What is Integral Health?
Integral Health is Being in Flow with Your Life
The purpose of my life is to create a space of healing and discovery to enable you to become the highest version of yourself. And I do this for everyone, including myself. I love playing with the conscious and unconscious parts of our being, to integrate all the layers of our humanness for optimum health.
Integral Health is You at Your Best
Welcome! What brings you here? Are you tired? Are you in pain physically or emotionally? Would you like to know if you have any food sensitivities? Are you frustrated with niggling health issues that no one seems to know what to do about? Are you struggling with stress and overwhelm?
I have worked with Anxiety; Bloating; Depression; Digestive issues including IBS, Leaky Gut and Candida; Emotional Traumas and Phobias; Fatigue and Tiredness; Food Intolerances, Hay fever and other allergic reactions; Headaches and Migraines; Hormonal imbalances including, Thyroid issues, Adrenal Fatigue and Menstrual issues from puberty to menopause; Injuries old and new; Insomnia; Joint and Muscles pains including Backs, Neck, Shoulders, Hips and Knees; and Stress - to name just a few.
I, myself, have had at least one or other these issues at one time or another over the years and appreciate how frustrating and challenging they are to living an active and fulfilled life. Growing up I had all sorts of minor issues which were inexplicable to the doctors. I started getting headaches from about the age of 9 and this was put down to my eyes and puberty; I studied my O-levels and A-levels independently on my own and really stressed myself out, which triggered all sorts of symptoms including anxiety, depression and overwhelm and mysterious rashes. I was in and out of the doctors’ all the time and one day I overheard the doctor tell someone that I was a hypochondriac!
Integral Health is Optimum Wellbeing
I discovered Kinesiology by chance at a show where I was working in London and it was like the answer to my prayers – encompassing the entire being emotional, chemical and physical. My Kinesiologist explained to me that actually I had Candida overgrowth from the stress and the medications I had been taking. I had to change my diet for a short while and take some supplements and we addressed the underlying emotional issues. I was like a different person. The depression and overwhelm that I was barely aware I was holding lifted, which was a revelation; my digestive issues cleared; and the emotional baggage that I was carrying began to lighten. I remember coming home from one session as if I was walking on air. It continues to transform me to this day.
Integral Health is a Journey of Discovery
For me, healing is a journey – it can a very simple process but for most of us it takes a little while – after all we didn’t become unwell overnight. You may simply want to know if you are sensitive to certain foods, or you want the pain in your back to go away or you may want to know if your emotions are holding you back from achieving your potential. Your journey is unique to you and I let you lead – simple questions may have simple answers, though I also like to ask “Why?” Why do you have the pain? Why do you have the food sensitivity? And when you understand why – the “Aha!” moment - this is the point where true healing, letting go and transformation can occur.
Integral Health is Body, Heart and Mind in Balance
Integral Health goes beyond the notion that health is only in your body. Being in a state of dis-ease is more than physical symptoms, it is also your emotional, energetic and spiritual health. The physical and emotional symptoms are a gateway for deeper healing to clear out imbalances in all areas of your life. Usually the physical symptoms are a reflection of stresses and tensions in other parts of your life, and true healing occurs when all parts of your being are acknowledged and included. Sometimes the connections and links are obvious and sometimes they need some deeper digging to reveal themselves.
Integral Health is when your body, heart, mind and soul are in alignment, creating optimum health for living your lives to its fullest potential. We each have our own truth and path to Integral Health and I love holding the space for you to discover your own truth.
Integral Health Encompasses ALL Aspects of Your Life
I grew up in Auroville, and international township in South India, dedicated to Human Unity. Based on the principles of Integral Yoga – that All Life is Yoga and everything - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly - need to be acknowledge and included for a complete transformation and to move into a higher consciousness. It is not enough to live on a mountain and experience enlightenment in the solitude of a cave, but our purpose is to bring conscious awareness into everything that we do and are, to bring the light into the density of matter, right down to our very own cells.
Integral Health is the Highest Version of You
I use kinesiology to talk to the body to find out where the imbalances are and bring your biochemistry (food, organs and nutrition), your structure (muscles, bones, and joints), your emotions (past and present), and energy (meridians, chakras, and auras) into alignment so that your spirit can soar.
I have always known that my purpose in life is to help people. Though I have been a Kinesiology practitioner since 2004 I have been exploring healing modalities for nearly 30 years. My interest in healing began when I was very young. Throughout my teens I trained in massage, polarity therapy and took my Reiki Level 1 at sixteen. I even explored the possibility of becoming a nurse and took Human Biology as an A Level before embarking on a degree in Education to become a teacher. I have a Diploma in Kinesiology and am a Reiki Master. I have extensive experience and training with a variety of Kinesiology styles and techniques – many of which are promoted as standalone therapies such as Emotional Freedom Technique, Psych-K, Integrated Healing, Kinergetics, BioSET, etc. And I incorporate other modalities into my practice such as Bach Flower Remedies, Homeopathy, Nutritional Advice, Life Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming to name a few.
Your Journey to Integral Health Begins Here
In 2018 I qualified as a Kinesiology Instructor and have currently held a few workshops and introductory training days. Check out the School of Integral Health for details of upcoming courses, events and workshops.
I live in Stotfold with my husband and two teenage daughters and my life has a distinctly international theme to it. Born to a British mother and a Dutch father I had an interesting and experimental upbringing in Auroville. Auroville is an international township dedicated to Human Unity, in South India, where I go back to visit at least every two years and I am on the committee for Auroville International UK, a charity dedicated to providing information and support on and to Auroville. My family is filled with representatives from the UK, Holland, India, France, Canada, Sweden, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Guam. I am fortunate that my step-father is sailing slowly around the world on a catamaran and we fly out to visit him whenever possible to see and experience new places.