My teacher for Space Rehab™ is Michael Manias. Michael lives in London with his wife Ewa who is a TIR (Trauma Incident Reduction ™) trainer. Tina met Michael in 2005 when he gave a talk on Space Rehab ™ and has been working with him ever since.

Michael Bsc. is a member of the British Psychological Society. He is a psychotherapy practitioner and has been studying, researching, and applying psychology and related subjects for over 30 years. He has a particular interest in Transpersonal Psychology. Michael has given lectures in England and Germany.

The lectures covered his latest research in which he investigated the phenomena of matter, energy and space and its relation to the human mind. One of the techniques developed from his research is the Space Rehab ™. This is designed to counter the adverse effects of a sudden collapse of a person’s space, due to a physical or psychological trauma.

Michael has recently produced a training manual for Regression Therapists in this subject and Tina is now his authorised trainer. Three-day courses are available on request.

After an accident, shock or after you’ve been emotionally hurt – have you ever felt yourself shrinking?

Do you know that feeling when you seem to get smaller and smaller and it doesn't seem worth opening your mouth to speak or you feel so crushed its difficult to move?

Have you felt your space or the feeling that your world has collapsed? Maybe you’ve never felt the same after an accident or never recovered from a childhood incident.

As humans, we take up a certain amount of energetic space in the world. Sometimes our ‘space’ can stretch out into quite a large area, particularly if we are outdoors.

We put out what are called boundary points, which become our awareness of where we are and what we spatially relate to in our physical and energetic bodies.

Following a trauma or any point of energetic collapse, these points snap into a point in the body where the impact was and a loss of space is suffered by the person.

This loss can cause disorientation and a physical discomfort where the memory of the loss incident is stored. We become smaller in every way.

Space rehabilitation aims to recreate the boundary points and regain the person their feeling of being fully present.

As the boundary points are re-established the person will often report a feeling of expansion, of connection and of feeling strong as the physical body re-adjusts.

It is particularly helpful with physical trauma and as a supportive adjunct to the regression and counseling therapies.

This technique is effective whether the space loss is treated just following a trauma, or treating an incident from the past.

I have treated many people with this extremely effective method of trauma repair that was taught to me in 2004.

Here are some of the applications it has been used for:

• A teenager who had an accident falling.

•A young woman who was trampled by a horse that bolted whilst she was leading it. Her spine was twisted and she was badly bruised and shocked and wasn't responding well to osteopathy. After the space rehabilitation her healing was accelerated.

• A female 20 years after a very serious whiplash injury who still had flashbacks to the car accident was finally able to let go.

• A person experiencing a replay of a birth trauma causing anxiety attacks.

• A journalist having headaches and suffering from a disorientation – this was an old shock memory to the head area.

If you have had some kind of trauma - and few of us get through life without - this simple and effective method can take you forward enabling a faster recovery and a more stable base to work from should you need further support.