Wellness Workshops
Why Attend Wellness Workshops?
Many things in life impact our health & wellbeing, either in a helpful way or an unhelpful way and with awareness and understanding we can discern what things are most helpful for us. It is important that we combine our cognitive understanding with what our body is telling us, all too often we have a cognitive knowing and are not listening to the wisdom of the rest of the body. The wellness workshops Ann offers are somatic embodiment based, this means understanding how our experience is showing up the body and using this to guide and embody what’s helpful
Ann, who runs Unity Physiotherapy & Wellbeing, offers a variety of wellness workshops to help you compassionately connect to yourself & your body’s wisdom, regulate your nervous system, and explore what nurtures your wellness & helps you to thrive, essentially returning home to yourself and to wholeness. The workshops offered can have many benefits including increased self-awareness, increased self-compassion, increased self-trust, improved nervous system regulation and a deeper connection to your inner wisdom. Ann has developed the workshops she offers from many years of clinical experience as a specialist physiotherapist & integrative somatic practitioner, combined with self-practice/study. Like all of Ann’s work the workshops are offered in a trauma-informed way.
Wellness workshops available
If any of the workshops mentioned on this page are of interest please get in touch to discuss and to book (if booking is available at that time), or be added to an interested list. All workshops are tailored to each group needs & additional workshops can be run when requested, for example by a workplace. Ann also runs bespoke workshops on request which are specifically tailored to meet the aims of the person hosting the workshop (for example an employer) & the groups needs.
Some examples of the individual workshops and the series of workshops offered
- Listening to Our inner Wisdom ( collection of a variety of workshops, listed below & more info via the link below)
- Stress Management
- Bespoke workshops (please get in touch if you would like to discuss this for your workplace or for attending with a group of friends for a special event, for example)
The Listening to Our Inner Wisdom workshop series is a collection of workshops, each workshop is a combination of theory, discussion/reflections and experiential practices. Depending on the workshops they are a mix of theory & experiential practices, examples of the latter are: breath practices, meditations, mindfulness based practices, gentle yoga/gentle movement practices, embodiment/somatic practices, compassion, and reflections. For each of the 4 main parts there is a mini-workbook which supports learning & integration.
Each Embodied Harmony class is aligned with natures seasons, aiming to connect us to natures rhythms and our own rhythms. These classes aim to connect you to your body in a compassionate way and encourage: rest, restoration, harmony & healing. They could help in a number of ways including potentially supporting: nervous system regulation; increased self-awareness, self-compassion and trust in the body; decreasing tension, pain, fatigue & stress; and creating harmony within.
The workshops in the Listening to Our Inner Wisdom series are listed below, you can find out more information on each of these on the linked below:
- Part 1 - Nervous System Regulation (4 week series)
- Part 2 - Embodied Compassion (8 week series)
- Part 3 - Setting Compassionate Boundaries & Values Aligned Living
- Part 4- Integration & new Growth
- Embodied Rest ( 2 part series)
- Embodied Harmony classes (quarterly classes aligned with the seasons)
Current Workshops
Ann runs some one off workshops and ones from the Listening to Our Inner Wisdom series each year, as well as offering bespoke workshops. All offerings can be offered worldwide, please get in touch with Ann at info@unityphysio.co.uk to be added to the interested lists/to book. The workshops/classes planned so far to run in 2025, and a collaborative retreat:
- Listening to the Wisdom of the Body: Embodied Compassion (last quarter of 2025)
- Listening to the Wisdom of the Body: Embodied Rest (2 part series)
- Listening to the Wisdom of the Body: Embodied Harmon class (one in autumn and now in winter)
- An online 3 R's Retreat (Regulate, Rest, Revitalise) with Cori Wilke from Koa 29th Nov 10am-3pm (more information linked below)
Who are the workshops suitable for?
All workshops are suitable for people wanting to improve their health & wellbeing, as well as people with long term health conditions who have pain, fatigue, anxiety, and other symptoms. A health screen is needed prior to booking most workshops/classes. You can be adapt practices as needed and only engage in what feels ok to you during any of the offerings.
About Ann
Ann is a fully qualified specialist physiotherapist, life coach, trauma-informed yoga teacher, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) practitioner, and meditation teacher, and has done a lot of training in trauma, somatics & embodiment, and compassionate mind training/compassion focused therapy. All of these except physiotherapy are part of the integrative somatic therapy side of her work. She originally specialised in working with people living with persistent pain & neurological conditions within physiotherapy, she now specialises in fatigue & persistent pain. Her work includes helping people struggling with ME/CFS, long covid, PoTS, fibromyalgia, FND, persistent pain, chronic stress and anxiety, and those simply wanting to improve their health & wellbeing.
Ann has an integrative approach to health & wellbeing and integrates different aspects from all her knowledge and skills 1:1 appointments in a bespoke way and the workshops she offer. Some workshops are offered in Ann’s combined capacities as a physiotherapist & integrative somatic therapist and some are without her physiotherapy capacity (this is made clear at the time on enquiry & booking). You can find out more about Ann and how she works by clicking the button below:
Other Related Information
Ann published a wellbeing book in 2020 called ‘Dancing Through Life: A Guide to Living Well’, this book covers many different aspects of wellbeing. You can find a link to this book below.
Some of the other related services offered
Somatic Wellness Coaching
Yoga
Pain Specialist Physiotherapy
Location
Get in touch
If you would like to find out how Ann can help manage and change fatigue, do what you love, live well and thrive again get in touch to book your appointment, or a free 15 minute call to help you decide if working with Ann is right for you.