Touch Base Massage

25/07/2023

📣📣📣NEWS FLASH!📣📣📣

OUR BODIES ARE BLOODY INCREDIBLE!

8 weeks ago my collarbone snapped right in half, the two parts of the bone not even touching, but the miraculousness of all the little workers under my skin merging and building and forming a (albeit slightly zig-zagged) new collarbone mean that I can use my arm again, and it did it all on it’s own!! 🎉🎉🎉

As I come out the other side of it all I am feeling so grateful to have had this experience. My first major injury. The first time I have tasted not being able to fend for myself, having to rely on the help of my loved ones (thank you all!) and to succumb to immobility, riding through the pain, boredom and frustration, but mostly to have experienced the resulting dissociation from my body.

The sensation of not being able to move as I knew how, not to exercise or feel my strength, not to sleep the way I find most comfortable, all added to a building disconnect between my head and my body, that I didn’t even realise was happening. It took me a minute to realise this disconnection was why I was feeling low. But it has highlighted, again, how important listening to and feeling our bodies is for our heads.

I don’t know about you but the moments in my life when I have felt strongest physically have correlated to moments of happiness and mental clarity. Similarly these moments of stagnation and immobility over the last months left me feeling frumpy, stuck and uninspired. And as my strength returns and with it my sense of my body as a whole, so does my motivation.

I feel incredibly lucky that my mobility will return, that my connection to my body was able to be reset. I also think of all the people that have experienced injury of any kind that has meant they have had to recalibrate how they move and relate to the world around them. The loss they have experienced and the inner strength to accept and love their bodies once more, in whatever form they take. My utmost respect to anyone on a journey like this.

I am returning to work, and I am so chuffed that what I do allows my clients a slice of time to switch off and let their bodies do the talking. Turn off those overbearing brains of ours and listen to how our bodies feel. Building those mind-body connections and gifting our bodies time to be heard, bravo!

Get in touch to book your body the gift of self-love, I look forward to hearing from you.

(Thank you for humouring me and reading this far 🙏)

Love always
Ella x

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15/06/2023

***SPECIAL OFFER BELOW***

Happy sunny days everyone!

I thought I would share a little message to all of you, as not all of you will be aware, that I've gone done a clever and broken my collarbone...right gone snapped it in half... which inevitably means I am out of business for a short while.

Obviously for anyone who works in any manual job as a self-employed person this is pretty catastrophic (shout out to the British benefit system) and especially as someone, like me, who is just starting this journey and doesn't yet have any business insurance (learning lessons every day) it's a pretty loud wake up call to have some sort of back-up or contingency plan in place....butttttt I don't. So in the meantime I am raking in all the silver linings of my situation...mainly that I can enjoy summer at a slower pace of life, the pain is wearing off, and my left arm although not fit for work or carrying anything heavier than a pint of water is slowly becoming more useful.

Anyway, without waffling on too much, this is also a CALLOUT to anyone I have had the pleasure of massaging before:

My google reviews (located within google maps) are pretty sparse and so if any of you could help me out in this period of stillness and head over to my google maps account (link below) and leave me an honest review, I would like to offer you £5 OFF YOUR NEXT TREATMENT when I am back in business (I have ben told hopefully by September 🤞)

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Touch+Base+Massage/@51.4620824,-2.567647,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x48718fc0b444c8e3:0x21751c653b7a846b!8m2!3d51.4620824!4d-2.567647!16s%2Fg%2F11s9_48zwq?entry=ttu

If you would like to leave an anonymous review, please send me a private message so I can keep track of who you are!

Google reviews are the main helper in boosting any business up in search results and will be invaluably helpful when I can finally practice again, so my many many thanks in advance!

In the meantime, I hope everyone is enjoying a hot, happy and above all, *healthy* season so far!

Always sending my warmest wishes to you all 🙌🌞🌿🙏

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16/05/2023

Stressed? Tense? Tired?
Get in touch about my availability... Flexible times to work around your working week!
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26/04/2023

I am suuuper excited to present to you my new massage space in Easton, BS5!!

It’s so warm and cosy and fresh and I love it!!!

