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 A page particularly for those new to this area.
Individual exploration and suggestions/feedback are encouraged.
 
It all starts with the Breath:
 
Many cultures have breath work techniques for regulation. Here are some pranayamas from yogic traditions (lots of videos are available online):
  • Viloma/Interrupted breath (step wise in and out)
  • Bhramari/humming bee (block ears, hum whilst slowly exhaling ~ focus thoughts on vibration in head). (Particularly good for panic attacks)
  • Ujjayi/anger control (gentle glottis tightening w back of throat whispering). Hold at full inspiration (ideally felt right down to the pelvis) then long slow breath out. Useful for process work too
  • Nadi Shodhana/alternate nostril
 
‘Vu’: Somatic Experiencing Founder Peter Levine’s vagal nerve regulating sound, not dissimilar to ‘Ohm’ – or if you ride a motorbike or drive a classic car then one can also imagine and try to replicate the abdominal hum that that creates:
  • The base of vagal nerve ‘Vu’ exercise (a big breath in as low as possible in the abdomen then slowly out saying ‘Vu’ and focussing on that area.)
 
We are ultimately aiming for a regular, unconcious pattern of 'pelvic floor' breathing - where the respiratory diagphragm is in coordination with the pelvic one, indicating that the organs and connective tissue of the whole torso are integrated.
 
Other ANS stabilisation/exploration techniques/practices/practitioners:
 
Accupuncture
 
Alexander Technique

Art Therapy

Clinical Somatics (Hanna tradition)
Recommended: Wai Ying Tham (somatic movement educator with a background in trauma-informed meditative enquiry and restorative yoga). Brunswick West, reconnectstudio.com.au
 
Craniosacral therapies
Recommended: Josh Neeft (who has a physiotherapy and podiatry background and also does visceral manipulative therapy). South Melbourne, Esolab and Thornbury, Inner North Physiotherapy
 
Dance/embodied mediation such as 5 Rhythms
In particular recommended (both also do one on one incorporating other modalities):
Lucine Eusani. 5RhythmswithLucine
Natalie Poole. Twirling Wolf
Sylvie Minot. Syzygydanceproject
 
Emotional acting

Equine therapy
 
Feldenkrais
Recommended: Lisa Campbell (who has a physiotherapy background and is also trained in Somatic Experiencing™). Hampton, Bayside Feldenkrais. 
 
Floatation
Recommended: Beyond Rest
 
Intuitive Massage
Recommended: Amanda Arnott

Meditation (embodied)
 
Mindfulness (embodied)
 
Music/Sound therapy
Recommended: Annette Lunde. 
 
Qi Gong
 
Rolfing
Recommended: Meran Cassidy. Rolfing in Melbourne
 
Singing (particularly group singing)
Recommended: Glee Club Singing
 
T’ai Chi
 
Therapeutic Writing
 
Yoga (trauma informed)/ Yin
Recommended:
Alex Maxwell. Mellow Dharma
The team at Body Flow Yoga
Rochelle Fisher (A trained surgical dental nurse, Rochelle also does 1:1 sessions incorporating breathwork and chanting to additionally release tension in the lung, jaw and mouth areas). Yoga by Rochelle
 
 
Books/TEDs/other links of particular relevance to identity/esteem and ANS/emotional stabilisation work:
 
ADD/ADHD (high-functioning):
 
Gabor Maté
Scattered

Ceremony (the importance/power of):

Charles Eisenstein
Every Act a Cermony

Coping Strategies:

Siobhan Reddel (podcast)
Coping Strategies


Emotions and exercises:
 
Karen McClaren
The Language of Emotions

Illness as an expression of disconnection/'dis-ease':

Yolande Lucire
Constructing RSI: Belief and Desire

Erwin van Meekeren
Starry Starry Night: Life and psychiatric history of Vincent van Gogh
 

Perspective/self exploration (and delusion)/connection with self:
 
Tony Moore
Cry of the damaged man.
(An Australian surgeon’s autobiographical account of recovering from trauma.)

Philip Shepherd
Radical Wholeness
 
Bronnie Ware
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

Mary Westmacott
Really any of 'her' novels.
(These are by Agatha Christie writing under a pseudonym around the period of her own existential crisis / fugue state.)
 

Sexual communication/exploration/consent:
 
Curious creatures: resources and workshops (Melbourne and online)


Shame:

Traumatic Stress Institute
Shame and attachment

Siobhan Reddel
On Shame in Modern Society and Medicine


Trauma Bonds:
 
Patrick J Carnes
The Betrayal Bond
 
Brenda Schaeffer
Is it Love or is it Addiction? 3rd Ed.
 

Trauma (physiology) specifically:
 
Peter Levine
In an Unspoken Voice
Trauma and Memory
Waking the Tiger
 
Bessel Van der Kolk
The Body Keeps the Score


​Vulnerability:
 
Brene Brown (TED talk)
The Power of Vulnerability


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