Douglas Heel Be Activated
Douglas Heel
Show overview
Douglas Heel Be Activated launched in 2020 and has put out 47 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 35 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 27 min and 1h 7m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Health & Fitness show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 4.8 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Douglas Heel.
From the publisher
ACTIVATE Be Activated is used globally by elite sports teams, celebrities, the fitness industry and health practitioners alike. As well as treating injuries and enhancing sporting performance, it's a powerful tool for stress management, and can quickly break common patterns of movement dysfunction and chronic pain. HOW DOES IT WORK? Our body has two priorities for survival; to breathe and to move – and without both – we will die! Our body finds ways to meet those priorities, and it's willing to sacrifice anything else in order to do this. But these compensations put us at risk. Our body's ability to overcome the stresses and pressures of life can result in reduced movement and exercise. Measurable reductions in strength, power, flexibility and endurance often occur, leaving our bodies less resilient, and at risk of poor performance, pain and dysfunction, both in the way we move and the way we behave. If you experience a traumatic event or injury, you'll notice the slow and gradual decline in function and performance. These compensations then get tired, and eventually break. The result is at best is a loss of energy, at worst constant chronic pain and reduced function. It is almost inevitable nowadays – for everyone. And it's equally simple to reverse when you really honour what your body needs to function correctly. The Be Activated system starts by testing what your body is doing now, so that changes can be clearly measured. This is done by simple muscle resistance, strength and flexibility tests. The next step is to activate the body to breathe correctly (nearly everyone still gets this wrong.) Once the first priority is being met effectively, we run through the body's sequencing patterns, testing and activating, so muscles and structures can return to their correct right patterns – they start doing their own job, rather than someone else's. Then the body and brain can integrate and allow the you to work effectively and efficiently. A stress-free body can go back to working at full capacity, with full energy. The measurements are important, but what you feel is always foremost in our minds as we work. It's all done using Activations which can be used safely and immediately, in any setting. That doesn't mean you'll suddenly be indestructible for eternity . Chronic muscle patterns will need reminding. But the Activation techniques are simple to teach and offer unique, powerful tools for control over your own health.
Latest Episodes
View all 47 episodesEp 31Episode 31: Improved Resilience: Tim's son with Autism
Tim has been looking to find more ways to support his son Braxton who has Autism. There is a clear neural pattern that repeats and Tim and Doug discuss ways to work within his system to improve Braxton's resilience.
S1 Ep 30Episode 30 - What is Your Nature?
Have you been going against your nature? If you experience internal conflict then likely you have been going against your nature. The goal of life is to thoroughly uncover 100% of how you operate in order to create a flow state. In this chat Doug and Tim discuss recent findings of their own nature and how the process helps you learn more about yourself and how to work cooperatively with others.
Advice to Young Doug
Sally's question today: Knowing what you know now, if you could go back to Doug as a teenager, what advice would you share?
S1 Ep 29Episode 29 -Connecting to Yourself
In todays interview Douglas chats to Sally. Sally incorporates BeActivated into her dance school and we chat about how she has done this, and how she has managed teaching where all sessions are still being done online. The power of helping people connect to themselves, so they can dance, is also the thing that makes them more able to navigate the uncertainty of the world around them. We also chat about what kids need, and the challenges they face. Of course we also had to see how her mum has been doing too. Sally Wragg Email: [email protected] Website: www.dronfielddancetheatre.com
Barefoot Doug
Jeni wants to know Doug's reasons for always being barefoot. Of course the answer starts in one place, but leads to many others. We may even have a new sensory class for your feet? This time Jeni gives me a profound refection on how being barefoot can feed keeping me as the reference point in my world.
S1 Ep 28Episode 28 - The 6 Day Challenge
Today Douglas chats to Jeni. Jeni created a 6 day challenge for her clients and had over 100 people sign up and participate. We chat about what she did, the challenges and the outcomes, and then reflect on what an awesome thing that she had achieved. Funnily enough, she had not yet noticed. Jeni first started down the BeActivated path 9 or 10 years ago, so there is a lot of learning and reflection. Jeni Ferguson Director Jeni Ferguson Pilates Ltd 0114 2814003 www.sheffieldpilates.co.uk
Reinforcement is in the Details
Paul literally has a note pad full of questions, which will reveal the patterns we have discussed and looked at in the interview. This is a strong re-enforcement of everything we covered, and more...
S1 Ep 27Episode 27 - Resistance. Spoken but not Seen
Todays interview is a long one! Douglas talks to Paul. We had agreed to talk and also see if we could address a few problems Paul has been struggling with. This interview is interwoven with insights and reflections and a lot of learning pieces and is well worth setting the time aside to listen. If you listen carefully you will see how Paul frames some answers which are then used to reflect back patterns of where he my be coming up against resistance. Paul M. Keenan BSc (Hons). PGDip. Adv.Dip.Managing DirectorSussex Injury Clinics Ltd. 0044 (0) 1444 360 520 0044 (0) 7795 085 [email protected] www.paulkeenan.com [email protected] www.sussexinjuryclinics.co.uk
Advanced Techniques
In todays question Stephen asks about expanding Level 2 learning around the row your boat techniques and any possible advances in the technique and ideas. Doug of course answers the question from numerous perspectives to make sure what we were talking about in our interview is put in place immediately... At then end we talk about Scurvy elephants (thank you Wayne Dyer).
