Zen Den massage therapy

24/12/2025

At 12 noon today I close the doors for time with family. A huge thank you to all for a fantastic first year. I will reopen Tuesday 6th January for an exciting 2026.

19/12/2025

Excuse my nobly ears!
A little practice on myself before my course in January, before I offer treatment’s I like to try them on myself. What is ear seeding you may ask:
Microsystem: TCM and auricular reflexology view the ear as a map of the entire body.
Energy Flow: By applying pressure to these "acupoints," practitioners aim to clear blockages in the body's energy pathways, known as meridians.
Neurobiology: Modern theories suggest that stimulating the ear's nerve endings may trigger the release of endorphins or activate the vagus nerve to calm the nervous system.

15/12/2025

I am now fully booked up over the festive period and I will be taking a little break between Christmas and new year. I would like to thank everyone for their kind words and continued support over my first year of being open. 2026 sees me continuing with my training and I start off with ear seeding in January.
It’s not too late to purchase gift vouchers for treatments in the new year. A little something special ❤️

10/12/2025

Stuck what to get the lady in your life? Is she fed up of the same chocolates or bottle of wine. Treat her to a massage, gift vouchers available! let her enjoy some time to herself and relaxation

06/12/2025

Vouchers available to give the gift of relaxation

02/12/2025

A kind gift and card from a lovely lady. Thank you 🙏. It really means a lot!

30/11/2025

Chakra and lava stone bracelets. A 5ml vial of essential oil blend of your choice £8.
A beautiful gift to give. a purple velour bag with the bracelet and vial of essential oils. Add a few drops of oil onto the porous black stones and have your favourite scent all day.

30/11/2025

This is a brilliant explanation on how grief affects the body.

🫀✨ The Lymphatic System of a Griever — 10/30

“When Missing Someone Becomes a Physical Ache”

There is a kind of longing that doesn’t just sit in the heart —
it lodges itself in the body.

When someone you love passes away, the missing doesn’t disappear into the air.
It roots itself in your chest, curls into your breath, and settles inside your tissues like unsaid words and unfinished stories.

Longing is not soft.
Longing is pressure.
It tightens your throat, lives behind your sternum, and wraps around your ribcage like a memory you can’t un-remember.

Your body remembers what your mind tries to forget.

And the lymphatic system — silent, sensitive, honest — feels it first.

🧠 Trauma Replay & the Body’s Memory

When grief resurfaces — a song, a date, a smell, a quiet moment —
your nervous system replays the old scene like a film stuck on repeat.

Your breath shortens.
Your shoulders rise.
Your chest tightens.

And inside, your lymph vessels react.
They constrict.
They slow.
They hold.

Not because they’re weak —
but because your body is trying to protect you from drowning in the emotion.

Trauma replay is not imagination.
It’s your physiology reliving the moment your world cracked open.

💧 What Longing Does Inside Your Body

Missing someone isn’t just emotional.
Longing activates the same pathways as physical pain.

It releases stress hormones that make the lymphatics sluggish.
It makes your chest feel heavy because stagnation builds behind the heart.
It disrupts digestion because the vagus nerve collapses under emotional weight.
It makes your muscles feel tender because fascia tightens when you cry.

Longing is a biochemical event.

Your lymph nodes swell with unprocessed sorrow.
Your breathing becomes shallow, lowering lymph flow by up to half.
Your tissues hold fluid because your body thinks you’re in danger again.

This is why grief feels like bloating, tightness, heaviness, exhaustion.
This is why the body aches when the heart breaks.

🫂 The Body’s Silent Way of Saying, “I Miss Them Too.”

Every time you long for the one who is gone, your body responds as if reaching for them.
As if trying to pull back a moment in time.
As if trying to bring them close again.

Your body is not malfunctioning —
it is remembering.

Because grief is love that has nowhere to go.
And longing is the echo of love searching for the one it can no longer touch.

So when your lymph feels heavy…
when your chest feels full…
when your body aches in waves…

It isn’t weakness.
It is proof that you loved deeply —
and that your body is still carrying the shape of that love.

25/11/2025

Room set up for an evening of aromatherapy massage. Relax in the warm fluffy towels, breathe in the aromatic oils and take time to have your body and soul soothed.

25/11/2025

Give the gift of relaxation this season. Vouchers available for any price or treatment and they can be printed or digitally sent to you. ❤️

18/11/2025

Let me introduce myself to those who have not met me before.
I’m Karen, last year I decided to retrain and become a massage and holistic therapist as I felt it was the right path for my life, this was a decision I wish I had gone down years ago.
I also trained to become an Aquacise instructor and deliver two sessions a week at our local sports centre, my sessions are called gentle Aquacise because we focus more on the joints, muscles and rehabilitation after injury, illness or operations.
I am very interested in women’s health especially the menopause and the perimenopause having struggled with this myself. Over the next couple of months I am on some courses to offer more targeted massage.
I also power lift for fun 😃 and really enjoy encouraging other women to participate in sport so I have been lucky enough to secure funding through activelincs for a course to support more women through exercise during the menopause.
I love hearing peoples life stories and today I heard one that really made me sit up, the strength and resilience this person has shown is mind blowing, ‘And still I rise’ will make me smile.
As you can see, I’m a larger lady so no need to feel embarrassed about whatever shape or size your body is, I can guarantee it’s amazing . ❤️

13/11/2025

The new year is bringing some new treatments. I can’t wait to share with you!