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An independent Massage Studio, we strive to be an oasis of calm away from our sometimes hectic city. Massage can help you to relax and soothe a busy mind.

WHAT A MASSAGE CAN'T DO:

It can't achieve world peace, pay the bills, it can't make you thinner, tidy the house, or cook the dinner. WHAT A MASSAGE CAN DO:

It can provide you with time to yourself; encourage your body to release tension, helping to keep aches and those pesky niggles at bay. It can help restore you, to you. Welcome to Loop, where we strive to bean oasis of calm away from our sometimes hectic city. Everybody can benefit from carving out some time, to decompress from the daily grind. Loop provides you with that time and the space to relax, while we treat your achey, stressed out body.

03/11/2025

It’s meet the team Monday!

Holly has been with us a short time but has settled right in with their calm presence and deep understanding of a mindful practice . I love Holly’s work for the confidence behind every move, there is a reassurance in their treatments which leaves you with a sense of well being that lasts. I’m so glad Holly has found a home at Loop.

HOLLY
(they/she)  Holistic massage therapist. Holly is a massage therapist drawn to the quiet magic of slowing down and being with what is. Their approach is gentle, grounded, and intuitive, shaped by a deep respect for the body’s own intelligence. With a background in art and community work, Holly brings creativity, warmth, and deep listening to their practice. They are especially passionate about creating inclusive, affirming spaces.

Holly in their words:

How do you like clients to feel after a treatment with you? I hope clients leave feeling empowered, connected, and resourced, like their cup has been filled. I want them to walk away more at ease in their body, more open to beauty in the world, and with a renewed sense of self-trust and groundedness.

What clients say about Holly

Holly S was a fantastic massage therapist and really took the time to listen, after the massage I felt so relaxed. Thank you Holly!

Honestly the best massage I have ever had. Holly absolutely did it for me and my recently dislocated shoulders…Very quick to understand my needs and adapt to them without having spoken previously about them.

I used to have massages regularly as a professional fighter but not even close to how I felt after a massage with Holly.

30/10/2025

This isn’t the post where I tell you that massage saved my life, it’s not, not that post either.
I’ve been thinking about grief a lot this week, Sometimes Loop’s inbox is filled with it. Sometimes without provocation your own grief, now so well managed, can swell and break the surface; just an air bubble, long trapped, bursts afresh. Grief is a multitude of so many trapped bubbles.

I am bad at grief, I’m bad at other people’s grief. Human’s generally aren’t taught how to cope with it because as animals we are all about life and the living. So outside of funerals, we don’t have the language and pain, ours and others is uncomfortable. I’m a practical person, when faced with unsettling feelings I tend to get more practical. I guess that’s why massage appeals to me; I can work through some stuff mentally and be soothed physically.

I think I always say this but massage gave me space, be quiet and to be with the quiet, to practice feeling the feelings, to breath. Massage felt very safe because there was someone there with me.

Massage is being in a room with someone who is working really hard to care for you without saying a word. A someone who isn’t one of your people, an almost stranger to whom you are not beholden. It can be such a relief. Sometimes managing other people’s expectations of your grief is the hardest. We don’t want to be too much.

To be clear: It takes more than massage. It is not a miracle pill. Sometimes it takes an actual pill and professionals to talk to. It takes time and then even more time and about an ocean of patience.

For you or someone you love - it might not be massage. It might be running or baking or gardening but hopefully there will be something out there that helps. Some secret door will be unlocked and help support you through the series of rooms to find your new normal.

If that’s been Loop, then we’re honoured.

Loop Massage / Wapping Warf
Boutique Studio in Central Bristol

Massage. Facials. Reflexology.

Come Rest, Restore and Rehabilitate with us.

27/10/2025

Loop Massage / Wapping Warf
Boutique Studio in Central Bristol

Massage. Facials. Reflexology.

Come Rest, Restore and Rehabilitate with us.

23/10/2025

It’s been a while since we’ve introduced you to the team, so I thought it’s about time to highlight the wonderful therapists working at Loop.
Starting with some of our newer team members.

EMILY
(she/her)  Holistic massage therapist

Emily brings such a wonderful energy to all her endeavours, she’s a wonderful listener and incredibly calm. I really enjoy her lightness of spirit and sense of adventure that brings Joy to Loop and also makes her treatment style curious and grounding.

Here’s how Emily’s clients describe her work:

“Wonderful message from Emily. She was so kind to me and the grounding message she gave, to soothe me, what exactly what I needed.”

“Emily was simply lovely and listened carefully to my needs and acted upon them.... I will definitely be back.”

