Hands on bodywork with Emma Chandler

In today’s episode of the Tranquil Awakenings Podcast, Debbie will be in conversation with Emma Chandler, a bodywork practitioner who specialises in massage and yoga, looking at how the nervous system interplays with the muscles and joints.

Emma always had a passion for helping others, initially wanting to train as a nurse, however opting to study chiropractic’s. After suffering from a broken bone, she was re-directed into hands on work in the form of massage; adapting her practice to support the clients she worked with within the family therapy practice.

A big lesson for Emma has been to learn the balance between giving and maintaining personal boundaries, something which many of us have to learn how to navigate.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Yoga can be for anyone.
• Taking time to look after your body should be seen as a necessity rather than a luxury.
• The body is a complex system that can be impacted in lots of different ways.
• Having a safe and supportive space to explore your wellbeing can be transformational.
• It is important that people feel listened to and heard.
• Self-responsibility is an important aspect of healing.
• In order to help others, we can’t do the work for them. They need to be ready and willing to put the effort in.

BEST MOMENTS

• “I wanted to, like, practice yoga and even become a yoga teacher for a long time but didn't think that I would be able to do it.”
• “And I just took up the thing of studying it (yoga) and kind of fell in love with it and then started teaching it within the practice from a sort of functional perspective and movement perspective because that's obviously what we're all about.”
• “I think working within sort of like the spinal health and chiropractic clinic, it helped me see the body from sort of the nervous system perspective as well and how the joints and the bones work and how all the muscles really truly attach and move and everything.”
• “I was one of those people that thought that you know, you had to be a certain person to go and do yoga. You know, you had to be able to stick your leg behind your head and everything like that.”
• “And yoga is, it's about the movement. It's about the breath, but everybody is different, and everybody can adapt it and it literally is for everybody and can be for everybody.”
• “I think first and foremost, your true passion has to be about helping people.”
• “It's a hard journey, isn't it? It is hard, and sometimes you still, feel like,’ Am I doing the right thing here? Am I, or am I being mean?’”
• “You have your body for life, so you need to take care of it. Your body takes care of you. You need to take care of it.”

HOST BIO

Debbie is a seasoned therapist whose journey from being a primary school teacher to an adept therapist has been fuelled by her fascination with the intricacies of human nature. Equipped with advanced certifications in diverse modalities like hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, mindfulness, meditation, past life regression and many more she has honed her expertise to bring about transformative change.

As a full-time therapist and trainer, Debbie's driving passion is guiding others, as well as herself, towards their best selves. Embracing the concept of holistic beings, she firmly believes in addressing the mental, emotional, physical, social, energetic, and spiritual facets of well-being and healing.

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