About Phill
Dr. Phillip Nash
I lived with chronic pain for many years and experienced many bodywork modalities on my own healing journey.
Many teachers have shaped my approach to and understanding of working with the human body.
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My bodywork approach
I work slow and as deep as the body increasingly allows, with presence, total immersion and flow: using sensations in my fingertips to sense patterns of tension within the body, and equanimous observation to help tensions release.
But I don’t do this alone…this is a participatory, meditative experience.
An invitation into conscious, circular breathing helps your awareness move from the head into the body, from mind into somatic immersion. You are drawn deeper into embodiment, and a deeper, more immersive experience of yourself.
Sensations of external touch become sensations of internal tension. Changing sensations due to slow external movement become changing sensations due to internal release within the body; long-held tensions soften and dissolve, and embodied trauma becomes energetic release, solid becomes fluid, static matter becomes energetic flow.
The process is designed to help free you from chronic pain, unresolved injuries, patterns of myofascial tension, embodied trauma and the network of holding patterns within the body.
The experience will help you release old trauma, emotional wounding and protections, and feel increased mobility and connection in the body. Your body will feel an increasingly safe place to be, and help remove the barriers to embodiment.
On a deeper level, the process helps reconnect disconnected parts of the body, re-integrate disconnected parts of the psyche, and leave you feeling transformed into a more coherent, connected and integrated whole.
A brief intro to my practice
Is all bodywork the same?
Transformational Bodywork integrates leanring form a broad range of body-based therapies, 15 years of inquiry and personal experiences, and philosophical studies (east and West). I bring over 15 years of experience of bodybased therapies and trainings to my practice, and cultivated wisdom to help guide you through the healing process, to reframe your relationship with sensations, to help you feel safe at home in the body, to help you understand the experiences and integrate them. My intention is to help you on your path towards becoming your highest, most fully realised, and most beautiful you.
My practice integrates elements learned from the following teachers and teachings over the last fifteen years :
Sports Massage
Body and Body Musculoskeletal Re-Alignment Clinic
Buddhist Tantra
Myofascial Energetic Release Training
Vipassana Meditation
Shadow Work, Jungian Psychology, Reichian Character Structures
Group Therapy and Personal Development
5 Elements Acupuncture
Somatic Bodywork
Sports Massage, Level 3
Anatomy Trains and Fascial Meridians
Bioenergetics
Breathwork