Holistic Massage & Bodywork
Yin Massage
Experience a Yin Massage, which incorporates Lomi Lomi and Kahuna massage with principles of relational touch. Allow yourself the opportunity to slow down, let go and receive nurturing, gentle and restorative touch.
Designed to take your body on a journey into deep relaxation, Yin Massage provides a container to receive and reconnect with your body and inner aliveness. The fluid motions and rhythmic nature are likened to that of an ocean, flowing up and down the length of the body, encouraging the mind to enter a restorative, altered state of consciousness. This style offers a transmission of yin qualities: compassionate, fluid, devotional, with deep reverence for the body and being. It is an opportunity to receive heart-based touch and open to a dynamic re-patterning process on mind, body and spirit.
Who is this for?
Those seeking a unique, soulful massage to restore the entire being.
Those who experience chronic stress, busyness, anxiety, worry and nervous system imbalances, offering a way to calm the mind, let go of tension and bring the whole system back into harmony and ease.
Supportive during life transitions, integration following inner work or recent shifts, or changes in your life.
What is involved?
Each session meets your body with the care it needs. This may include the use of deep or light tissue massage, rhythmical massage that wraps over and under the body, gentle pauses and holds, slow whole-body integrative strokes, passive stretches, meridian line work, energy work, or activation of the senses through scents, sound or sensory objects.
This is a whole body, oil-based massage. Traditionally fully unclothed with secure modesty draping to allow continuous flow between the legs, glutes and back (NB. underwear can be worn or disposable underwear can be provided for your comfort).
What are the benefits?
Benefits may include:
De-stressing, soothing the nervous system and returning to centre
Accessing deeper layers of relaxation and stillness
Cleansing and detoxifying the body
Relieving muscle soreness and body pain
Increased vitality and enhanced quality of sleep
Improved lymphatic, circulatory, immune, respiratory & digestive systems
Unwinding tension and holding patterns in the body
Feeling more connected with your body and being
Expanded self awareness and deeper inner alignment
2:1 Hawaiian Massage
Looking for a unique pampering experience or a gift for a loved one? Come and be swept away into another world as you are gently cocooned and enlivened by double the Aloha love!
A 2:1 Hawaiian Massage is a 4-hand massage provided by two practitioners. Incorporating the styles of Kahuna and Lomi Lomi massage, this is a luxurious and indulgent gift to receive and experience.
Kahuna massage is a therapeutic, temple style massage technique based on the teachings and practices of the ancient Hawaiian Kahunas. The practitioner comes from a place of Aloha, offering loving intent and focus through their touch, using the forearms, elbows and hands. Heartworks Lomi Lomi is the Yin or feminine form of Hawaiian massage that uses the hands as instruments of the heart to take you to a deep quiet place inside yourself. Combined, this massage is holistic in nature as it works on the mind, body and soul as an integrated whole instead of separate parts.
Want to know more?
Our 2:1 offerings are provided by a mix of male and female practitioners, giving you the opportunity to select a pairing that suits you. Sessions are offered on limited days each month. $280 for 75 minutes. Please contact me via email to inquire about availability.
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop"
Ovid
Emotional Integration Bodywork
Reconnect with the wisdom of your body in a safe and loving way through compassionate and present touch. Feel supported to surrender outdated emotional and mental patterns to live congruently from your heart with greater vitality, presence and purpose.
Emotional Integration Bodywork is a holistic, hands-on therapy designed to activate the body’s natural healing intelligence. Sessions may combine NLP, inner child and parts work theory, breath and energy work, or holistic massage. This modality is about relaxing the mind and orienting our attention inwards to open up a channel of communication with the body.
Many people spend much of their life lived in their head and attempt to resolve chronic challenges or repeated patterns of behaviour by cognitively “working them out”. If resolve is not found, it is likely that the patterning or trauma is stored at a cellular, nervous system level and needs to be released via the body. Although titled “emotional integration” bodywork, sessions can work with the mental, emotional, spiritual, energetic and physical body. Every session is unique and the body offers the next layer of content that is ready to be witnessed and integrated. This style views the person in their wholeness and takes an approach of curious inquiry rather than the "fixing"/pathological/therapy lens. All of you is welcome to show up and together we meet each moment curiously and warmly to connect with whatever is authentically alive within you.
Sessions allow for a reconnection with the underlying emotions, sensations and thoughts to be metabolised and integrated back into our system with a greater sense of wholeness. By welcoming these aspects to be felt and heard, we reveal the personal needs, truths and wisdom underlying these emotions and an opportunity to give ourselves the experience of what we haven’t received in the past in order to move forward in life making the most aligned and healthy choices available to us.
Who is this for?
Those wanting to create change in their lives, to access unexplored aspects of their being, to practice deep trust and surrender, and to come into alignment with your truth, presence and joy.
Supportive during life transitions, challenges, or changes in your life or experiencing a sense of "stuckness".
What is involved?
Sessions open with gaining an understanding of your intentions for the session. The bodywork component is offered on a massage table where you are draped like that of a traditional massage. A range of bodywork techniques are used, such as non-invasive trigger point holds, muscle releases, holistic massage and energetic activations, in combination with guidance to track sensations and utilise your breath, sounding and movement. Sessions close with stillness to integrate followed by time to discuss any reflections, questions or insights.
What are the benefits?
Benefits may include:
Accessing deeper layers of relaxation and stillness
Releasing energetic or emotional holdings
Improved functioning of the vagus nerve and restoring balance to the nervous system
Enhanced immune, respiratory, circulatory, lymphatic & digestive function
Greater inner spaciousness and enhanced vitality and quality of sleep
Deeper body awareness, i.e., being more in touch with and connected to your own body
Expanded self awareness, fresh inspiration & deeper inner alignment
“There’s a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, ‘Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?’, and they’re finding out that, no, it’s not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we’re much more of an organic creature in that way”