The Body Talk Therapist

The Body Talk Therapist Yoga is meant for everyone and every body. In order to make this a reality it has been her dream to open a Yoga Clinic!

At The Body Talk Therapist, we believe the body is more than just a vessel – it’s a storyteller, carrying the echoes of past experiences and emotions, while also holding profound wisdom. True healing begins by listening closely to the subtle language of your body, interpreting its signals, and guiding you on a journey of deep transformation and self-discovery. Through a holistic approach that integrates evidence-based somatic and cognitive therapies, we honour the full depth and complexity of your being, bridging the connection between mind and body. Founded by Martine, a passionate psychotherapist and yogi and advocate for holistic trauma recovery and Ian a tech savvy, meditation and yoga lover. The Body Talk Therapist was born out of a deeply personal desire to understand and treat trauma in a way that delivers lasting results.

Burnout is often framed as doing too much or not managing time well enough.At a nervous system level, burnout reflects p...
11/01/2026

Burnout is often framed as doing too much or not managing time well enough.

At a nervous system level, burnout reflects prolonged disconnection from safety.

When the system never fully settles, rest stops being restorative. Burnout is not a failure of resilience. It is information.

Save for later.

What shifts when you meet your body with curiosity instead of criticism?
08/01/2026

What shifts when you meet your body with curiosity instead of criticism?

Talk therapy can be profoundly helpful. Understanding your patterns, your history, and your inner world matters.And yet ...
07/01/2026

Talk therapy can be profoundly helpful. Understanding your patterns, your history, and your inner world matters.

And yet many people reach a point where they understand everything but still feel reactive, tense, or stuck. This is not because therapy has failed. It is because trauma is not only stored in narrative memory.

Trauma lives in the nervous system. In breath patterns, muscle tension, reflexes, and protective responses that happen automatically.

Somatic work brings the body into the healing process so change does not rely on insight alone. It allows safety to be experienced rather than analysed. This is the foundation of the work inside Ignite and Illuminate.

Healing becomes more sustainable when the body is included.
DM PROGRAM for more information.

Regulation begins with your relationship to your body. Felt sense.One breath is enough.
04/01/2026

Regulation begins with your relationship to your body.
Felt sense.
One breath is enough.

Happy New Year 🤍As this year begins, I am not setting intentions or resolutions.I am pausing long enough to notice what ...
03/01/2026

Happy New Year 🤍

As this year begins, I am not setting intentions or resolutions.
I am pausing long enough to notice what is already here.

I am carrying forward what feels steady, honest, and alive in my body.
Letting go of what was shaped by urgency, over-holding, or old expectations.

I am stepping into 2026 with curiosity rather than certainty.
Trusting that clarity reveals itself through presence, not pressure.

This is a year for listening.
For paying attention to the signals beneath the noise.
For allowing the body to lead, and the mind to follow.

For honouring rest as intelligence.
For letting creativity emerge when there is space for it to breathe.
For choosing alignment over acceleration.

May this year support a slower kind of confidence.
The kind that comes from being connected to yourself.
From moving in rhythm with your nervous system, not against it.

As we begin, what is your body asking for more of this year?
What feels ready to be met, rather than pushed, in 2026?

If you’ve completed Ignite, you know the power of understanding your nervous system and building awareness of your inner...
03/01/2026

If you’ve completed Ignite, you know the power of understanding your nervous system and building awareness of your inner world.
But you’re ready for more, aren’t you?
You’re ready to move beyond insight into embodied transformation. To process what you’ve discovered. To integrate those ah-ha moments into lasting change.

That’s exactly what Illuminate offers.

This isn’t just the next step after Ignite - it’s where profound transformation meets deep embodied integration (actually becoming what you’ve learnt - moving from head to heart to living it out authentically).

Over 16 weeks, we’ll gently untangle the survival patterns that once served you but now limit you. We’ll meet the parts of yourself that have been hidden, and create new ways of relating to yourself, others, and life.
This is cyclical work. Healing unfolds in layers, and there’s no perfect pace - just your pace.
You’ll move through the material in a way that honours your nervous system and your capacity. Some weeks you’ll dive deep. Others, you’ll pause and integrate.

Ready to go from hidden and healing to finally whole?

Link in bio for more details or comment ILLUMINATE below.

When clients present with ongoing physical symptoms, it can be tempting to focus on alignment, strength, or flexibility....
29/12/2025

When clients present with ongoing physical symptoms, it can be tempting to focus on alignment, strength, or flexibility.

