John McLane

About

I am a Certified Advanced Rolfer™ and a Certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP). I currently assist on the Somatic Experiencing trainings in the UK and am committed to continued education.

My path towards becoming a body centred therapist began in 2010 whilst attending extended silent meditation retreats. The importance of embodiment was clear but accessing and remaining with a broad felt sense of the body proved challenging. Fortunately I was steered towards Rolfing and other Somatic forms of therapy. As a whole new world opened up, I felt intrigued and called to train and help others.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”  – James Joyce, Dubliners

I work with people from diverse backgrounds, including musicians, athletes, dancers, yoga students/teachers, company executives and people who simply want the classic Rolfing® series and/or a kinder more connected relationship with their bodies.

People often come seeking improved performance in sports and the arts, help with chronic pain, or relief and resolution from the many bewildering symptoms and syndromes of unresolved trauma. As a lifelong musician, I am particularly interested in how creativity and our desire to express is connected to, and either enhanced or hindered by, our posture and habitual ways of being and moving in the world.

I enjoy helping people to enquire into how their posture, presence, and ability to connect to themselves and others is rooted in the narrative and river of their lives via the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Through a rich combination of Rolfing®, movement work and somatic enquiry, our habitual holding patterns and incomplete reactions within the autonomic nervous system can be understood, resolved, and released.

The combined therapeutic approach of Rolfing® and SE® often shines a revealing light on ‘how’ we have been showing up in life. A compassionate dialogue between body and mind addresses the reasons 'why', creating lasting and meaningful change.

I am based in Tunbridge Well, Kent and look forward to working with you.

For more information, please visit my web site.

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