Date for your diary.. due to popular demand for Body Mind Connection – Kinsale Workshop

You’d be surprised how big a problem over-tightening abdominal and pelvic floor muscles is. Between women’s magazines (the massive emphasise on the ubiquitous 6 pack) and the increased awareness of the importance of pelvic floor exercises, suddenly it seems that every second patient is over-clenching…….everything.

Overly-tight muscles can lead to some pretty serious dysfunctional continence and postural problems. These problems are common presentations to Physiotherapists and one of the first, important things that we often do when patients present with any of these issues is to simply work on breath awareness.

Letting go of all tension and ‘holding’ the abdominals, the shoulders, the neck, the head.

For different reasons, from time to time, we all breathe really badly. Paying attention to the breath can have a profound affect on the body. Tuning into ourselves using the breath is a sure fire way of slowing down your respiratory rate, heart rate, thinking mind, muscle tone. Relaxed breathing p patterns, balance organ function by opening blood vessel to carry oxygen to all organs for example, to aid digestion and absorption of nutrients from your food. For your brain, slowing your breathing rate has shown to have a profound affect on the parts of the mind that we can consciously connect with. Engaging with other parts of the brain is not new ground, its ‘mindfulness’ the new buzz, its always been there, people have always practiced it but not until now do we need it more than ever.

When stress and anxiety overwhelms you, cortisol and adrenaline floods through your body and your breathing becomes more shallow and fast – which can blow off more carbon dioxide and make you feel dizzy. Life has become very fast, disconnection, is the result.

So let’s take a moment out to reconnect and …….just breathe. Notice the breath and the depth of the breath. Notice the body and the weight of the bones. That’s taking us right back again to the bones. To explore more join us on Sunday 25th March for a 5 hour workshop in Kinsale.