Neuro-Somatics London

06/05/2025

Do you have travel sickness?

Travel sickness is crap. People who are affected struggle sitting in a moving car watching out of the side window without feeling awful. This is happening to you because your senses (the vestibular and the visual) are giving your brain conflicting information about what is happening to your body. Are you still or are you moving??? As your brain is confused about what it's meant to do, it makes you sick to make sure you stop this confusing situation.
So why is this happening? The reason why this is happening is in the dysfunction of signals your brain gets from either your eyes or your balance system in the inner ear (or both). When you look out the window your eyes are doing two things. They are first engaged in a pursuit movement where they follow the view passing by, and then they jump back in a saccadic movement to start the pursuit again. If any of the oculomotor muscles (the small muscles that move your eye ball) are dysfunctional these movements won't happen smoothly and the brain will get dysfunctional signals from this part of the body. Equally, your vestibular or balance system can also be negatively affected and emit dysfunctional signals. This can be due to missed developmental stages in your motor development in your first year of life, or due to an impact on the head anytime during your life.
This is not necessarily something you have to live with though! Dysfunction can be detected and under-functioning muscles and vestibular bodies can be stimulated so they function better. Once everything works well, you will stop having the awful feeling when travelling.
Is this happening to you? Come and get your eyes and balance system checked!

Book at www.neuro-somatics.com or text me at 07772 815139

11/03/2025

What did you say?!…my kidney???

Many of you who have a regular movement practice heard about the Psoas muscle which is a deep muscle in the lower abdomen connecting the lumbar spine to your thigh bone. This muscle is part of your “powerhouse” as it has a crucial role in enabling you to walk, run and maintain an upright posture.
Now, the Psoas can be dysfunctional for different reasons. One of the causes is the kidney not being in the right place. What?! Yes, your kidney!
Your kidneys sit on your Psoas. If the kidney slides down from its normal position, it causes the Psoas to switch off.
It is not uncommon that I find this presentation in people who struggle with lower back, groin, hip and quad tightness and pain. The kidney can slide down for different reasons, e.g. rapid weight loss, chronic cough, physical trauma like a fall on the coccyx that pulls on the bladder which then pulls on the kidney, or prolonged or assisted labour can all lead to a ptosed (dropped down) kidney.
And what is the solution to this? To push it back into place:) Once it’s back in its place, the Psoas comes back online and fires well again instantaneously.
Come and get your organs checked! They cause a lot of your troubles.

Give me a call at 07772 815139 or check my website at www.neuro-somatics.com
See you soon!

03/03/2025

Last day of learning tomorrow in Ayr with the Barral Institute UK 💫

30/01/2025

Let’s talk about TATTOOS

Tattoos became a very common feature on people’s body. Some love them and cover their whole body with them, others like to have just one or two as a decorative (and often for them meaningful) addition to their appearance.
Few people know, however, how tattoos affect their nervous system and movement potential!
Tattoos are scars, people! In fact, hundreds of tiny scars on the skin which is our biggest organ. So having a tattoo done means, you will acquire a lot of dysfunctional nerve endings which then affect your muscle function negatively.
If you have a tattoo on your calf, for example, and were wondering why that leg always feels weaker, here is the answer: it’s because your tattoo is switching your muscles off. Once a muscle is not functional, your brain will start building compensation patterns to keep you moving, and this is why down the line symptoms start appearing.

The below picture is one of the many tattoos of my client who is an olympic weight lifter and coach. He also has a full chest and arm tattoo on his left side, and was wondering why his left shoulder is always unstable and weak and he cannot make a difference independent of how much he works on strengthening it. We spent quite some time treating all the dysfunction in his many tattoos to make his body move better again and to get his joint stability back.
If you have tattoos, especially if you have a regular movement practice, get those tattoos treated, otherwise you risk being injured and building dysfunctional patterns in your movement.

If you want to chat or book a session, get in touch with me at 07772815139.

Soft tissue therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Sports Massage, Scar therapy, Neuro Corrective therapy in Crouch End.

