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# The Quiet Way: Integrative Health

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- [](https://www.thequietway.com/3184-2/): There comes a point for many people when rest alone is no longer enough.
- [Restore Oncology Scar Therapy](https://www.thequietway.com/restore-oncology-scar-therapy/): Scars tell a story—of survival, treatment, and resilience. For many people who have undergone cancer surgery, those scars can also bring discomfort, tightness, and emotional weight. Restore Oncology Scar Massage has emerged as a gentle, specialised, non-invasive physical therapy method developed to treat scar tissue, fibrosis and adhesions.
- [Everyday techniques to tone the vagus nerve](https://www.thequietway.com/everyday-techniques-to-tone-the-vagus-nerve/): We have probably all heard about ‘vagal tone’ recently, but actually, what is it? In very simple terms, it is about how well your body’s “rest and digest” part of the nervous system works, and you can train it just like a muscle through gentle, everyday practices.
- [Therapies for Compassionate Cancer Care Support](https://www.thequietway.com/therapies-for-compassionate-cancer-care-support/): Research has shown that tailored therapeutic approaches can significantly enhance the wellbeing of individuals facing a cancer diagnosis and undergoing treatment. As a specialised practitioner, I offer personalised care plans designed to support you through every stage of your cancer journey:
- [Yin Yoga: Why Some People Crave It—and Others Avoid It](https://www.thequietway.com/yin-yoga-why-some-people-crave-it-and-others-avoid-it/): Why People Love Yin YogaYin yoga is cherished for how deeply restorative it feels, both in body and mind. Its long, floor-based poses and quiet pace make it feel like a moving meditation rather than a workout.
- [Blending Bodywork: From Deep Tissue to Subtle Release](https://www.thequietway.com/blending-bodywork-from-deep-tissue-to-subtle-release/): There is something profoundly satisfying about a treatment that begins with familiar, grounding massage and gradually shifts into quieter, more spacious work. The session might begin with the client prone, warmly draped, after a settling conversation that allows them to arrive fully in the room and in their body. Using a blend of nourishing base oils with a few thoughtfully selected essential oils adds another layer to this process. As the treatment progresses, one aroma may become more prominent than another, rising and receding as attention moves around the body.
- [Calm in a Bottle: The Art of my Customised Luxury Aromatherapy Range](https://www.thequietway.com/calm-in-a-bottle-the-art-of-my-customised-luxury-aromatherapy-range/): Step into a world where scent becomes ritual and every drop of oil tells a story of care, skill, and nature’s quiet power. My customised luxury aromatherapy collection is the creation of my experience as an aromatherapist who understands that true wellbeing begins with mindful intention. Each formulation is blended by hand, using sustainably sourced base oils and essential oils. Presented in stunning cobalt-blue glass bottles, the range embodies both beauty and purpose, protecting the botanical blends inside while evoking serenity with every use.
- [Supporting Cancer Care with Compassionate Integrated Therapies.](https://www.thequietway.com/supporting-cancer-care-with-compassionate-integrated-therapies/): With years of experience treating patients across NHS clinical settings in London, Manchester, and Basingstoke, I have had the privilege of supporting people through various stages of the cancer journey using massage, aromatherapy, reflexology, relaxation, and resilience strategies.
- [The Rising Tide of Mental Health Challenges: Finding Solace in Therapeutic Touch](https://www.thequietway.com/the-rising-tide-of-mental-health-challenges-finding-solace-in-therapeutic-touch/): In today's fast-paced world, we're witnessing an unprecedented surge in mental health issues. This rise is not due to a single factor, but rather a complex interplay of various stressors that have become increasingly prevalent in our society. From the overwhelming demands of work and family life to the physical and emotional challenges of menopause, serious illness, and bereavement, we are facing a multitude of pressures that can significantly impact our mental well-being.
- [The Art of Pause: Regulating Our Nervous System in a Busy World](https://www.thequietway.com/the-art-of-pause-regulating-our-nervous-system-in-a-busy-world/): In today’s over-scheduled, always-on world, our nervous systems are often stretched to their limits. Stress, anxiety, illness, bereavement, money worries, and the constant hum of responsibilities can make it feel as though we’re stuck in a never-ending race. Yet, the antidote to this frenetic energy might be simpler, and closer, than we think. It starts with permission to pause.
