All Bodies Wellbeing

Over 3000 calories burned and a lot of hard graft today, but extremely pleased to say that I passed my practical assessment with Strength and Conditioning Education

This means I am now a fully qualified Level 4 coach which includes training in

Couldn't have done it without the support and guidance of Lee Chichester Strength & Conditioning and a lot of my clients who have been my willing guinea pigs to practice on.

Another string to my bow as well as helping to build a stronger body as I head into my 50th year!! 💪💪💪

Am i done training or what's next you might ask?

Level 1 British Weightlifting Qualification of course!! 🏋‍♂️😂

Such a lovely couple of days away in with Olive exploring all it has to offer.

In case it helps anyone dealing with grief and loss. So much is still unknown about why we experience what we do and in such different ways.

The biology of sadness is relatively well researched. The experience of sadness is not. From a behavioural perspective, one of the most interesting observations is that grief appears to be the price of attachment.

When someone important to us dies, the brain is not simply processing an abstract concept of death. It is responding to the sudden absence of a relationship that has become embedded within our nervous system.

The brain has spent days, months, or years predicting the presence of that individual. Then suddenly they are gone. The brain continues to search for them.

Neuroscientists sometimes describe grief as a prediction error. Your brain expects a dog to be waiting at the door or a person to answer a phone call. When reality contradicts those expectations, a profound state of distress occurs. The same regions involved in emotional pain overlap significantly with areas involved in physical pain.

We often debate whether animals feel grief, sadness, disappointment, love, fear, jealousy, or loss. But if we are honest, we cannot directly access our own subjective experience either. I can tell you which brain regions become active when you cry. I cannot tell you why losing one being feels different from losing another.

The conscious brain may understand death. It may understand the medical facts but another part of the brain is responding to the loss of a relationship. And that system does not necessarily respond to logic.

Crying is one of the least understood phenomena. Humans are the only species known to produce emotional tears. Animals produce tears to lubricate their eyes, but emotional crying appears uniquely human.

We know crying involves activation of the autonomic nervous system, hormonal changes, and limbic structures. What we do not know is why emotional overload specifically results in tears. We can describe the mechanism. We cannot fully explain the purpose.

Some theories suggest tears evolved as a social signal. Others suggest crying helps regulate physiological arousal. Some researchers argue it may simply be a by product of emotional circuitry becoming overwhelmed. The truth is we still don't know.

Roll overs, roll ups, rolling like a ball - but also the same moves but more with the The Garuda Method repertoire

A key part of movement practice is to have fun, and the body with different movement directions and ranges - helps defy the aging process!!

This is how things can go in a 1:1 movement session with me - forget the plan sometimes and just explore movement.

Client feedback "I love it" "over 10 years on and moving better for it"

What a pleasing message and photo I got from a client yesterday after a conversation about

He left his appointment with me, saying it's probably a stretch too far for him to get his feet on the grass, then later this arrives in my messages.

Mission accomplished!

Not sure how much he enjoyed it, but it's a start!!

gives us a whole host of health benefits, with your feet on the earth you pull the electrons into the body which can help reduce chronic inflammation and aid recovery.

So why not try it??!!