Steve Bannister
BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy, MSc Sports and Exercise Medicine, MCSP, HCPC. Transformational Breath ® Facilitator
‘We have everything we need to heal ourselves within, both emotionally and physically. The mind and body possess an incredible wisdom and a desire to achieve harmony, we only need to tune in and listen’.
I am a Chartered Physiotherapist and a Transformational Breath ® Facilitator. With over 17 years of experience in health and wellness, including work within the NHS, Private Practice and Sport, I have helped thousands of clients achieve their lifestyle goals.
As a Physiotherapist with an MSc in Sports and Exercise therapy, I understand the value of optimal movement. As a Transformational Breath ® facilitator and through personal experience, I feel passionate about the value and benefits of optimal breathing. Our breathing is the gateway to better physical and emotional wellbeing.
My unique approach is holistic and personally tailored, recognising that great health is available to everyone and achieved by attending to the balance of body and mind. This ensures my clients are able to return to a full active life quickly and with the knowledge to maintain health results long term. Movement and Breath help you connect with your body, creating the optimal environment for healing and repair. Getting you back in the flow of life.
Physiotherapy
A through and skilled assessment will take place on your first visit.
A detailed history is crucial, to identify any movement or environmental factors that may have caused the injury. Previous injuries will also be considered. Often these factors have a direct influence on muscle tension through the body, causing changes in movement and posture.
A breathing assessment will help identify dysfunctional patterns. How we breathe has a profound influence on how we move and show up physically in the world. It also highlights how well our nervous system is working, which is essential to promote optimum healing and repair.
Successful treatment using manual therapy, movement based exercises and breathing techniques, will help resolve symptoms quickly. Education on the cause of your problem will ensure you get better and remain injury free long term.
Transformational Breath ®
‘Helping to expand and utilise your full respiratory system, Transformational Breath ® helps to improve energy levels, through improved oxygenation, balancing the flow of energy to positively impact emotional wellbeing, physical healing and repair’.
When I experienced another burnout, I was experiencing extreme fatigue, debilitating anxiety and a real feeling of disconnection. I also became aware that I was holding my breath in response to daily stresses - I realised I needed to change something from within.
Through life we acquire conscious and unconscious programming, that influence our thoughts and behaviours. While they may have been useful for our ‘survival’ in the past, they often become unhelpful, self-limiting and no longer serve us in our day to day lives.
When we are confronted by a challenging experience, the old habitual programmes continue to play out and can lead to physical tension in the body, unhelpful repetitive thoughts or circular patterns of behaviour.
Through Transformational Breath ® I was able to break free of the unhelpful conditioning from earlier years, that had led to cycles of unhelpful beliefs, behaviours and a need to ‘overachieve’. For the first time I was able to get in touch with and integrate suppressed and repressed feelings and emotions. My journey with the breath has brought greater clarity and confidence, together with more love, joy and peace into my life. I now feel more connected to my authentic self, rather than the self I ‘believed’ was expected of me.
I work holistically, bringing an individualised and person-centred approach to Transformational Breath ®. Drawing on expert medical knowledge, advanced bodywork and movement skills in order to fulfil my passion in helping clients uncover their authentic self. Intuitively feeling into the needs of each client, this breathing technique helps to relieve symptoms of anxiety, low mood, fatigue, physical tension and chronic pain’.
How does Transformational Breath ® work?
Conscious Connected Breathing is a simple and effective technique. Helping improve unhelpful breathing patterns, to access our bodies innate capacity for self-healing and self regulation, to achieve better physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
When we connect more deeply with our breath, we begin to connect with our body, feeling into emotions rather than constantly seeking to manage them with the rational mind. We start to feel more present, peaceful and have greater clarity of thought, by tuning into a felt sense within the body.
I also use coaching, sound, movement and body mapping, a form of gentle ‘acupressure’, through loose comfortable clothing. This combination of techniques helps to expand the breath by removing muscular restrictions that have been used over years to manage stressful situations and difficult emotions. The result is improved energy levels, oxygen, the release of emotional blockages and physical restrictions.
‘There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy’
Friedrich Nietzsche
Contact Steve for more information and bookings.
Phone: 07743 782790
Email: movebreathe@icloud.com
Website: www.move-breathe.co.uk
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Testimonials:
‘Steve was recommended by a friend and I can’t thank them enough. My back pain had been going on for a number of months and had stumped a number of other therapists. Steve’s approach helped me to understand the nature of the problem and a combination of manual therapy and exercises solved the problem. Extremely grateful.’ JC
‘For years I've experienced neck and shoulder aches, on and off, ever since a whiplash incident over a decade ago. Last year I collapsed. My back went unexpectedly and I couldn't move. Only very strong painkillers enabled me to start moving again. That's when I started seeing Stephen. Whilst I've seen other Physios, and they did a good job, I only achieved partial respite. At assessment, I really got the impression I was being listened to and the whole of my issues were being taken into consideration rather than just end symptom. Stephen was even able to help me understand what led up to my collapse and then proceeded to instigate a plan to get me back to health. Whilst work commitments have prevented me from doing everything as much as instructed, I'm already seeing tangible benefits. Aches that wouldn't go away without seeing a masseuse or chiro, have been managed and I feel strength in some muscles returning. I'm really starting to understand old habits and ways of doing things that lead to these aches. That is a game changer. Very happy with my progress and I'm finally confident that I will see a better and healthier me. Thanks Stephen.’ AB
‘I was lucky to have stumbled upon Steven's breathwork. What a difference it has made. I had no idea my breathing-patterns were holding so much tension until they released.’ BV
‘A few simple exercises and some advice on my desk set up and all sorted. Many Thanks.’ SC