Treatments at The Exeter Natural Health Centre

Active Birth and Pregnancy Yoga

This class focuses on providing women with information, support and practical tools to encourage a positive and empowering birth experience. The classes include:

Breath work, one of the most useful tools for coping with labour and birth.

Posture work, to strengthen mind and body throughout pregnancy, ease common ailments of pregnancy and prepare your body for the physical demands of labour and birth.

Practicing particular postures that are suited to childbirth, which will allow you to adopt the postures that feel natural to you in labour.

Optimal foetal positioning, positions that encourage your baby into an advantageous position for birth, increasing your chances of a natural birth.

Physiological process of labour and birth, helping you to understand how you can promote hormonal production to enhance your body's natural coping mechanisms for labour and birth.

Relaxation and visualisation, to help you access your inner strength and wisdom.

The opportunity to share your experience of pregnancy with other pregnant women.

Classes cost £9

Wednesdays 6.30-8.30 with Patricia Whitworth 01392 438586

Thursday 6.30pm - 8.30pm with Karin Walters 01404 813784.

www.birthwise.net

Therapists who provide Active Birth and Pregnancy Yoga

Acupuncture and Chinese Health Care

Therapists who provide Acupuncture and Chinese Health Care

Alexander Technique

You learn the Alexander Technique through one to one lessons with a qualified teacher who will address your individual needs. Learning the technique involves changing long standing habits and relies on your active participation. The Technique involves no specific exercises, requires no special equipment and can be practised wherever your are. It is suitable for people of all ages and levels of physical fitness. The number of lessons you take can be discussed with your teacher and depends on your particular goals and needs. It will help you to identify and prevent the harmful postural habits that may be the cause of stress and pain. You will learn to release tension and rediscover balance of mind and body.

Alexandra Soveral's Signature Face Treatment

The ultimate rejuvenating face treatment.

Incorporating sculpting and deep tissue manipulation, this provides a true workout for the face. An effective measure in preventative premature aging, that gives immediate results. Rejuvenates tired and mature skin, it plumps and re-energizes it. The treatment also addresses deep rooted tension in the neck & shoulders, de-congesting of the sinuses and the release of accumulated toxins. Alexandra’s special technique tackles expression lines and prevents fine lines.

Alexandra has personally trained Lisa Tate to perform this treatment and it is now available at Exeter Natural Health Centre.

Discounts available for a course of treatments.

Therapists who provide Alexandra Soveral's Signature Face Treatment

Angel Readings

An Angel Reading usually begins with a conversation focussing on any issues the client may wish to address. Juliane then tunes in with the angels and guides of the client and thus receives relevant information. A reading takes about 30 Minutes and can help with issues related to:

* jobs

* relationships/family

* decision-making

* moving house

* studies/training

Therapists who provide Angel Readings

Aromatherapy

Therapists who provide Aromatherapy

Ayurvedic Facials

AYURVEDIC FACIAL

An AYURVEDIC FACIAL is based around Marma Therapy.

Marmas are subtle,vital energy points where two or more types of tissues meet. An Ayurvedic Facial Treatmetnt involves isolating these points and massaging them in a specific way.

It is believed in Ayurvedic Medicine that between the Marmas are channels of subtle energy called Nadis that affect our vitality.

The Marmas are manipulated to improve the flow of energy through these Nadis, to correct imbalances and to generally improve

the health of the skin.

In preparation for the Massage a traditional ubtan, a freshly blended paste of ground ingredients & rose water,is applied to the face to cleanse and revitalise the skin. Ayurvedic oils are used to massage the face, neck and shoulders and the Facial concludes with some Ayurvedic Head Massage.

Therapists who provide Ayurvedic Facials

Birth Preparation Course for Couples

This is a one day workshop, which comes highly recommended as an addition to the weekly Active Birth classes. The course is also excellent as a one off if you are unable to do the weekly classes or just need a refresher course. The day is designed for couples and/or birth partners to be there, but if it doesn't work for you it is always fine to come on your own.

