Flairesse Massage & Aromatherapy

27/07/2025

I love my work environments, outdoors or inside, but some days are next level special. I have been coming to this private 12th century chapel for 6 years.
Every time I enter its cool interior, I'm bathed in a calm feeling of wonder, imagining the skill and devotion of those whose hands placed these stones and built these walls to facilitate quiet contemplation.

12/04/2025

Receive a therapeutic, healing massage at home and extend the opportunity to a loved one, or to a friend or two to come over and indulge themselves in this gift to one's body that stores so much of our life experience.
Give the body a treat, relieve it of that which it no longer needs to carry - tension, discomfort, knots, stagnation, blocked energy, pain. Rest and let the healing environment bring you back to equilibrium, renewed.
Invite a friend over to share the experience.
essentialoils

05/03/2025

The longlist of the Women's Prize for fiction 2025 draws from author works of women not just from around the world, but many from cross cultural parentage, from people raised in or educated in 3rd cultures and countries.
I've never seen such a variation in cultural perspectives of books written in English. It is because if this lack, that I like reading literature by women in translation.
The full list in alphabetical order by author surname is:

Good Girl by Aria Aber (Germany/US/Afghanistan)

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (UK/Cambodia)

Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches (Scotland/US)

Amma by Saraid de Silva (Sri Lanka/New Zealand)

Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (South Africa)

All Fours by Miranda July (US)

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (Morocco/US)

The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji (Iran/US)

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria/US)

Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell (Ireland)

A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike (UK)

Birding by Rose Ruane (Scotland)

The Artist by Lucy Steeds (UK)

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (US)

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (The Netherlands)

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis (Iraq/Pakistan/UK)
I pre-ordered Dream Count so that should arrive any day now, I called into our local English bookshop and they only had one title, Fundamentally so I picked that up.
What are you tempted by? Have you read and enjoyed any of these titles?

# nesting

03/03/2025

Early evening cosy, in this room with a view, as late winter shows signs of spring, a therapeutic massage in the comfort of your own home.
I like being on the move and working in different lighted spaces and having a view. Nature inspires my treatment and energy and one evening in this kind of light, I worked here and watched as three female deer descended from the left into the olive grove, undisturbed, and then quiety went on their way.
Pure and gentle wonder. Transmitted.💫🦌
grove massage

11/08/2024

On a hot day, under a beautifully shaded tree, all troubles fade away, all cells renewed, birdsong and the chant of the cigales accompany the breeze.

02/06/2024

The season of outdoor massages at home in the Luberon has started. Warmer days are coming, preparations for the season almost done. ☀️⛱️👒🍉
Make part of your preparation a home based 90 minute therapeutic massage treatment. Reset your equilibrium, remove stress and tension and be transported by the aromatic blend.🌸🌹🌼🌺🌷
Where is your ideal outdoor summer spot going to be? 🦋🌳🕊️

16/06/2023

On holiday in the Luberon or Aix en Provence? Start your vacation with a relaxing, tension releasing therapeutic massage, with an experienced, English speaking massage therapist, without having to …

16/06/2023

Appreciating the quiet beauty of nature, while working under a shaded tree in summer.
Treat yourself to the experience of a massage in Provence with Flairesse. 🌸🌿🕊️

29/01/2023

Winter bliss in Provence.
Fireside, bedside, with music or in silence
A relaxing, aromatic massage in the comfort of your own home
No where to go, nothing to do, just let yourself be...
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29/06/2021

For a little spiritual well-being of the mind, this new book by UK Holistic Therapist on 11 of the female archangels is most welcome.

When I am doing my treatments, I often call on these helpers to lend a hand, and work through me, "many hands make light work" as the saying goes.
Angelic hands and light workers. 😇🙌🙏🧚‍♀️💆‍♀️

Reclaim Your Power with the Lost Teachings of the Divine Feminine Alongside everything else I like to read and as you may have noticed on this blog, there is a section called Spiritual Well-Being, …

05/06/2021

Indulging in a little spring clearing, or is it a spring lift? as summer approaches and we can move this activity outdoors, under a big tree and listen to the rustle of leaves and birdsong. Ah, bliss.