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Snacks and Slumps

Our relationship with food is influenced by a number of factors. How we feel each day often has the greatest impact on our food choices and vice versa.When we chat with clients about energy levels, many experience the ‘afternoon slump’. That 3-4...

The Mind/Pain Relationship.

 The role our beliefs play in our experience of pain is pivotal.Lower back pain is something that affects most of us at some time during our lives. For a lot of us it will pass and we may never experience it again. For some of us it may pop up every...

Ways to get fit this Summer

With so many options for the best way to get fit for the Summer, our Osteopath, Andrew Doody, discusses the pros and cons of different forms of exercise, including a few of the most popular programmes doing the rounds.So you’ve decided something needs...

What is Anatomy in Motion?

An innovative treatment approach to pain and injury that is leading the way in the future of manual medicine available with Leon Baugh at Shine on the Green.AiM provides a totally unique way of looking at the relationship between pain and the way your body...

Hungry, for a change.

I often eat due to habit as opposed to hunger. I’m healthy most of the time, but every few months my energy levels take a dive, like an elephant is sat upon me.I have been watching a lot of documentaries such as Food Matters and Hungry for Change. I was...

To Lift or Peel? That is the question.

 Natural Japanese FaceLift Facial vs Dermalogica Expert Active  Over the last two months Shine has introduced two new Advanced Face Treatments. One is The Japanese FaceLift Facial, the other, is Dermalogica’s Expert Active These two...

“We are all creatures of habit”

 A well known phrase for a great truth. If any habits are in need of being changed, then awareness is the first step.Habits help us through everyday life and make living easier. Thanks to our habits we can generally spend less energy and time on things...

Shine’s 1920’s Shoot

 Welcome to the second major photo shoot we have created at Shine. It has been such an exciting project for all of us to work on.Once again we have collaborated with Stylist & Photographer Charlotte Mumford; to create a completely different...

Shine’s Monochrome Shoot

  Welcome to an exciting start to a new trend of Shine Photo Shoots for Hair. We want to encourage our team to show our clients what incredible talent they have. Shine also want to say a massive thank you to the up and coming star; Charlotte...

Acupuncture in the treatment of  Musculoskeletal Conditions

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends considering acupuncture as a treatment option for chronic lower back pain, chronic tension-type headaches and migraine.  They have also acknowledged that acupuncture can bring...

Expert Bed Advice

An Osteopathic Approach to Sleep and Bedding Many people attribute back pain to injury, weight issues, poor posture and lack of, or strains from exercise.However, we can be contributing to back pain when we least expect: that is, when we are asleep. A...

The connection between our connective tissue and how we feel.

Homo Sapiens of Stokus Newingtus: winter survival strategies:How to keep smiling in February, despite it all:It is at this time of year that I wonder what on earth me or anybody else is doing living at this latitude. Summer is a distant memory, Christmas has...