In pain & discomfort?

Overwhelmed & anxious?

Stuck in harmful habits & cycles?

Hi, I'm Maria McGivern, owner of The Mindful Body.

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I help clients to overcome challenges and relieve diverse types of difficulty, stress, and pain. I use a mind–body mindfulness and re-educational method called the Alexander technique to help clients retrain harmful unconscious habits and responses to stimuli. This minimises pain and encourages positive and meaningful growth and development.

If you are looking for:

Pain management

Pain relief from musculoskeletal conditions (including most back, neck, hip & knee pain)

Lowered muscle tension

A method for lowering muscle tension & calming a sensitised, overactive & dysregulated nervous system

Relief from stress & anxiety, including post-traumatic stress

With increased ability to deal with intense emotions (affect regulation)

Freedom from harmful habits & reactions

A method for preventing deeply engrained automatic responses

Improved ‘posture’ & postural behaviour

Improved bodily alignment, connection, stability & poise

Improved mobility, balance & coordination

Increased ease in movement (including falls prevention), flexibility & grace

Improvements to breathing & voice production

For athletes, musicians, singers, actors, public speakers & others

Self-development & enhanced performance

For performing artists, athletes, businesspeople, creatives & people interested in self-development

Enhanced sensory processing & integration

With improved integration & coordination between the sensory system & the muscles

Increased sense of safety & comfort with touch

Increased feelings of safety within the body, leading to better relationships with both our selves & others

Support for the sensitive & neurologically different

Help for the highly sensitive, the neurodivergent & those ‘gifted’ with neurological ‘overexcitabilities’

A mindfulness technique for throughout your day

Increased self-awareness leading to increased mind–body integration

Tools for self-care & improved wellbeing

For these crazy times when we are all facing burnout & life is far from easy

… work with me to help you.