Upminster Sanctuary Complementary Healing and Teaching

07/12/2025

Supporting Your Body as Winter Bugs Arrive

The winter bugs are beginning to make their way around - and as the days grow colder, our bodies naturally work a little harder to stay balanced, energised, and well.

At The Upminster Sanctuary, we focus on gentle, natural ways to support your body’s own resilience.
Not to fight the season, but to move through it with more steadiness and ease.

Holistic therapies can help by:
🌿 Acupuncture - supporting the body’s natural defences and easing tension
🦶 Reflexology - improving circulation and restoring energetic balance
🍃 Herbal medicine - using plant wisdom to support emotional and physical wellbeing
🌸 Aromatherapy massage -reducing stress, calming the nervous system, and helping the body reset

Winter doesn’t have to feel heavy.
With the right support, you can move through the season feeling grounded, nourished, and more connected to your own wellbeing.

06/12/2025

05/12/2025

Step into a profound journey of healing, clarity, and transformation with my full line up of Level 1 and Level 2 Original Japanese Reiki Courses in 2026
Upminster Sanctuary Complementary Healing and Teaching

A deeply immersive in-person weekend workshop held within a healing sanctuary in Upminster, surrounded by serene gardens and aligned with ancient leylines. The moment you arrive, you’ll feel the land holding you, inviting you into stillness, presence, and renewal.

Rooted in the true history of Reiki, this workshop returns to the heart of Mikao Usui’s original teachings — honouring Reiki not simply as a technique, but as a path of self-healing, spiritual connection, and conscious living.

Central to this tradition are the Reiki Precepts — gentle guiding principles designed to help you live with balance, clarity, and a lighter heart. These precepts form the foundation of Reiki practice, offering a simple yet powerful way to cultivate a happier, more harmonious life.

Throughout this powerful weekend, you will explore:

✨ Traditional Japanese Reiki Meditations to cultivate the energy within the tanden (energy centre)
✨ Four transformative attunements that open, and strengthen your connection to source
✨ The authentic history of Reiki, including Mikao Usui’s teachings and the origins of the system
✨ How to keep your energy clear, grounded, and nourished on a daily basis
✨ Extensive self-healing practices you can continue at home
✨ A beautiful personal journal to record insights, experiences, and your energetic development
✨ A comprehensive Reiki manual, posted to you before the course so you can begin learning right away
✨ Lifetime support, ensuring you always have guidance on your Reiki path
✨ Reiki shares helping you grow in confidence and connection and sharing treatments
✨ I am a Master Teacher member of the Reiki Federation, upholding the highest standards of practice and ethics
This weekend is not simply a course — it is a deeply healing, heart-opening, and life-shifting experience that has received incredible feedback from those who have attended.

Here is what some of my students have said:

🌟 “This course has been everything I had hoped for, and more. I have come away with a full heart and a deeper connection to source. Thank you Clare for your beautiful teachings and putting together such a wonderful group of Reiki sisters.”

🌟 “I found Clare's Reiki 1 course very inspiring and thought provoking. The simplicity with which the teachings are delivered makes you feel ready to use Reiki as soon as you leave. The attunements and treatments created a deep sense of connection and healing. I would recommend these courses to anyone who is wanting to heal themselves or others.”

If you’re longing for a gentler, more aligned way of being…
If you’re ready to clear old energy, reconnect to your centre, and awaken your inner healing potential…

Join me for a weekend that will stay with you forever.

Your Reiki journey begins here — and it is truly extraordinary.

Contact Clare on 07752 296904
claregilby1@gmail.com

05/12/2025

04/12/2025

Seasonal Aches & Tension

Winter often brings tight shoulders, cold hands and feet, and general tension as the body contracts against the cold.

Massage, cupping therapy, reflexology, and acupuncture help bring warmth, circulation, and relief.

📍 The Upminster Sanctuary

02/12/2025

In a world that moves quickly, steadiness rarely arrives by accident - it’s something we create through small, intentional rituals that support the nervous system and bring us back into balance.

A warm herbal tea before the day begins.
A moment of silence in the car before going inside.
A grounding oil on your wrists.
A slow breath before responding.
Tiny choices that gently remind your body, you’re safe.

At The Upminster Sanctuary, we encourage these simple rituals alongside our therapies - reflexology, acupuncture, Reiki, breathwork, and mindfulness — to deepen your sense of balance and make wellbeing part of your everyday rhythm.

Steadiness doesn’t always come from big changes.
Often, it grows from the quiet things you do just for you.

📞 Contact The Upminster Sanctuary to arrange yours

30/11/2025

This Christmas, give the gift of care.

Our Sanctuary Gift Vouchers can be used for any of our holistic therapies, treatments, or classes, allowing your loved ones to choose the wellbeing experience that speaks to them.

From soothing massage and acupuncture to sound baths, Reiki, and mindfulness - it’s the perfect way to say you deserve some peace.

🎁 Available now from The Upminster Sanctuary

upminstersanctuary.com

📞 Contact us to arrange yours.

27/11/2025

Healing the Invisible Fatigue

There’s a kind of tiredness that sleep doesn’t touch.

A heaviness that lives deeper than the muscles - the kind that builds slowly through emotional load, overwhelming days, overstimulation, or simply holding everything together for too long.

This isn’t laziness.
It isn’t weakness.
It’s nervous system exhaustion - a quiet burnout that shows up as fogginess, low motivation, tension you can’t shake, or the sense that you’re running on fumes.

At The Upminster Sanctuary, we work gently with this kind of fatigue.

Through therapies that soothe rather than stimulate, soften rather than push:
🌿 Reflexology to ground the body and restore flow
💆‍♀️ Reiki to calm emotional overwhelm and rebalance energy
💨 Breathwork to regulate the vagus nerve and reset your system
🌸 Acupuncture to release tension and support deeper vitality

These therapies help your body remember how to rest, how to recharge, and how to feel like you again.

Invisible fatigue is real - and you deserve support that meets it gently.
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25/11/2025

This Christmas, offer something truly meaningful - a moment of calm.

Our Sanctuary Gift Vouchers allow your loved ones to choose any of our holistic therapies or classes, from Reiki and acupuncture to reflexology,
sound baths, mindfulness, and more.

It’s a thoughtful way to give rest, restoration, and a little breathing space after the busiest season of the year.

If someone in your life could use a pause, a reset, or a peaceful hour just for themselves, a Sanctuary voucher is a beautiful way to say you matter.

🎁 Gift Vouchers available now

📞 Contact The Upminster Sanctuary to arrange yours

upminstersanctuary.com

01708 251124

25/11/2025

Upminster Sanctuary Complementary Healing and Teaching