- [Discovering Stillness: The Art of Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra](https://www.thequietway.com/discovering-stillness-the-art-of-yin-yoga-and-yoga-nidra/): In the hustle of daily life, the constant push to achieve and move forward can leave us feeling depleted and disconnected. Enter Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra, two profound practices that offer a sanctuary of stillness and a path to inner peace.
- [Oncology Massage and Reflexology](https://www.thequietway.com/oncology-massage-and-reflexology/): Oncology Massage and Reflexology are specialised forms of massage tailored to meet the unique needs of individuals undergoing cancer treatment, receiving palliative care, or in recovery. Designed with sensitivity and understanding of the physical and emotional challenges posed by cancer, this gentle approach offers numerous benefits.
- [How Yin Yoga Supports Graceful Aging](https://www.thequietway.com/how-yin-yoga-supports-graceful-aging/): Yin Yoga, with its emphasis on mindful breathing and meditative stillness, offers a gentle yet powerful practice to support graceful aging. Yin Yoga helps to cultivate a calm mind, flexible body, and resilient spirit, making it an ideal practice for those seeking to age with vitality and peace. In this blog, we’ll explore how Yin Yoga can enhance your journey through aging, nurturing a harmonious connection between body, mind, and breath.
- [The Benefits of Relaxation: Why Taking Time to Unwind is Essential](https://www.thequietway.com/the-benefits-of-relaxation-why-taking-time-to-unwind-is-essential/): In today's fast-paced world, finding time to relax can be challenging. However, relaxation is crucial for maintaining overall health and well-being. Whether you prefer deep breathing exercises, massage, meditation, yoga, or simply enjoying a quiet moment, incorporating relaxation into your daily routine can offer numerous benefits. Let's explore some of the key advantages of relaxation.
- [Menopause: A Natural Journey with Essential Oils, Herbal Medicine, Food and Mindset.](https://www.thequietway.com/menopause-a-natural-journey-with-essential-oils-herbal-medicine-food-and-mindset/): The menopause is a natural transition for women to go through.  We experience a wide range of sensations, both physical and emotional, that may last for several years.  If menopause can be seen for the natural process that it is and welcomed as the next stage of life, with happiness, this is good medicine.  Many cultures still revere women becoming elders and passing on their knowledge and experience is respected. 
- [Genocide. Paying respects and offering healing. Cambodia 2019](https://www.thequietway.com/genocide-paying-respects-and-offering-healing-cambodia-2019/): I have wanted to visit Angkor Wat for so many years and, perhaps more so, have wanted to pay my respects, learn more about and offer healing for the Genocide, committted country wide in the 1970s, under the evil eye of Pol Pot.
- [Integral Yoga and Meditation Retreat, Angkor Wat National Park, Siem Reap, Cambodia 2019](https://www.thequietway.com/integral-yoga-and-meditation-retreat-angkor-wat-national-park-siem-reap-cambodia-2019/): The natural follow on from visiting the spiritual temples at Angkor Wat was to immerse in practice again, with an integral yoga meditation retreat, nestled in the jungle within a trditional Cambodia village.
- [Angkor Wat, Cambodia 2019](https://www.thequietway.com/angkor-wat-cambodia-2019/): A few days on a rainy beach in southern Thailand followed the work at Elephant Nature Park, then a fond farewell to Thailand to begin the Cambodian adventure.
- [Working at the Elephant Nature Park. Chiang Mai, Thailand 2019](https://www.thequietway.com/working-at-the-elephant-nature-park-chiang-mai-thailand-2019/): From working with anxiety and trauma in humans, to working with elephants. A dream come true to be this close to them and care for them.
- [Wat Pho, Bangkok and massage in Chiang Mai. Thailand 2019](https://www.thequietway.com/wat-pho-bangkok-and-massage-in-chiang-mai-thailand-2019/): After the meditation retreat I travelled back to Bangkok and had time to visit the wondeful Wat Pho and Reclining Buddha before heading north to Chiang Mai. I adore the Reclining Buddha, last visited 27 years ago.
- [Vipassana meditation retreat, update. Thailand 2019](https://www.thequietway.com/10-day-silent-vipassana-meditation-retreat-thailand-2019/): For many years I have wanted to complete a 10 day Vipassana meditation retreat and I am so pleased I now have and what a stunning location in south Thailand, near the town Chaiya.
