Prime Squad… so far, so good

July 12, 2026July 12, 2026 Catherine

“Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.”
Edward Everett Hale

Back in 2018, two years after the formulation of Prime Wellbeing Foundation, Prime Squad was formed. From the experience of attending many networking groups over the years, some worked for early risers, others for affluent investors, some lovely to attend yet had no outcomes, Prime Squad brought together a desire for something different.

Coming together to progress ideas for success has been the bedrock, the foundation of Prime Squad, and over the years since it’s inception, many referrals have come from supportive recommendations. Working alongside colleagues, purchasing products, services, recommending and referring have been actions completed. Curating wellbeing teams, organising creative art fairs, short term contracts from long term relationships, all in the mix to model best practice.

Some 10 years later, Prime Squad continues to inspire and this month the following has been achieved:

Website issues – advice and support
Social Media – data entry and scheduling
Supervision session: CPD Training in Anatomy and Physiology
Mentoring session: supporting best practice
Treatment swaps

I’ve often said, and regularly remind ourselves,

“we never know who we know who can help someone yet to ask for support”

because, if we think about it, we’ve been doing it forever.

Why I go for ‘body work’

July 7, 2026July 7, 2026 Catherine

It brings me back to my mind.

When I leave a session with Claire from having Shiatsu I have this feeling as if I’m back to having a full awareness of self. Then over days and weeks, there is a percolating that occurs, embedded viscerally, memories flutter muscularly, bringing me back to that sense of myself, sharpening my focus on what is important.

It starts with my breath and the deeper sense of self. A connectedness from which I can breathe deeper, walk taller and be better, not in a ‘look at me I’m great’ but in a ‘I matter’ kind of vibe. In the ‘take up your own space’ way, a ‘fundamental place to be’ way.

This makes me a better facilitator in creating spaces for curated therapeutics and why my supervision includes regular sessions with Claire. It’s not a luxury. It is an essential in my practice preparations in order for me to ‘show up’ in clinics I run.

My Artists Way

June 25, 2026July 7, 2026 Catherine

After years of supporting artists, seeing me taking up the role of Personal Assistant, Photographic Technician and most recently Social Media Creator, I am finding the time to promote my ‘makes’.

When i lived in Cornwall i was so proud to be able to call myself an ‘international’ artist, with images and knitwear finding their way abroad on many occasions. With exhibitions in Sennen Village Hall and sales from local galleries in St Just you could regularly find me on the coastal path seeking inspiration and taking shoots. My biggest selling image, a lone surfer, was taken on Boxing Day 2006 after I’d waited an hour and a half for the perfect angle of waves and a walking surfer.

So continuing my way as an artist of the healing and creative arts, i present items for sale under Allium Arts – our collective arts group

And why Memory Makes? I’ve completed a few commissions over the last few years, from full double bed size quilts, padded seats and pencil cases, curated creations from initial ideas. Using treasured fabric, from loved ones passed, making new memories with remembered fabrics I m looking for commissions to extend the range

you can find what’s available here

Why we say rest is radical

June 4, 2026June 4, 2026 Catherine

Radical Rest is a space for people within the festival to take a moment for themselves, reflect and focus on restoration of their body-mind. This is a collaboration between Jane McDonald, an integrative counsellor and craniosacral therapist, and Bessie Schofield, an artist and workshop facilitator.

Through prompts, workshops and places to lie down, Radical Rest explores how rest is essential and not a luxury.

The space will be set up with a mat, pillows and a collaborative washing line which has prompts starting with:

Take a moment, pause & rest.
What do you see?
What do you hear?
What do you feel?
What can you taste?
What can you smell?

Then reflect – how your body-mind feels?

There will be signs and posters within the space to welcome people to sit down and further emphasise the importance of rest. Examples being:

Rest is essential and a necessity, not a luxury. Choosing to slow down, nourishes your body and mind. It is an act of empowerment that benefits not only individuals but also the wider community, through fostering a healthier and more sustainable way of life.

Reclaim your wellbeing by actively listening to your body and mind.

