Healing Resistance Massage & ScarWork

Healing Resistance Massage & ScarWork Massage therapy dedicated to activist care, restoring resilience & supporting community based care.

A field guide on how to survive a depoliticised somatic trauma training : Gather your QT/BIPOC friends & form a temporar...
11/28/2025

A field guide on how to survive a depoliticised somatic trauma training :

Gather your QT/BIPOC friends & form a temporary polycule

Rent a 4 story mini mansion with an indoor elevator & rooftop hot tub by the lake

Watch at least three different reality tv shows by your fake fire

Boulder on any surface you can find in your pjs

Hike in the fog & drink water from a juniper bush

Make many nonsensical memes

Grocery shop like it’s the only regulation tool you have - bonus points if you end up with 600 carrots , 10 tubs of peanut butter & 15 yoghurt pots

This autumn yellow was the love of my eyes and my heart . Arresting , magnificent , soothing . For those of you who know...
11/03/2025

This autumn yellow was the love of my eyes and my heart . Arresting , magnificent , soothing .

For those of you who know me I am OBSESSED with mustard yellow , that golden butter yellow , the ochre

Hwang ( yellow ) is my mother’s maiden name .

A few years ago as I was connecting with Korean traditions I found out yellow “ Hwang “ corresponds to the center within the cardinal directional points . Associated with the element earth and the virtue of trust .

Yellow held me in the autumn of 2018 as I processed the grief of my aunts death . Yellow kept me tethered to this plane , reminded me I had the capacity to be with & feel grief slowly and surely , one shard at a time .

This autumn Iv been finding the seasonal transition tough alongside the uncertainty of our sociopolitical times and the economic crisis we are currently in.

Many days have felt like a rough sea and once again Iv found the gift of yellow in the turning of the leaves reach out to me , a moment of grounding , a quiet comfort … a reminder to anchor into my centre .

Next week the first real cold snap arrives …. If you haven’t had a moment with the yellow leaves , here’s an invitation to infuse your last moments , feast the eyes & id love to know what comes up for you

Day versus Night - tales of an Aries Full Moon cengiz
10/17/2025

Day versus Night - tales of an Aries Full Moon cengiz

Earlier this year I contributed to the After Care Project - an initiative providing post surgery care packages for q***...
09/30/2025

Earlier this year I contributed to the After Care Project - an initiative providing post surgery care packages for q***r youth 18-35 .

As part of this program I blended special sun infused scar care oils to support scar healing post top surgery .

organic almond oil & rose hip seed oil with organic calendula & rose grown from the garden .

The scar care oil is deeply moisturising, gentle , packed with vit C and supports scar tissue health and repair .

For BIPOC youth you can apply for scarwork session with thats 50% subsidised - follow the link in bio to sign up !

It was such a pleasure collaborating with in this way , to centre holistic post surgery healing support !

***rhealing ***ryouth

amongst the nettles - moments of rooting , weaving futures , new connections & deep nourishment . This nettle love held ...
09/17/2025

amongst the nettles - moments of rooting , weaving futures , new connections & deep nourishment . This nettle love held me through all winter and into the peak of summer .

Thanks to for capturing the moment & the stories

Practitioner team photo from the last day of the Trans Care Clinic of 2024-2025.What a gorgeous two years of offering ...
09/17/2025

Practitioner team photo from the last day of the Trans Care Clinic of 2024-2025.

What a gorgeous two years of offering interdisciplinary , holistic trans centred health care to the community.

Through offering this pilot project we were able to showcase what gender affirming health care in a by and for model within community can look and F E E L like.

We felt it important to specifically platform trans feminine practitioners & racialised QT practitioners & working class practitioners who literally do the most with the least.

Thank you to all the brilliant practitioners & collaborators we have worked with including


workbodyworkresistance.bodywork
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***rlyfluid fae


Nana Geva
Dylan kinsman - our Concordia intern & host

We also partnered with community orgs who funded additional clinics for their q***r and trans youth, including some QTBIPOC specific ones.





Now more than ever trans rights , healthcare & advocacy are being challenged and must be defended.

We hope this model has inspired you all and will be taken up by others in the future !

We also hope we have created a web of deep care for trans and gender expansive community in the city 💕

***rhealing

Summer abundance
08/21/2025

Summer abundance

After a year of rest and research, tending to our gardens and gathering botanicals on our travels, Eco-Arts Collective, ...
06/13/2025

After a year of rest and research, tending to our gardens and gathering botanicals on our travels, Eco-Arts Collective, invites you to our Living Room for an evening of communal sustenance.

𝘈 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨,

𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴,

𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥.

