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Spirit Nation

To inspire, engage and empower individuals to live happy, creative and balanced lives through the practices of meditation, mindfulness and yoga.

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✨ Sophrology and Buteyko program starting tomorrow. Clink the link in bio for tickets ✨🦋💫.

About this event:

Sophrology exercises reinforce and strengthen mind, body and spirit improving both physical and mental health. Many people find that sophrology positively impacts all areas of their lives.

Key Benefits:
Concentration
Memory
Physical health
Emotional health
Decision making
Sense of well-being
Relationships
Self-confidence

The Buteyko Method is a health education program involving breathing retraining techniques, to return breathing to normal physiological levels. It is based on principles of respiratory physiology, biochemistry and physics. Dysfunctional breathing patterns, including hyperventilation, are characteristic in, and contribute to several health conditions, including asthma, anxiety and sleep disorders. Program participants will learn how to breathe correctly at rest when sleeping, exercising, speaking, eating, and performing daily activities for optimal health.

Improvement in quality of life
Increased stamina and energy
Improved ability to exercise
Enhanced sports performance
Improved ability to cope with stress
Improved quality of sleep
Reduction in snoring
Improvement in sleep quality and tiredness for people with sleep apnoea
Reduced nasal congestion
Reduction in hay fever symptoms
Reduction in asthma symptoms
Improved tolerance of asthma triggers
Reduction in allergic reactions
Reduction in anxiety or panic attacks
Less susceptibility to colds and flu
Fewer headaches.

During the program you will learn life changing breathing exercises and Mind Body connection techniques for better self awareness. For best results, daily practice is recommended.
An audio recording of the guided Sophrology sessions will be available to all participants for continued practice during the program. ✨🫀🦋💫

30/10/2020

Happy Halloween 🎃🧟‍♀️👻

So within, so without...pdf 09/05/2020

So within, so without..
How conscious are you?

So within, so without...pdf

27/03/2020

Hi All,

I will be focusing on my Sophro Australia page as of next week and closing this and the Spiritnation business pages. If you would like to keep following my posts please follow Sophro Australia 😊

Thank you,

Sophie xx

Sophrology: What The F Is It? 12/03/2020

What the f is Sophrology?

https://lnkd.in/ggtCUXQ

Sophrology: What The F Is It? Often compared to meditation and mindfulness, sophrology is getting a big hype right now, so we spoke to an expert to ask: what’s it all about?

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What are the origins of Sophrology?

‘The Study of Consciousness in Harmony’

In the Late 1950’s Professor Alfonso Caycedo, Neuropsychologist, originally wanted to find a way of improving the lives of depressed and war traumatised patients with minimal use of drugs and psychiatric treatments. In 1960 Prof. Caycedo names his method Sophrology.

Sophrology brings together Eastern Philosophies and Western science. It is inspired by yoga, Buddhism and Zen, as well as Phenomenology, cognitive psychology and auto genetic training and more...
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Sophie Nolis posted on LinkedIn 03/03/2020

Want to sharpen your mind?? Check out these two Sophrology techniques.

For more information or if you would like to book in a Sophrology session pls PM me.

Sophie Nolis posted on LinkedIn A relatively new discipline in the field of human sciences, sophrology seeks, through a physical as well as mental approach, to awaken awareness while ...

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Sophrology not only strengthens the mind body connection, it helps give you insight into you! It enables you to make the choice to act, rather than react to situations in your external environment. https://www.healthmagazine.ae/blog/strengthening-the-mind-body-connection-with-sophrology/

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Emotions are not you, they do not belong to you, they are information that the mind and body are bringing to your consciousness.

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NBC news reporting on Sophrology and how it’s being recognised in the US. Years after it was first introduced to Europe in the 1960’s.

As the first Victorian Sophrologist, with a passion for Eastern philosophies and Western Neuroscience, I feel excited to be introducing the practice to our sports and corporate industries, along with running sessions to the general public for stress, anxiety and general well-being. https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/better/amp/ncna870441
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In the last Rugby World Cup the French Rugby Team chose Sophrology as the mindset tool to develop their athletes. Teaching them to connect the mind and body through modified Autogenetic training. Physical sensations.
Another great article by The Guardian on Sophrology in Europe.

