Laura Shipp ND - Mind Body Gut Co

25/04/2026

Wishing my business bestie Nikki Emerton - Mind Body Gut Co a Very Hoppy Birthday today! 🥳

24/04/2026

As Spring gently ripens into early-Summer, we move into a season of brightness, expansion, and aliveness. The natural world is in full bloom, pulsing with vitality all around us.

It’s a beautiful time to celebrate connection, creativity, and pleasure. An open invitation to soften into the warmth of the sun and rediscover a sense of passion and joy.

Early-Summer carries a more outward, expressive energy, and when we tune into its rhythm, we can draw on a deep well of emotional richness, physical vitality, and spiritual nourishment.

Across traditions such as Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Wheel of the Year, this season has long been honoured as a celebration of life in its fullest expression.

If you’re feeling the shift, or simply curious about how to live more in tune with the season, I’ve shared more in my latest blog ✨

https://laurashipp.co.uk/blog/f/a-time-of-vitality-and-expansion?blogcategory=Traditional+Wisdom

23/04/2026

🚨 Final chance to attend this as a standalone workshop 🚨

The Sunder Process™ Training
📅 13 May | ⏰ 11am–1pm

This is the last time The Sunder Process™ will run as a standalone workshop before it becomes part of a larger training. If you’ve been considering learning it, this is your opportunity to join.

The Sunder Process™ blends the very best elements of NLP, Metapsychology (formerly MAT), and IEMT into one powerful core process. It can be used in several ways with clients, with optional add-ons you can apply depending on what your client needs.

The process is designed to bring balance to challenging relationships and support clients in letting go of anything that doesn’t belong to them.

It can be especially helpful if you work with clients who:

⚡️ Have a relationship that needs balancing
⚡️ Still feel energetically attached to an ex-partner or difficult family member
⚡️ Carry an imprint of someone from their past, including ancestral memory
⚡️ Hold outdated beliefs about themselves
⚡️ Have an ailment or condition that has become part of their identity

I have been successfully using and refining this process for the past five years. Results have been profound and feedback from those who have trained in it has been amazing.

During this workshop you’ll learn the full process and have the opportunity to practise it, so you leave with the confidence to begin using it with your own clients.

Prerequisite: Basic NLP training, including knowledge of the NLP decoding process. You will be asked to provide a certificate as evidence of your training.

If you haven’t yet trained in basic NLP techniques, you’re invited to join our Introduction to NLP for Coaches and Therapists first.

✨ If this work speaks to you and the clients you support, now is the time to join us. Seats are limited for this final standalone training.

Comment INFO or send a message to reserve your place.

22/04/2026

Our prerecorded Ignite Vitality programme is now available in our online store. It’s designed to gently guide you through to the Summer Solstice, filled with traditional wisdom and seasonal living tips - all for just £35!

🔥 Ignite your vitality and reconnect with the natural rhythm of your body 🔥

The Wheel of the Year offers a powerful way to live in sync with the seasons, drawing on ancient traditions that honour the earth’s cycles and our place within them. When we align with these rhythms, energy, clarity, and wellbeing naturally begin to flow.

Our prerecorded Wheel of the Year programmes are designed to help you do exactly that. Each one is a guided seasonal experience supporting your body, mind, and spirit while helping you live with greater intention, balance, and vitality.

Within each programme, you’ll receive:

🔥 A QuickStart Guide to help you set meaningful goals, explore seasonal living, and embrace nourishing foods
🔥 A 2-hour prerecorded session filled with naturopathic guidance, mindset support, seasonal practices, foraging insights, cooking demonstrations, Celtic lunar wisdom, and the Celtic Tree Calendar
🔥 Access to a supportive Facebook community for inspiration, guidance, and shared learning

Beltane invites you to celebrate life, creativity, and abundance. It’s a moment to awaken joy in the body, support circulation and energy, and reconnect with pleasure, connection, and aliveness.

Step into the season. Honour your body. Reignite your vitality.

Join us and begin your journey through the Wheel today.

https://mindbodygut.co.uk/shop/ols/products/ignite-vitality

21/04/2026

Look who is on page 133 of May’s edition of Somerset Life Magazine…

And keep an eye out for June’s edition too for something a bit different 😉

Aisling Magill Photography photo credited!

