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Dealing with Desk Job Aches, improving posture and finding workable solutions at Shine, Stoke Newington Church Street with Sarah Warman, Alexander Technique Practitioner.

Decide what it is you’re wanting to achieve and tailor your program towards it. Do you want to lose weight? Get fitter? Tone up? All three? Get expert advice in the London N16 area, shaped around your body type, goals and needs.

The final big event in terms of hormonal changes is menopause. Find out more here.

In TCM, excessive emotions act as stimuli, which disturb the Mind and Soul, alter the balance of the internal organs and the harmony of Qi (energy) and Blood, which can be a cause of disease. For this reason, emotional stress is an internal cause of the...

Self-Care experience and advice post ankle surgery and why reflexology is Hayley D’Arcy’s chosen treatment for rehabilitation. As an ex gymnast, I have sprained my ankles several times. I sprained and dislocated the peroneal tendon in my right...

Written by Resident Osteopath, Andrew Doody.Although fibromyalgia has long been known to exist, it has only recently begun to be fully accepted and recognised as the chronic debilitating condition that it can be. The NHS and the Department of Work and...

Written by Lloyd GeeMay 10th is World Lupus Day and is promoted to raise awareness of the disease and improve our understanding of its impact.Lupus is an autoimmune disease and if left untreated, severe cases of Lupus can cause permanent organ...

Apropos of a brief light-hearted conversation two months ago this particular Stoke Newington Osteopath is not currently in chilly N16. He is on the island of Tobago in the Caribbean. This is a spit from Trinidad, which in itself is a spit from Venezuela on...

Thai Yoga Massage – “Have you ever tried it? If you haven’t, I strongly recommend you do…. I guarantee you will fall in love!” Danila, Thai Massage Practitioner at Shine, Newington Green.  My love story with Thai Massage...

If you regularly experience digestive symptoms such as bloating, flatulence, constipation, diarrhoea or pain, it is often labelled as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).This diagnosis can be frustrating, as it only confirms what you already know; you have a...

What do you do? Maybe rub it. Maybe pop a pill. Possibly have a little stretch. Or perhaps you have got annoyed by it and act a bit p*ssed off with it. Pushed it away. And pushed on with your deadline and task. Maybe run away from it. Maybe tried to...

How I went from cynic on the sofa, to running convert in 5 months.The best advice that I got and the unexpected benefits I received.Many moons a go, my eyes would roll when I saw a jogger passing me by. They always seemed a bit pleased with themselves, which...