Tanya Spooner, Kinesiologist

07/03/2026

06/03/2026

Some herbs and flowers grow in seasonal cycles and in this manner, our relationship with them can also change.

There are plants I worked with closely years ago, then barely touched for a long time. Both in my personal life, and also in clinic with my clients. And then, sometimes unexpectedly, they come back into view.

This can happen at different stages of life, or during different kinds of demand. What supported the body once may not be what it reaches for now, and that’s ok.

I’ve come to trust that when a plant reappears in awareness — whether in the garden, the pantry, or the treatment room — it’s worth paying attention to, without rushing to define why.

Some relationships don’t need to be constant to be meaningful.

04/03/2026

Some of our most supportive things aren’t necessarily techniques or treatments. They’re ordinary moments that let the body know it doesn’t have to keep pushing.

Everyday comforts that most of us don't consider supportive. Like climbing into bed with clean sheets. The smell of freshly baked bread or the smell of a freshly mowed lawn. A childhood favourite meal that evokes the feeling of comfort, or a familiar perfume that smells like a loved one. These smells create a sense of safety, familiarity, or home.

Unlike most senses, scent doesn’t get filtered or analysed first. It travels straight to areas involved in memory, emotion, and survival.

These kinds of comforts don’t fix anything — they simply remind the body it can settle.

02/03/2026

Not all body communication happens through muscle testing.

One of my favourite ways to listen to my body is much simpler. And much quieter.

Sometimes I’ll sit with a dowsing tool called a bobber (see image), which responds to subtle, unconscious changes in muscle tone and posture as the body processes information.

Or I simply sit with my awareness and notice what happens in my body when I hold a choice, a word, or a direction in mind. Do I feel more expanded — open, upright, settled?
Or do I feel more contracted — tight, heavy, withdrawn?

There’s no forcing an answer. No yes/no interrogation, just observing how the body organises itself around information. This isn’t about deciding what to eat for dinner or outsourcing life decisions. It’s about recognising that the body constantly responds to what it’s presented with, and often more honestly than the thinking mind.

Expansion and contraction are signals. And like all body-based feedback, they’re most reliable when there’s no urgency, no emotional charge, and no pressure to get a particular answer.

This approach is about creating conditions where the body’s responses can be noticed without pressure.

28/02/2026

If your body could roll the dice and cancel one thing in your calendar next week…what would it remove?

Not what you want to cancel. What your body would cancel.

There’s usually a difference.

27/02/2026

Have you noticed the way you respond to smell?

When we see, hear, or touch something, that information is filtered and interpreted before it reaches deeper areas of the brain. Scent doesn’t take that route, because smell works different to our other senses.

Olfactory signals (smell) travel directly to regions involved in memory, emotion, and survival. There’s no analysis, no requirement to think it through, the body responds before the mind has time to catch up. This is why a familiar smell can bring a sense of ease without explanation, evoke memory, or create comfort.

For some people, this makes scent one of the simplest ways to support a shift out of constant alertness.

25/02/2026

A lady booked with me recently and described a collection of symptoms that she didnt think were related.

Her neck and jaw was tight, she saw fatigue settle in the late afternoon, described light digestion disturbance, and at bedtime was tired but couldn't sleep and would wake between 2-3am regularly.

She had already worked on her diet, reduced caffeine, took magnesium supplements, and been to see her GP. Blood results all showed normal range.

During the balance, her body prioritised upper neck tension patterns, vagus nerve signaling, small intestine stress, adrenal survival switching and a background pattern of internalised pressure to 'hold everything together'.

Her system had been compensating for a long time through stress. We worked gently through spinal nerve input, digestive signaling, and some of the emotional stress patterns that were still running in the background. Finished with spinal flow to allow integration.

After the session she reported feeling lighter, and very relaxed. During the follow up sessions she reported that she was dreaming again, her energy felt steadier and she hasn't been waking with heartburn in the night.

When stress in the body is reduced, different patterns become available.

23/02/2026

How the body communicates when the conditions are right.

There are a number of ways people access information from the body:
muscle testing, body sway (sometimes called a body pendulum), stick testing, bobber, dowsing, and others. Different methods with the same underlying principle.

The body is constantly responding to its environment through the nervous system, long before the thinking mind catches up. Subtle changes in muscle tone, posture, breath, and balance happen automatically. These methods amplify those responses so they can be observed.

What can often be missed is that before the body can give useful information, it needs to be able to communicate clearly.

In my work, muscle testing is the main way information is gathered. It starts with permission, but it doesn’t start with questions. A session begins with pre-checks to make sure the system is hydrated, settled, orientated, and capable of giving clear signals. Without that, the information is unreliable.

This isn’t about strength, nor is it about intuition replacing logic, and it certainly isn’t about handing life decisions over to a testing method.

The body can offer information but interpretation, context, and choice still matter.

21/02/2026

A small pause for the weekend.

Sometimes it’s not about fixing what’s happening, but noticing how we’re meeting it.

The same situation can feel very different depending on the response we bring to it.

That difference can be quietly informative.

20/02/2026

Not all information in the body is conscious.

Many patterns are maintained not because they make sense, but because they’re familiar, efficient, and well-rehearsed.

That’s why lasting change often happens when the body is given a way to show what it’s holding rather than being told what to do.

When information is accessed at the body level, responses can shift without force, analysis, or effort. This is where deeper change tends to begin.

18/02/2026

Change in the body doesn’t occur in a straight line.

When a familiar pattern reappears, it’s not necessarily a sign that nothing has changed. More often, it reflects how learning consolidates.

Early change requires conscious effort. The response is slower, less reliable, and easily overridden under pressure. Focus and concentration are required. Then, with repetition the new response becomes easier to access. It requires less effort and begins to compete with the old pattern.

When the system encounters the same situation again, it effectively compares which response will now cost less energy. This is why familiar patterns can sometimes reappear during stressful situations. The body is testing efficiency, not regressing.

Over time, with repeated practice, the response that requires the least effort becomes the default, and that’s when change stabilises. What can look like “going backwards” is often the body revisiting familiar territory with more awareness, more capacity, or more choice than before.

Long-standing patterns shift by being met differently each time they arise.

16/02/2026

Kinesiology is a holistic modality that works with stress patterns in the body.

Rather than focusing on symptoms alone, it looks at how physical, emotional and environmental pressures show up, and supports the system to respond with a little more ease.