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      Hélène Pennel
Somatic-Psychoeducation, Fasciatherapy-Somatology
   
Email helene.pennel@sensorial.co.uk
Website www.sensorial.co.uk
Session duration & prices First Appointment Duration: one hour
First Appointment Cost: £ 50
Follow Up Appointments Duration: one hour
Follow Up Appointments Costs: £ 50


Availability by arrangement Yes

Qualifications

ITEC Diploma in Anatomy, Physiology and Body Massage - London, 1999
Certificate of Practitioner in Fasciatherapy and Sensorial Training of the Danis Bois Method - Geneva, 2001
University Diploma in Perceptual Movement Education - Lisbon, 2002
International Diploma Danis Bois Method - Paris, 2003
University Diploma – Specialization in Somatic-Psychoeducation - Paris, 2005



Professional Registration/Associations Member of the Complementary Medical Association
Member of the Fédération des Professionnels en Somato-Psychopédagogie (French Federation of Professionals in Somatic-Psychoeducation)


Specialist Training Drainage and Pulsology touch – working specifically with the fluids of the body and the vascular system.
   
Offering help with  

• physical and/or psychological tension and pain

• stress and associated symptoms such as sleeping difficulties, disturbed eating habits, fatigue, digestive disorders and depressive states

• chronic conditions or long-standing difficulties that more conventional approaches have not helped

• support through major life changes – such as career change, unemployment, illness, grief, divorce, birth, personal transformation process

• development of awareness – of self and of the other

• relief from psychological difficulties you are experiencing in your life (such as phobia, anxiety) without the need to talk about your personal life history – either because you do not wish to dwell on it, or because there are no obvious events in your life now or in the past that seem to be related

The benefits
I support you to develop your own potential towards body-mind health. Whether you come to me because you have a recurring pain that is affecting you in your life, or because you are or wish to engage in a process of change, I will begin to work with the body to identify and release tensions. This is the first dimension of my approach, a manual therapy called Fasciatherapy-somatology. Whereas an acute problem is usually resolved in 2 or 3 sessions, a long-standing difficulty may require regular treatments over a period of time.

If you are looking for more than physical relief from pain, tension and stress, Somatic-psychoeducation offers an approach that uses touch, movement and words to support a personal transformation process. As the sessions unfold, you regain a feeling of wholeness, unity and vitality and your self-awareness increases. You begin to feel the tangible link between body and mind, to engage a reflection based on the information emanating from the body and to take into consideration the effects of your thoughts on your body. You are beginning to learn from the experience of your body for your life, and gradually find that your relationship to yourself, to others and your environment is changing because you are looking at them from different perspectives, which offer different solutions.

How does it help you :
• by releasing the tensions that trap your body and your mind

• by enriching your ability to feel your body - because maybe you do not feel it much or you do not feel parts of it at all, you have the sensation of being many scattered pieces of a puzzle, or you feel empty, and this brings a sense of discomfort, a feeling of being out of kilter, that has an impact on your life

• by enabling you to feel more clearly how your body and your mind inter-relate

• by enabling you to reconnect with your deeper self and your creative impulses, and to express yourself

• by educating you to engage a reflection and to learn from the “out of-the-ordinary” experience of the body that is offered during the sessions

• by supporting you to achieve harmony between what you feel, what you think and how you act

• by providing you with very effective tools to live in the here and now


Why I trained in this field
This is a second career after almost 20 years working in a business environment. I encountered this work by chance and it was a revelation for me. A powerful tool that, apart from bringing relief to some ailments I was suffering from at the time, made me realize how disconnected I had been from the deeper parts of myself, how I had for many years disregarded the messages of my body in favour of those of the mind and how the two were not “talking” to each other. It allowed me to change my perspective on myself and my environment, and to regain the sense of my life at a time of deep personal crisis.



About me

“What I feel passionate about is helping people feel that they live inside a body that is alive.”

Being one of the first practitioners in the English speaking world, I am constantly involved in the development of the English language of this approach, including the translation of the latest book of the founder of the work, Danis Bois, and interpreting for him at his regular international workshops in the US. I am in the process of bringing the teaching of this ground-breaking work to this country. I am French and have been living in London for over 25 years.

This approach was founded in France 30 years ago by Danis Bois, at the time a physiotherapist and osteopath, first with the creation of Fasciatherapy, then Sensorial Training and more recently Somatic-psychoeducation. Danis Bois continues his research and is now professor in charge of post-graduate programs at the Modern University in Lisbon. He has written many books on his work and is a regular speaker at conferences in the world of health and education. His latest book, The Self Renewed – an introduction to Somatic-psychodeducation - will be published in English in the coming year.

 

 
           
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