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Tanya Spooner, Kinesiologist

Supporting health and harmony, helping your body return to balance and flow.

14/11/2025

When rest doesn’t feel restful it’s worth looking deeper.

You might be sleeping enough, eating well, doing the “right” things but still feel flat, foggy, or like your body isn’t bouncing back. Because your body may be stuck in a low-grade survival loop.

This isn’t about motivation. It’s about physiology.

When the nervous system has been under chronic pressure, it can hold the body in a subtle state of defence. Not full fight-or-flight — but not quite repair mode either.

In this state, healing slows and inflammation lingers. Your energy gets diverted from long-term recovery to short-term coping.

In clinic, we use muscle monitoring to find whats looping, and what the body needs to begin unwinding it.

12/11/2025

What is vagus nerve regulation, and why does it matter?

Your vagus nerve is part of your body’s repair system. It’s a long nerve that runs from your brainstem through your face, chest, lungs, heart, and digestive tract constantly relaying information between your brain and body.

When things are going well, your vagus nerve helps you to slow your heart rate, digest food, regulate inflammation, and switch out of “fight or flight” and into recovery. But when the body is under prolonged stress, that feedback loop can become disrupted. The signals don’t flow clearly. You stay wired. Or flat. Or foggy. Inflammation lingers and healing slows down.

Vagus nerve regulation is about helping your body re-establish clear signalling.
This doesn’t require force — just the right kind of support.
That might include breathwork, cranial rhythms, acupressure points, or specific corrections that help your system shift from survival mode into repair.

It’s not about forcing calm — it’s about restoring access to it.

10/11/2025

If you've been through a stretch of stress, burnout, or illness, you might notice your body asks for rest. Often.

You may find your mood dips, your energy slows, and the things that once lit you up feel distant. This isn’t regression — it’s integration. A re-tuning toward what’s next.

We live in a culture that calls this laziness and wants to rush healing, but your system moves at the speed of coherence, not performance. Pause is not absence. Stillness is not stuckness. And you don’t have to be 'fixed' to be whole.

Give yourself space to settle.
Not to escape, but to become more aligned than before.

08/11/2025

Not all stress feels like stress.

Our bodies experience stress whenever demand outweighs capacity. That might come from pressure, change, illness, or loss. Even when we think we’re coping, the nervous system is still trying to keep up.

Grief, too, is a form of stress. It moves through the body in waves — through the heart, the hormones, the breath. Kinesiology offers a gentle way to support your system as it moves through that process. Using light muscle monitoring, we can listen to where stress is held and help the body find steadiness again.

So, if you’ve been holding a lot lately — emotionally, physically, or mentally — kinesiology can help your body process what its been carrying.

07/11/2025

When stress is ongoing and unresolved, it doesn’t just “go away.” It imprints.

One of the common ways is immune confusion. This is where the immune system starts to overreact, signals get scrambled, and the body can become sensitive to normal inputs (food, noise, hormones, even its own tissues).

This process is often driven by cytokines — small messenger proteins that ramp up when the body feels under threat. They’re helpful short-term. But in long-term stress, they contribute to fatigue, pain, inflammation, and burnout.

This is why some people can feel “off” all the time, even if bloodwork looks fine - the conversation between nervous system and immune system has been distorted.

Kinesiology gives us a way to listen to that conversation and start to restore clarity.

05/11/2025

Inflammation is your body’s built-in repair process.

When something’s wrong, inflammation creates heat, swelling, and chemical signalling to help fix the issue. But if the signals don’t turn off, or if your system is constantly under pressure, inflammation becomes part of the problem.

This is called chronic inflammation and has been linked to;

- Fatigue, pain, headaches
- Gut issues, skin flares, immune sensitivity
- Autoimmune patterns, brain fog, mood changes

You don’t always see it. But you'll often feel it.

There are often deeper feedback loops behind inflammatory symptoms, like the nervous system, vagus nerve, cytokines, gut–brain signalling, and more. The goal is to support regulation, so your body isn’t stuck in alert mode.

Let me know if you'd like to explore this for yourself.

03/11/2025

Most people assume inflammation comes from injury, infection, or diet. But your body can also become inflamed from ongoing stress, especially the kind that’s internalised, ignored, or never had a safe outlet.

You don’t have to guess. Your body is giving clues.

The nervous system and immune system are in constant communication.When stress builds and doesn’t resolve, the body shifts into a defensive state. That defence can turn inward.

This is one reason people feel sore, puffy, wired-tired, or reactive, even when there’s no clear “cause.”
It’s not just stress - it’s how your body stores it

01/11/2025

Your body has its own quiet intelligence. It keeps shifting even after a session ends, reorganising, integrating, finding new balance.
Often you won’t notice it happening. Other times you might feel a subtle change, like a clearer awareness, or an old trigger that no longer lands.

If something’s been moving for you lately, or your perspective feels a little different, remember that sometimes integration is the work.

Be gentle with yourself.
Stay present.
Drink water.
Breathe.
Take the walk. Or the nap. Or both.

31/10/2025

Let’s talk inflammation.

Inflammation is the body’s built-in defence system but when it’s stuck on it can lead to chronic pain, fatigue, and ongoing symptoms. Therefore, supporting your nervous system, sleep, nutrition, and emotional load matters. Because your body doesnt just flare up for no reason.

Kinesiology helps your system find clarity, safety, and balance again.

29/10/2025

Signs your body might be asking for self-care

– Snapping at loved ones
– Skin flare-ups
– Heavy eyes even after sleep
– Clutter piling up
– “Don’t talk to me” days (maybe that's just me??)

Self-care starts when you notice the signal not when it’s convenient, so, for today, choose something so small it feels silly — and do it with presence.

It may be time to consider kinesiology as part of your self care routine.

27/10/2025

We've explored compensation patterns (the body adapting to protect itself), and now we look to the body’s language of correction.

After a kinesiology balance, you may notice that you felt 'lighter' until some old aches or pains came back, you slept well but had odd dreams, or you felt emotional and teary, and maybe stompy cranky angry.

This is the body reorganising, not breaking down.

When long-held compensation patterns start to unwind, the nervous system finally has space to process what it’s been holding. Muscles adjust, fascia rehydrates, circulation improves, and old emotions find their way out.

It’s a shift from holding together, to holding alignment. From surviving, to recalibrating.
These sensations are the body’s way of finding a new balance.

If your body is releasing or reorganising after a session, honour it.
Rest, hydrate, breathe. Dont go make big life changing decisions.

Most importantly, be gentle with yourself.

25/10/2025

Have you ever looked at a Kinesiologist's bookshelf?

Kinesiology isn’t a single skill - it’s a blend of sciences and approaches.
From musculoskeletal anatomy, to hormones, nutrition, neurology, histology, and biological systems - each area adds another layer to how we listen to the body.

By integrating these perspectives, we can uncover the ‘why’ behind a symptom and find a personalised path back to balance.

Your body’s story is unique — and worth hearing in full.

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