Look After your Back!
This month we focus on the Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique is one of the most potent tools for developing dynamic relaxation – the ability to be focused and tension free during work and everyday activities. Through the method you can resolve long held and acute aches, pains, postural problems and develop deeper self awareness. Overall vitality increases and an economy of energy develops.
Learning the Alexander Technique is fascinating - it is more a process of unlearning what is not useful to us rather than accumulating more and more information. Simple observation reveals that we scrunch ourselves into patterns of muscular and skeletal tension when making the simplest movements and these ‘scrunchings’ become permanent tension patterns in our bodies. But we do not know we do this – it is not conscious to us. By recognising this, making the process conscious and applying the method we can change the body patterns and behaviours permanently, bringing relief from numerous aches, pains and ailments.
The sessions consist of simple non-invasive guidance from the teacher’s hands directly to your muscles and nervous system during simple movements such as sitting standing and walking followed by a deep process of guidance and relaxation. There is no bodily manipulation or massage.
It is an excellent method for stopping aches and pains and improving coordination - so people often use it to resolve chronic, long held, conditions. Sometimes people simply wish to expand their self awareness and it is extremely good after courses of manipulative therapy (chiropractic, osteopathy, physiotherapy) to stop repeating the muscular patterns that caused the problem you went the therapy to resolve; it will make the positive changes permanent. After psychotherapy it can help to establish the new found feelings of emotional freedom and joy as permanent bodily conditions.
It is unique, fascinating and effective.
You can book a free one hour consultation and introductory session by phoning Marlborough House, 01823 272227. During this free session a brief case history will be taken, the Technique will be explained both generally and with specific reference to your particular concerns, tensions or ailments and you will have the experience of an Alexander Technique lesson.
Marlborough House has eight experienced practitioners to help your back stay in good shape. Come and have a free back check – you have regular check-ups for your teeth, your back is just as important!
Our free tasters for this month include an opportunity to discuss your fears and phobias with Nabeeh Marar and find out how we can help you cope with them. There is also the chance to try the gentle cranial sacral therapy which works to release areas of pain, tension and congestion.
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Beth French Swimming the English Channel for M.E
Sponsorship Greatly Appreciated
Beth French suffered from M.E from the age of 10. At 17 years old, she was reduced to life in a wheelchair, giving up A-levels, an outdoor, sporty life and at that time hope of a fulfilled life. This is not an uncommon story for those touched by M.E; a much maligned, very misunderstood syndrome that affects mind and body alike.
M.E is a psycho-neuroimmunological syndrome that attacks any system of the body at different times. It is largely unique to the individual suffering, in that we all have different triggers, often related to our reaction to coping with various perceived stresses in our lives. It is debilitating and as soul destroying, as it is difficult to diagnose and treat, although extreme fatigue is a universal symptom. Whilst wheelchair bound, Beth read widely on the mind-body barrier, M.E and self help, Meta physics and physiology. She also spent much time daydreaming when reading was too much effort.
Over time, these fantasy futures distilled to a wish list of possible life events: reasons to hope. Bit by bit, she regained strength and confidence in her understanding of health. This was part and parcel of her travels abroad and quest for her own personal culture of health. It forms the backbone of her work at Marlborough House today – a unique holistic approach to the workings of the body and its relationship to the personality driving it!
Becoming a mother and turning 30 – two milestones worthy of contemplation – she looked back over her life and realised that most of that wish list had been inadvertently attained. She had swum with wild dolphins, built her own house, lived in a monastery, walked on warm lava and had a baby. To all intents and purposes, a full and fulfilled life. At her local pool, she stumbled on a swim challenge that re-ignited her lifelong ambition, and an item on the wish list, to swim the English Channel. For as long as she can remember, she has had the compulsion to walk straight out into the sea and swim out until she hits land again. So, she booked her dates to swim to France with the Channel Swimming and Pilot Federation. She is now halfway through her training and has completed her qualifying swim of 6 hours in water, less than 16°C, wetsuit free! She is lucky enough to have formed a fantastic support team, helping her with nutrition, training advice, therapeutic treatment and kayak support and assistance whilst out swimming in the sea. The personal challenges faced and overcome along the way are proving that achieving life’s ambitions are definitely about the journey.
She is swimming to raise awareness of M.E both in the wider community and to give hope to those suffering that there is every reason to hope and dream of a bright and fulfilled future. It is also, of course, a huge personal challenge – as much mental as it is physical – and in some ways, proof positive that she is utterly recovered and can live without M.E. It is also for the love of swimming and the joy in the ability that she can. Few people experience having that ability taken away wholesale – then regaining it. It instils a profound sense of gratitude and wonderment in the body’s capacity for recovery, movement and life in general.
If you would like to sponsor Beth, or simply offer some well wishes then please contact us on 01823 272227 or 'contact@mh-tc.com'
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Marlborough House are delighted to welcome back Beth French from maternity leave for Lomi-lomi and Thai massages or Reiki treatments. Beth is available on Mondays and Saturdays - please contact us for more information or an appointment.
We publish regular news articles and press releases to the Somerset County Gazette every month. Please find below some articles that you may find useful and interesting.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) - a very helpful approach to anxiety
TFT (Thought Field Therapy) - tap away your bad memories using TFT
IBS Getting you down???... Allergy Testing and Osteopathy or Acupuncture could help!
Osteopathy - helping you to avoid pain
Osteopathy - whiplash...more than just a pain in the neck
Hypnotherapy - Stage Tricks or Self Help?
Massage - Relieve those Autumn Aches
Cranial Osteopathy - Hayfever, Sinusitis and Rhinitis
Cranial Osteopathy - Infant Colic
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