XIBOA offers ZEN SHIATSU massages, CHI FLOW classes & RETREATS to revive your CHI-BODY-AWARENESS. Individual sessions, group events, retreats, collaborations.
XIBOA LISBOA is an initiative based in Lisbon with the aim to bring more BODY-MIND-CHI AWARENESS into everybody's daily life by offering private sessions, classes, workshops and consulting.
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XIBOA means „good energy“, which is related to the therapeutic methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and offers a combination of Zen-Shiatsu and Chi-Concept exercises to grow the consciousness of outer perception and inner sensibility.
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XIBOA can also function as a hub for people who work in the field of meditation, energetic massages or mindfullness to join the circle and exchange knowledge, be booked for sessions, workshops or as a consulting/coaching service.
Let‘s talk about PAIN, baby!
First of all, I’d like to gratefully say: PAIN pointed me into this direction of self-discovery. Without my own physical pains, I would probably not even work in this field. On my path as a holistic healer, I was able to transform my perspective on PAIN – from an invasive enemy to a relentless wise teacher – viewing it as a gateway to transformation.
— Why?
CHI-BODY-ALCHEMY employs psychosomatic methods, combining Neo Emotional Release and Zen Shiatsu to address pain. Techniques include belly-breathing, acupressure points, organ release, and hypnotherapeutic vocal guidance, woven together intuitively. This approach emphasizes trusting the body’s wisdom and recognizing pain as a transformative teacher, opening the gateway to profound change across energetic, emotional, and physical dimensions. Maintaining a grateful attitude towards pain reframes the significance of its message, while exploring its potential to expand into pleasure or pure life force. This holistic strategy aims to unlock stored emotions, rewrite subconscious narratives, and foster a deep synergy between mind and body for self-discovery, leading to profound healing processes.
— What does your pain tell you?
Do you want to explore a deeper relationship with your pain? And understand its psycho-somatic connectedness?
✉️ Send me a DM to book your session.
14/11/2023
Excited to announce my upcoming
CHI-BODY-ALCHEMY
2-days workshop | Level 1
Sat, 18. – Sun, 19.11. | 10:00 - 19:00h
In this hands-on workshop, I will share my knowledge about bodywork, energy and emotions. You will learn the art of harmonizing touch from the philosophy of Zen Shiatsu massage, practice Taoist exercises for energetic meridian expansion, chi-awareness, and emotional release.
The group sharings and partner exercises create a safe space to detect stuck energy, or suppressed emotions in the body. You will learn how to alchemize density into life force flowing through the body.
A mix of theory and hands-on exercises will be accompanied by worksheets and you'll receive a certificate at the end of this 2-days workshop. To come only 1 day is also an option.
This course is suitable for absolute beginners as well as for experienced therapists, who want to deepen their knowledge.
With 8 years of experience as a holistic healer, trauma-informed practitioner, and founder of , I follow a mission of teaching and supporting people to live in a more embodied, balanced and healthy way.
2 DAYS: 222€ (incl. certificate)
Bring a friend special: 200€ each
1 DAY: 111€ (no certificate)
Bring a friend special: 100€ each
🍽️ Including 1 lunch per day
📍Venue: (Ericeira)
A beautiful antique Portuguese villa with an ocean view to São Julião beach and a big seminar room with enough space for the workshop practices.
👉 Sign up via DM 💌
26/08/2023
✨CLIENT’S REVIEW✨
This sounds like butter to my heart 🤍
Blessed to have treated and connected to this beautiful soul – founder of who then invited me right after her Zen Shiatsu session to become part of her hand-selected team of healers & therapists which comes with the honor to have access to the „wellnest“ - a quiet and safe room within a beautifully designed, peaceful wellness center in Principe Real, Lisbon! Opening soon!
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You can already pre-book sessions directly with me – so you can be first to experience those kynd treatments ;)
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03/07/2023
It took me 5 years of studies to become an M.A. Interior Designer, and it took me 37 years of the “school of life” to be ready to put myself out there and introduce myself as a Psycho-Somatic Therapist, or a “healer”. —
This path has not been an easy one, bit the most heart-driven, rewarding, meaningful and deeply purposeful work I’ve ever done! — To get there, included an almost-burn-out to realize I can’t working in a high-pace city environment any more, a lung infection (2015), unbearable shoulder pain, search for healing methods and alternative doctors, starting a training as a zen shiatsu practitioner with , leaving my carreer behind, moving to a new country (PT), many years of figuring out the new version of me, doing many little things at the same time, moving into nature, learning about plant-medicine, ancient wisdom and the soul-connections behind it, starting a training with the Neo Institute, inner transformations, finishing the Level3 training, giving more and more trauma-informed session, even more transformations happening – in my life and in the life of others…
Magic, upgrades, downloads, soul-evolvement, new connections to amazing people, teachers, and clients who deeply touch me by just being incredible humans with vulnerable, open hearts ready to find back into their power and heal…!