𝘈 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵-𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦

𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦,

𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘣𝘦,

𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦.

Hosted at Black-led community space, ONYX Lab, Living Room offers a BIPOC-focused space for reconnection and recalibration, within ourselves and one another.

Leaning into the power of medicinal foods and ancestral healing practices that have supported liberation movements for generations, Living Room opens the portal to a plane of rich communal rejuvenation.

In this series, Healing Practitioner , Manna Mu offers walk in 30-60 minute 5-point ear acupuncture and ear seeds, a revolutionary medicine developed by the Black Panthers & the Young Lords.

Along with a selection of Southern-inspired snacks, Chef Berlin Reed plays bartender at our handcrafted tea bar, with personalized blends made from foraged and homegrown herbs.

ONYX Lab at LPM, 1221 Crescent St.

6pm-8pm, June 18

PWYC - kids welcome

This lunar new year I wanted to share an ecological somatic clay enquiry from my time at artist residency in dec.This w...
02/03/2025

This lunar new year I wanted to share an ecological somatic clay enquiry from my time at artist residency in dec.

This was a land listening , ancestral research piece exploring the kokdu ( wooden death companions carved onto funeral biers during the Joseon Dynasty in Korean cultural practice ).

The kokdu are guides, companions and beings who support the dead on their journey to the next life. They exist in the boundary between this world and the world beyond , and whilst some representations are in human form they are neither human nor not human.

Some of the traditional roles they offer include : the guide, the guard, the entertainer, the carer as well as mythical creatures such as the dragon and the phoenix .

My process included digging raw clay from the earth, listening , observing , mapping the ecological landscape of the land of for a week , , noticing who grew where and with whom.

Meditating with the plants to connect to their energies , observing how the clay is made up of the decomposed plant material of the land , remembering in death we return to earth, so how could clay kokdu made of the earth guide us in our earthly return, remembering we will decompose and then guide others .

I wanted to explore what emerges from the clay itself, the shapes and textures , what companion creature will they become ?

How does the clay kokdu represent an earthly embodiment of the locality and stories of the land ?

How does this land want to support us ?

Last week I said goodbye to 10 pine an ecosystem that has been home as well as the hearth of my practice since 2020. The...
12/03/2024

Last week I said goodbye to 10 pine an ecosystem that has been home as well as the hearth of my practice since 2020. There is much to feel about this which don’t have words right now . But it made me reflect on the many studios and tables of my massage practice journey. So here’s a fun timeline snapshot for you :

🦋Slide 2 & 3 : I used to spontaneously instigate massage lines at raves and then when I was on exchange at McMaster uni in Hamilton I started a weekly massage circle that would pop up around diff locations on campus and invite students walking by to join in. Slide 3 is a massage line I started in Cuba on Xmas day !

Slide 4 &5 : after graduating from Bristol college of massage and bodywork , I shared a studio with a collective of massage school friends at Picton street in a building that had cheap rent cos it was part of an ethical properties initiative for social impact led projects .

Slide 6 & 7

the distance between us is measured by vegetables the distance between us is measured by vegetables Sometimes its the le...
09/22/2024

the distance between us is measured by vegetables

the distance between us is measured by vegetables
Sometimes its the length of 20 super pumpkins
Like the ones you grew last summer
Big and engorged and never ending
Thick and fibrous
A mouthful of bitter seeds
Each pearl a letter
An alphabet to string together
Mediated by google translate
And a lifetime of ears that hear the z in the j

The distance of love is measured by vegetables
And the number of tube stops it takes to deliver
zone 9 to zone 3, 2 1 and back again
A best friend as a surrogate daughter
or an emblematic extension?

You gave me a super box of ramen the first time i left home
It lived under my bed and i gave every lover a packet
A stand in for what my heart could not give.

I cross the ocean and sink my hands into soil to find myself
And instead find you,
The world is ending and all we can say to each other
Are a series of photos of vegetables
Lettuce, radish, aubergines, tomatoes , green beans,
Strung out like a bridge
A temporal language
We found we can both speak.

wonderful humans... im back in blighty after 3 years away. between gallivanting around trying to see everyone i am avail...
03/27/2023

wonderful humans... im back in blighty after 3 years away.

between gallivanting around trying to see everyone i am available for 3 days only for massage & scarwork in NW London - Kensal Rise.

come and see me cos f**k me uk is mad expensive since i left but also cos who knows when i'll next be back and i promise my skills are ageing as marvellously as a bottle of wine.

Booking link: https://calendly.com/healingresistanceuk/60min?month=2023-04

low income QTBIPOC - if my sliding scale is inaccessible for you DM me and will work something out

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