A FIVE-WEEK LIVE GROUP PROGRAMME
The
Body
Bank
Your body is a bank holding the emotional deposits of your life.
Join me to release physical tension, process emotions, and reconnect with the person you know is alive inside you, in a way that your therapy session and yoga class can't touch.
5 weeks · Live online
*all classes recorded
Begins June 12th 12:30pm · £224
The tension in your jaw isn't stress.
It's the unexpressed impulses of every time you were told to be quiet, don’t talk back, get over it deposited in your body’s tissue — the fascial network— because when you were nine, talking back and expressing yourself wasn’t allowed, and often met with shame or shut down. And this is the real reason why you fly off the handle with your kids, or your partner when they load the dishwasher wrong.
But it’s not just your jaw that’s creating your jaw tension — your jaw is connected to your pelvis. So when you couldn’t speak, or when you clench your jaw to hold back anger — your core (pelvis, psoas, diaphragm) had already responded.
Your patterns of protection— withdrawal, rage then collapse, pleasing for safety, freezing and moving slowly or not at all, are activated in the core first.
From there, the body receives the message to either mobilize and speak, move, breathe or contract.
So your jaw, and how you speak directly or passively, how you stand in your truth, hold your boundaries, hold the burden of your family, advocate for your child -- all of this deposited in your body bank and all of it connected to your deep core.
The Body Bank is where we make changes with how tension, stress and emotion flow in the body.
Your body is a bank, holding the history of your life from conception to now. And it has been making deposits a lot longer than you've been trying to make withdrawals
Your emotional deposits are unfinished responses, impulses that never completed, memories held as tension, and over time they create a physical shape. You feel them in how you clench your jaw to hold back your words, behind your shoulders when being betrayed, through your chest and throat when you’re being shut down.
This is not about becoming a different person.
It's about creating the body that can hold the person you already are.
The Body Bank is for you if:
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You’ve become good at containing yourself, holding your breath, ignoring emotion, using distractions like a powerful run, constant busyness, overworking, or wine to not feel. Those have become your safe ways to get relief after years pressure through the chest and lower back because you can never fully let go.
02
Your child pushes back, your partner critiques you, a text lands funny, and now you’re doubting yourself, feeling unseen and dropping into low level resentment. That’s when the familiar upper body armoring activates for protection, when really you should be activating your core— your inner stability and emotional stability so you can be in your power, rather than harden to it again.
03
You soften or back down in conversations that matter, even with the boiler guy. You agree to a lot and say "Yes" before checking in with yourself, mostly to keep the peace, and then feel the resentment arrive later replaying what you actually wanted to say. Your throat tightens, your mid-back aches and somewhere deep down there’s still a younger part of you that learned having needs or speaking directly could cost you connection.
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You keep yourself in motion because stillness doesn’t feel restful, it feels boring and lonely. The body likes to move — to clean, organize, meet with friends, fold the laundry while making dinner. There’s an energy that feels safer when things happen by you — that’s when they’re done right, and your body is intelligently protecting you from feeling your emotions by keeping in control.
05
You’ve spent years being the reliable one, the emotionally steady one, the one who keeps everything moving, and now your lower back locks and life is always demanding because your body never learned that the weight could be shared.
You might call these personality traits, but they’re not. They’re defense mechanisms, or adaptations that are protecting something that was never expressed.
THE PROGRAM | WHAT TO EXPECT
5 weeks. 5 belts of tension in the body.
A complete map of where the emotional deposits of your life became physical structure — and body-led practice every week so the change becomes something you feel, not just something you learn. We cover posture, shaping, emotions, energy, stability and we start reorganizing the body so you can start creating this new identity that you know is inside of you, you just can’t find your way through.
WEEK 01
Reshaping / Whole Body
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We map the energetic shape of your body by attuning to who you are in truth, and reshape it around who you aspire to be
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Understand how posture, tension, and emotional patterns organize together
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Find a new energetic shape that you can start embodying based on who you want to be
WEEK 02
Diaphragm & Chest
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The diaphragm, lungs and heart are our strongest resource to create bodily safety so the body feels safe enough to can change
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How does your breath show you when expression is not welcomed, you're holding it in, you're bracing, you're hyper-alert, you've check out or frozen.
WEEK 03
Legs & Pelvis
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Your legs are your agency and the pelvis is either a bridge for energy to flow or a block
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Explore agency, groundedness, and the shadow of shame: sensuality and creativity
WEEK 04
Core & Psoas
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The psoas as a survival muscle - this is where fear from the past lives, frozen energy, uncertainty about moving forward
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Activate your core — your inner stability, power, identity and become the most stable damn person around so you can move towards the new identity you know is inside you
WEEK 05
Heart & Throat
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We open the heart, activate its fire, safety, passion and create trust in ourselves so we can become who we desire
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Work with expression, integration, and emotional completion through the throat
This isn't about managing your stress better.
You don't need another relaxing class to relieve tension. You need to understand how your body organized these patterns of protection — and then give it something different to do.
NOT THIS
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Talk therapy circling the same story
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Yoga that moves the body but doesn't touch the pattern
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Running the cortisol off until tomorrow
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Self-care as a consolation prize
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Relaxation that wears off
THIS
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Working in the body, not about it
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Resolving what's held — not releasing and re-depositing
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Building structural capacity, not coping strategies
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The story leads to the feeling — then we stop talking
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Change that lives in the nervous system
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID:
"Thank you Amanda. I think this is the first day since I can remember where I went a whole day without my back hurting at any point guess I need to activate my core more often"
CLIENT — ON WHAT BROUGHT HER
"It was really interesting in today's movement- I noticed that my right side is a lot more "stuck" especially through the lower back. I often feel it in my upper back but mainly left side so it was good to notice this connection so I can try to release it more. The invigorating movement felt very freeing and needed. Thank you”
CLIENT — ON WHAT'S POSSIBLE
This is why psychotherapists come to me. You can do solid work in therapy and it won't touch the patterns running on your autonomic nervous system — the ones we tend to call personality.
INVESTMENT
5 weeks to change what therapy
couldn't reach.
£224
FULL PROGRAMME · 5 LIVE SESSIONS
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Five live group sessions with Amanda
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10 women — intimate by design
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Telegram group for questions, insights, motivation
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Monday morning activation audio drop to Telegram, to guide you through your week so the work continues between calls
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Movement, fascia work, nervous system retraining
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A container to make safe withdrawals from your body bank
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Special playlist to keep you inspired
You don't need to have any background in movement or bodywork. You need to be ready to stop managing the patterns and start meeting them.
Ready to begin?
Places are limited to 10. Once they're gone, they're gone.