by Daphne | Nov 5, 2021 | Safe
In the last quarter of 2019, I made a very difficult decision to leave Australia, to return to Singapore and start over again. What this means in hindsight now are – I was able to escape the worst bushfires in Australia’s history in December I didn’t...
by Daphne | Nov 5, 2021 | Connection, Nervous System
Many of us have heard of Fight, Flight, Freeze.The Fawn Response is a coping mechanism that is not unfamiliar. It’s our need to connect in order to survive (a relationship or relationships), so we do things that we don’t feel compelled to in order to...
by Daphne | Nov 5, 2021 | Bodywork, Brain, Nervous System, Somatic
What I do in Integrated Bodywork and Abdominal Therapy takes into the considerations of the biomechanical and psychosomatic relationships of our gut-brain-nervous system holding patterns to address issues such as IBS, reflux, bloating, and their connection to back...
by Daphne | Nov 5, 2021 | Poetry, Spine
A year ago on Dec 29, I had just returned home to the Blue Mountains after 2 months of teaching on the road. I was pottering about at home when I noticed there were several missed calls on my phone. They were from my sister, left with a text to call her back....
by Daphne | Nov 5, 2021 | Awareness, Body, Fluid, Gravity, Joints, Movement, Nervous System, Organs, Other, Proprioception, Self, Sensory, Space, Vestibular System
​Proprioception and kinaesthesia, is the sense of our body position and movement in relationship to gravity and space. It is sometimes described as the “sixth sense”. Proprioception is mediated by our vestibular system, proprioceptors, nerve endings...