The main aim of this workshop is to ensure that both you and your partner have the knowledge and tools required for you to have the best chance of an empowered birth experience.

The day focuses on normal physiological birth and clearly describes the advantages of an Active Birth.

The course includes a lot of practical work on birth positions, breathing and chanting as a couple as well as massage. Partners find it very helpful in developing a better understanding of the birth process and greater confidence to be at the birth.

The material includes:

Anatomy & physiology of birth - how is the body designed and what to expect of a normal labour

Optimal fetal positioning - how to get the baby into a good position before labour and how to encourage them to move if they choose an unfavourable one

Creating the birth environment - how to create the best conditions for a natural birth to unfold

Coping with pain - practicing a variety of techniques

Writing your birth plan - the guideline for what you want and for what you need from people, who are present during your labour

The role of the birth partner - clarifying what women in labour need from their birth partners

Dealing with complications - sometimes labour turns out to be different than what you had hoped for. What to do and how to stay empowered. What to do to try and get back on track for a natural birth

Bonding - welcoming the new baby. How to create the best conditions for bonding to happen naturally

Early parenting - the first 6 weeks after the birth of your baby. What to expect and how to make the transition into parenthood as smooth as possible.

For dates on upcoming workshops contact Patricia Whitworth on 01392 438586 www.birthwise.net

Therapists who provide Birth Preparation Course for Couples

Bowen Technique

Therapists who provide Bowen Technique

Counselling/Psychotherapy

Supportive, creative, in-depth, short or long term counselling to facilitate self discovery, self expression and improve confidence and self esteem. Bereavement or loss, relationship difficulties, stress, anxiety and depression can all be helped with counselling.

Therapists who provide Counselling/Psychotherapy

Craniosacral Therapy

All living organisms exhibit a subtle rhythmic motion. This can be felt by sensitive hands. While physical therapies aim to maintain and restore gross movement in the body, CST pays attention to the force which generates subtle motion. When this subtle motion, which we call PRIMARY RESPIRATION is reduced health starts to break down. This can happen in a single area of the body following on from an injury or through the system as a whole as a result of disease, emotional stress, poor nutrition or exhaustion. To improve health CST aims to restore PRIMARY RESPIRATION in the whole body to an optimal level.

Therapists who provide Craniosacral Therapy

Deep tissue massage

Therapists who provide Deep tissue massage

Ear Candling

An ear candle treatment is safe, gentle and relaxing. The candles are hollow tubes or cones made out of cotton infused with beeswax, honey extract, and herbal oils.

The treatment takes place with you lying on your side on a couch. An ear candle is carefully positioned in your uppermost ear, and is held in place at all times throughout the treatment.

Once lit, the rising air column inside the candle creates a gentle suction action, which creates a vibration that travels through the ear candle to the eardrum. This in turn causes a gentle vibration in the inner ear bones at such a frequency that it acts like an inner ear massage. This vibration then moves further into the Eustachian tubes and the sinuses helping to relieve any blocked pressure.

On completion of the ear candling the treatment is enhanced by a soothing massage of the face, neck, ears and scalp.

Therapists who provide Ear Candling

Energy Healing

Energy Healing

There are many forms of energy healing, a well known example being Reiki. Here we describe what we call Integrated Energy Healing, bringing together various healings, all deeply explored during a training of several years. The approach is inspired by the teaching of Barbara Brennan (author of ‘Hands of Light’ and ‘Light Emerging’) and developed by such groups as The School of Energy Healing in the UK.

Healing involves the channelling of energy from our environment, to bring your mind, body and spirit into balance. The energy supports the discovery, safe exploration, and dissolving of energy blockages that developed in response to difficult life experiences (ones that you haven't been able to fully work through).

Stuck energy also accumulates from our modern lifestyle where many of us inhabit our heads much of the time. There is great wisdom and spaciousness within the rest of our bodies, something that energy healing seeks to connect with, bringing strength and vitality to your daily life.

Talking during healings encourages you to stay in your body and share what you are experiencing. This helps guide the work, deepening it, though isn’t always necessary or appropriate.

