Simonays - Stress Management Consultant

23/09/2025

Where do you notice stress popping up in your life. Muscular tension, brain fog, shortened temper, rumination, bad dreams, high blood pressure, chronic health condition flares, cravings, fatigue? Feel free to add to the list with your own observations, but also, feel free to do something about it.
Thursday:
*4.00pm - 4.45pm & 5.00pm - 5.45pm available for private breath and bodywork ($149pp, discount available for students, seniors )
*6.15pm - 7pm Reset & relax class ($15pp, limited availability)
*7.15 - 8pm Big breath class ($15pp, places available)
*8.30pm -9.15pm Virtual Chill Pill, Zoom class ($15 or what you can/want, places available).
Face to face classes at 21 Main Rd, Bakery Hill (in The Hub)
*Bring what you might need to feel comfortable - yoga mats, bolsters, cushions, blankets, tissues, drink bottles, and journals welcome.
Message or contact 0419181869 to book and receive payment and/or Zoom links
www.simonays.com

20/09/2025

The intelligence of the breath is amazing. It not only responds to everything that is happening to and around us, but integrates information from past experiences as well. This means it predicts our future needs too.

Although these predictions usually serve us well, with the intention of keeping us alive and safe, occasionally they can overshoot the mark and cause a few issues.

Another amazing thing about the breath, is that we can, to some degree, take over the controls when the rest of our being feels we need to. This gives us an element of choice in how respond to the world. In order to change it though, we must be aware of it.

As breathwork guru Dan Brule suggests, 'we can't change how we feel without the breath changing and we can't change our breath without changing how we feel'. This means that we can change the way we feel, the way we 'show up', by consciously changing the breath!

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15/09/2025

'I really should do this', or 'should have done that', are pretty common themes in our depleting self-talk and rumination. Have you ever stopped to wonder if some of our shoulds and should haves actually serve us? Are they expectations of the past and obligations for the future that reflect our authentic selves, or are they based on our many and complex layers of conditioning and experience that have shaped who we think we should be for something or someone other than ourselves?
How might it feel to put down your should manual for awhile, in a supportive space and just be?
Join us on Thursday's to spend a little time to give it a go.
Thursday:
*4.00pm - 4.45pm & 5.00pm - 5.45pm available for private breath and bodywork ($149pp, discount available for students, seniors )
*6.15pm - 7pm Reset & relax class ($15pp, limited availability)
*7.15 - 8pm Big breath class ($15pp, places available)
*8.30pm -9.15pm Virtual Chill Pill, Zoom class ($15 or what you can/want, places available).
Face to face classes at 21 Main Rd, Bakery Hill (in The Hub)
*Bring what you might need to feel comfortable - yoga mats, bolsters, cushions, blankets, tissues, drink bottles, and journals welcome.
Message or contact 0419181869 to book and receive payment and/or Zoom links
www.simonays.com

13/09/2025

These sessions are a great opportunity to learn some of the physiology behind breathwork and introspective practices. This foundation will support you to build your own toolkit of practices to support your nervous system as a performer. Even if you are not a performer per se, but are called upon to use elements of performance at work or in life (public speaking, ad libbing, interpersonalsupport etc), the skills you learn are sure to be useful.

Stress Management & Performance Development Workshops, with Simon Carroll Stressed out? Overwhelmed? Looking for ways to manage 'stage fright' or 'nerves'? Keen to enhance your storytelling and performance toolkit? This workshop is for you! Develop a deeper understanding of the importance of breathi...

11/09/2025

If you are stuck in ''exam prep'' mode or just keen to experience a little of the practical group work I offer, why not drop into the Smythesdale Youth Market next weekend for a look and to experience it for yourself?

Alongside stalls, games, performances and activities, we also have local businesses hosting workshops for young people.

Our first workshop of the day will be run by Simonays - Stress Management Consultant - a 45 minute breathwork, meditation and somatic workshop!

There will be so much for young people of all ages to see and do at the Smythesdale Youth Market!

We are still taking expressions of interest for performances and stallholders. Get in touch here: https://forms.office.com/r/sQpVTEYMtj

11/09/2025

No class tonight due to illness, sorry for any inconvenience!

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04/09/2025

As wellbeing and breathworkers, we often discuss the role of the CO2/O2 balance as a contributor to illness. Chronic stress can lead to overbreathing, which in turn alters this balance, also altering our ph levels, and impacting on blood flow in the brain. Research is showing there is much more to it.
Neutrophils flooding the brain is an inflammatory process, it's also one that is front and centre in auto-immune conditions in general.
We live in stressful times and there is a possibility that some hormetic practices, including using the breath and a range of other somatic techniques can help in the management of chronic stress.
I truly believe they are worth exploring.

A new study shows that chronic stress causes immune cells called neutrophils to leave bone marrow in the skull and collect in the brain’s protective membranes, where they contribute to depressive symptoms.

01/09/2025

What's occupying your thoughts? That's not a question for answering, but simply for noticing. Sometimes thoughts are helpful, sometimes they are not. Sometimes they are true and sometimes they are just the residue of what our nervous systems are processing. We often try to stop them, but that's like trying to stop the wind. Sometimes being with them but not buying into them, and gently, non-judgementally, and curiously redirecting our attention to the sensations we are feeling can be a better use of our energy.
Join us on Thursday's to spend a little time relaxing into our bodies while our thoughts do their things.
Thursday:
*4.00pm - 4.45pm & 5.00pm - 5.45pm available for private breath and bodywork ($149pp, discount available for students, seniors )
*6.15pm - 7pm Reset & relax class ($15pp, limited availability)
*7.15 - 8pm Big breath class ($15pp, places available)
*8.30pm -9.15pm Virtual Chill Pill, Zoom class ($15 or what you can/want, places available).
Face to face classes at 21 Main Rd, Bakery Hill (in The Hub)
*Bring what you might need to feel comfortable - yoga mats, bolsters, cushions, blankets, tissues, drink bottles, and journals welcome.
Message or contact 0419181869 to book and receive payment and/or Zoom links

29/08/2025

Looking forward to delivering these workshops at BPAC in a few short weeks.

Stress Management & Performance Development Workshops, with Simon Carroll Stressed out? Overwhelmed? Looking for ways to manage 'stage fright' or 'nerves'? Keen to enhance your storytelling and performance toolkit? This workshop is for you! Develop a deeper understanding of the importance of breathi...

27/08/2025

In case you weren't already aware, music and manipulation of the breath can have some powerful effects!
https://neurosciencenews.com/breathwork-music-bliss-brain-29627/

25/08/2025

All tension has a purpose, but not all tension serves your purpose!

Often it's purpose is to protect you from something that happened once. Often though, that thing isn't happening now but the patterns of tension (physical, mental, emotional) remain. Sometimes we don't even know they're there, but they signal to the rest of our systems that there is something needing to be defended against, thus perpetuating more tension.

While we make no promises for a tension 'factory reset', we'll certainly explore some key areas of tension and invite them to release.

Thursday:
*4.00pm - 4.45pm & 5.00pm - 5.45pm available for private breath and bodywork ($149pp, discount available for students, seniors )
*6.15pm - 7pm Reset & relax class ($15pp, limited availability)
*7.15 - 8pm Big breath class ($15pp, places available)
*8.30pm -9.15pm Virtual Chill Pill, Zoom class ($15 or what you can/want, places available).
Face to face classes at 21 Main Rd, Bakery Hill (in The Hub)
*Bring what you might need to feel comfortable - yoga mats, bolsters, cushions, blankets, tissues, drink bottles, and journals welcome.
Message or contact 0419181869 to book and receive payment and/or Zoom links