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06Dec2016
The challenge of christmas and why therapy may be the answer
Most people usually identify themselves with regard to job positions – what they do and where they live. This came into my mind as every auto rickshaw tuc-tuc driver during my India trip had a great way to build rapport quickly!” Hello, where you from, what’s your name, you have job, where your family?” Even […]
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07Nov2016
Y the C word? Using yoga therapy to help patients with cancer
‘Come on, Spas: be kinder to cancer patients’ is the headline of an article written by Susan d’Arcy in the Sunday Times (28/8/16). She writes that it is shocking that a recent survey of 97% of UK spas and salons would refuse to treat someone diagnosed ill with cancer to a massage. In contradiction to […]
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07Nov2016
A psychotherapist’s observations; living yoga in India
Awake. listening to chanting and singing coming from outside the house. Too indistinct for me to know if it was within the Christian, Muslim or Hindu housing. Taken an earlier stroll to activate the systems of the body, along the port seashore, 6am. My norm to be there by 6.45 latest. Surprise! Not the usual […]
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06Nov2016
Why mindfulness is integral to couples counselling
In therapy, clients frequently remark “I didn’t know what I was going to talk about today”, In this regard, therapy is like mindfulness and yoga. How so? Because there is always something new to experience in awareness. The idea is to give up expectation and let whatever happens happen. This can accomplish more than was […]
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06Nov2016
Why would a psychotherapist teach yoga?
Asana means a state of being in which a person can remain physically and mentally steady, calm, quiet and comfortable. This is how I describe aspects of our work in psychotherapy bringing the client back into (or discovering) their own capacity for stability and regaining lost equilibrium. The mind and body are not separate entities. […]
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05Nov2016
A psychotherapist’s visit to India
From October until December, 2016, Jacqueline Pullan, will be living and working in Fort Cochi India. In this series, She discusses her personal and professional reasons for embarking on a journey that will further her understanding of the practical use of yoga in psychotherapy. In a country that has rural and city poverty and no […]
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04Nov2016
Why yoga enhances therapy for depression
Psychotherapy and yoga are processes of awareness. The purpose and intention in meeting is for the client to establish influence which is advantageous and beneficial. However, implicit in the concept of awareness is the acceptance of any thought, emotional feeling or physical sensation which comes uninvited to the mind. Depression is like chewing gum on […]
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04Nov2016
Yoga therapy, from Sheffield to Fort Cochi
Hello to clients past, present and those yet to be introduced! I arrived in Fort Cochin in the Indian state of Kerala on Tuesday 25th October on professional sabbatical. I’m here to learn more of the authentic process of yoga and how it enhances daily living. My interest is in part motivated by preparations to […]
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02Nov2016
Why psychotherapy must start with birth
We are moving towards a seasonal change which Americans call “Fall” and in Britain we name “Autumn”. The Garden Therapy Space now has small, light green apples falling onto the wildflowers and indenting the sandy soil. Through the changes in light, particularly for clients in the evening, the drawing in and fading daylight catches our […]
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01Nov2016
Being taken hostage and finding freedom
What makes a young man, not yet thirty years old, held prisoner by Isis in Syria, stay grateful? Daniel Rye was released from being hostage after 408 days during which he had been tortured, beaten and starved. A book by Puk Damsgard published by Atlantic Books (August 2016) reveals the horror of his life becoming […]
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