WELCOME
I am Michelle Holdaway (MSTAT AKFRP) an experienced teacher of the Alexander Technique. An Advanced Kinesiologist and Matrix Energetics Practitioner, as well as a Reconnective Healing practitioner.
MY SERVICES
My services range from the more traditional, practical/physical aspects of dealing with stress, injury, trauma and personal well-being to the emotional, mental and spiritual/energetic side of personal growth and development.
Complementary & Alternative Therapies
All of the therapies I offer are those which I used in depth during my recovery from a life-changing car accident.
Each one, at the time I first came across them, felt absolutely right for me to experience, enjoy and benefit from. Whether taken individually or combined, they can pave the way to true healing – at the very core of your being.
As time passes, resistance and tension can lesson, freeing up energy for change. This is turn can enhance any choices you may wish to make in any aspect of your life. Experiencing life with joy is truly possible for anyone.
Alexander Technique
Originally from Montreal, Canada, I have been living in the UK for over 35 years now. During my employment for a major computer company, I was involved in a head-on car collision.
This resulted in a broken vertebra in my lower spine, causing an overall alteration in my spinal alignment. After two years of physiotherapy and osteopathic sessions and numerous hospital visits, I was not experiencing the results in my rehabilitation that was ‘expected’.
Whilst those therapies undoubtedly helped me to recover,to some degree, I felt that in order to progress, I would need to seek a different more all inclusive way. That is how I first came across the Alexander Technique. At that time, I had lost my office job because sitting for the whole day was too much for my back to handle. This led me to think about methods in which I could improve my sitting.
After a few sessions, i immediately felt better, my overall discomfort and pain eased up a bit. I kept going for the ‘better feeling’ and continued with more lessons. I discovered that the Alexander Technique was so much more than just a therapy to improve my posture. I began to consider becoming a teacher of this common-sense sense practical approach to doing things, so rather than go back to the life I had before, I started my training as a teacher in January 1993.
All of the therapies I offer are those which I used in depth during my recovery from a life-changing car accident.
Each one, at the time I first came across them, felt absolutely right for me to experience, enjoy and benefit from. Whether taken individually or combined, they can pave the way to true healing – at the very coreplease remove other of your being. As time passes, resistance and tension lesson, freeing up energy for better health and can clarify and enhance any choices you may wish to make – experiencing life with joy is truly possible for anyone.
Therapies and complementary medicine
Through the beginning years of training and working as an Alexander Technique teacher, I came across numerous other alternative therapies. These further helped my back pain as well as ensuing related hip issues. I became specialised in many of these and decided to incorporate into my own business and personal rehabilitation. Some of these are shown here on my website
I am not going to over-exaggerate the effects these therapies had on my back trauma. It has taken me until recently to regain almost the same level of mobility I had before the accident. The remainder I put down to the fact that I have gotten older. I have also delved into the occasional negative, victim and pessimistic feelings I have had alongside the pain.
But as things are now, I am really pleased and so very grateful for the experience and this journey. FM Alexander always said that we cannot separate the mental, emotional and physical from any form of human activity. Indeed they are inextricably bound together. I have since also discovered that our biology is a result from our biography.
This short video from ‘The Institute of HeartMath’ helps to explain. One can understand the importance and significance of the heart’s intuitive intelligence – something freely available to us. Awareness and presence can significantly help.
There is transformational power within each of us: we each have our own self healing ability.
Because of this, with the methods I offer, I can assist you as the individual you are, to start realising this. We are all unique. Whilst the symptoms showing in many people may be common, their networking is most certainly individual and unique to them, having experienced their their lives in the way they have.