Unity Physiotherapy & Wellbeing

Unity Physiotherapy & Wellbeing Providing trauma informed fatigue & pain specialist physiotherapy & integrative somatic wellbeong.

Specialist Physiotherapist & Integrative Somatic Practitioner. The services offered are tailored to each person and integrate life coaching, NLP, compassionate mind training & other compassion practices, principles of acceptance and commitment therapy, somatics and yoga into physiotherapy and all of my work. I offer an 8 week online workshop series for people with any condition associated with pain/fatigue/anxiety and a variety of other workshops. I can also offer support for people in the workplace, both to help employers understand how to support people with persistent pain, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, long covid, and PoTS, and to create a trauma-informed compassionate workplace culture, as well as offering packages of care to help people manage the condition they are living with and to be able to thrive in the workplace.

01/11/2025

💫 A new poem — an invitation to connect through poetry.

My meditations, somatic/yoga practices, and reflections this month, and throughout this year — a year of deep shifts & integration — have led me deeper into pure awareness. I’ve captured some of this through poetry — it’s evolved into a mini series.

When we soften enough to feel it, there’s a quiet current that rises through the body and flows beyond it — not to escape, but to remind us that we belong to the whole. Rooted and open, soft and strong — awake within the greater rhythm.

💚 I would love to hear how this resonated with you, and what helps you connect to the deep rhythm beneath busyness and noise.

I’ll share another poem from this series tomorrow.

🌿 As October draws to a close, I’ve been reflecting on Wholeness — my word for the month.Wholeness is about being, not d...
31/10/2025

🌿 As October draws to a close, I’ve been reflecting on Wholeness — my word for the month.

Wholeness is about being, not doing. I see it in layers: from being whole ourselves, through awareness of the interconnectedness, to pure awareness — samadhi. In yoga, we are always seen as whole. The Sanskrit root means to yoke or unite — a reminder that we are inherently part of all that is.

It’s a deep connectedness to all that is, a sense of aliveness, a rhythm — a living pulse. It’s stillness & movement, holding and letting go.

Wholeness connects to natures seasons & the end & flow within them. This season of falling leaves & soft light reminds me:
* We expand a little even as we rest, like branches reaching upward. Contraction & expansion are always happening — less expansion in autumn & winter
* We can shine even as we turn inward, in more being & less doing.
* We can trust the pulse of life moving through us — strong, soft, & interconnected.

This month one of the ways this word has supported me is connecting to a deep strength on & off my yoga mat.
You may recall I’ve been exploring soft strength for some time — a sustainable, grounded strength — and this felt like a deep integration of this.

In my work, I support people to reconnect with a sense of wholeness — especially when life or chronic illness makes it feel distant. My own daily practices deeply inform this work, blending experiential with training & study.

In meditation, I’ve been repeating a simple mantra: deeply rooted, open, aligned, alight, connected, being. Lately it has shifted to include strong & confident (following mat-based yoga practice), awakening a deep vitality within me.

These meditations, yoga practices, and reflections throughout the year — a year of deep shifts & integration — have led me deeper into pure awareness. I’ve captured some of this in poems: I shared one last weekend, I’ll share another this weekend & I’ve linked one in the comments.

As we move into November, I’m gently holding the focus on wholeness, staying attuned to the rhythm as it unfolds.

✨ Listen to the poem & let it land. I’d love to hear what wholeness means to you, and how the poem resonates.

🌿 Aliveness is more than we thinkBeneath all the noise and striving, there’s a quiet pulse — a rhythm of aliveness that’...
29/10/2025

🌿 Aliveness is more than we think

Beneath all the noise and striving, there’s a quiet pulse — a rhythm of aliveness that’s steady, nourishing, and whole.

It’s the same pulse that breathes the Earth, the same rhythm that moves through our breath and our being. When we slow down, we can feel it again — the subtle current of life reminding us: “you belong, you are alive.”

Aliveness is about being fully awake, fully aware, able to feel the whole of life in a sustainable way.

It isn’t just excitement or pleasure — it’s the full spectrum of sensations, emotions, and presence that remind us we’re really here.

What I call embodied vitality is one aspect of aliveness — a sustainable rhythm that guides and nourishes us when we slow down enough to listen.

For many of us, the speed of modern life, societal norms, expectations, and constant use of technology pulls us away from this natural rhythm. For those living with chronic illness or trauma, the sense of embodied vitality can sometimes feel almost lost.

