Body College

Changing the body changes how we think, feel and remember

Steve Haines — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:37:00 +0000

From my mid-20s onwards, the question ‘how do we feel?’ has been a fascination for me. How do we construct our experience? What are our beliefs and how does that affect our experience of our bodies? Volunteering with people with learning difficulties and then working full time in mental health radically changed my worldview. After […]

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Five Ways That Trauma and Tension Releasing Exercises (TRE) Can Help to Heal Trauma

Steve Haines — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:33:10 +0000

Shaking can release long-held tension patterns and promote new feelings of connection and ease. It is a novel stimulus to the central nervous system. New stimuli, approached with safety and curiosity, can support learning and growth. TRE®, Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises, are a simple set of exercises that trigger a natural shaking reflex in […]

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The smartest thing in the room is the intelligence in the body

Steve Haines — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:58:19 +0000

There is an intelligence and self-regulating principle at the heart of the human experience. Our bodies are always striving for health and trying to optimize their balance, and they do that very intelligently. There are millions of years of evolution behind the processes and flows and movements in the body. I’m a bodyworker, and although […]

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The Power of Relational Touch: my most powerful result with Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

Steve Haines — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:14:41 +0000

One of the strongest results I’ve had using Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy was with a stressed lawyer, who’d come with acute/chronic shoulder pain. It was so bad that she couldn’t drive anymore, and could only work part-time, but she was a very busy, and very successful lawyer. She’d been working with physiotherapists, a homeopath, and another […]

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The Power of Presence in Bodywork

Steve Haines — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:47:50 +0000

Just being there is no small thing. When we are present with someone’s expressions of their life force, there’s a profound effect created that brings about healing. When you experience this, a wonderful healing takes place and there is a natural relief of your suffering. This can be so profound that you have physical sensations […]

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Five Ways to Prevent Injury (or Recover More Easily)

Steve Haines — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:57:06 +0000

One: Too Much Load Can Lead to Injury People who are not sleeping, or resting, who are managing lots of stress, are emotionally out of balance and whose nutrition is poor are more likely to experience pain and get injured. When people are training they often are very focused on the mechanical loads in the […]

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Is embodiment a key tool for managing anxiety?

Steve Haines — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:04:30 +0000

Helping people with anxiety has traditionally been seen as the territory of mental health professionals. Anxiety is most commonly framed as a psychological problem. My clinical experience for over twenty years has been that by safely connecting to the body, people become less anxious. Embodiment is a key tool to slow down feelings of anxiety […]

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Most people dissociate, most of the time

Steve Haines — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:56:21 +0000

As a young child, one of my clients learnt to dissociate when her parents were arguing. When I first started treating her, and didn’t understand the dissociation model I now work with, we both thought the sessions were productive because she consistently reported a warm, floating quality. A space where her body did not constrain […]

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Feeling is hard. Let’s make it simple

Steve Haines — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:40:36 +0000

Feeling is hard. My aim is to make it simple I’m a passionate and persistent champion of embodiment. As a bodyworker, all my work is aimed at supporting people to find health and happiness by connecting to the body. Whatever has happened to you, whatever your belief systems on energy and souls, there is the […]

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Being sensitive may be how we become less sensitive

Steve Haines — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:57:35 +0000

When we’re looking to reduce pain and anxiety, developing skills and words about how to interact with the feeling states inside you is really important. In this blog, I’m going to explore the art of feeling, and how we can get better at learning how to manage intense feelings. Recent science is helping us develop […]

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