“All sustainable and lasting change starts from the inside and works its way out” ~ Lou Tice https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/nov/12/sophrology-new-mindfulness-learning-to-live

How Dr. Shefali Taught Oprah to Let Go of Expectations | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network 05/02/2020

Recognise when you project your expectations onto your children.. love this ❤️

https://youtu.be/WnvP6lYH1Wo

How Dr. Shefali Taught Oprah to Let Go of Expectations | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network In an emotional moment, Oprah reveals how she made the ultimate parenting mistake. For more on , visit WatchOWN.tv/SSS Find OWN on TV at http...

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What an amazing experience! Loved every moment of it! Bittersweet moment. Sophrology is life changing ❤️

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It’s official!! I am Australia’s 3rd qualified Sophrologist -ki

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Good morning 😍

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Making my way to Ovronnaz...,First snow hike🙃

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Only from the heart can you touch the sky ~ Rumi

25/12/2019

Merry Christmas 🎄❤️✨

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How Sophrology works with ‘The 3 Brains’ The reptilian is the oldest part of the brain and present in all creatures. It’s main job is survival and reproduction of the species. It is automatic, unconscious and reacts to stimuli from the world (either imaginary or real). It resists anything we perceive as dangerous and moves us towards anything that keeps us safe. It functions based on the programming it received in our early years of life. If we decided in our early years that eating is what we need to do to feel safe, then it encourages us to eat when we are feeling anxious, or afraid.
It follow habits, patterns and beliefs and it’s role in life is to keep us safe. Most of actions come from this part of our brain, so, when we decide to do something differently, or react differently, it is not enough to make a behavioural change, unless we can persuade the reptilian brain that the new behaviour is a better way of keeping us safe and secure. Sophrology not only taps into our reptilian brain to make desired changes, it uses repetition in the Neo-Cortex - this part of the brain thinks and visualises. If we live the visualisation in an associated state with emotions we are activating the neo-cortex and Limbic brains that will then send new and different signals to the reptilian brain. Sophrology help you understand your behaviours and true identity, once you recognise this, we are able to map new pathways in the brain that feel safe and create change.

14/11/2019

Sophrology and how we work on Emotional Intelligence.

We have habitual emotions (emotions that just pop up during the day and are unrelated to what we are experiencing right now) - These emotional states are due to:
• Suppressing our emotions in daily life situations
• Habitual patterns from past experiences
• Learned emotions from family and upbringing

Habitual emotions often come in pairs
• Anger and sadness
• Fear and despair
• Joy and happiness

Jay Shetty - Every Child & Parent Need To See This 04/09/2019

Jay Shetty - Every Child & Parent Need To See This Sometimes we all just need a little help. Hi, it’s Jay! I'd love to keep in touch. Add me on Messenger and you'll be the first to know about my latest podcas...

14/08/2019

Rumi said ”Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.’ Have you ever wondered why it is easy for a child to learn something so quickly?? It's because they see everything through the eyes of bewilderment. Everything is for the first time. No preconceived ideas or judgements from past experiences. Sophrology helps us see our world as if it's for the first time, with wonder and excitement. Understanding through your physical sensations.

Timeline photos 18/05/2019

The earth without art is just ‘eh’... ~unknown.

29/04/2019

The Point Ompsilon ~ Sophrology term.
If you do not shine your own special light into the world, don't give your gifts, the world will be incomplete and lacking in an essential element that cannot be supplied by any other person.

Sophrology 26/04/2019

I’m excited to tell you that In a couple of weeks I will be heading off to Switzerland to do my midway residential training in Sophrology.
On completion of my course I will become Victoria’s first and Australia’s second qualified Sophrologist.
Last year, I decided I wanted to learn more about mind and body wellness. So I started researching practices in which I could continue using the knowledge and tools I had already developed and apply them in a more structured practice. That’s how I came across Sophrology. After a casual lunch with a friend from Belgium, where we spoke about my interest physical wellness and healthy mindset, she put me onto Sophrology.

Sophrology has been used across Europe since the 1960’s to help people suffering from PTSD, anxiety, worry, sleep problems, stress, overwhelm to name a few. Sophrology is widely used in business, high level sport, the medical professions, schools, universities and across European Police departments.
It is a structured method created to produce optimal health and well-being. Based on Eastern philosophies and Western science it can help with many stress and anxiety related problems.

Read the article to find out more.

Sophrology Sophrology is a wonderful tool that can help you cope with stress. It is used by the medical profession and been used successfully by the Swiss Ski team.

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Least we forget - For those who leave never to return, for those who return but are never the same 💚~ unknown

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