Between 1-2pm each day, Bessie (@bessies.art https://www.bessiesart.org/ ) will be running a workshop on ‘Rest through art’. These will be drop-in and advertised on a board in the space. The workshop will change each day and span from printmaking, collage to still life. The workshops will begin with guided mind-body-breath practices led by Jane (soma-OBB) to support you into a rested state.

Bessie will also create a map titled “Rest spaces”, which will identify spaces suitable to ground the mind and body within and around the festival site.

The space will not be covered from the rain, so the workshop will be weather dependent. We will continue to check the space throughout the festival to ensure the washing line and work remains intact.

For more information please contact either Jane McDonald or Bessie Schofield at jane@somaobb.com or bessiesart@gmail.com

Get a sense of what to expect, watch our video

https://www.primewellbeingfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/RR-EOTR-Movie.mov

My Approach

June 4, 2026 Catherine

I saw this on a site about wellbeing walking events and it resonated…

Non-clinical: No therapy, no diagnosis, no obligation to share
Accessible: Inclusive, welcoming, and paced for comfort
Local: Rooted in familiar places and local wildlife
Gentle: Slow walking, regular pauses, no pressure

and it got me thinking about the ‘kind of sessions’ i offer people. “Therapy” can be such a trigger word it seems and further to conversations with friends last week, it’s got me thinking about the way we describe what we do, who we are and how we can help.

Since i qualified in 1995 I have referred to my practice as ‘therapeutic’. And now, all these years later, I have developed a practice more aligned with the idea of it not being a ‘therapy’, not to diagnose, not to treat, not to cure, but to offer comfort and support.

Facilitate – To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labour of

So instead of saying i’m a therapist I think now i’m going to say, if anyone asks me what i do, that i ‘facilitate’ by creating spaces in which you are able to assess your own sense of being well and offer support in being able to find better ways to maintain your health and wellbeing – whether that is through touch, or talking or from some kind of creative pursuit.

To wonder at the words we use and the definitions they bring to our collective experience.

Travelling to The Lake District?

May 21, 2026May 21, 2026 Catherine

Proud to have been chosen to feature on the KAYAK in the Grange over Sands area

Coming into the peak time for visiting, we look forward to seeing you soon

You can find more details by clicking the image or clicking this link

End of the Road Festival – is it really 20 years?

May 16, 2026 Catherine

i had an idea and so did the EOTR – thanks for hosting us all these years

There’s been something happening over the last 20 years, the summer circuit offering such rich experiences. Over the years I’ve been part of many healing areas which have fallen into a ‘way of being’ that supports a different impulse. And that is why I’m so very proud of what End of the Road Festival has acheived and why i call it the ‘gold standard’.

In being invited, year on year, to curate the team for the Healing Garden we have been able to build a community. From that first year in 2006 when the garden wasn’t opened until Saturday morning due to Health and Safety checks, when we played football, gave each other treatments and prayed it was all going to work out. When the garden gates opened I took my massage chair out to the crowd waiting for the next band on the Garden Stage, drumming up interest. The years of growth, each year more stages, more guests, how the ‘village’ has welcomed many new faces. And last year, someone emailing me to say ‘you helped me get through the weekend’ due to Long Covid symptoms, and remembering the year after the ‘fallow year’ and how we’d missed the garden, the being there, the people we saw and that sense of renewing our community.

So this is a way of saying Thank You – to all those who made those early years worth the wait to celebrate 20 years at Larmer Tree Gardens, pitching our tents and sometimes performing miracles. From airbed fail saves, disco dancing injury repairs, hangover hugs and not being able to hear each other at different ends of couch when it’s really kicking off on the Garden stage. Thank you. Thank you for showing up. Thank you for putting your faith in our abilities. And thank you for all the years of laughter and love.

Recognition of the flame of an idea

May 11, 2026May 11, 2026 Catherine

It was an evening class i took after work in 1995 that was the start of it all. And now, some 30 years later, receiving an accolade such as this is awe inspiring, because each session is unique and personalised for therapeutic effect.

My practice has taken me in the GP surgeries, hospitals and care homes, festival fields and holiday lets. The funniest was in a static caravan where i had little space to set up and move around the couch, but i made it work. Personalising each session to each person, whether they are a client of many years or for a one off session, it’s all about tailoring the touch, sensing what’s needed and creating an individual space.