I help you understand your nervous system and recognise your changing capacity, especially when persistent health challenges, neurodivergence, pain, fatigue or overwhelm make everyday life more complicated.
Support for living with fatigue, limited energy and fluctuating capacity - with gentler ways to understand your nervous system and work with what is available.
Neurodivergence-affirming support to explore your nervous system, sensory needs, capacity and ways of navigating life that work more naturally for you.
Support when prolonged stress, overwhelm or burnout has left you feeling depleted, disconnected or less able to manage the demands of everyday life.
A compassionate approach to understanding pain, the nervous system and changing capacity - without pressure to push through, think positively or fix yourself.
Meet Your Guide
I’m an embodiment teacher, nervous system educator, coach and retired doctor, bringing together professional knowledge, lived experience and many years of exploring body-based practices.
My approach is gentle, curious and deeply human. I won’t ask you to push through or try to fix yourself. Instead, we explore what your nervous system may be communicating and what genuinely supports you.
Are you living with persistent health challenges?
Perhaps you experience chronic pain, fatigue, fluctuating energy or a body that can feel unpredictable. You may be living with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, an autoimmune or inflammatory condition, Long Covid, multiple sclerosis, autonomic dysfunction, POTS, or another condition that affects your everyday capacity.
You may also be neurodivergent, highly sensitive, stressed, overwhelmed, overworked or experiencing burnout.
When difficulties persist, the familiar pathway of receiving treatment and “getting back to normal” may no longer fit. You may have received very little meaningful support or encountered promises of quick fixes and miracle cures that have left you feeling disappointed or let down.
What I offer is a little different.
It is not therapy, although it may feel therapeutic.
It is not medical treatment, although it may offer meaningful support.
It is not a cure, although it may help you understand yourself, reconnect with your body and find gentler ways to live with what is here.
There is nothing to fix and no expectation that you should push through. You are welcome exactly as you are.
A gentle, flexible approach to understanding your nervous system, recognising your capacity and meeting yourself with greater awareness, choice and compassion.
Notice sensations, patterns, needs and shifts in capacity - without turning awareness into another form of self-monitoring or judgement.
Meet your experience with curiosity and kindness, rather than criticism, pressure or the expectation that you should be coping differently.
Develop a clearer understanding of your nervous system, why certain responses arise and how health, environment and life demands can affect your capacity.
Explore accessible ways of supporting yourself through breath, movement, rest, sound and embodied awareness - always adapted to what feels possible for you.
There is no single practice that suits every person or every day. These different approaches offer possible ways into awareness, connection and support. We can explore them individually or in combination, always adapting them to your needs and capacity.
Accessible, adaptable yoga using movement, stillness and rest - with chair, standing and lying-down options.
Gentle Lu Jong and Tsa Lung practices combining movement, breath and awareness to support embodied connection.
Flowing Shibashi movements that can be practised standing or seated, with an emphasis on ease rather than precision.
Accessible, embodied meditation practices that welcome movement, changing attention and different ways of being present - without demanding a quiet mind.
Breath awareness, pranayama and guided breath practices shaped around your needs - never forcing the breath or overriding the body.
Music, voice, vibration and tuning forks can offer another pathway into sensation, expression and embodied awareness.
Inclusive, facilitated movement inspired by Groove - with no steps to learn, no performance and freedom to move in your own way.
Guided creative exploration using colour, shape and mark-making - with curiosity rather than concern about artistic ability.
Guided practices offering deep rest and gentle inward awareness - with no requirement to relax, remain still or experience the practice in a particular way.
A curious exploration of sensations, emotions, impulses and patterns in the body - without needing to analyse, explain or uncover a particular story.
Creative ways to explore your experience through sensation, movement, imagery and expression, developing greater connection with yourself and more choice in how you respond.
Learn to recognise nervous system responses, shifts in capacity and the impact of different demands - without monitoring, judging or trying to control yourself.
© 2026 Helen Machen-Pearce
