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With the increase in anxiety, low mood and depression amongst children and young people these days, wouldn’t it be lovely to have a way to support your child on an emotional and spiritual level? Learning Reiki 1 as a parent is a wonderful way to increase the tools in your parenting tool box. You cannot go wrong investing in learning Reiki healing. Anyone can learn Reiki 1; you do not need any previous experience, all you need is an open mind and an open heart. It can be learned in a...

Aromatherapy can help assist your body’s natural abilities to heal, rest and recover from stress and illness. A form of complementary therapy that uses essential oils, plant and flower extracts, it can be used in a number of different ways to assist with healing and relaxation.

We share five simple ways you can use essential oils to reduce stress, lift your mood, and improve your sense of well-being.

Massage

Aromatherapy massages can be both calming and comforting. By using...

Unlike other holistic approaches, the Bowen technique focuses on you as a whole person, rather than looking to treat a single pain or condition. During a typical 45 to 60 minute session, your Bowen therapist will use pressure and gentle rolling movements over different parts of your body to encourage it to repair and reset itself.

While experts still aren’t quite sure how or why it works, research into Bowen therapy by the University of Lancaster found that 70% of volunteers with a...

Today there is a rapid growth in aromatherapy treatments for cancer sufferers. The main aims are to help the body relax, relieve stress, anxiety and pain. In contrast to the theories of many years ago, research has shown that specialist massage of muscle and soft tissue does not spread cancer cells. Treatments are often short valuable sessions, which include gentle soft-tissue massage with specifically chosen essential oils. For those in palliative care, the idea is to provide a sense of...

Pilates is internationally recognised as a muscle strength and posture improvement practice, particularly helpful for building core strength and relieving back pain. So as a recent convert to Pilates after years of debilitating lower back ache, I was more surprised by how much pilates helped my ‘brain-pain’.

After a long day at work there’s little else I want to do apart from retreating to my sofa, so enter Pilates. There’s been many comments on the connection between Pilates and...

Aromatherapy can help assist our body’s natural abilities to heal, rest and recover from a wide variety of stresses and illness. One of the most popular forms of complementary therapy, aromatherapy, uses essential oils to encourage rest and relaxation, and as a result, help manage and prevent symptoms of illness.

Working primarily through inhalation or skin absorption, it can have a number of psychological and physical benefits, from boosting our moods and circulation to stimulating...