Lately, I’ve been exploring embodied vitality more deeply — as a grounded, sustainable aliveness that supports regulation, flow, and the full experience of being human. It reconnects us to ourselves, our inner wisdom, and the wider rhythms of life.

It’s not about chasing peaks or fleeting highs — those bursts of energy that soon fade. Instead, about attuning to the quiet, steady pulse thats always here beneath everything. You might sense it in the scent of rain, a hug, a moment in nature, or an action that aligns with your core values.

It’s both an anchor and a gateway — to what some might call life force, prana, loving presence or a deep sense of wholeness.

🌿 Next year, I’m considering hosting a workshop to explore this more deeply. Would reconnecting with your embodied, sustainable vitality — and discovering how it supports feeling fully alive —resonate with you?

26/10/2025

🌿 A Deep Pulse of Life: Flowing through Awareness & Presence

A new poem, born from this month’s meditations and yoga practices, and the deeper shifts of the year — a meditative, gently playful exploration of energy, connection, presence, and pure awareness.

Tracing the currents of energy within and around us, it moves through breath, heart, and the subtle threads connecting all life.

It invites you to notice the rhythm of inner and outer flow, to sense the pulse of awareness, and to explore presence in a soft, expansive way.

I wrote another poem alongside this one, deeply connected, which I’ll share with reflections on my word of the month at the end of the week.

I’d love to hear how the words of this poem land for you — feel free to share your reflections.

🌿 Embodied Compassion & Nervous System RegulationAfter reflecting on the rhythm of strength and softness in movement and...
24/10/2025

🌿 Embodied Compassion & Nervous System Regulation

After reflecting on the rhythm of strength and softness in movement and breath this week (see yesterday’s post), I’m reminded how deeply our bodies hold and express compassionate presence, resilience, and connection. Compassion isn’t just a motivation — it’s something we feel and cultivate in the body.

One framework I use to explore this is the Three Circles Model from Compassion-Focused Therapy. It supports awareness, emotional regulation, nervous system regulation — helping us notice when we’re in our threat, drive, or soothing systems and aiming for balance between them. The green soothing circle modulates the threat system and a threat-based drive. It is linked to the rest and digest response, supporting safety, groundedness, and connection — providing a foundation for compassionate awareness & action.

In our society, the threat system is often overactive — leaving us overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected from what’s meaningful. Exploring what matters to us, as I discussed in my post about values earlier this week, can help bring us back toward balance.

In my 8-week Embodied Compassion workshops, we’ll explore the Three Circles Model and learn to apply it in daily life. Through theory, awareness, somatic compassion practices and reflections, participants will:�💚 Cultivate awareness of their nervous system and emotional states�💚 Strengthen the soothing system to support regulation, groundedness compassion, connection & resilience
💚 Soothe the inner critic �💚 Build a personal toolkit of compassionate practices to navigate challenges & support flourishing
💚 Develop awareness and skills to support setting and holding compassionate boundaries�💚 Connect with what’s meaningful and embody compassion in everyday life

✨ Ready to begin your journey towards embodied compassion, embodied self-connection, and grounded presence? Get in touch for more info and/or to book your free pre booking call to see if the workshops feel like a good fit. Early bird discount ends in 3 weeks!

📌 You can find a link in the comments for more info and to book your free pre-booking call.

🌿 Rooted, Aligned, and Strong — a yoga practice during my admin day.My Sankalpa — I am strong and confident — wove itsel...
23/10/2025

🌿 Rooted, Aligned, and Strong — a yoga practice during my admin day.

My Sankalpa — I am strong and confident — wove itself through today’s practice, blending with a mantra that arose as I moved.

As I moved, it became more than words.�🌳 Deeply rooted
✨ Open
💚 Aligned
🔥 Alight
💪🏻 Strong
💫 Confident
🙏🏻 Connected to the wholeness of everything.

With each breath, I felt strength not as force, but as grounded, presence. I was practicing from soothing-drive rather than threat-drive — a place of balance and compassion.
�Visualisation and mantra merged — balance deepened, focus sharpened, body and breath moved as one. My heartbeat rose to meet the challenge, then settled again — a softening, re-regulating, steadying — reminding me of the body’s quiet wisdom and my healing journey.

There was a rhythm to it — a rising and settling, groudnedness in motion, steadiness in stillness. Moments of effort, of letting go, of pausing — then rising again. The balance of effort and ease (Sthira & Sukham) within the universal flow.

