by Daphne | Feb 18, 2022 | Being, Breath, Connection, Curiosity, Movement, Relational, Safe, Somatic, Space, Touch, Training Course, Trauma
This post was previously posted on Yogawithdaphne.com on December 2nd 2020.
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 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 | Body, Connection, Homeostasis, Neck, Nervous System, Safe, Self, Space, Yoga
Yesterday, my sister sent me a message from Singapore to tell me she went to a TCM doctor to sought help after experiencing some pain from her neck that was radiating down her right arm and hand. The therapist proceeded with lots of needling, tissue manipulation and...
by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Body, Connection, Diaphragm, Embodiment, Gravity, Limbs, Mind, Movement, Muscles, Psoas, Stability
Navel Radiation is a pre-vertebrate pattern within the Basic Neurological Patterns/Developmental Movement paradigm of Body-Mind Centering® developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. It is the pattern of radial symmetry and relates to our earliest connection with our...
by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Body, Breath, Cells, Connection, Consciousness, Core, Homeostasis, Movement, Space, Spiral, Touch, Yoga
The IAYT model of Yoga Therapy (often 1:1) integrates the whole being through relationships in the Pancha Maya Kosha model, i.e the physical body, the energetic body (e.g chakra system and pancha vayus, prakriti and vikruti etc), our emotional afflictions, our thought...
