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bodymind synergy - What's in the name?

I use the word bodymind, to describe body and mind as an inseparable and functional unity.

When you are physically tired and stressed, or in ill health, you do not make your best decisions, or respond to others as well as you can do when you are feeling relaxed, energised, and in good health.
When your body is more flexible and relaxed, so too are your thoughts and emotions, and your capability for mental, and emotional, flexibility, and creativity, increases.

In other words, the state of your body is reflected in, and affects, your thinking, and your emotional responses. Just as your thoughts and emotions are reflected in, and affect, your posture, and your other physical responses.

Chinese Medicine excels (amongst other things), at articulating in detail, the many and varied connections, between physical, mental, and emotional, functioning and health. Meaningfully interacting with those connections, between mind, body, emotions, thoughts, and energy, is central to each of the therapies I offer.

It is that shared characteristic between all of the therapeutic approaches I offer that makes it possible for me to creatively, and productively integrate these different approaches, in whichever ways will most usefully help you realise your treatment goals.

Integrate • To unite what is disconnected forming a new, and more functionally capable whole.