Balance your body's energy systems.

My holistic massage has evolved over many years of training, treating and, perhaps most importantly, listening.

It isn't one particular style of massage. Instead, I draw on everything I have learned and experienced over the years, blending traditional massage techniques with elements of manual lymphatic drainage, oncology massage, gentle stretching and lengthening, connective tissue work and the therapeutic use of warmth and hot stones.

Because our bodies don't exist separately from the lives we lead.

A tight shoulder may be influenced by hours spent at a desk, driving, lifting children or repeating the same movements every day. But our bodies can also respond to the less visible things we carry — stress, responsibility, change, worry, emotional load and those periods in life when we feel we need to protect ourselves a little more.

Very often, we hold more than we realise.

Your treatment therefore begins before the massage itself. From our conversation when you arrive, I begin to understand how life is feeling for you and what you would particularly like from your treatment. This is never a therapy session and there is absolutely no expectation to share anything you don't wish to; sometimes just a few simple pieces of information give me enough insight to approach your body with the right intention.

Once the treatment begins, I work through touch — noticing where the body feels guarded, where movement feels restricted, where one side differs from the other and where it may simply need time and reassurance before it is ready to soften.

Rather than forcing tight muscles to release, I prefer to encourage the body towards it. Warmth and hot stones are often woven naturally into the treatment, alongside slow massage, gentle stretching and work through the connective tissues. Pressure, pace and technique will change throughout depending entirely on what I am feeling beneath my hands and how your body responds.

The treatment can encompass the whole body, including the neck, base of the skull and scalp, creating space not only for physical tension to ease but for the nervous system itself to settle.

No two treatments are exactly the same, because no two people — or even two days in the same person's life — are exactly the same.

Holistic massage at no.88 is less about following a routine and more about listening to the person and the body in front of me.

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