without trying How does the Alexander Technique help to restore good posture? Does your back get tired from trying to stand or sit up straight? We can show you what to do instead of trying to do it right. If it were as simple as pulling yourself up by a golden thread, and putting you chin in and shoulders back – you’d be sorted by now. Even when you try to have good posture, do you notice you are slumping and slouching again a moment later? That’s because you haven’t changed your habits. The Alexander Technique offers a different approach to trying At Lucy Ascham’s Pain & Trauma Transforma ..read more

Stepping forwards / backwards / sideways – always let your knees go forwards first! Learn 3 great ways to look after your knees so they stay healthy, prevent them getting any worse, and even get much, much better! Do you dread car journeys with a bad back and sore knees – even as a passenger? Perhaps you struggle to go upstairs unless you are pulling yourself up (and the handrail half off)? Would you love to be able to rely on your knees as you sit and stand? I can help.   At Lucy Ascham, Pain & Transformation Solutions – one of the most common problems people come to me with – i ..read more

Learn 3 great ways to look after your knees so they stay healthy, prevent them getting any worse, and even get much, much better! Do you dread car journeys with a bad back and sore knees – even as a passenger? Perhaps you struggle to go upstairs unless you are pulling yourself up (and the handrail half off)? Would you love to be able to rely on your knees as you sit and stand? I can help.  At Lucy Ascham, Pain & Transformation Solutions – one of the most common problems people come to me with – is their knees. Sore knees, stiff knees, bad knees – they hurt and get in the way of h ..read more

The Representative’s experience – Jo Jo is studying in England, and comes from Asia.  I have tried to keep the essence of her words and changed a few for ease of reading.   People often experience new insights, different perspectives and a flow of emotions – I was blown away by all the changes Jo experienced on her first ever Constellation Workshop! Jo says: “I’m very glad to share my magical shifts after the Constellation Weekend Workshop.   A friend of mine invited me to come.  I had no previous experience of this work and came to Witness and per ..read more

The Alexander Technique is ‘the study of the conservation of energy for human beings’. Would you like to learn how to really rest so you can better heal and get your zest for life back? It is normal to be tired after working in the garden all day, climbing a hill or working all day and juggling family commitments too.  Often some self-care like having a soak in the bath and an early night will have you feeling better after a couple of nights. Fatigue is different. It’s like having rechargeable batteries that don’t hold their charge. Do you feel exhausted before you even get out ..read more

Let us begin Do you want to learn how to sit up well, without pain?   Do you want to know how to stand up without strain, wincing or holding your breath? To be able to bring compassion to yourself and your aching body? Do you wish your back would stop hurting so you can get on with your work, and your life? So many people take pain killers every day, curtail their hobbies or end up stiff, sore and sad at the end of each day with boring body pains. It doesn’t have to be like this.   If your back is painful and doesn’t feel strong – people spend £thousands on swanky ergonomic ..read more

One month after Jo’s first Constellation So, it is early on Sunday morning in Canada and part of what happened in my Family Constellation workshop in Sheffield a month ago, with Lucy, has landed in my body.  I am at a Compassionate Inquiry Conference with some amazing people, many of whom I respect enormously. I came to bed last night in the middle of the dancing, exhausted. I knew it was more than jet lag, but couldn’t name it, or feel it. I just knew I needed to listen to my body and stop.  Body sense and emotions Fast forward to 4am and there I was lying in bed with the ..read more

What brought you to this work Lucy? Family Constellations and Ancestral Healing   As some of you will know I now offer 3 healing modalities of working with pain and trauma.  Alexander Technique, Family Constellations and Resonant Language. Over the next few blogs, I’ll be sharing with you more about the deep therapeutic work called variously Family Constellations, Field Work in Russia, Systemic Constellations and Ancestral Healing.   A lot of names dealing with the same material and working with the Field.  The field connects us all – like air – the effects of thi ..read more

Winter is coming!  Do you feel it in your bones?  Here’s how to stay warmer, on your inside. Unless you’ve been on another planet recently, I am certain you’ll have heard, or felt, the effects, of our energy crisis and recession and fuel bills.  Yes, this is real.  And there is an element of choice for middle class English people, how much we expose ourselves to this grim news and its effects.  How much we dwell on the information or instead, we can process and work our way through the effects with self-care and warmth to ourselves. When we listen t ..read more

The Alexander Technique (AT) is a set of principles found in nature, in vertebrates, by FM Alexander some 150 years ago.  He was an actor who developed voice and breathing difficulties which were blighting his stage career in Melbourne, Australia. Through months of careful self-observation, he noticed a subtle and strong set of habits which meant that he was unconsciously interfering with his breathing.  He also pulled his head down which scrunched his spine – which meant his voice box couldn’t work properly either.  One habit was interconnected with the others. A ..read more