I am ready to lead you to and hold you in a deep space, your own inner space. I see my role more as a stage director who sets the stage as best he can for you to experience yourself in a different way. Whether your body needs deep relaxation through slower movements, or energising mood lifting with more vigorous movements, or to engage in more interactive and therapeutic touch-based somatic exercises, I am ready to adjust to the needs of the moment.
I am guided to a large extent on Qi Gong principles of energy flow and seek to unblock stuck areas - be they in tight musculature and holding patterns or in emotional constriction - and especially where the two dovetail. To understand more of my background and influences in bodywork and therapy, scroll down to the end of this section. This last phase is often the most important of all. I have also been amazed at the good a shorter session can do - even 45 or 60mins and especially if it is not our first session can happily adjust to this request too.
Just ask! I practice what I like to call Conscious Touch. I adore giving workshops on this theme, from hours long.
Sessions are infused with a meditative focus nurtured by my deep tea practice and an understanding of the body profoundly influenced by shamanic journeys, and several thousand hours of practise and meditation thanks to approx people who have received massages from me! I try to connect with the greatest possible conscious presence and awareness and respect for your embodied self.
It has taken a lot of work, study, practice and making mistakes to get there. Your comfort is the first priority. We go at your pace. I like to nudge people just slightly outside their comfort zones in terms of pain, intensity - safely, but not launch them far beyond it.