- [10 day Silent Vipassana Meditation Retreat, Thailand](https://www.thequietway.com/10-day-silent-vipassana-meditation-retreat-thailand/): Following the Awakening Leadership training I head to Bangkok tomorrow to catch a train south to Surat Thani. A port town and gateway to some of the infamous islands off the east coast. Islands I first visited some 27 years ago!
- [Awakening Leadership Training Programme. Thailand, September 2019](https://www.thequietway.com/awakening-leadershiptraining-programme-thailand-september-2019/): Awakening Leadership Training weaves inner transformation and societal understanding with techniques for community building and effective mindful leadership. It provides space for dialogue, reflection and contemplation on the deep questions facing humanity and our planet. The learning process emphasises inner cultivation as a foundation for fostering new paradigm leadership.
- [Teeth Grinding and Clenching (Bruxism) and how Massage Therapy can help](https://www.thequietway.com/teeth-grinding-and-clenching-bruxism-and-how-massage-therapy-can-help/): Teeth grinding and jaw clenching (also called bruxism) is often related to stress or anxiety. It doesn't always cause symptoms, but some people get facial pain and headaches, and it can wear down your teeth over time. Most people who grind their teeth and clench their jaw aren't aware they're doing it.  It often happens during sleep or while concentrating or under stress. 
- [What is Yoga Nidra Meditation? (Sanskrit: योग निद्रा) or yogic sleep)](https://www.thequietway.com/what-is-yoga-nidra-meditation-sanskrit-%e0%a4%af%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%97-%e0%a4%a8%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%a6%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%be-or-yogic-sleep%ef%bb%bf/): Relaxation exercises are used to prepare the mind and body for Yoga Nidra by balancing the right and left hemispheres of the brain and stimulating the subtle energies of our vital force, the Prana.
- [Sankalpa and Yoga Nidra Meditation](https://www.thequietway.com/sankalpa-and-yoga-nidra-meditation/):  Establishing Your Sankalpa
- [The benefits of Abdominal Massage and connection to Wellbeing](https://www.thequietway.com/the-benefits-of-abdominal-massage-and-connection-to-wellbeing/): I know, it is a strange one and makes many people feel uncomfortable when I ask 'would you like me to massage your abdomen'. All the fears and insecurities arise about the shape of our bellies and what people will think of us.
- [Emotional Eating: How to recognise and stop emotional eating](https://www.thequietway.com/emotional-eating-how-to-recognise-and-stop-emotional-eating/): We don’t always eat just to satisfy hunger. Many of us also turn to food to relieve stress or cope with unpleasant emotions such as sadness, loneliness, or boredom. And after eating, we feel even worse. Not only does the original emotional issue remain, but we also feel guilty for overeating. No matter how powerless you feel over food cravings, though, there is an answer. By practising mindful eating, you can change the emotional habits that have sabotaged your diet in the past, and regain control over both food and your feelings.
- [Tips for reducing hay fever symptoms](https://www.thequietway.com/tips-for-reducing-hay-fever-symptoms/): Hay fever is a common allergic reaction which occurs at particular times of the year. It is known as seasonal rhinitis, sharing symptoms with perennial (year round) allergic rhinitis, but occurring as a reaction to pollen from grass, trees and weeds during the early spring and summer months. It can affect both adults and children.
- [Conventional, Complementary, Alternative or Integrative Medicine?](https://www.thequietway.com/conventional-complementary-alternative-or-integrative-medicine/): You have no doubt heard of and used one or more of these terms in relation to your health and treatment of illness. Some are still spoken with a derogatory tone, some given more authority than others and often they are used interchangeably and inaccurately. Therefore, I wondered if it was useful to offer some definitions.
- [Fight, flight or freeze? Our response to chronic stress or trauma.](https://www.thequietway.com/fight-flight-or-freeze-our-response-to-chronic-stress-or-trauma/): This is a brief summary, taken from my notes of my specialised 5 week neurobiology informed yin yoga therapy programme. There are a variety of practices and hands on approaches that will support the release of chronic stress and/or trauma, my programme aims to give an introduction to how we can use Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra meditation, Pranayama, Flower Remedies, Aromatherapy and Massage techniques to help regulate the nervous system, and to calm and reassure.