In stillness at the end, I felt it again — the quiet strength that rises when we soften. There is such power in stillness, in breath, in connection.

💭 Where in your life can you let strength unfold within the rhythm — rising, softening, pausing, and rising again?

— — — — — — — — — — — — — —

Within the rise and fall
A glowing heart holds its strength
Energy hums softly

— — — — — — — — — — — — — —

🌿Planning 2026: Compassionate, Trauma-Informed, and Embodied Wellbeing Offerings Today is a non-clinical day — I’m worki...
23/10/2025

🌿Planning 2026: Compassionate, Trauma-Informed, and Embodied Wellbeing Offerings

Today is a non-clinical day — I’m working on my 8-week Embodied Compassion Workshop series starting in January and beginning to plan other online group offerings for next year.

💭 I’d love to hear what resonates with you.

I offer:
✨ Pre-planned workshops open to everyone
✨ Bespoke workshops for groups of friends or colleagues
✨ Talks and trainings for workplaces and services wanting to become more compassionate and trauma-informed —supporting staff wellbeing, sustainability, and better service user outcomes.

My workshops and talks weave together:
* Trauma-informed principles & practices
* Compassionate Mind Training (from CFT)
* Nervous system regulation
* Functional breathwork (including Buteyko Method)
* Yoga, Yoga Nidra & somatic/embodiment practices
* Coaching, NLP, ACT & IFS principles (my work is IFS informed)
* Lived & professional experience, combined with evidenced-based practice

💭 I’d love to know — what would you most like to attend next year?
* A breathwork series grounded in normal respiratory physiology
* Deep restorative rest through gentle embodied movement and Yoga Nidra
* Cultivating compassion and self-kindness
* Exploring living in alignment with your values
* Setting and holding boundaries
* Developing a toolkit of embodied practices to help you navigate challenges and flourish
* A restorative retreat
* Bringing compassion and trauma-informed care into your workplace (at every level)
* Something else?

If you work in healthcare or another helping profession and would like your service or team to become more trauma-informed and compassionate, that’s something I’m deeply passionate about supporting.

With nearly 2 decades of experience, thousands of hours of training, and long standing personal practice, I love sharing this work in ways that meet people where they are and help them reconnect to their own wisdom — and the collective wisdom we all share.

✨ I’d love to hear from you — share your preferences in the comments, or email me if you’d prefer. You’re also welcome to email about bespoke workshops for your group or organisation.

🌿 You can find out more about the Embodied Compassion workshops and my other offerings via the links in the comments.

🌿 Bridging Who We Were to Who We’re Becoming  There are times in life that upend who we thought we were.  This commonly ...
22/10/2025

🌿 Bridging Who We Were to Who We’re Becoming

There are times in life that upend who we thought we were. This commonly happens when living with ME/CFS & other chronic illnesses.

Our identity has many layers. Transitions at different times in life can impact multiple layers & take us into the deeper ones — info something bigger than the ‘I’.

Living with chronic illness often brings multiple losses across many aspects of life. Who we thought we were can seem to disappear, leaving us feeling lost and unsure of ourselves. There can feel like no bridge between who we were and who we hope to be. It’s a vulnerable place to be and can contribute to an over stimulated threat system.

Reconnecting to the wholeness of ourselves and the interconnectedness of everything is important in healing — individually and collectively. This takes time to explore and understand.

Exploring our values can help us begin to build a bridge to a new sense of self. The bridge takes time — there’s no set timeframe, no right or wrong way to create it.

Connecting to our values brings clarity to what’s most meaningful and how we want to show up for ourselves, others, and the world. They guide our actions toward what matters, helping us reform a sense of meaning, purpose and self — even when so much feels lost.

Time and time again, I’ve witnessed the power of somatic-based values work. Recently, someone who felt they’d lost themselves — unsure who they were beyond the identity of being unwell —shared that after exploring values together, they felt empowered, hopeful, and more whole. I noticed them light up several times as we explored, paused, and noticed together. Witnessing people’s energy shift and land more fully in their bodies as they reconnect with what’s meaningful is such a privilege.

If you’re navigating a shifting sense of self, reflecting on what truly matters can be a compass — helping you reconnect to meaning, purpose, and the person you’re becoming. You could begin by asking:
💭 If I were to bottle the deeply meaningful moments, what would be there?
💭 What qualities do I wish to embody to live my values and show up for myself and others as I’d like to?

