Stress is inevitable, it’s how to cope with and metabolise it that matters.When working with dysregulated clients, often within dysregulated/stressed systems, it’s helpful to learn how to respond adaptively to our external and internal environment. We can’t necessarily alleviate the causes of stress which are usually systemic & historical, but we can recognise, understand and alleviate its here and now effects in the therapeutic encounter, with colleagues, and in our own body-minds. In my experience (and research) there are simple, accessible, cross-cultural ways to expand our ability to be like the oak tree; rooted, connected, strong AND flexible. This involves both top down and bottom up skills to develop our embodied capacities to feel and be safe which is the basis of attuned therapeutic relationship.
Kate Binnie is an HCPC registered music therapist (Bristol, 2005) and also a yoga therapist & mindfulness teacher with an MSc in palliative care from the Cicely Saunders Institute (King’s College London). Primarily a singer, I’m very interested in how breath and body-work (bottom up skills) can support mental and physical wellbeing for everyone, with a particular clinical and research interest in lung conditions (I runs support groups for Asthma + Lung UK and the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation). I’m doing a part-time PhD at the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the Hull York Medical School funded by UKRI, exploring breathlessness and emotional regulation in people living with lung disease. My website: www.katebinnieyoga.co.uk
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