20/04/2026

Naturopathic Medicine is guided by six core principles:

1️⃣ First Do No Harm - using safe, gentle, and non-invasive therapies.
2️⃣ Identify and Treat* the Cause - looking beyond symptoms to understand the root of imbalance.
3️⃣ The Healing Power of Nature - trusting the body’s innate ability to heal.
4️⃣ Doctor as Teacher - empowering people with knowledge to take charge of their health.
5️⃣ Treat* the Whole Person - considering body, mind, and spirit, not just isolated symptoms.
6️⃣ Prevention - focusing on lifestyle, nutrition, and habits to prevent illness before it arises.

Over the next six weeks, I’ll be diving into each principle in more detail, exploring what they really mean and how they can be applied in everyday life. Stay tuned!

*As a Naturopath and Kinesiologist I do not diagnose or treat.

18/04/2026

Bluebell season marks a quiet shift in the seasons. One moment the ground is green, the next it’s covered in soft violet-blue.

As Beltane approaches, this is a time of building energy, not quite early-Spring, not fully Summer, but a point where growth is gathering pace.

Beltane is about vitality, creativity, and moving forward. Bluebells are a good reminder that growth can be steady and supported, not rushed.

As our energy begins to rise, let’s consider what’s going to help us keep grounded and supported.

If you can, take a walk among the bluebells this weekend and notice what’s starting to grow in your own life.

As for me I’ll be out of the door by 9am to go for a lovely long walk this morning 👣

17/04/2026

As a Kinesiologist, one of the questions I’m often asked is where Kinesiology comes from.

Applied Kinesiology was developed in the 1960s by the American chiropractor George Goodheart Jr. He discovered that muscles could provide important feedback about what was happening in the body. By gently testing muscles, he noticed connections between muscle strength, nerves, reflexes, movement patterns, and overall balance in the body.

This discovery opened up a whole new way of understanding how the body communicates. Instead of only looking at symptoms, practitioners began to look at how muscles respond, how the nervous system is functioning, and how the body adapts to stress.

Over time, these ideas spread beyond America and began influencing the development of Systematic Kinesiology here in the UK, by Brian Butler. I trained under his daughter Claire Muller to practitioner level. Then for my diploma Linda Belcher Healthcare through the Kinesiology Association. Plus various CPD courses with Terry Larder’s Classical Kinesiology Institute.

Many of the muscle testing techniques used in modern Kinesiology today have their roots in Applied Kinesiology. The approach helped shape how we assess balance in the body, by looking at muscles, reflex points, movement, posture, energy systems, and the way nerves support the whole structure.

What I love about Kinesiology is that it brings all of this together. Muscle testing allows us to listen to the body in a very practical way. It helps identify where support may be needed and guides the therapy towards restoring balance, strength, and better movement.

For me, Kinesiology is really about working with the body rather than against it, respecting the wisdom of the nervous system and the messages that our muscles can share.

16/04/2026

Beltane is a celebration of vitality, creativity, and joy, a time to reconnect with our bodies, our energy, and the natural world.

Laura & Nikki - Mind Body Gut Training Co’s Ignite Vitality programme supports you in harnessing this seasonal shift, helping you feel more energised, inspired, and aligned.

Through nourishing practices, mindset guidance, and seasonal rituals, we’ll guide you to awaken your creativity, embrace pleasure, and feel more alive.

If you’re ready to step into this energy, we’d love you to join us 🥰

Feel more in tune with nature, your body, and your energy all year round.

The Wheel of the Year is an ancient, beautiful way to live in rhythm with the earth’s cycles, guiding you through eight seasonal festivals that honour change, growth, rest, and renewal.

Our prerecorded programmes are designed to help you truly live each season, not just observe it. You’ll be supported to nourish your body, align your mindset, and embrace seasonal living in a way that feels grounded and inspiring.

Inside each programme, you’ll receive:

🌸 A QuickStart Guide to map your intentions, seasonal habits, and nourishment
🌸 A 2-hour immersive session with mindset guidance, naturopathic support, full moon practices, foraging wisdom, and cooking inspiration
🌸 Access to a supportive Facebook community for connection and guidance

We’re gearing up to celebrate Beltane, a time of vitality, fertility, joy, and abundance 🔥

This is your invitation to reconnect with your body, awaken your creativity, and embrace pleasure, energy, and aliveness.

If you’re ready to feel more connected, energised, and aligned with the seasons, this is for you.

https://mindbodygut.co.uk/shop/ols/products/ignite-vitality

15/04/2026

Are you ready to confidently support women through menopause with clarity, competence, and integrity?

