by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Awareness, Connection, Consciousness, Exploration, Grounding, Mind, Other, Self, Space
This lady here is the woman who gave me life. I was her first born. She was 22. For most of my life, we couldn’t see eye to eye. There were resentments and estrangements. I swore I would never be like her. And then I learnt about tolerance. And empathy. And...
by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Awareness, Body, Brain, Joints, Mind, Movement, Muscles, Nervous System
There’s nothing more exhilarating than running up a hill after a 8-year-old. Many people come to me to help them manage their aches and pains.They often ask me which muscles to strengthen and what to release so they can be stronger, or feel less “tight” in their body...
by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Awareness, Bones, Exploration, Fluid, Gravity, Movement, Muscles, Nervous System, Proprioception, Sensory, Somatic, Space, Stability
A lot of tension in the body is often created through accumulative tension in the muscles, either through compensatory movement habits or through our stress response. We tend to forget that our skeletal elements such as the bones and ligaments give us form and...
by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Awareness, Body, Gravity, Mind, Mobility, Nervous System, Sensation, Somatic, Space, Yoga
Yoga & Stretching This week’s topic on #somawithDaphneandLucy is about what constitutes healthy stretch! Everyone loves a good stretch. However, do you sometimes feel that the more you stretch, the more you need to stretch? The yoga world is...
by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Awareness, Body, Diaphragm, Embodiment, Gravity, Grounding, Movement, Organs, Pelvis, Safe, Space, Spine
Ribcage & Pelvis Resonance The concept of a neutral pelvis is a topic every movement educator across different modalities would passionately debate over. This week on #SomawithDaphneandLucy, we’d like to share our take on the neutral pelvis as an...
by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Awareness, Body, Bones, Brain, Diaphragm, Embryology, Feet, Gravity, Grounding, Limbs, Mobility, Movement, Muscles, Myofascial, Pelvis, Stability
This week’s focus on #somawithDaphneandLucy are your precious feet 🙂 The relative distance of our feet from our brain often causes us to disregard the health and care of our feet. We tend to ignore the messages coming from this very distal part of...