Majja Dhatu: Bone Marrow, Nervous Tissue
What does Ayurveda understand about the nervous system and what does it share with what modern neuroscience is only beginning to map? In this article I explore Majja Dhatu, the sixth of Ayurveda's seven tissue layers, which encompasses bone marrow, the brain, the spinal cord, and the nervous system as a unified intelligence, and what this ancient understanding reveals about the relationship between chronic stress, emotional experience, and the health of our deepest tissues.
Closing Your Eyes
I recently made a new batch of eye pillows for Yoga Nidra practice, the first time since 2018. For over twenty years I’ve intuitively known that the gentle weight helps the eyes and whole body relax. Now, through the lens of Polyvagal Theory and the oculocardiac reflex, I understand why this simple act sends such a powerful signal of safety to the nervous system, helping us down-regulate and enter deeper states of rest.
Allostatic Load: The Hidden Science of Burnout
Allostatic load is one of the clearest explanations I have come across for what actually happens in the body when chronic stress has been running for too long. It draws on neuroscience, stress physiology, and hormonal health, and once you understand it, burnout begins to make a different kind of sense.
Frozen Shoulder, Perimenopause & Somatic Support
I have been through frozen shoulder twice. What I have learned is that the connection between frozen shoulder, declining oestrogen during perimenopause, and the nervous system is profound — and largely unaddressed by conventional treatment. Here is what has actually helped me.
Slow Medicine
We live in a culture obsessed with fast fixes and optimised recovery. Slow medicine is a different proposition entirely — a philosophy of healing rooted in the understanding that the body heals on its own timeline, not ours. And that some things simply cannot be rushed
My Body Taught Me What Talk Therapy Could Not.
Embodied Processing is a gentle, body-based somatic therapy that works with the nervous system directly — helping to process stress, trauma and emotional overwhelm through awareness, movement and breath, without needing to retell or relive the story. Here is how it found me, and what it changed.
Yoga Therapy is not a Yoga Class
If you have ever felt that yoga is not for you, that you are too stiff, too unwell, too injured, or simply not the type , yoga therapy was made precisely for you. Here is what it actually is, what to expect, and why it is one of the most underused therapeutic tools available.
Sound and nervous system regulation
Sound is one of the oldest and most instinctive tools for nervous system regulation available to us — woven into the most primitive layers of our neurology. Here is what the science says about why sound affects us so deeply, and how to use it deliberately for healing.
Yoga as an ancient somatic practice?
Long before the term somatic therapy existed, yoga was doing exactly what somatic therapy does — working with the body from the inside out, building internal awareness, and supporting the integration of embodied experience. Here is why yoga is one of the oldest somatic practices we have.
The stress response, nervous system and the benefits of somatic movement.
Movement like yoga, breathwork, gentle shaking and grounding can signal safety in the body, discharge stress hormones, and shift the nervous system out of chronic activation. Here is what is actually happening physiologically — and why movement is one of the most powerful regulatory tools available.
The Vagus Nerve
The vagus nerve is the longest nerve in the body and the primary pathway of the parasympathetic nervous system. Understanding it and learning how to work with it directly through somatic practice, breath and movement can change everything about how you approach nervous system health.
Somatic Movement & Therapy for Women
Somatic movement therapy is especially powerful for women navigating perimenopause and menopause — supporting the whole person, body, mind and nervous system, during one of the most significant transitions of a woman's life. Here is why, and what it can offer.