Harbor London are one of the world’s leading luxury mental health & addiction service companies and I feel very privileged to be a part of the team, working as a yoga and massage therapist on a 1-1 basis with their clients.
In this video I talk about interoception or body felt sense and how this is so important for those affected by poor mental health and addiction. Basically, the ability to be able to reconnect with your body and not solely rely on external sources to make ourselves feel good.
In our busy modern lives we do very little of what we are actually designed to do. We wake up, sit up, stand up and then sit down again (and then repeat this many times throughout the day) before lying down again for bed. We rarely side bend, back bend or twist.
One of the things I love about yoga is it gives me the feeling of movement I had as a child, the awareness of physical possibility, the freedom to move and play. When you have regained this freedom you don’t ever want to lose it again.