S1 Ep 26Episode 26 - BeActivated in the UK
Today Douglas chats with Stephen Tomlinson. We start with a snapshot of what is happening in the UK, and who can see clients and who cannot. We look at perspective, language and understanding your client. Stephen shares his experiences with a top international swimmer and a para-olympic athlete. How can you use a cheat pattern when the limb is no longer there? We then look at how finding different ways to communicate the same idea helps broaden your understanding and ability to reach people. Doug then has to be a 3 year old in order to ask a 3 year old's question... Stephen Tomlinson www.BeActivateduk.com [email protected] Near Basingstoke in Hampshire
One Point in 5 Minutes
Lily has worked with me as organiser and sometimes translator for many private clients I see in Indonesia. As such she has seen all the different ways a treatment session can be structured. What she wants to know today is how sometimes the session is one point and 5 minutes. We chat about how this becomes possible.
S1 Ep 25Episode 25 - Happiness in Indonesia
Lily and I first met in Spain, when she attended the BeActivated workshops (Taught entirely with a translator). She asked me to come and teach for her in Jakarta in Indonesia. I was not too interested until a surf trip to Bali was thrown into the mix. Since then, about 9 years ago, I have travelled to Indonesia many times and Lily and Nico have become family. Come and join us for a conversation about what makes people in Indonesia so happy, how Lily has been doing things in the last year and what she has seen and experienced while organising and translating with private clients, that my be the most important key to understanding the philosophy and techniques to finding mastery of your client sessions. It was truly a pleasure to be chatting to my good friend again. https://vitruvianpilates.com Lily Touw
BeActivated Online and the BeActivated Training Centre
So in todays question Josee wants to know how I have adapted to not travelling and having to go online. Like all of us we have to go to the uncomfortable places to bring ourselves to the world in the mediums that are available at the moment. Tania wants to know more about Spain or is that Portugal? What is this BeActivated International Training Centre and what are we going to do there once we are able to move around the globe again? Of course the questions had to have travel themes, it is important to both of them.
S1 Ep 24Episode 24 - BeActivated for Business
Josee and Tania are serial course repeaters. They have travelled the world together to attend BeActivated programs in many different places. Why would you attend so many of the same workshops? A very good question we discuss in this interview. Find out how they use BeActivated in their businesses. [email protected] [email protected]
Meeting People Where They are at Today
Steve asks such an interesting question today. If I were launching BeActivated today, in the current climate, how might I do things differently. Since our goal is to meet people in the world where they are at, it may be we would have to shift our order....maybe?
S1 Ep 23Episode 23 - Highly Contagious Energy
Today Douglas talks to Steve from Romsey physiotherapy. In this very open discussion Steve reflects on what is going on in the UK at the moment, and the challenges he has faced as well as why he is so high energy now. I benefited greatly just listening to Steve, his energy is contagious. This energy can only have huge positive influence with the people he meets and works with. Steve Poole https://www.romseyphysio.co.uk/the-team-1
Physio to BeActivated, Race and Trauma
Today both linda and Roshmi have a question for Doug. Linda wants to know how Doug went from physiotherapy to BeActivated. Roshmi works a lot with trauma and wanted to know if Doug had noticed differences in the way trauma is stored and presented in different races.
S1 Ep 22Episode 22 - Ideas and Concepts of the Mind and Body
Today Douglas speaks with Linda and Roshmi. Linda has been doing BeActivated for over 7 years, and she runs programs with Roshmi who is a psychotherapist. Join us for a conversation where we look at integrating ideas and concepts of the mind and body. Linda Wheatley Website: www.hathayogauk.weebly.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/Yoga-with-Linda-Wheatley Roshmi Lovatt MA IAP, Dip Sup, UKCP, MBACP - Integrative Arts Psychtherapist https://www.bodhispace.co.uk/about/
Answers Within
Question time. Because of Kirsten's courageous sharing, she offers me the opportunity to do the same. When did I know to find the answers in me?
S1 Ep 21Episode 21 - Environmental Influences on our Physiology
Douglas talks to Kirsten today. Doug is in sunny Cape Town, and Kirsten is in Denmark, cold, dark and wet. Its a good place to start. We chat about environmental influences on our physiology, clients who are "very clever" are tougher to work with and Kirsten struggling with the Monday email for the HAK 2021 program. In this very honest and frank discussion she shares what she discovered, and where it led her. And once you are clear what you are dealing with, joining a live session to do the work can be a powerful catalyst for the changes she has been waiting for, 27 years.... And she did it all herself. Kirsten shares openly about her work and vulnerability, and this is courage in action, and it is a privilege to be on the other side of the chat. ___________________________________________________