DOMENICA FINCH

physiotherapy and performance

  • what is a movement practice?

    this is a draft from 2023: Well I guess anything that you practice regularly, a movement style or apparatus that you have a relationship. like if you do yoga everyday, you build skill and understanding in those poses over time. It’s a mindful and intentional way of moving, spending time with the body and opening…

  • what is somatic healing?

    In “traumatic” situations, people are pushed beyond the limits of their mental and physical capacity. Events that trigger a strong stress reaction, where the stress reaction is not resolved through interpersonal, spiritual or cultural processes, can manifest ongoing physiologoical and psychological changes. In western medicine, these are classified as serious psychological and physical illnesses such…

  • intergenerational trauma in the body

    what is trauma? a response to deep stress (physical, emotional, psychological) that disrupts a being’s baseline functioning. not all stress creates trauma. not all responses to extreme stress are negative, some are adaptive. there are are ideas about disrupted memory, consciousness which does not have the evidence to accept that the threat has ended, open…

  • dysautonomia

    perhaps a sensitive nervous system is not dysfunctional, removed from urban context? dysautonomia is a common way that sensitive human beings are dismissed and labelled as defective. neurodivergence is another. mast cell activation, histamine sensitivity, POTS. they’re all ways to label, and pathologise, a sensitive body system – that’s responding to chronic sympathetic activation. trauma,…

  • los ovarios

    grow a pair means don’t be scared. we are familiar with the idea that testes are the seat of male courage. and what if so for women? fear is a complex mechanism, but the fundamental function, i think, is simple. don’t die. don’t do the thing which might make you die. don’t do the thing…

  • dissociation and psychosis (reply)

    a friend shared something about dissociation and psychosis. this was my response: The spiritual and non-physical reality CAN be a communal reality (like you spoke about yesterday with your young person on walkabouts)… but it is not in western culture.  We have been systematically disconnected from the energetic reality that we live in – individuals…