It is World Mental Health Day. This wasn’t a planned blog, but as I was writing a Facebook post on the subject, it became too long to just be a post for social media. We don't have a world physical health day, which shows the still growing need for mental health awareness. Are more [...]
Over the summer I went to Marrakech for my mini-moon. During my trip I experienced a real Morrocan hammam. It wasn’t the first time; I experienced a budget hammam as a student. But this was different; a service and experience I have never experienced before. As massage therapists, we can learn a lot from [...]
At the end of the last Holistic Core Restore Every Woman programme, myself and the students began to talk about the of empowerment in women to take control of their recovery after birth. We discussed how we can spread the word further and the topic of other personal trainers and their education came up. [...]
Imagine you have just set up a Porsche dealership in a new area. It is about to open and you are finalising the prices of the cars (this probably never happens but lets stick with it an example). You check out other local car dealerships in the area and find your nearest is a [...]
Carpal tunnel is something I have seen quite a lot at the clinic most recently and within office massage. Most clients explain they have experienced tightness in the shoulders and pain, tingling and numbness radiating down the arm. What is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? The carpal tunnel is the tunnel in the wrist through [...]
Someone asked me this recently and I hadn’t actually thought in a long time the deep reason why I choose to specialise in women in my client facing capacity. For me it just felt natural - partly with having an amazing Mum, Nan and Aunties in my life) But in-fact there was always a [...]
When I hear the word exercise, two things spring to mind. 80’s aerobics exercise and an army exercise. None of which I currently do. Bit when I think of movement, I think of dance, bodyweight exercises, aerial hoop classes, hill walking, cycling (pretty much all of the fun things I like to do). Which [...]
This is a really common question clients ask during their pregnancy and also students when I teach the pregnancy massage and post natal therapy course! I thought I would answer this important question for clients and students along with the benefits of pregnancy massage. When is massage advised in pregnancy? There is lots [...]
Back in 2015 myself and a few dear friends decided to walk 107km without stopping. You may think I was stupid....I thought that A LOT on the day. With a heatwave, wearing running trainers and the longest walk in our training was 30km so not even a third. Ironically we were all [...]
I hear this word a lot "relaxin" in pregnancy and in the postnatal period and how it can make mum's more flexible, unstable and how massage, stretching should not happen during this time. I thought I would debunk a few pregnancy and postnatal massage myths and share the benefits of massage (and nutrition and [...]