The Optimal Menopause Practitioner Programme is a comprehensive training pathway for practitioners who want to deliver expert, evidence-informed menopause education and support. It’s designed for those who wish to become accredited facilitators of Laura & Nikki - Mind Body Gut Training Co’s menopause masterclasses and to feel fully equipped to hold this work with professionalism and confidence.

Before entering the accreditation process, completion of all 12 menopause masterclasses is required. This ensures everyone begins from the same depth of knowledge, shared clinical understanding and clear ethical framework.

Accreditation takes place across two half-day live online sessions.

Part 1 focuses on a structured content refresher and Q&A. We revisit the 10 core masterclasses (excluding practitioner-only sessions), walk through the full facilitator notes in detail, clarify delivery and scope, and address practical application. There is plenty of opportunity for live questions to help consolidate confidence and competence.

Part 2, held one week later, is a supportive group assessment. Practitioners deliver an abridged menopause masterclass in a small group setting and receive constructive feedback focused on clarity, accuracy and facilitation skills. The format is encouraging, professional and growth-oriented.

Accreditation includes full facilitator notes for every menopause masterclass and access to all presentation slides, with the option to personalise them by adding your own branding. Accredited practitioners are granted permission to deliver the masterclasses as group programmes or as individual client education.

You’ll gain access to a dedicated private Facebook group for peer support, discussion, and shared learning, along with optional group supervision opportunities for continued professional development and clinical reflection.

From a practical perspective, this programme is designed to be both clinically valuable and commercially sustainable. Even running just two group programmes per year with 6–8 participants, charging £100 per person, allows the accreditation to comfortably pay for itself within the first year.

Beyond group delivery, you can take individual clients through the programme within your 1:1 work, integrate the frameworks into your existing protocols, and confidently draw upon the education and support materials when creating personalised menopause care plans.

If you’re looking to expand your services while maintaining best practice and professional integrity, this pathway offers a clear, structured and supportive way to do exactly that.

If you’d like further details or have questions, please get in contact as I’d love to hear from you.

14/04/2026

We are in the season of movement, renewal, and gentle detoxification!

As nature wakes up, it’s the perfect time to support our liver and lymphatic system. One of the simplest ways to do that is rebounding.

Why rebounding in Spring?

🌱 The liver is traditionally associated with Spring and thrives on movement. Gentle bouncing helps stimulate circulation, supporting the body’s natural cleansing processes.
🌱 The lymphatic system relies on movement (not a pump like the heart). Rebounding encourages lymph flow, helping the body clear stagnation after Winter.
🌱 Just a few minutes can help boost energy, lighten that “sluggish” feeling, and support overall vitality.
🌱 It’s low-impact, joyful, and easy to fit into daily life, which is perfect for shaking off Winter heaviness.

Think of rebounding as a way to wake up our inner Spring, encouraging flow, balance, and renewal from the inside out.

Even 5-10 minutes a day can make a difference. Bounce gently, breathe deeply, and let your body do what it knows how to do best.

13/04/2026

Understanding the subtle bodies can help us achieve deeper healing, balance, and self-awareness. So, what are they, and how do they affect our everyday lives?

When we think about health and wellbeing, we often focus on the physical body - our muscles, organs, and biological systems. However, many ancient healing traditions, including Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and esoteric spiritual practices, recognise that we are much more than just our physical form. Beyond what we can see and touch, we have subtle bodies - energetic layers that influence our emotions, thoughts, and spiritual wellbeing.

Many traditions describe multiple layers of the subtle body, often seen as energetic sheaths surrounding the physical form. While different systems use varying names and numbers, one of the most widely recognised models describes seven subtle bodies, each corresponding to different aspects of our being.

Each layer of our being influences the others. A disturbance in one can ripple through all the layers, affecting overall wellbeing. For example:

🧡 Unresolved emotional pain (emotional body) can manifest as chronic illness (physical body).
💛 Negative thought patterns (mental body) can drain energy (etheric body), leading to fatigue.
💜 Ignoring our spiritual growth (causal body) can make us feel disconnected and purposeless.

When we work to balance and heal our subtle bodies, we create harmony in all aspects of our life - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

You can read more in my latest blog:

https://laurashipp.co.uk/blog/f/understanding-the-subtle-bodies