with a few key points that we really believe 00:29 and like to educate people on in the practice. 00:34 So, stay tuned for those. 00:35 Just to start you off with a little bit of

According to George Orwell, ‘Happiness can exist only in acceptance.’ This may seem an unusual sentiment from someone who wrote such dystopian books as 1984, but perhaps Orwell had acceptance mastered. Certainly, acceptance is an increasingly important tool in mind and body medicine.   In psychology, acceptance can be defined as our assent to the reality of our situation-whether positive or negative- without attempting to change the circumstances. In yoga, it can be summarized best by Aparigraha, meaning ‘non-attachment’. Aparigraha, one of the yamas from Patangali’s yoga sutras, teaches us that we should neither be attached to positive nor negative

Awww, little people! Physiotherapy in paediatrics is a huge area, which includes kids with respiratory conditions (more on these to come in a future post- in fact, some of the best responders to chest physiotherapy are little babies in intensive care, whose conditions can change rapidly), neurological conditions (such as cerebral palsy, poor development, etc.) and your general sprains and strains. One of the nicest physio jobs I’ve known of in paediatrics belonged to a friend of mine who worked solely with blind children- because they were lacking the key sense of sight, they failed to develop as quickly as