- [Complementary Therapies in Cancer Care – An Overview](https://www.thequietway.com/complementary-therapies-in-cancer-care-an-overview/): More and more people with a cancer diagnosis are researching the treatment options available to them, prior to, and informing, their treatment plan.
- [Winter, the season of stillness and rest.](https://www.thequietway.com/winter-the-season-of-stillness-and-rest/): Winter is the season of stillness and rest, we can use this time to withdraw and go within, to delve deep into own inner worlds, to name our dreams and give birth to our visions.
- [The vagus nerve and amygdala and the role they play in stress, anxiety and trauma](https://www.thequietway.com/the-vagus-nerve-and-amygdala-and-the-role-they-play-in-stress-anxiety-and-trauma/): The vagus nerve and amygdala are key elements in my work associated with chronic stress, anxiety, panic attacks, depression and trauma.  These aspects of our nervous system connect how we think, feel and relate to experiences within and around us.  Of course, we are influenced by many internal and external forces, what we eat, where we live, relationships and our ancestors in terms of our genes and genetics, and we are energy beings, pulsing at different electromagnetic frequencies, also influenced by the frequencies around us.  All these fascinating areas I will write about in more detail in later blogs, for now, let’s find out a little more about the incredible vagus nerve and amygdala.
- [Flower remedies for a sudden change in health status](https://www.thequietway.com/flower-remedies-for-a-sudden-change-in-health-status/): The flower remedies I prescribe were developed in the 1930s by Dr Edward Bach, a physician and homeopath who believed that the key to good health was by emotional harmony. By 1936 he identified 38 flower essences, each one derived from a different wild flower, plant or tree, and each corresponding to a specific emotion.
- [Bach Flower Remedies – Form and Function](https://www.thequietway.com/bach-flower-remedies-form-and-function/): Dr Bach was trying to demonstrate how health and disease are intimately linked to the way in which a person lives and the need to make changes to that way of living. He did not separate the person from the disease believing that what happened to the physical body, was related directly to a person’s mentality, their spiritual and emotional circumstances.
- [Magnesium Deficinecy – Symptoms, Causes and Dietary Sources](https://www.thequietway.com/magnesium-deficinecy-symptoms-causes-and-dietary-sources/): This blog is written by Bonny Casel, Director of the School of Natural Medicine UK
- [Yoga Nidra transforms habitual thoughts and behaviours that no longer serve us](https://www.thequietway.com/yoga-nidra-transforms-habitual-thoughts-and-behaviours-that-no-longer-us/): Yoga Nidra meditation is a simple yet profound technique adapted by Swami Satyananda Saraswati from the traditional tantric esoteric traditions rooted in Hindu and Buddhist philosophy) and the practices of pratyahara (withdrawal of senses) and mental nyasa rituals (‘place’ efforts of relaxation on specific parts of the body).
- [Fight, Flight or Frozen: our response to trauma](https://www.thequietway.com/fight-flight-or-frozen-our-response-to-trauma/): Emotional and psychological trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events that shatter your sense of security, making you feel helpless in a dangerous world. Traumatic experiences often involve a threat to life or safety, but any situation that leaves you feeling overwhelmed and isolated can be traumatic, even if it doesn’t involve physical harm. It’s not the objective facts that determine whether an event is traumatic, but your subjective emotional experience of the event. The more frightened and helpless you feel, the more likely you are to be traumatised. An event can lead to trauma if:
- [Chronic back pain](https://www.thequietway.com/chronic-back-pain/): Chronic back pain is defined by the length of time you are suffering from pain in your lower back, rather than the severity of your pain. Chronic back pain is pain which lasts longer than three months. This may be continuous pain or intermittent, severe or mild. Often the cause of chronic back pain is difficult to determine, making it all the more difficult to treat.
- [Trauma Survivors – Road Traffic Accidents](https://www.thequietway.com/trauma-survivors-road-traffic-accidents/): I love driving and especially love driving in countries I have visited around the world.  I have made a couple of long trips, driving to Greece in 2008 in one of my beloved vans and more recently driven to Spain (2017). I know I am fortunate to have avoided a car crash (perhaps a couple of close calls along the way), however, I have seen many people in clinic after they have had a car crash.  Some of them, multiple crashes.
