21/01/2026
New addition to my treatments offer:
Simply Held Massage - using the wonderful Face Up Method by
Many people are doing all the right things: they exercise, eat well, they look after themselves, yet their bodies are still holding tension, guarding, and pain. Their bodies are telling a deeper story.
In my Physiotherapy and Lymphatic drainage Massage work I notice that pain often doesn’t live only in muscles and joints — but that it also lives in breathing patterns, in the jaw, in the belly, in the way someone protects their chest or hold their pelvis. The pain lives in the nervous system. In the tissues that quietly adapt after stress, injury, fear, worry, held back emotions and in truth- any long-term overload (habits).
As a Holistic Therapist I work with not just movement, but with the whole person — all of the systems, their fascia, their breath, and their emotional safety.
When I discovered the Face Up Method a while back, I was intrigued.
Unlike traditional massage that focuses mainly on muscles, Face Up works through gentle but firm, precise contact with the front of the body — where our breathing, digestion, and emotional reflexes live. It allows access to the diaphragm, abdomen, chest, neck, and face — areas deeply connected to the nervous system and to how safe we feel in our bodies.
What also moved me was how subtle the work is. There is no forcing, no pushing the body to change. Instead, the body is invited to soften...
