For many people, the physical effects of stress, anxiety, trauma and PTSD are as distressing and difficult to manage as the mental and emotional effects of these conditions. However, treatment approaches often neglect the fact that the body is in as much distress as the mind at times and that one certainly affects the other. While counselling and other talking treatments are so often transforming and necessary, working directly with the body in addition could lead to a greater level of recovery. Indeed some neuroscientists and psychologists now recognise that calming practices such as yoga, grounding body work, relaxation and mindfulness techniques and some touch therapy can alter the autonomic nervous system profoundly (regulating fight and flight mechanisms), influence hormonal production and stability and even change mood and negative thinking.  

 

Lucia's Light has been set up to teach and deliver highly adapted body based approaches that are calming (or enlivening if necessary), restorative, easy to practice and tailored both to specific conditions and you as an individual.