Over the years, I have trained in various bodywork styles including thai yoga massage and ayurvedic marma points. My extensive experience in teaching yoga for pregnancy, postpartum recovery, womb wellness yoga, restorative yoga, trauma-sensitive yoga and yoga for anxiety and depression helped me create my own brand of bodywork that focusses on deep nourishment and nurture of the body and the nervous system. My overall intention is for you to feel calmer, more grounded and more in your body at the end of a session. We always begin a session with checking in how you are and what you might need on any given day. You will be lying on a thick futon mat, we will be using blankets, bolsters and cushions as required to make you comfortable. You will be wearing comfortable clothing. I don’t apply oils unless specifically agreed.
Pricing: 60 Minutes £60-90 (pay what you can afford and what you think my work is worth). If you prefer a home visit, a travel fee applies depending on the length of the journey.
Availability: I currently offer a session on Saturday mornings at my treatment room in East Grinstead between 10am-12. To inquire about available slots or if you can’t ever make this time and still would like to book a session with me, please contact me using the email form below.
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If you feel your body and being is in need of receiving mindful healing touch, deep yet gentle stretching and/or tension and stress release, this massage is for you. It works especially well if you are feeling anxiety, overwhelmed or burnt out. Thai Yoga Massage also offers highly effective techniques to ease back and neck pain.
You will be lying on a thick futon and are invited to wear comfortable clothing that allows for full range of movement. Drawing from my years of experience as a restorative yoga teacher, we will use blankets, bolsters and cushions to meet and support your body as needed to promote relaxation and tension release. I am drawing from various healing traditions in these sessions to create a scenario in which all parts of you come back into relationship with each other. Thai Yoga Massage consists of gentle dynamic techniques like rocking and moving of limbs and body, static techniques like physical holding and gentle pulling of limbs and head and the dance-like joined movement of the giver and receiver. This combination feels deeply nurturing and invites your nervous system and muscles to let go of tension and ease out. Relaxing breaths are sometimes suggested to allow you to release even more in different positions. As appropriate, Marma acupressure points will be woven into the massage. Expect to feel more grounded, at home and at ease in your body, heart and mind by the end of the massage.
My intention when I give a Mindful Thai Yoga Massage is an attitude of listening with ears and hands. I am not trying to fix you. I trust in the self-healing capabilities of the body-mind. I am simply assisting your body and all its systems to come back into a state of balance - the body is programmed to return over again into homeostasis, we just need to create space for this to happen. A Mindful Thai Yoga Massage can be this space.
As I don’t book treatments back to back, you will have an extra 10-15mins after the end of the massage to relax on the futon, so your body can recalibrate and you can truly take your time to transition from deep rest to stepping back into your normal life.
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The intention of a Mindful Pregnancy Thai Yoga Massage remains the same as for a general session (see above). Pregnancy is a time of change in the physical body as well as mental-emotional change and challenges and this will be reflected in the approach to the massage. Positions will be modified taking into consideration comfort and safety of the mother and the unborn child. As the massage is offered on a futon, there are a lot more options for comfortable and safe positioning than on a massage bed. There are restorative yoga positions like side-lying, leaning forward over a bolster, birth ball or bean bag and a high supported backlying butterfly position to name a few. Instead of big stretches, the focus will be on slow, deep touch, rocking and gentle stretches to give you a beautiful massage experience while avoiding overextending ligaments which are more flexible under hormonal influence during pregnancy. Marma points are only very carefully and gently used with contraindications in mind, if at all. You will be invited to breathe a calming breath for labour throughout the massage which can induce a trance-like state. You might even fall asleep. This massage is a beautiful journey into relaxation and the connection between you and your baby. Both of you are in safe and loving hands.
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The postpartum period is characterised by physiological and mental-emotional changes as your body recovers and your system re-adapts to a non-pregnant state plus (breast)feeding as well as the complete life change of caring for a tiny human being. The intention of this session is to mother the mother. You will be resting in beneficial restorative postures and be introduced to a way of breathing that supports postpartum nurture and internal healing. The massage is still a whole body experience yet focuses on those parts of your body that are specifically challenged due to feeding, carrying your baby, lack of sleep (back, neck and shoulders anyone?) as well as pregnancy- and birth-related changes and challenges around the hips and pelvis.
We will begin with a check-in so you can express what you need and want from the session. My general intention is for you to feel safe, held and nurtured throughout and more grounded, more settled and calmer by the end of it.