Sources of information into the deep brain centres that control our primitive reflexes to being overwhelmed We can frame three essential principles on how the nervous system works that are relevant to cranial work: One: Essential reflexes can highjack the functioning of...
Read more...Below is a link to a really interesting article on how representation of the body affects the experience of pain. The is very affirming of the importance of working with dissociation to improve health. In this study the results show the pain...
Read more...The video below is another wonderful development of how pain works. There is a revolution in how researchers are framing pain over the last few years. As teachers in the cranial community we are trying hard to catch up. We have changed our...
Read more...David Abram's writing is amazing. His talks are up there as well by the looks of it, the short video above is wonderful on the struggle to be in a body.He has a new book out - 'Becoming Animal'. His first, 'The...
Read more...Amazing illustration of the mobilisation and immobilisation phases of the overwhelm response. Initially aggressive and quick, but when its head is trapped and there are no options for escape the snake goes limp and plays dead.If you ask me, playing with snakes...
Read more...Our body’s emergency control centre – the amygdala. The amygdala, a pair of almond-shaped structures on the left and right of the brain’s medial temporal lobe, is particularly involved in emotional memories like fear, but also in pleasurable memories associated with food,...
Read more...Like the snake video, the above video captures some essential elements of hardwired trauma responses. Notice how stiff the mouse is at the start of the video. I am increasingly appreciating how stiffness is a good early sign of immobilisation. Before I...
Read more...This is a great story of how extreme the body can be in prioritising threat. Pain has a geography in the body. Suffering is a bigger category and existential? This is tricky territory, hence the question mark.1My view is that in pain there...
Read more...Click here to listen to the interview: Jane Shaw and Steve Haines 2015-07-09 Jane is a senior tutor on Body Intelligence Trainings, organises the Breath of Life conference, runsa busy cranial practice in Northern Ireland and is currently doing a MA/PhD...
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