Episode 09: Finding your health and healing anxiety. With Ian Wright.
Hello and welcome to another episode of the podcast «The breathing body». My name is Flurina and I am your host - and I am so happy that you are here.
YES we live in a world in which electronic devices rule our days and overstimulation often is our normal state! A high percentage of our society is suffering with various anxiety disorders, including the very young children - it seems that we lost our natural rhythmic connection to nature, inside and outside us, and rather than celebrating our connection to the wholeness we are, we despair in separation.
And YES, this is a world in which self-empowerment is so important and we need tools and resources which support us to change this state of overstimulation and anxiety. And this is what today's episode is all about:
Ian and I talked about his newest book «Healing anxiety» and how we can actively and consciously use our breath to rewire our brains and heal anxiety - and even more and deeper find back and reorientate to your own health - which means to connect to the natural process of unfolding - a force and gesture which was and is always present in all of us, right form the start of our journey as a conceptus in our mother s womb.
My colleague and friend Ian graduated from the British School of Osteopathy in 1992 and has been practicing as an Osteopath since. He studied and later taught at the Osteopathic Center for Children in London - he has further been involved in teaching Osteopathy in the Cranial field for the Sutherland Cranial College as well as the British School of Osteopathy. Today Ian is based in Ireland where he set up his own clinic and established the Irish Diploma in Paediatric Osteopathy whilst he continues to teach internationally. The Irish diploma in paediatric osteopathy involved setting up «The Daisy clinic trust» - a charity with the dual purposes of treating children with special needs and training osteopaths in paediatrics. For more than 10 years Ian has also been teaching a course called «The Dynamics of stillness» which teaches osteopaths and non-osteopaths a sequence of meditations, contemplation practices and exercises designed to deepen sensory awareness. Behind each technique, he describes, is a process of developing a deeper and deeper connection to the stillness in and around us, alongside connection with the deep fluid tides of nature and, importantly to the expression of our underlying potential for deep Health.
In this conversation with Ian we talked about:
… how we can use our breath to restore our fundmental connection to health …
… and experience empowerment about our own health through this healing experience.
… what the job of an osteopath is which is to support a patient to access their own health potential
… what healing means to Ian
… Ian`s new book «Healing anxiety» and what happens with your brain structurally if you suffer anxiety for a long time …
… that anxiety is born from a sense of disconnection and separation from wholeness
… and the self-empowering practices Ian is teaching offering an active practices to rewire the brain and reorientate ourselves to health
I am looking forward reading your thoughts and comments about it on instagram or Facebook or any podcast platform you are listening from at the moment, tell me what did you take from this episode and how did it inspire your path and journey. I would be delighted to hear from you what is your unique resource you engage with, to rejuvenate, to feel safe, to be with you - let us all inspire each other and share - what support you might support him or her as well.
Love,
Flurina
More information about Ian's work:
You can find all about Ian's work on his webpage www.dynamicsofstillness.com
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