18/01/2025

A bit of relaxation in our break after discussing the anatomy of the rectum…

18/01/2025

My last day in training with the Barral Institute UK polishing my understading of the pelvic anatomy. This is the end of the visceral manipulation curriculum…new beginnings ahead.

I can’t wait to help more of you by applying the new techniques!
See you all back in the clinic next week💜

Ps: below is the illustration of the ligaments of the uterus:) great fun😂

12/01/2025

Sore quads after each run?

Are you wondering why your quads hurt like hell after your run even though you have been jogging regularly for years?
Every muscle in our body has a specific task and a specific time to switch on during a certain movement. Before our extremities can do their job however (and that means only the job they are meant to do and not more), our core has to create a stable base for that movement to happen. If the core is not switched on, your extremities will have to do far too much, and they won't like that!

So why is your core off even though you have been working on it, maybe you even have a visible six-pack?! WHAT?! Is this even possible??

Healthy (meaning functional!) muscles do not look like the ones you can see on body builders (good news for some?). A functional muscle feels juicy and soft with a certain vitality that you can feel when you touch one. Dysfunctional muscles are ropy or overly hard, and they do not feel alive.
Back to a functional core though...why is your core off??
Reasons for this can be manifold: you might have a muscle imbalance where some core muscles overwork for others that do not engange...but this is mostly a consequence of far more important factors that affect you at higher levels. These include hypersensitive nerve endings in scars, under-functioning areas of the brainstem, dysfunctional oculomotor (=eye moving) muscles or even restricted organs (which by the way is very common).

If this resonates with you and you feel you know what I am on about, come and get your core switched on!

Any questions, feel free to text me on 07772 81 51 39.

I look forward to seeing you!

10/01/2025

🌟New review in🌟

“Eva is a wonderful practitioner. She is deeply intuitive and her massages are restorative. Reducing tension whilst addressing more complex physical issues, she has a wide toolkit of practices that she combines to tailor to the individual needs of the client. I would not hesitate to recommend her.”

Thank you, Karen Philips🙏

04/01/2025

Feet Feet Feet

Let's start looking at our feet!
The foot & ankle is a complex structure that has 28 bones, 33 joints, 112 ligaments! Which means ...A LOT! These house an astonishing amount of sensory receptors - namely about 200,000 on each side. Therefore, a huge proportion of ALL sensory input from our whole body comes from this region.
This large amount of input from the feet informs the brain about movement, position, pressure, texture, temperature. Once these signals reach our brain via neural pathways, they stimulate new connections between specialised brain cells called neurons leading to improved balance, coordination as well as increased motor and cognitive function.
So when you stimulate your feet by moving, massage or walking barefooted on different surfaces, you are also stimulating your brain function! How cool is that!
Studies have shown massaging the feet leads to increased activity in brain regions associated with emotional processing and cognition.
So start becoming interested in your feet! Find those juicy lumps and massage them as they are telling you that some of your organs or cranial nerves in the brainstem need your attention!

Enjoy!

If this is talking to you and you want to improve your mobility, stability, balance (and as a consequence your general wellness), feel free to get in touch with me > Tel: 07772 815139.

04/01/2025

24/12/2024

🎄Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year to Everyone🎄

21/12/2024

This is not new but important. Emotional energy can reside anywhere in the body and anyone can train themselves to feel that energy. When I test a dysfunctional muscle during session it will show most of the time weakness. In case an emotional energy is behind the dysfunction, when I hold my hand above the area holding the emotion, this same muscle will become strong again…this is not woo-woo. This is how the nervous system and our physical and energetic body work together.
Emotions can make muscles, ligaments and other anatomical structures dysfunctional. Get yours released to get better physical function.
The body is amazing!

Emerging science suggests that the effects of trauma could be genetically passed down from one generation to another.

“If you feel you have been affected by a very traumatic, difficult, life-altering experience that your mother or father has had, there’s something to that,” says Rachel Yehuda, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience of trauma at Mount Sinai in New York. Her research points to a small epigenetic “signal” that a life-altering experience “doesn’t just die with you,” she says. “It has a life of its own afterwards in some form.”

Read more on what scientists are gathering about emotional trauma transcending generations: https://on.natgeo.com/3VLiaIF