Still Body Studio

10/10/2026

You can become so used to working around discomfort that you stop noticing how much it shapes your day.

The way you turn your head.
How long you feel comfortable sitting.
The activities you quietly start avoiding.

That is part of what I pay attention to at Still Body Studio.

Since becoming a finalist for Best New Business in the Tees Businesswomen Awards, I’ve been thinking about how to make the work behind that recognition more visible.

Upstairs, away from the bustle of Yarm High Street, is a light-filled space where we have time to look closely.

A Body Intelligence Session begins with listening: what you are experiencing, what has changed, and what you would like to feel more able to do.

Then we explore how you move. Where movement feels available. Where you work harder. What happens elsewhere in the body when you reach, turn or take a step.

An old injury, a familiar movement habit or the demands of daily life may be relevant. We investigate rather than assume.

I draw on more than 25 years of experience across bodywork, movement, somatics, sport and wellbeing to bring those observations together.

Through hands-on work and guided movement, we explore possibilities, then revisit what you noticed at the beginning. What feels different? What remains difficult? What could be useful beyond the session?

The aim is to help you understand your body and feel more confident responding to it.

I opened Still Body Studio in March because I wanted women to have a place where their experience could be heard and explored with care, curiosity and depth.

Being recognised as a new business means a great deal. Behind that recognition are years of learning, and close attention to the person in front of me.

If this sounds like the kind of support you have been looking for, you are welcome to message me about a Body Intelligence Session.

01/10/2026

A little birthday news from the studio ✨

I turn another year older today and Still Body Studio, which opened in March, has been named a finalist for Best New Business in the Tees Businesswomen Awards 2026.

I am still taking that in. This space was created for people to feel listened to, to explore what their bodies have been carrying, and to discover more ease and possibility in how they move through life.

To celebrate, I am opening five birthday-month appointments for people who haven’t visited the studio before:

A full 90-minute Body Intelligence Session for £295 (usually £350).

This is the same in-depth session, with time to explore your movement, tension and the patterns that may be contributing to what you’re experiencing. There is no need to arrive with all the answers.

Book during October, and come in for your session by 30 November.

If you would like one of the five appointments, send me a DM with BODY and I’ll send you the details.

Thank you for making the studio’s first six months feel so meaningful. 🤍

23/09/2026

I am so full of emotion right now.

This means so much more than anyone could know.

I have just been notified that I am on the shortlist for Best New Business in the Tees Businesswomen Awards 2026.

I was terrified to enter.

I started Still Body Studio in March 2026 as a place where women could reconnect with their greatest potential.

In their minds.
And bodies.

It means the world to me that the importance of this is recognised.

Not for me.

Not for my business.

But for the strength, creativity and innovation that all women bring here in the North East when we think and feel like we are enough ♥️

Wishing so much luck to all those on the shortlist alongside me and in the other categories.

19/09/2026

This has been a wonderful week.
Connecting with new clients.
It only reinforces my belief that our bodies are intelligent, they adapt to protect us.
It is time to change the narrative that you are falling apart.
Making at for a more compassionate lens.
One that sees all of you.

03/09/2026

One of the most revealing moments in my work is often the moment someone realises how much effort they were using without knowing it.

The jaw softens.

The breath changes.

The shoulders no longer need to hover.

And the person says, “I thought I was relaxed.”

This is not failure. It is familiarity.

When a pattern has accompanied us for long enough, it stops feeling like tension and starts feeling like us.

That is why bodywork at depth is not simply about producing relaxation.

It is about helping someone recognise the difference between what is familiar and what is genuinely easeful.

03/09/2026

Look at your toes when you are standing.

Are they resting, or working?

Toe gripping can easily be dismissed as a small habit. But it may be part of a much larger strategy: creating stability by holding on rather than allowing balance to remain responsive.

The person may not feel unsteady. Their body has already solved that problem for them.

That is the intelligence of adaptation.

It is also why “relax your toes” may not change very much. If the body believes gripping is necessary, it will usually return to it.

The question is not simply how to release the toes.

It is what would allow the entire body to need less effort to feel supported. That is what a Body Intelligence Session answers.
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25/08/2026

A foot can be strong and still be unavailable.

It can walk, run and carry you through the day while barely adapting to the surface beneath it.

When the small movements of the foot are reduced, the consequences do not necessarily remain in the foot. The ankle, knee, hip and spine may all have to organise around what the ground is not being allowed to absorb.

This is why I rarely see a foot as an isolated structure.

It is part of a whole-body conversation about weight, movement, balance and response.

Treating where it hurts can help.

Understanding what the entire body has arranged around it tells us far more.

24/08/2026

23/08/2026

I can often tell a great deal about a body by watching someone stand before I ask them to move.

Not because posture reveals a hidden diagnosis.

Because standing shows me how a person organises themselves in relation to the ground.

Do their feet receive their weight, or resist it?

Do their toes grip?

Does the body remain slightly lifted, as though it has not quite decided that it is safe to arrive?

Most people are trying to correct what happens higher up in the tight back, the tense shoulders or the tired neck.

But sometimes the more revealing question is much lower down:

Has the body ever truly allowed the ground to support it?

19/08/2026

Not metaphorically. Literally.

Every time you braced instead of said the thing. Every time you made yourself smaller in the room, folded your arms a little tighter, held your breath through the tension instead of naming it, your body took the minutes. It wrote them into your shoulders. Your jaw. The place where your ribs stopped moving freely sometime around your second promotion.

Most women call this “just how I hold myself.” As if it arrived with you, rather than being built: session by session, swallowed word by swallowed word.

Tightness is data, not identity. It is the nervous system’s transcript of every time performing safety mattered more than feeling it.

If you have been reading your own posture as personality rather than pattern, this is your sign to get curious. A Still Moment conversation (30 minutes, no charge) is where we start translating what your body has been saying. Link in bio.