Here’s how Emily describes her work

What’s the one thing you want people to know when they book in with you?
I’d like people to know that this is their time and their space. My treatments are personalised to meet your needs, whether it’s tired, aching muscles, or a busy mind. I will take time to listen to and understand your specific concerns and preferences, ensuring that each session nurtures your mind, body, and soul.

20/10/2025

Waiting

Taken in the waiting room just before being called in to begin prep for my lumpectomy in 2014. I can’t tell you in all honesty how many waiting rooms I’ve been in since this point. To be honest, there was a lot of waiting rooms to get me to that point. So many hours of twitchy, adrenaline filled minutes of waiting. I was lucky, I always had a hand to hold and something to pretend to read. I got remarkable good at crosswords, though I’m now not a fan and funnily enough Loop doesn’t have an official waiting room. Which I know can peeve some of our visitors but I’m frankly allergic to them, even the good ones. It’s odd when you run your own business where you put time, love and focus. Our studios are warm, cosy and inviting, each room is a sanctuary to the outside world and we invite you to spend precious minutes after your appointment slowly coming around and mindfully getting redressed. While our front of house is filled with light, points of interest, it’s a practical space - writing this - I’ve finally realised why.

October is a waiting month to me. I’m usually waiting for results or for a mammogram; which while I’m forever grateful to be kept an eye on does seem to be a little on the nose because of course it’s breast cancer awareness month. I’ve spoken of it before but having a month, the sole focus of which is to raise awareness (is wonderful) it also makes it difficult to forget it’s a part of your life; which is honestly how I prefer to live. However, it’s the perfect time to remind YOU - you need to do your monthly checks, no matter your gender, know your body. Know what’s normal for you, so if there’s ever something going on - a lump, bump, pain, discharge, texture or colour change - you can act quickly and speak with authority. Do these checks monthly (or more often!). Don’t be scared, don’t be put off - the more often you keep an eye on yourself - the more likely you are to catch something early.

Your body is precious and no body should know it better than you do. Trust me, I’m a massage therapist and someone who once had cancer.

27/05/2025

Yesterday, Loop turned 8 and tomorrow, my marriage turns 10.

Both, as those who have lived with partners long term or are small business owners can attest, seem fairly miraculous.

I don’t know how it happens, this passing of time, I still feel, I’m only just beginning to get good at either.

Truthfully, there would probably be no Loop without my Love, he saw potential in the idea and in me, before I could dare to even think “can I do this?”.

He said YES and continues to do so, his belief, gave wings to mine.

In the early years, I leaned too heavily on both Loop and my Love to give me an identity, insecure in being “enough” just as I am.

The most important thing I’ve learnt (so far), for either to work, you need to know yourself first and foremost and be secure in who you are.

Running Loop and a marriage has gotten easier, not easy, the more secure I am in myself, my opinions, my hard nos and firm yeses but weirdly nothing has influenced the who, of who I am, more than Loop and my Love.

The other thing these two parts of my life have in common is they have all of my heart. Neither can survive without it, through the frustrating moments, the darn right crazy times, the confusion and some scary parts. There is Love, and what a privilege that is.

It’s so easy to talk about the good times on anniversaries but deep down, we all know, when the going is good, everything is easy. Reflecting on the dig in deep moments, is what makes me the most proud, because that is where the good, no the GREAT, grows up from.

27/01/2025

A personal post.
Today marks 14 years since my mum died.
Grief is a remarkably strange bedfellow. It rarely marries neatly with the days we perhaps expect to feel it cutting deeply. Then out of the blue a piano of grief can fall on your head and flatten you like a cartoon character; only it never feels particularly funny.
Some years, especially lately this day arrives and I wonder. I wonder what she’d make of it all - the world as it is now, I wonder what her favourite book would be of recent years or the movie she’d love or the TV show she’d bug me about until a saw it too, I wonder how loudly she’d yell at the news and what she’d channel that energy into. I wonder how she’d shape my niece and nephew, what on earth she’d make of me having a dog. I wondered which of my choices we’d have discussed and mostly what she’d have thought about Loop.
Sometimes I miss the mirror of her, how it’s that little bit harder to be proud of what I’ve built because she’s not there to be proud.
No one in my family had ever started a business before me - I wonder what she’d have made of that.
But she is a part of Loop - she booked my first massage course when I was 19 years old. She believed I was gifted back then and it only took me 15 years to listen to her. I think she’d have called that progress.

I don’t know what this app is about at the moment but I like it best when we’re being human, kind, honest and vulnerable.