Yes, this life it has been a crazy self-exploration-journey - especially in these past years, and I’m already looking forward to even more beauty that is about to come. Sending lots of Love where ever you are on your path! Trust. Courage to follow your intuition will be rewarded!
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Send me a little PM shout out, a like or a comment if you have been (literally and physically) “touched” by me and in which ways that has transformed your day, your body or your life… ✨🤍🙌✨
Send me a 🚀 if you think I’m on the right path with what I am doing!
01/07/2023
✨My prices ✨
The value of this work is sometimes difficult to put into numbers, cause really - how much is it worth to become free from old blockages, so that you can live a life with ease and joy and clarity, like never before?! And sometimes this work is so rewarding that I would even do it without getting payed :) But I also have bills to cover and by being my client, you support a whole movement of alternative medicine, of empowered healers, of a world with humans that learn how to heal themselves and don’t blindly depend on medical drugs that numb the emotions and get us far away from the actual healing process. But back to the numbers ;)
My sessions’ duration adapt to your individual needs and include the initial anamnese talk.
Which means, if your system needs more time - I will give it more time.
1,0 h = 90€
1,5 h = 120€
2,0 h = 150€
2,5 h = 180€
3,0 h = 210€
(% packages & online sessions on request)
These prices are only valid until they change. Cause life changes sometimes ;) But for now, this is what you can count with. Unless you are in a financially difficult situation and really need help – don’t hesitate to share your story and we can see what other options of exchange we can find together.
I call them “Session Lessons”, because I see and learn so much during my sessions – and I wanna share that with you, and make you find these little golden nuggets ✨
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XIBOA stands for "chi-body-awareness", but also for „good energy“ and refers to the flow of our body’s Chi along the meridians, as it is taught since thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
The concept of XIBOA was initiated with the objective to enrich our daily life with more awareness for our body and the Chi that flows through, between and around us. Through holistic bodywork, interweaving emotional, somatic and organic areas, XIBOA emphasizes the sensitization of balancing our body's energetic levels.
As a graduated "Zen Shiatsu practitioner for wellbeing & personality support", I have worked in Berlin, Mallorca, Lisbon, Sintra, Vila Nova de Milfontes and other beautiful places since 2016. I give Zen Shiatsu massages and Chi-Flow classes at my studio, at co-working spaces and wellbeing-events. I have co-organized retreats myself and I'm always interested in collaborations.
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ZEN SHIATSU
Zen Shiatsu is a Japanese massage that works with the flow of meridians and accupressure points (TCM). Shiatsu sessions are mostly relaxing, destressing or vitalizing and can release blocked emotions or pains. Shiatsu can help you to get rid of physical discomforts and balance you emotionally.
The benefits of a Shiatsu massage can be felt on many levels. It activates your blood circulation, unblocks tense muscles, eases deep tissue and balances your energetic streams, which in Traditional Chinese Medicine is seen as essential for a healthy organism and a vital life.
Most of my clients say they are able to focus better and feel their body more harmonized and present after a Shiatsu session. Continuous treatments can be very supportive in times of transition or personal development. Each session is an individual approach – based on what your body needs.
One Shiatsu session can already have a deeply transformative effect on the body’s relaxation, energetic balance and self-healing ability. If the therapeutic necessities are more fundamental, a series of Shiatsu massages can be recommendable.
The SESSIONS that I offer, include an analytic dialogue, an individual Zen Shiatsu massage and a customized Chi Concept exercise “to go” – in order to establish a higher, sustainable “BODY-MIND-CHI AWARENESS” in your daily life.
Zen Shiatsu massages are given on a special futon mattress on the floor – with long-sleeved clothes. Lea can offer the service in her studio or at your place, at festivals or in nature.
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CHI FLOW
Chi Flow is a modern interpretation of traditional movements from Qigong, Tai Chi, Makko-Ho and other Asian exercises that activate the flow of energy in the entire body.
The mix of stretching and meditative movements support a healthy breathing rhythm, a more balanced flow of your body‘s energy and a more focused mind – with a long-term effect.
It was developed as "Chi Concept" by my Shiatsu teacher Jochen Knau himself, practicing Aikido and Zen-Shiatsu in Berlin for more than 20 years.
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In February 2018, I founded the XIBOA COLLECTIVE with friends that also work in the field of therapeutic body work, meditation, energetic massages or mindfulness.
As a collective, we organize discussion rounds and events, exchange knowledge and ideas related to our work to learn from each other.
Anybody who works related to that or wants to learn more about our work, is welcome to join the circle and exchange knowledge.
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If you would like to book a Zen Shiatsu massage or ask me to give a Shiatsu & Chi-Concept workshop for an event or a retreat, feel free to contact me.
