My Embodied Life

27/08/2025

From Pema's book "When Things Fall Apart", her best seller!
https://pemachodronfoundation.org/product/when-things-fall-apart-book/

27/08/2025

Have you experienced unusual mental and physical health symptoms post chicken pox / Covid flu / Step A? …

Just discovered the existence of this new collection of symptoms called PANS / PANDAS.

PANS and PANDAS are medical disorders with both physical and mental health symptoms. It is thought that they are caused by an abnormal immune or inflammatory response to common infections such as Strep A, Covid-19 and chickenpox. The trigger for PANDAS is always Strep A, whereas PANS can be caused by other viral or bacterial infections.

Welcome to PANS PANDAS UK. This is our For Families and Caregivers page.

27/05/2025

Join me Friday 6 June at The Space Community & Arts Centre, Oliveira do Hospital. This a new monthly session created for all curious minds and bodies.. finding ways to take up our space and feel our aliveness. Message me with any questions. Let me know if you want to come. See you there! Nicola

10/03/2025

Today - with all our mountain rain 🌧 lashing the window outside ..

I am championing those parts of us that ‘can’t be bothered, that feel too shy to complete that job or meet that person, that feels overwhelmed by bureaucracy’ that just needs to curl up like a cat and re-charge from within. 🔥 🐈‍⬛

Life can feel like hard work sometimes!

My Somatic Healing Practice helps you to reconnect with and support those softer and untended parts of yourself. So that can continue without over-riding.

Feel free to get in touch for a free 20-min chat. Link in bio.

19/02/2025

“When I dance I take up so much space, and I feel so free”

DANCE with US. CREATE with Us. Feel at HOME.

and I have been receiving some really touching feedback from our Cosmic Dance Spaces in Yarwell Village Hall. These all women dances are seasonal gatherings that come together about 5 times a year. Each one is special and each one is different from the last, because WE are all different each time we come.

The space is made up as a composite of all of us. WE CREATE. There is something very important about being part of something co-created; not laid on for you, not delivered to your door…. but something that you help to make for yourself and for other people.

Although this is a group experience, it also feels like an extension of the one to one work that I offer for individuals. People come for therapeutic somatic support, not because they want to ‘be fixed’ or ‘healed by someone’ but because they want to PARTICIPATE in, they want to be INVOLVED with, their own journey of discovery and of returning home to that FEELING of WHOLENESS that is innate in all of us.

If you would like to find out more about how I support people to feel more at home in their own body - feel free to have a look at my resources, join my MOVE with Me videos on FB and follow the link to book a free 25min chat. See you soon.

PS.. NEXT DANCE IS FRIDAY 25 APRIL

02/01/2025

Happy new year Yarwell dancers. and I are looking forward to dancing with you again d Saturday Feb 8 at 6.45pm in Yarwell Village Hall near Peterborough. Booking link to follow in bio….

07/12/2024

This observation is true for all kinds of therapeutic spaces and indeed it is great practice to familiarise ourselves with… what are our indicators or safety?

How do You notice “safety” In our own system?

If you have suffered from effects of chronic stress for long time.. your mind at very least, is primed to orientate toward danger or threat.

What’s it like to turn your attention to where feels just plain OK… or even better.. downright good? 😊

You can come and explore and expand your experience of feeling good in the body with a session of Zero Balancing Touch.
Message me for an informal chat, if you’d like to know more.

Clinics in Stamford, Lincs & Oliviera do Hospital, portugal
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09/10/2024

Tomorrow - THURSDAY 10th - is World Mental Health Day - to celebrate being well and feeling good. I'll be here - LIVE! for 15mins of gorgeous, awkward, longed-for, reluctant, grateful, relieved, emotional, connected, self-conscious, surrendered - mindful movement. Come As You Are. Let's get curious together.

05/10/2024

MY WEBSITE IS STILL OFFLINE NicolaBraybrookesmith.com….
Currently being transferred to new platform.

If you want to find out more about Somatic Trauma Resolution (S.E) or Process Bodywork (Zero Balancing & Visceral bodywork & Holistic Pulsing)

You can message me/ call me +351 965033069// + 44 7930 442639

I am available for online sessions worldwide & in-person session in Tábua,
Coimbra and Stamford, Lincs.

06/05/2024

13/04/2024

Today has been the balmiest of spring days - hinting at the heat of the Summer to come. It got me and Charlotte Milburn excited about the next Cosmic Dance Space (4 May) & the prospect of sharing the glorious lushness of their Quinta as we dance and unfurl our way into the rising energy of new life and vitality 🌸