Friday, July 29, 2022

 Reviews are always personal, but what is more personal than a review is the patient's own experience of pain.


Pain is personal


You know how the saying goes, ‘a problem shared, is a problem halved’. 

As a society we often train people to work through the pain, look past it, ignore it

The main conundrum here is if you choose to not address the actual pain, the pain will not halve but multiply until your life comes to a standstill. 


Living with pain is debilitating & overwhelming 


The ego attached to pain wants to be so right about the pain, the ego wants us to have it, eat it, sleep with it, and get absorbed by it. 


Yes, even pain has an ego


Pain, physical pain is so rarely talked of, because if we are honest we believe that we should be  stronger, push through, try harder, push push push….


Look up pain in the dictionary, it lists similar words - suffering, agony, affliction, torture, torment, discomfort, on and on…torture, let that sink in for a moment.


Pain is not borne from nothing, and that is the beauty of unraveling your body and the world it resides in through somatic yoga. When you unravel pain beneath it is trauma, heartache, stress, anxiety etc etc

And if you don't address it, and you push your pained body too far, it drops onto the next rung of the pain ladder, and your next inevitable ‘gift’ to your body is actual sickness…


This client's pain had turned into sickness, dependency on medication, and a loss of the ecstasy that is life…


<For privacy purposes lets call our client M.V.>


The last few months have been a particularly difficult time for me reaching a low rung of the ladder, losing the will for anything even small pleasures in life, which was hard for someone of general high energy. 

With the weight of everything I started suffering from chronic acidity over the last few months with burning heat coursing through my abdomen and body.


It had become disabling, draining me of sleep, energy and appetite. 


The somatics yoga therapy has been a Divine intervention


From the early sessions it started to relieve the tension in my body, making me realise how physically tight and tense I’ve been holding myself for years. 

For a start I started to sleep better. Gradually on a deeper level, in the process of the breathing with love, which Hina constantly instills in you during the sessions, it started to shift my regular breathing pattern outside the sessions. As a result it began to infuse with the energy in my daily actions which are becoming more conscious with a flavour of calm. As we progressed, I felt and feel this energy transfusing into my deeper layers. 


After many years of trying to understand self love, I am finally feeling glimpses of it. 


At that turning point, the acidity started to reduce significantly, I am off the medication, sleeping better and my being is feeling calmer and finding it’s mojo again.. 


It is a work in progress


I am Eternally grateful Hina. Thank you so much.🙏



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