EMBODIED REST

🌿A personalised space for embodied rest

You are not just tired.

You are carrying a great deal— emotionally, physically, mentally — often without enough space to fully soften or be supported.

Even when there is time to rest, your body may still feel alert.

Tension can linger in your shoulders, jaw, chest or stomach, while your mind continues scanning for what still needs to be done.

This is not because something is wrong with you.

Your body has simply learned to hold a lot for a long time.

Together, we gently create the conditions for your body to feel safe enough to begin putting some of that down.

These sessions offer a calm, gently held space where your body can begin to feel safe enough to settle.

As your system begins to soften, rest becomes something you can feel — rather than something you have to reach for.

🌿What begins to shift

As your body begins to feel safer, changes often unfold naturally — not through effort, but through gradual softening.

You may begin to notice:

• less reactivity, with more space in how you respond
• an inner capacity to stay with difficult experiences rather than becoming overwhelmed by them
• a growing ability to rest — not just when you stop, but within yourself
• a deeper connection to who you are

As your system becomes more settled, there is naturally more presence, patience, and space for connection within family life.

Children feel this as safety — not simply through what we do, but through how our bodies feel in relationship with them.

🌿About Heena

My work grew from lived necessity.

For nearly thirty years, I have lived with a transplanted kidney.

What began as a life-saving transplant became an unexpected teacher, changing the way I listened to my body, met my experience, and understood myself.

My greatest teacher, however, has been life itself.

Through motherhood, embodied practise, study, and lived experience, I learned how to feel safely within my own body rather than continually overriding it.

Through this journey, I came to understand that beneath constant thinking the body holds a deeper intelligence.

Over time, I saw how experiences such as overwhelm, exhaustion, disconnection, and unworthiness can become woven into the body, shaping the way we feel, respond, and relate to ourselves.

Today I support mothers who are quietly carrying far more than they realise.

Through embodied rest, awareness, breath, and nervous-system support, I gently guide mothers back into relationship with themselves — allowing space for greater softness, connection, regulation and inner support to emerge.

My work is grounded in lived experience alongside years of contemplative, trauma-aware, and embodied practice and study.

This includes Compassionate Enquiry with Dr. Gabor Mate, iRest Yoga Nidra with Dr. Richard Miller, Diamond Enquiry with A.H. Almaas through the Ridhwan School, and meditation teacher training with the British School of Meditation.