From a trauma-informed perspective, the nervous system often plays a central role in how symptoms arise and persist. Yoga can offer meaningful support, but without attention to safety, pacing, and regulation, its impact can be limited.

Developing embodied awareness allows practitioners to respond to what the body is communicating rather than trying to move past it. This is a skill that deepens with practice and shapes how effective our work can be.

For many people, talking about trauma is only part of the healing process.The body often carries what words cannot yet r...
27/12/2025

For many people, talking about trauma is only part of the healing process.

The body often carries what words cannot yet reach, and this can show up as tension, numbness, anxiety, or a sense of disconnection.

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Healing was created as a gentle, self-paced six-week program to support this body-based layer of healing. It is designed to be used alongside therapy, offering simple practices that focus on choice, safety, and listening to your body rather than pushing it.

There is no expectation to perform, stretch, or achieve anything.
Each practice invites you to move slowly, notice sensations, and reconnect with a sense of agency in your body.

Many people find this work supportive when they are already doing therapeutic work and want a way to continue building regulation, grounding, and presence between sessions.

This program is offered as an adjunctive support, allowing you to engage at your own pace, in your own space, and in a way that respects your nervous system. Comment HEALING to get more information.

It is incredibly common to reach a point in healing where you understand your story clearly, yet your body still reacts....
26/12/2025

It is incredibly common to reach a point in healing where you understand your story clearly, yet your body still reacts. This can be deeply frustrating and can quickly turn into self-blame.

But your nervous system did not learn through insight. It learned through experience. Long before language, your body developed patterns that helped you survive what was overwhelming, unsafe, or unpredictable.

So when something in the present carries even a small echo of past threat, your body responds automatically. Not because you are broken. Not because healing is not working. But because your system is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Somatic work does not try to override this intelligence. It works slowly and respectfully with the body so safety can be felt, not just understood. Over time, the nervous system learns that now is different.

Nothing about this process needs to be rushed.

If you’ve ever wondered why you know your limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviours, but can’t seem to shake them…...
25/12/2025

If you’ve ever wondered why you know your limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviours, but can’t seem to shake them… it’s because awareness alone isn’t enough.

Your nervous system is still responding on autopilot.

That’s why the Ignite Program (the entry program and pathway to Illuminate) is designed to take you deeper than mindset work and into the body, where lasting transformation actually happens.

💫 Over 3 weeks you’ll:

+ Clear the hidden blocks and survival patterns that have been sabotaging your progress.
+ Ground into safety so your body learns it’s no longer stuck in fight-or-flight.
+ Rewire old responses into new patterns that support freedom, presence, and ease.
Because “trying harder” to change isn’t working.

You need to try something different. You need to give your body the tools and practices it needs to finally let go, so you can stop repeating the same cycles and start living from a place of alignment.

👉 Ready to transform not just what you believe, but how you live? Comment IGNITE and we’ll send you some more info.





Many people make sense of their experiences cognitively and still notice patterns in their body that have not shifted.Th...
23/12/2025

Many people make sense of their experiences cognitively and still notice patterns in their body that have not shifted.

This is not a sign that healing has failed. Your body often holds experience in sensation, posture, breath, and rhythm, especially when something was overwhelming or unsupported at the time.

Change does not always come from more insight. It often begins with creating enough safety to listen.

The Ignite Program supports this process gently, helping people reconnect with their body’s signals at a pace that feels manageable and respectful.

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Earlier in my career, I believed that being a good therapist meant being strong, capable, and consistently available.I t...
21/12/2025

Earlier in my career, I believed that being a good therapist meant being strong, capable, and consistently available.

I thought it meant holding space without needing anything myself, staying regulated through effort, and relying on what I knew rather than what I felt. Over time, and through my own embodied work, I began to notice how much my body was working in the background.

How often I was bracing, tracking, managing, and pushing through subtle signals of fatigue or tension.

Learning to listen to my body changed my work in quiet but significant ways. It shifted how I pace sessions, how I respond to intensity, and how I stay present without overriding myself.

Embodiment has taught me that my nervous system is not separate from the therapeutic space. It shapes safety, attunement, and trust. This way of working feels slower, but it is also more precise and more sustainable.

It continues to remind me that depth does not come from doing more, but from listening carefully enough to what is already here.

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