- [Habit energy held in our system](https://www.thequietway.com/habit-energy-held-in-our-system/): During a therapy treatment or yin yoga class you may hear me talking about 'habit energy' in the system, so I thought I would write a little more about this and what it means.
- [Pranayama – breathing to clear physical and emotional obstacles](https://www.thequietway.com/pranayama-breathing-to-clear-physical-and-emotional-obstacles/): Breathing is the process of moving air into and out of the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly by bringing in oxygen and flushing out carbon dioxide. Pranayama in yoga is the regulation of the breath through certain techniques and exercises, which clear the physical and emotional obstacles in our body to free the breath and so the flow of prana - life energy. Through a regular and sustained practice of pranayama you can supercharge your whole body!
- [Yes to Life Annual Conference Cancer Care](https://www.thequietway.com/yes-to-life-annual-conference-cancer-care/): Yes to Life empower people with cancer to make informed decisions about their cancer care options, they provide information to guide people through the often confusing options for care and lifestyle choices. Their aim is to enable people to make informed choices, to simplify the complex and facilitate access to expert knowledge.
- [The impact of chronic stress on the muscular system and fascia network](https://www.thequietway.com/the-impact-of-chronic-stress-on-the-muscular-system-and-fascia-network/): I thought it might be interesting to share a piece I have recently written about the impact chronic stress on our muscular system and fascia network, and how this then affects other systems in our bodies creating a cycle of pain, inflammation and fatigue.
- [Exploring the depths of Yoga Nidra Meditation](https://www.thequietway.com/exploring-the-depths-of-yoga-nidra-meditation/): I thought it would be interesting to write more about the philosophy of Yoga Nidra Meditation, this profound and powerful method of learning to relax consciously.
- [Non pharmacological treatment for hormonal acne](https://www.thequietway.com/non-pharmacological-treatment-for-hormonal-acne/): You don’t need to be going through puberty to experience hormonal acne. As adults (both male and female) it can feel extremely upsetting when you have an outbreak of acne, leading to social anxiety, isolation and in some case, depression.  I hope this piece gives some insight into and options for a non pharmacological treatment approach to resolve hormonal acne.
- [Swollen ankles and feet due to the warm weather?](https://www.thequietway.com/swollen-ankles-and-feet-due-to-the-warm-weather/): When the sun comes out it’s inevitable that your ankles and feet do too.
- [Reflections on 6 months working at Suryalila Retreat Centre, Andalusia, Spain](https://www.thequietway.com/reflections-on-6-months-working-at-suryalila-retreat-centre-andalusia-spain/): The time has come to move forward and reflect and process the previous 6 months work at Suryalila Retreat Centre . It has been an overwhelming experience in so many ways, on so many levels.
- [Massage therapy, energy healing, yin yoga and meditation at Suryalila Retreat Centre, Andalusia, Spain](https://www.thequietway.com/massage-reiki-meditation-and-yin-yoga-at-suryalila-andulsia-spain/): Suryalila Yoga Retreat Centre is in the heart of Andalusia, Southern Spain with an international reputation.
- [Suryalila Yoga Retreat Centre, Southern Spain, Sept 2016](https://www.thequietway.com/suryalila-yoga-retreat-centre-southern-spain-sept-2016/): The final preparations are underway, clinics and classes in the UK complete for now and thoughts are turning to the months ahead. I'll keep you updated as the story unfolds, for now this short video with give you an insight as to where I'll be. Flying out 31st August for 3 months!
- [The World Yoga Festival – 29th to 31st July 2016](https://www.thequietway.com/the-world-yoga-festival-29th-to-31st-july-2016/): The inaugural World Yoga Festival was held at Beale Park in Reading at the end of July. I was delighted to be part of the event, offering reflexology, back neck and shoulder massage, craniosacral bodywork and healing. The energy of the festival was calm, relaxed and inspiring. The sun shone between the clouds and it was a pleasure to invite people into my tent and see them leave feeling brighter, lighter and less troubled with pain, aches or pains.
- [PACT Staff Day – 21st July 2016](https://www.thequietway.com/pact-staff-day-21st-july-2016/): I was delighted to be part of a recent staff day for PACT, a local charity based in Reading. Parents And Children Together - PACT - has been building and strengthening families since 1911.