If you have ME/CFS or Long Covid with ME symptoms have a look at the survey below to see if you would like to take part.
21/10/2025

If you have ME/CFS or Long Covid with ME symptoms have a look at the survey below to see if you would like to take part.

A free online menopause event if you live in Lincolnshire
20/10/2025

A free online menopause event if you live in Lincolnshire

Join the free Virtual NHS Menopause Workshop on Friday 28 November, from 6.00pm to 7.30pm, hosted by NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board and delivered by Dr Narmatha Kangeyan, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at ULHT.

Learn about menopause symptoms, treatment options, and HRT, and have your questions answered live. The session is open to everyone in Lincolnshire and can be joined anonymously from any internet-enabled device. Read more https://lincolnshire.icb.nhs.uk/virtual-menopause-workshops/

Book your free place ⬇️
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/nhslincolnshireintegratedcareboard/1890496

💜 Today is World Menopause DayMenopause and perimenopause can bring a wide range of changes — it’s about much more than ...
18/10/2025

💜 Today is World Menopause Day

Menopause and perimenopause can bring a wide range of changes — it’s about much more than hot flashes (and these aren’t always present either). Common symptoms include brain fog, anxiety, fatigue, joint and/or muscle pain, sleep disturbance and mood changes. These can all affect daily function, overall wellbeing and quality of life.

It’s important to remember that not every symptom is due to menopause — vitamin or mineral deficiencies, stress, trauma, or new health conditions may play and role and need consideration.

Sometimes people are misdiagnosed with another condition when it’s actually menopause — and of course, it can be both. There’s a lot of overlap between symptoms of fibromyalgia and ME/CFS, and menopause.

The sympathetic nervous system often becomes upregulated during this time, which is one reason why nervous system regulation practices can be supportive.

Some aspects that are less often talked about include menopausal rhinitis, changes in breathing patterns, and the increased risk of sleep apnoea.

Breathwork is an important part of my personal practices and a big support during menopause, along with yoga, somatic and embodiment practices, meditation, mindfulness-based practices, and self-compassion. These are all important parts of my work as a Specialist Physiotherapist & Integrative Somatic Therapist.

Menopause can be challenging — as I know personally — and these approaches have all supported me and those I work with, alongside the basics like a good sleep routine and balanced nutrition. Also, HRT, which currently needs a little adjusting.

Before diving into yogic or other breathwork practices, it’s important to understand and restore normal, efficient breathing (I shared a short post series about breathwork and breathing efficiency a little while ago). This is where Buteyko Method comes in — helping to regulate the nervous system, restore breathing efficiency, and ease symptoms such as anxiety and hot flashes. Having trained as a Buteyko Breathing Instructor, I integrate this into my work.

If you’d like to learn more about Buteyko and menopause, there’s a free webinar today with Buteyko Clinic International at 1pm — link in the comments.

🌿 If you’d like to explore whether working with me could support you on your menopause journey please reach out.

Sharing in case this free event is of interest tomorrow.  There is a free menopause jigsaw guide for signing up.  If you...
17/10/2025

Sharing in case this free event is of interest tomorrow. There is a free menopause jigsaw guide for signing up. If you can’t attend live there will be a recording.

Link to register https://oxygenadvantage.com/world-menopause-day-2025/

Menopause changes everything.
🔹 Up to 85% of women report cognitive struggles like mental fog.
🔹 60% battle insomnia, sometimes for years.
🔹 Nearly 50% experience shortness of breath, panic, or rapid breathing.
🔹 And 75% of women say hot flashes hit harder when stress is high.
These are not just symptoms — they’re signals from your nervous system.
But here’s the good news: you can change the channel.
🧘‍♀️ Functional breathing is scientifically proven to:
✔ Reduce hot flashes by 44%
✔ Improve sleep quality by 34%
✔ Lower anxiety by 30%
✔ Boost energy + focus by up to 25%

🌟 Join us for World Menopause Day 2025 — a live panel event exploring how lifestyle tools like breath, movement, and mindset can help you reclaim calm, clarity, and connection.
📅 Saturday, October 18th | ⏰ 1PM UK / 8AM US Eastern
🧩 Hosted by Dr. Louise Oliver with expert guests from Oxygen Advantage® + Buteyko Clinic
🎁 Includes free Menopause Jigsaw Guide (available after the event)
👉 Sign up now

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