Hypnotherapy, breathwork & Mind-body Coaching

What is Mind-Body Coaching?

Mind-Body Coaching is focused on your hopes and reaching your potential. The emphasis is not on advising or telling but on listening and bringing curiosity to what you long for.

Mind-Body (Somatic) coaching recognises the profound connection between our bodies and our minds. The term Somatic traces its roots to the ancient Greek word ‘Soma’ meaning the living body. It’s a way to tap into the body’s innate wisdom and acknowledge its role in shaping our physical, and emotional health and well-being.

Somatic coaching takes into account the whole body, how your brain, body and heart all work with your nervous system, rather than solely focusing on changing mindset or reframing thoughts. Somatics involves gaining insight into your internal experience – how you feel emotionally – with your external experience – how you physically feel. Our bodies hold immense wisdom outside of our minds because of its direct connection to our nervous system.

What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is a deeply relaxing experience, it takes you gently into theta brainwave states, where the conscious mind is more relaxed and less resistant and the subconscious mind is more suggestible to change and deeper insights. In a hypnotic state, you are more relaxed, less self-conscious and more open to new ideas. These changes in brain function can be used in a constructive way to alter thought patterns and so make behavioural change easier to achieve.

The combination of coaching to help you identify a positive way forward in your life, and hypnotherapy, using your subconscious to consolidate the changes you want to make, is very effective and I have seen the benefits of this for many years both in the clinic and online.

What is breathwork?

Breathwork is an umbrella term that describes many different forms of breathing techniques that give us different responses depending on our needs and how we feel. Breathwork is a powerful agent for change.

Mind-Body Coach, Sarah Stanley, focusses on exploring a range of breathing techniques that might help you with feeling stressed, overwhelmed or anxious. One of the ways she uses breathwork is to take you through a Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB) journey. It is a powerful method that promotes deep self-awareness and transformative healing. It’s a dynamic practice where you use a circular pattern of breathing, without pausing between the in and out breath. This rhythm creates changes in your body on every level.

This method of breathing is completely natural but we have learned to use our breath and our bodies to suppress our experiences. When we feel stressed, we often hold our breath and our bodies and over time this way of being starts to embed as tension and feeling disregulated.

The Breathwork journey is a healing modality that encompasses the mind and body connection. Our bodies are like filing cabinets and during our life we store both positive and negative emotions and memories deep within the body’s cells, Each journey is facilitated with your safety at the forefront, to guide you back and forth between sensations or experiences of both comfort and activation.

Using the breath in a conscious way can support your healing and bring a new awareness to your self and body to let go and release old behaviours, beliefs and emotions. In a world where we are encouraged to always think our way out of our challenges, we may not have considered how powerful breathwork can be to relieve stress and anxiety and promote a feeling of
calm and relaxation.

What is Rewind therapy

Sarah is a qualified Rewind Practitioner IARTT (The International Association for Rewind Trauma Therapy) trained by the originator David Muss.

Rewinding therapy has become internationally recognised as indispensable  to treat PTSD.