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Start here to understand how Somatic Pilates, Nervous System Regulation, and Embodied Movement work together:
1. What is Somatic Pilates: A Different Approach and Evolution to Pilates
2. Interoception: Finding that inner state of comfort, wellbeing and health
4. Optimal Breathing for Life & Living: a mind body somatic perspective
5. Spring: Ventral Energy & Your Nervous System - Opening your Window to Wellbeing
6. Come to your senses: Embodied Vision: Why What You See Shapes How You Feel
7. Returning back home & connecting with your body - the power of the Somatic Mind Body Connection
8. What is Somatic Movement? Some thoughts about the questions I am frequently asked
9. Cultivating Connections: a deepening practice of embodiment
Somatic Pilates for Midlife Women: How to reduce stress, release tension and build strength during menopause.
Many women in midlife feel exhausted, tense, and disconnected from their bodies. Discover how Somatic Pilates can help reduce stress, improve body awareness, support menopause wellbeing, and build sustainable strength.
Come to your senses: Embodied Vision: Why What You See Shapes How You Feel. A Somatic Approach to Nervous System Regulation
Move beyond 'above the neck' fitness. Sarah Pritchard, an expert in Somatic Therapy (Shrewsbury, Birmingham & Virtual) and the Franklin Method, explores how Embodied Vision and the sense of awe physically regulate the nervous system. Learn how widening your gaze and 'steeping' in the everyday spectacular can lower cortisol, improve vagal tone, and support midlife wellbeing from the clinic to the screen.
Returning back home & connecting with your body - the power of the Somatic Mind Body Connection.
There is no getting away from the stress of everyday life - it is something we all have to navigate in some way. The biggest act of self care you can give yourself is the ability to be connected with yourself and your body. Somatic practices take us on a journey of self discovery and help us create a life that is more enriching, through movement that nourishes not punishes, through movement that pulls tension out of our bodies and can reduce stresses strains and pains. The by product of this is a feeling of calmness and peace, deeper connection and more self confidence. We were not built to do but to be and to have a way to really look after ourselves instead of beat ourselves up, and to be connected with out needing to compete or be better than ourselves or others brings us into peace, alignment and holistic wellbeing.
Somatic Pilates - A different approach & evolution to Pilates.
Somatic Pilates is a specialist form of Pilates that combines Somatic principles with the principles of Pilates. It works primarily with very deep presence and felt sense - it is about integrating and becoming at one with your body, developing something called embodiment and deeply listening to and respecting your body. Somatic Pilates has a much deeper anatomical component for the client and teacher / practitioner and may harness different systems of the body deliberately to produce different effects. Its purpose is to produce full mind body integration. It does not intend to work with body as a separate 'thing’, but works with the body as an integrated whole, we both have a body and we are a body. When we work with our bodies and listen to them carefully we become much calmer and at peace with ourselves, and in that respect Somatic Pilates can be for some people a real tonic to everyday life, stresses and strains in every respect. So much can move us away from our bodies, and Somatic Pilates is a practice to put people back within themselves once more. We can move with greater freedom, we put less strain on our body, we develop greater felt sense and more confidence in our body because we have a different relationship with it….
Optimal Breathing for Life & Living: a mind body somatic perspective (part I)
Embodied breath is about you feeling and sensing you, and using your greatest resource which is you! We are composed of anatomical, biomechanical and physiological processes that are in continuous dialogue with our mind - body and body - mind. So embodied breathing is a process and practice of learning about how we work and function. As a somatic practitioner my role is to guide you through the process of how to sense that. In somatic work we are not asking our minds to empty as that can for many people be a huge challenge and is not our objective, but by focusing on the sensation and feeling in our bodies we can rebalance, discover and be more at peace and calm with ourselves. Learn more about somatics, breathing and how this differs to the breathing used in movement systems such as yoga and Pilates and how this can help you restore greater balance and take that deeper breath.
