Your SE London Body in Harmony

06/12/2025

There is a wonderful African saying: "If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk, you can sing."

If there’s a chance to sing, seize it & relish every moment. GPs are prescribing singing instead of medication! https://buff.ly/3J6ySfD

29/11/2025

Inflammation plays a significant role in so many diseases and painful processes – and there are various herbs and spices which can help to reduce it.

Turmeric is the star amongst these, whether:
- the ground powder in a spice jar, or one of those big bags from the Indian section in the supermarket
- the root itself [great added to a smoothie] if you can find it in ethnic shops, and some independent health food shops,
- or as a tea – there are various blends available if you look in the herbal tea section. I particularly like the one from Sainsbury’s, but I know that Twining’s and Pukka also have turmeric-based recipes.

However, be warned that if you drink turmeric tea, it might stain your mug bright yellow – I keep a black mug for when I drink it!

Turmeric is a warming spice, rather than a fiery one – with an earthy kind of flavour. You can add a little bit to all sorts of recipes, whether sweet or savoury, without necessarily being able to taste it.

Above all, keep moving – or at the very least, Sit Less – and consider booking yourself an osteopathic MOT for a tune-up.

22/11/2025

Have you ever noticed how uncomfortable a tortoise's neck looks?

Many of us adopt the same neck position when sitting or using technology!

Try these posture pointers: https://buff.ly/5HBL0it

15/11/2025

Having a body that is in harmony with itself is the ideal we all hope for, allowing us to live life to the full. Regular osteopathic MOT treatments keep your aches and pains at bay. https://buff.ly/2X8alN0

08/11/2025

Your osteopathic treatment will involve a combination of physical manipulation (not “cracking”), stretching & massage; and also cranial osteopathy. I also advise on the use of hot or cold, rest or exercise, postural changes, and can, if necessary, give an off-work certificate.

01/11/2025

11 Tips for Inner Calm.

Life can feel like a series of broken fragments – shifting shadows that never stay still. So, how can we find and keep a place of calm within us?

Try these tips and ideas: https://buff.ly/3Zw4noE

25/10/2025

So, the clocks go back tomorrow – do you love this, or do you dread this? Don’t know about you, but my car clock is always the last to get done . . .

And how do you cope with the winter months? I know that some of you get SAD (seasonal affective disorder) – light boxes can help, but nothing beats natural sunlight. As I am typing this, it’s a pale sunlit kind of morning, and I hope to go for a short walk later: time in nature, listening to the trees rustling in the wind, the childhood pleasure of the crackle of fallen leaves underfoot, savouring the smells of autumn's gentle wind-down into winter.

Also, taking Vitamin D is important during these darker months – good for your brain, good for your immune system, and good for your lungs. For current patients (if you have seen me in 2024) I am happy to order vitamin D capsules at trade price for you, which can be quite a saving.

Enjoy the sunlight whenever we have it! And if you can do some stretching in the sunlight, even better.

See you soon, and stay safe.

22/10/2025

20/10/2025

Move from staying stuck to whole-hearted living.

Learning to accept and live with all our emotions is by no means what most of us do. Instead, most of us use default behaviors that we hope will deflect or disguise our "negative" feelings so we won't have to face them.

What default behavior do you use to sidestep your feelings? Next time you notice yourself following that same old path, try opening yourself up to your emotions so that you can grow. That is whole-hearted living.

19/10/2025

Standing ab exercises engage a network of muscles within your core that you use all the time. When you do an ab workout from a standing position, you’re working more of the muscles in that system.

Strengthening your core can help you:

🧍‍♂️Improve your balance
🧍‍♂️Maintain good posture
🧍‍♂️Protect your back from aches and pains
🧍‍♂️Better handle day-to-day movements that require bending, lifting and twisting

18/10/2025

When a customer says,
“£300 a day? But you’ll be done in half a day!”

Yeah — because it took 10+ years of graft, training, and mistakes to get good enough to finish it in half a day.

You’re not paying for time, you’re paying for know-how. 💰