- [Yin Yoga workshops with Biff Mithoefer, London 2016](https://www.thequietway.com/yin-yoga-workshops-with-biff-mithoefer-london-2016/): In 2008 I spent one month with the Thai Massage Circus family in Greece, 2008. What a fabulous month we had, a thai yoga massage retreat for advanced practitioners. The retreat covered areas of biomechanics, anatomy, Chinese medicine, osteopathy, pregnancy, shiatsu and how to incorporate such aspects in our Thai massage practice. Learning how to give from the heart and listen to the silence of the body and the breath. We practised daily yoga and meditation and ate delicious, nutritious food.
- [Endure 24, Ultra run event and Massagathon](https://www.thequietway.com/endure-24-ultra-run-event-and-massagathon/): An interesting email reached my inbox in mid June, containing a request for a massage therapist to work with the Misfits team at Endure 24. The award winning Mizuno event is like Glastonbury for runners, it’s a 24 hour running party in the woods. Free camping for runners, friends, family and support crews.
- [Healing Hands in Sarajveo, 2013](https://www.thequietway.com/healing-hands-in-sarajveo-2013/): Returning to Sarajevo, Bosnia is always a treat. Despite the years or war and fighting, it always feels a very peaceful city. I like the simple approach to life, the value people place of being together, drinking coffee and striving for happiness. Of course there are well known branded shops in areas of the city and clearly a place of international sporting achievement, but I prefer to be in the old city, the turkish quarters.
- [Macmillan Cancer Centre, UCLH NHS Trust, London  2014 to 2015](https://www.thequietway.com/macmillan-cancer-centre-uclh-nhs-trust-london-2014-to-2015/): Promotion saw me move from Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust to being Senior Complementary Therapist and Service Manager for the UCLH complementary therapy service at the Macmillan Cancer Center, UCLH NHS Trust in London.
- [Dimbleby Cancer Care, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, 2013 to 2104](https://www.thequietway.com/dimbleby-cancer-care-guys-and-st-thomas-nhs-trust-2013-to-2104/): After working with the team at Sue Ryder and on the wards at West Berkshire Community Hospital, I knew I wanted to work full time in trauma care, on an NHS ward if I could. These positions are few and far between in the UK and are rarely paid.
- [The Christie NHS Trust Manchester, 2012 to 2013](https://www.thequietway.com/the-christie-nhs-trust-manchester-2012-to-2013/): When my journey began into the world of cancer care in 2011, I wanted to find robust post graduate training in complementary therapies to ensure safe practice. I was surprised to find no specialised training for paediatric oncology complementary therapies in the UK, but in my search came across a diploma course in 'Adapting Complementary Therapies for Cancer and Supportive Care' at The Christie NHS Trust in Manchester.
- [Aromatherapist with Sue Ryder, 2013](https://www.thequietway.com/aromatherapist-with-sue-ryder-2013/): My first clinical experience in offering complementary therapies within Cancer Care was as an Aromatherapist for Sue Ryder, in their Charles Clore Day Hospice.
- [Healing Hands in Bosnia, 2011](https://www.thequietway.com/bosnia-2011-and-2012/): The Sarajevo Tunnel was an underground tunnel constructed between March and June of 1993 during the Siege of Sarajevo in the midst of the Bosnian War and we heard many stories of people going back and forth, at great risk, to bring food and water back to their families in the city. To visit the site brings a chill to the bones. A short video is shown in the museum connected to the tunnel with footage taken at time. I defy anyone to watch it without crying. What the people of this city and country endured is heartbreaking and to know that such atrocities continue to be committed around the world leaves me speechless.
- [Restore and Revitalise Retreat at Puyssentut, France 2016](https://www.thequietway.com/rest-and-restore-at-puyssentut-france/): Puyssentut is a retreat in SW France for people with, or recovering from, cancer. It is a haven where you can relax and begin to let go of the stress of dealing with cancer and take time to reconnect to yourself and the simple pleasures of life, in a caring and nurturing environment.
- [Top 10 tips for Health and Wellbeing](https://www.thequietway.com/top-10-tips-for-good-health-and-wellbeing/): Top Ten Tips for Good Health and Wellbeing
- [Top 4 benefits of Yoga Nidra Meditation](https://www.thequietway.com/top-4-benefits-of-yoga-nidra-meditation/): Yoga Nidra Meditation is a very unique practice derived from the yogic tradition and is a powerful technique in which you learn to relax both body and mind. Here are my top 4 benefits that you experience with regular practice:
- [What is Meditation?](https://www.thequietway.com/what-is-meditation/): The word meditation is derived from two Latin words: meditari (to think, to dwell upon, to exercise the mind) and mederi (to heal). Its Sanskrit derivation 'medha' means wisdom.