02/01/2025

Looking around this App in the past few days - it feels we’ve reached a fever pitch of New Year-ness. New Year, New You! Whether that be from doing nothing or everything - I really can’t tell, my feed flip-flops more than a new born seal on that one.
We’re either meant to be stopping something, starting something, breaking habits, creating habits; for some this is the perfect time to recreate yourself and for others it’s the absolute worst. I totally get it. If I was a better sales person - I’d be listing of the multiple health and wellbeing reasons to get a massage but honestly? What this really makes me want to do, is just give you all (and myself) a big hug and remind you that you’re doing your best. I’d remind you that this is just an app, you can close it or curate it to help yourself feel better, because life it is too short to compare. Do what feels good, in a time frame that feels right to you. Try not to tie yourself in knots reinventing the wheel. Thank your body for everything it can do, be kind to yourself and others but more than this, represent humanity by showing humanity and being human. Remember even the most real people on here, still have to curate what they show you - we’re all dark and twisty, we all poop!
I like the sound of 2025, the sun is shining today and everything feels optimistic to me, but there will be days in future months which don’t and that’s ok.
The best I can do is stay in my lane, to try not to yuck another person’s yum and be just incredibly human to the best of my ability.
I would like to thank our little Loop community from the bottom of my heart for all the love you showed us in 2024 and we hope to see you soon in 2025.

18/11/2024

Time to meet the team! This time it’s ….
HELENA!
(she/her)  Holistic, Deep Tissue & Pregnancy massage therapist. Drawing upon her studies in yoga, Helena works physically and energetically in a fluid and grounding way to leave you feeling relaxed and nurtured.

Spending time with Helena, is like getting an injection of pure, openhearted joy. You’ll just come away feeling lighter, more positive and energetically realigned. A gem of a human.

What clients say
I’ve had massages elsewhere before, but this was the first time I’ve felt that the massage therapist (in this case, Helena) was genuinely responding to my needs and what they were feeling under their hands, rather than going through the same motions on both sides of my body. She gave a perfect mix of deep pressure and light, relaxing movements, and was so in tune with what I needed, which gave me real confidence that she was listening to *my* body and was a true pro.
What Helena says
What influences your style of treatment? As a yoga teacher and movement enthusiast, I am forever inspired by the body, it’s healing powers and all of its capabilities. My treatments are inspired by intuitive movement, it often feels like a fluid dance to me when I am working around someone’s body, helping to ease tension and move energy.
How do you like clients to feel after a treatment with you? I like clients to feel a sense of release, like something has been taken off their shoulders - letting go of whatever they don’t need. And a sense of openness in their bodies and hearts, leaving them ready to receive more nourishment!

17/10/2024

It’s October which, in case you’ve been living under a rock means, it’s breast cancer awareness month. I hate October.
However,
It seems just to highlight that self-checking is a necessary monthly task, worthy of your to-do list- my body sent a curve ball earlier in the month, in the form of a lump in my armpit. Finding it caused my brain to immediately free-fall. Any resilience I thought I’d built up crumbled and everything else was static, just white noise.
At this point, can I highlight that I did call my team and get an appointment, which led to some checks and a mammogram, that has now come back clear.
This is the second time I’ve had such a scare.
The problem with having had cancer is that you are left, with a sense that you’re living on borrowed time. This feeling never leaves it just hibernates for a time, in the flotsam and jetsam of living your everyday life; ready to come screaming back at the first sign of trouble. This can make me fearless, impatient, irritated, impossible to make plans with, prone to buy shiny things and to say everything that I’m feeling all at once. Mostly over the years, you just get used to waiting for that other shoe to drop.
The fear fills your body, it honestly takes a good month to be able to self-regulate my fight or flight state again (massage is good for that, reflexology is too - which is lucky and also not a coincidence that Loop is in existence).
Why am I telling you something that seems like it’s scary, and that you may want to bury your head in the sand about?
Simple. I am still here and that is a privilege worth some of the painful bits. I am here to be able to remind you; that I am still here because I check, I make appointments and I check again. Catching things early gives you such an advantage.
I hate October but I’d hate it more if the word didn’t get out, if the reminders didn’t happen. If people forget.
Make some time to check out and check in with your body - make an appointment if you need to.

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Loop Massage & Wellness was born out of a desire to give the busy people of Bristol an urban retreat, it’s a little hub for busy humans to find a moment of calm, to breath and be. Since our conception in May 2017 we’ve introduced a whole host of clients of all ages, genders and from every walk of life, to how Massage Therapy can relieve aches and keep pesky niggles at bay.

We’ve been helping to revolutionise the way people think about massage and wellness, striving to make it accessible and affordable.

Our Studios provide you with time to yourself; Our Practitioners know just how to encourage your body to release tension in your muscles, to keep you feeling in tip top condition. Massage can help you relax and soothe a busy mind. It can help restore you, to you, or more accurately, the ‘You’ you are, on your best day.