Andrea Lakeman-Ford

10/01/2026

This simple humming breath helps calm a stressed nervous system.
When your nervous system is stressed your body produces adrenaline and cortisol, which over time cause inflammation in the body.

Practicing this breath technique twice a day for 5 minutes, once in the morning and once before bed will shift your nervous system out of stress and into rest and digest.
For 2 more ways to settle your nervous system comment ‘calm’ for my free calm reset.

09/01/2026

You don’t release fight or flight
by thinking differently. You release it
by working with the body.

This is the foundation of my 12 week programme, the release method.
We don’t force calm.
We don’t ignore symptoms.
We help the body feel safe enough to let go.

Step 1 :Awareness
Notice where your body is holding stress
Hips, chest, jaw, shoulders, feet
Fight or flight always leaves a physical trace.

Step 2:
Create safety before release
Your body will not release if it still feels
in danger.

Step 3: Release
Shaking.
Softening of muscles
Twitching.
Deeper breath.
This is your nervous system completing the stress cycle.

Comment ‘method’ to find out more about joining me in my 12 week programme to release stress & trauma from your body

09/01/2026

🌟NEW CLASS FOR SELSEY

Body Release is a gentle class focused on releasing stored stress and tension from the body.

Each session explores one specific body area using slow movement, stretching and guided breath techniques

✨ First class details:
Thursday 15th January
10:30–11:30
St Peter’s Church Hall

If you haven't been to one of my classes before, I'd love to give you a chance to try this session FREE.

Use the code 'FIRSTFREE' at checkout

👇Book here:
https://www.andrealakemanford.co.uk/event-details-registration/body-release

08/01/2026

1. Tight shoulders
Carrying stress in your shoulders indicates you are carrying responsibilty that isn’t all yours

2. Shallow or Restricted Breathing
Your body doesn’t feel safe enough to fully relax. Your nervous system is in fight or flight mode

3. A clenched jaw or tight face
You’ve been holding words in or putting on a brave face.

4. A tight or churning stomach
Your body is stuck in worry or trying to “digest” too much at once.

Stress doesn’t just live in your mind it lives in your body.
To begin releasing it gently,
💬 comment RELEASE for my free Release Cards.

08/01/2026

50 spaces already snapped up for Monday’s body release workshop. These are normally £97 but I’m running this one free.
In the workshop I’ll show you the first step to releasing stress & trauma from your body
Want a seat? Comment ‘body’ and I’ll send you the link

07/01/2026

When you’re overwhelmed, your breath is the fastest way back into your body.

Slow and lengthen the exhale. Make it longer than your inhale. This shifts your nervous system out of fight & flight and into rest and digest .
For a free 10 minute guided video showing you two techniques to reduce overwhelm, comment ‘calm’.

06/01/2026

When you bite your tongue, don’t speak your truth or put on a brave face that supressing is held in your facial muscles.

Do this for 30 seconds to release stress and tension from your face. Consciously tense all your face muscles on an inhale and then relax and release on an exhale. Then relax and breathe gently through your nose

When you stay strong, keep the peace, or don’t say what you really feel, your face works hard to hide it.
Over time, that effort gets stored as tension.

During a release session, your nervous system may unwind that holding on its own.
Not because you forced it but because your body finally felt safe enough to stop performing.

This is how emotions move through the body.
👉To start the journey to releasing what you have been holding comment ‘body’ to join my free body release workshop.

02/01/2026

Every morning, my client woke up with:
a wave of doom
intense shakiness
racing thoughts
zero concentration

Her nervous system arousal score on waking?
5 out of 5. Every day.

So naturally, she tried:
analysing the feeling
bracing herself for the day
asking “why is this happening?”
mentally preparing for the worst
👉 Which only made her body fire faster.

We didn’t try to calm the symptoms.
We worked on micro regulation:
60–90 second practices
done twice a day
teaching her body how to downshift
No big routines. No overwhelm. Just consistency.

After 3 weeks:
Her waking hyperarousal dropped from 5/5 → 3/5
on multiple mornings each week.
That might sound small.
But in nervous system work that’s huge, especially when she’s had this response her whole life

Here’s the twist most people miss 👇
Her body wasn’t reacting anymore…
It was anticipating.
Her nervous system had learned:
“Morning = danger.”
So the response started before anything happened.

We stopped focusing on:
❌ anxiety
❌ shaking
❌ symptoms

And started working on one thing only:
👉 How safe her body feels the moment she wakes up.

If you’re ready to start your journey to a regulated nervous system, comment ‘release’ for my free nervous system release cards

02/01/2026

Wired but tired, gut issues, skin flare ups, unable to rest, unable to concentrate, unexplained muscle aches.

If you recognise any of these, I'm not surprised, these are symptoms my clients have presented with when they first came to work with me. They are how your body responds when your nervous system is dysregulated and unable to shift into rest and digest easily.

There are breathwork techniques that can shift our body very quickly into rest and digest.

Join me on Thursday 8th January at St Peters Church Hall in Selsey and I'll show you! Your first session is free

Click the link to book and use code 'FIRSTFREE' at checkout for your free class

https://www.andrealakemanford.co.uk/event-details-registration/restore-breathwork-2

A deeply soothing breathwork experience designed to melt away stress, calm your nervous system, and leave you feeling peaceful, grounded, and rebalanced.