- [Srebrenica, Bosnia 2011](https://www.thequietway.com/should-a-lawyer-find-time-to-blog-every-day/): I have done a lot of travelling in my time, but have never felt so vulnerable and wanting to leave a place as I did when I stepped off the bus in Srebrenica.
- [Bosnia, 2010](https://www.thequietway.com/nyc-law-firm-social-media-summit-on-tuesday/): I first heard of the charity Healing Hands Network several years ago, when a friend of mine went out to Sarajevo, Bosnia under their banner, to offer massage to those affected by the war in the 1990s. I was very touched by her experience and felt it was a good cause to support.
- [Mindful Yin Yoga practice](https://www.thequietway.com/8th-annual-beer-for-bloggers-at-aba-techshow-friday/): Mindful yin yoga combines the influences of mindfulness, Indian Yogic practices, Chinese Daoist principles with western science to improve our health on many levels. With its emphasis on long held, passive stretches, mindful yin yoga increases flexibility in the back, hips and pelvis, mobilises and strengthens the joints and allows both body and mind to drop into deeply nourishing relaxation.
- [Complementary Therapies in Cancer and Palliative Care](https://www.thequietway.com/four-types-of-verbal-communication/): We know that the physical and emotional impact of a cancer diagnosis and its treatment can be very challenging. More and more people are using complementary therapies to help manage their stress and anxiety before, during and after treatment.
- [How often should I have a Massage?](https://www.thequietway.com/proper-color-solutions-for-the-office/): Once people discover the many joys and benefits of massage, I am often asked,  “how often should I have a massage?” Of course, there is no set answer, but studies indicate that massage at regular intervals is most beneficial to your overall health.
- [Yin Yoga Retreat, Solterreno, Spain 2016](https://www.thequietway.com/yin-yoga-retreat-solterreno-spain-2016/): Spending a week in the Spanish mountains, with background sounds being that of the birds, bees and a gentle breeze, 10 hours daily practice of meditation, yin yoga and yin yoga theory, georgous company and stunning vegan food, what more could you wish for?? Nothing!
- [Work related Stress, Anxiety and Depression in Great Britain 2015 and how to deal with it.](https://www.thequietway.com/analytic/): Work related stress, anxiety and depression is defined as a harmful reaction people have to undue pressures and demands placed on them at work.

## Pages
- [Therapies](https://www.thequietway.com/therapies/): Massage and Bodywork Therapies
- [Terms and Conditions](https://www.thequietway.com/terms-and-conditions/): By using my website, you’re agreeing to be bound by the Privacy Policy. Any questions regarding this policy and privacy practices, should be sent by email to: jayne@thequietway.com.
- [Booking](https://www.thequietway.com/booking/): Flexible Therapy Options for Your Convenience
- [Blog](https://www.thequietway.com/blog/): Previous
- [Yin Yoga](https://www.thequietway.com/mindful-yin-yoga-2/): Mindful Yin Yoga is a deeply restorative practice designed for modern life. Blending mindfulness, yoga philosophy and insights from neuroscience, it supports your body, mind and nervous system to slow down, soften and reset.
- [About Jayne](https://www.thequietway.com/about-jayne-doyle/): I have always been deeply passionate about health and wellbeing, a journey that began in the sports and leisure industry where I gained valuable experience in various administrative and management roles. At 24, following the unexpected loss of my father, I took time off to travel, a transformative period that not only helped me navigate my grief but also opened my eyes to diverse cultures, spiritual traditions, and holistic health approaches.
- [Testimonials](https://www.thequietway.com/testimonials/): “Online Yoga was great. You can do it your own cosy home, or in the bedroom if your wish, using your cushions and pillows as support. It was so relaxing worth the money and you can even use your phone. Highly recommend it from your own home. I loved it." CF
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.thequietway.com/privacy-policy/): When you use my services, you trust me with your information. This Privacy Policy is to help you understand what data I collect, why I collect it, and what I do with it.
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