Helen Eadie Yoga

Helen Eadie Yoga Awakening and cultivating conscious awareness of how we are, and how we experience ourselves - moment to moment

Metaphors—whether visual or verbal—are among the most powerful ways to shift perception and bring an abstract idea into ...
27/08/2025

Metaphors—whether visual or verbal—are among the most powerful ways to shift perception and bring an abstract idea into an embodied experience.

It’s argued that all language is metaphorical, woven into our speech like an invisible thread, blinding us to the fact that we only ever understand something ‘as’ something else. In this sense, metaphor is quite unremarkable and ordinary, and hardly registers in our awareness.

However…metaphors that deepen our sense of embodiment have a distinct power. Moving us toward a greater feeling of depth and connection.

How is that?

Perhaps it’s because metaphor, along with emotional and social intelligence, bodily attunement, and an openness to novelty, is valued and strongly associated with the right hemisphere (unlike the left, which tends toward literalism, abstraction and stasis), and it is THAT which underwrites the ‘a-ha’ moments that alter our perception, change our perspective and deepen our consciousness; the fact that we are experiencing the part of our brain that permits a richer, unified, embodied reality.

Guess what the visual metaphor in this photo represents…



















If I could sum up my approach to movement, I would say it’s grounded in: Awareness, attunement, attention, connections, ...
26/07/2025

If I could sum up my approach to movement, I would say it’s grounded in:

Awareness, attunement, attention, connections, coordinations, curiosity, compassion, coherence, emergence, exploration, embodiment, enquiry, dynamics, depth, development, feeling, force transmission, health, healing, integration, intelligence (of body), listening, pathways, perception, patterns, process, pacing, qualities, relationality, roundedness, rhythm, regulation, resonance, subtlety, softness, soft strength, space, spirality, sensing, somatic, textures, trust, yielding, variation, wholeness

There’s something exquisite and deeply healing in simply sensing—without trying to put words to it or overlay it onto existing ideas.

And there’s something equally exquisite and healing in making meaning of your sensations through vocabulary and metaphor: when language, as a social tool, reaches deep within you, allowing a flowering of your inner experience—before reaching outward again, like an explorer returning from distant lands, eager to share the treasures they’ve found.

Somatic movement day retreat Sunday 14th September
Knepp Estate, West Sussex

🌱movement
🌱Nature
🌱Nourishing food
🌱Community
🌱Sauna
🌱Wild swim

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Prepping for a workshop on interoceptive awareness, its relationship to the right and left hemisphere, and how this give...
17/07/2025

Prepping for a workshop on interoceptive awareness, its relationship to the right and left hemisphere, and how this gives rise to perception AND perspective of who we are and how we see the world.

We need to sense our body AND make meaning of those sensations through frameworks and narratives. We need left-right, right-left, top-down, bottom-up; the coming together of oppositional forces to give rise to the creative act of becoming, experiencing, and interpreting the self in relationship to the world.

Look forward to exploring these ideas with and her tiny&vast cohort tomorrow ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

* Quote on image by Robert Shaw. Image designed by me, rendered by , and found in my contributing chapter to book ‘Myofascial Magic In Action’









As a body-centred practitioner did the topic of body image feature in any of your training curriculums; what it is exact...
30/01/2025

As a body-centred practitioner did the topic of body image feature in any of your training curriculums; what it is exactly, how its developed and maintained, and what role you might play in other’s body image?

I’d be surprised if it did, and yet, as body centred practitioners, we potentially have tremendous influence in how our clients think, feel, perceive, and behave towards their bodies. Bodily dissatisfaction is so prevalent in society that it’s termed ‘normative discontent’ in psychological discourse. But feeling detached, dissociated and disgusted with your body should NOT be accepted as the ‘norm’.

This press cutting of the ballerina who was body shamed by her teacher, leading to disordered eating and body dysmorphia is a sad, unacceptable, and unfortunately familiar tale of individuals both perpetuating and internalising socio-cultural body ideals.

Whilst causal direction on one level is clear (body shaming = body image disturbance), it must be said that body image is more complex and multi-faceted than appearance alone, for example trauma and developmental patterning can shape body image construction.

As practitioners whose teaching is not appearance-based, but focused on embodiment, not only can we potentially mitigate body image disturbance, we can also support the growth of positive body image which characteristics include self-compassion, bodily connection, dialogue, and agency.

My deep interest lies in the perceptual component of body image, and how interoception and proprioception influence our psychological relationship with our body. More importantly, I’m forever curious about HOW we can harness our perceptual skills to enhance positive body image and protect against body image disturbance.

If you’re a body centred practitioner of any modality, would you be interested in learning more about the subject of body image and the role we play as facilitators in helping people feel and experience their bodies? If so, please DM, comment, or share with those who you think might want to hear more.

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Flashback to 2 years ago writing my chapter for  book in the back of a taxi in Vietnam, putting those long travel times ...
19/01/2025

Flashback to 2 years ago writing my chapter for book in the back of a taxi in Vietnam, putting those long travel times to good use (Jo, I loved how we made that time work! 👊). Scroll to see my sketch and notes, which was then beautifully rendered into the final image for the book, thanks to ❤️

My chapter is about the congruency between interoceptive awareness, attentional style, and the fascia matrix; threads of experiential learning and education (received from some very wise souls) that I’m interpreting and weaving into a framework for cultivating embodiment and self-regulation. Super excited for where I might be taking this work next…

Please go get yourself a copy of this book.
is a trailblazer and generously brings her colleagues and mentors into the fold to offer diverse perspectives on the magic of fascia.

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Super excited to be offering some sauna time between movement practices on Septembers day retreat thanks to .sauna - wha...
05/05/2024

Super excited to be offering some sauna time between movement practices on Septembers day retreat thanks to .sauna - what a touch! Only 3 spots left…please DM or email me for more info. Haven’t updated my website yet 🙃 but what to expect:

🌿 2 movement sessions to unwind, unfurl, and invigorate
🌿 wild swimming
🌿 beautiful nature
🌿 sauna overlooking the water
🌿 delicious lunch and homemade treats

Sunday September 29th @ the Knepp Estate, West Sussex
£135 (or if sauna isn’t your thing £120)







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