You can find me a short walk from Stapleton rd train station or 2 mins cycle off the bike path, in Easton Business Centre.

For bookings DM me or email ella@touchbasemassage.uk

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18/04/2023

📢📢 Hello world! (Bristol) 📢📢
💆‍♀️Update: I have a new massage space in BS5!
🛎Officially open for business!
📅 Drop me a message to discuss availability and pricing

Tell your friends and share the love! 💚

Look forward to hearing from you 🤩

10/03/2023

Been off-comms recently, escaping UK winter and enjoying the slower, sweatier, sandier side of life on Thai beaches for the last month… I can’t complain!
This last week I managed to pull myself away from beach life into the mountains to reactivate my brain, get my hands back into action and learn some local massage techniques. Now with a basic intro to Traditional Thai Massage under my belt 👩🏻‍🎓
I love how wide the spectrum of bodywork spans, even just within massage itself, and the chance to get some new tricks under my belt has been the cherry on a very sweet (probs mango flavoured) cake that has been this trip. Thank you Thailand!
I will be back in Bristol in just over a week and will be getting my private practice rolling again, so watch this space, and don’t hesitate to get in touch, to shake off that winter stiffness and welcome in the new season with some self-care 🌱💆‍♀️🌱
Now… to squeeze in the last few days of being a beach bum… see you soon! 💛

24/01/2023

Have you taken time out for yourself this January?

60 or 75 min massage slot available this Weds 7.45pm… PM me 🌱

07/01/2023

I took this selfie in my South London kitchen nearly 3 years ago during 'Lockdown 1.0'. I felt good. I was happy. I was revelling in the global pause and mental space that allowed me to stop, reflect and choose my next path. In these moments I applied to BCMB and started my professional journey into massage therapy, soon after uprooting myself to a new city to realise this dream.
As I now look ahead to a fresh year and think about the year passed, it feels nice to share with you this origin story of how I am here now and how almightily grateful I am to be able to share my passion with you and hold space for healing.
We have experienced such an intense few years, and I want to congratulate you all, myself included, on stumbling into 2023 in whichever way you have. 2022 was exhausting, we changed but the world sped up.
I feel privileged, in a time like this, that not only can I work doing something I love, but I can also provide a few small moments of solace from this crazy world we live in. A gentle reminder to simply stop, breathe and just be.
Whatever this year has in store for you, I hope you can remember to be kind and gentle on yourself and to relish those simple things.
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(R.I.P. Lockdown life. Forever in my heart)

01/12/2022

So the time is upon us… Happy December you beautiful bunch! And sorry what’s that just round the corner……🎅🎄🎁
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If you are anything like me and would rather gift your loved ones with something lasting and meaningful this Christmas, that doesn’t end up in landfill or sat collecting dust, LOOK NO FURTHER! Maybe you should consider buying them a ermmm……MASSAGE?!!! Courtesy of yours truly of course 😉
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Gift them (*ahem* or yourself!?) some pure relaxation and respite from the day to day. Saying ‘I love you, thank you for all you do for me, here take a moment for just yourself, you deserve it’. Personally I couldn’t think of any better gift… but granted I am bias.
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If you do agree with me, don’t hesitate to get in touch to book your loved one a Gift Voucher worth one Holistic Massage for 60 minutes, 90 minutes or even 2 hours 🤩. I am Bristol based but I am planning some time in London in January so you big city folk I’m talking to you too. 

For all the finer details drop me a message or email ella@touchbasemassage.uk
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Let the countdown begin 🍾🥂🎉

22/11/2022

Availability for 1 hour massage tomorrow evening (Weds 23rd) at 6.15pm from Enso Healing Rooms... hollaaaa

26/10/2022

Sh*ts getting technical... website is live
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also bristol heads slot still available tonight for any last minute larrys out there in need of some therapeutic touch

Have yourselves a beautiful day 🌞

Holistic Massage Therapy Deep Tissue ~ Pregnancy

24/10/2022

Bristol! I have a slot available this Wednesday 26th at 20:30 Healing Rooms. Relax and float straight home to chill out!