Healing is typically hands-on (with your permission) and close by (in your aura). It is not massage – hands simply touch, and you remain fully clothed.

Your needs, and what the healer senses, will guide which approach or approaches are used during a healing. Firstly, time is spent in grounding you. Then, clearing of blocks may take place on various levels of your energy field: physical, emotional, mental, astral (past experiences), divine will, divine love, divine wisdom, and on even more subtle levels beyond.

You benefit from diverse approaches such as sound or colour healing, relationship work, past life regression, inner child, relationship cords, entity release, healing with ascended masters, life purpose alignment, and essence expansion.

Integrated Energy Healing believes that it’s essential, in time, to explore our negativity (sometimes called our lower selves or shadow side) as well as our higher hopes and dreams (transcendent work). To acknowledge these aspects brings a deep purification, releasing ways in which we sabotage our intensions and cover up our true essence.

Practitioners of this approach must have worked at great depth on themselves, so that their issues don’t cloud what they sense in your energy field . However, you are also a key participant in every session, with your intension, awareness, and inner knowing being of vital importance. Much change also takes place between sessions as you integrate the clearing that occurs during healings and begin to see yourself and the world through different vision.

Therapists who provide Energy Healing

Facial Rejuvenation

NATURAL LIFT FACE MASSAGE is a holistic treatment that incorporates a series of intricate and precise massage movements, drawn from Indian, Chinese & Japanese Facial Massage, to free tension stored in the facial muscles and erase signs of fatique.

Gentle but precise manipulation to the deep and superficial muscles of the face, neck, shoulders and scalp, frees them from rigid patterns. This softens lines and facial expressions and restores brightness to the eyes.

Massaging with the pads of fingers & thumbs, adhesions in the muscle and tissue can be broken down and tissue fibres stretched.

This can help to improve the flexibility and elasticity of the connective tissue.

Improved circulation to the head and neck helps to move waste out of the tissues and replenish the skin cells with oxygen & nutrients thus revitalising the skin.

Stress & tension dissolves as the treatment brings about a feeling of deep relaxation to the whole of the body.

This Treatment helps to redefine the contours of the face with an overall, subtle lifting effect.

A double cleanse of the skin, a Facial Mask, neck and shoulder massage and the application of serums and creams is included as part of the Treatment.

For best results a course of 6 are recommended, taken as one a week, then monthly maintenance treatments after that.

Therapists who provide Facial Rejuvenation

Facial Rejuvenation Massage

Therapists who provide Facial Rejuvenation Massage

Healing and Deep Memory Process

Sometimes healing means journeying into our deep soul memories to heal patterns that have been held through many lifetimes. This is not hypnosis. The body remembers and also has an extraordinary capacity to heal itself, to restore to joy and wholeness. It is recommended that those who wish to have a 2 hour deep memory process session that they first sample a 1 hour healing session so that you know how the process works. For some people a 1 hour session may be enough.

Therapists who provide Healing and Deep Memory Process

Herbal Medicine

Herbal medicines act to nourish and sustain our various body systems, just as grains and vegetables do in our diet. Remedies are used to restore weakened tissues and organs, encouraging the body to heal itself. Plants are potent medicines, but unlike pharmaceutical drugs, which contain isolated chemicals (often from plants) herbal medicine uses extracts from parts of the whole plant, containing hundreds of constituents in balance with each other. This means that the active components are moderated, causing fewer side effects. Modern herbal practitioners are able to combine a sound understanding of medical science and of the chemical composition of plants with time honoured traditional experience and knowledge of herbal medicines. It can be used to treat a similar range of health problems to those you would consult your GP about.

Therapists who provide Herbal Medicine

Holistic Facials

A BESPOKE HOLISTIC FACIAL is one that is tailored to be of optimum benefit to you and your skin. This means you do not have to choose between deep cleansing or hydration, anti ageing or detoxing. A Bespoke Facial can be all of these things and more while placing the focus and emphasis on the areas of your choice

You can expect to receive:

- A preliminary consultation

- A thorough cleanse of the skin over your face, neck and upper chest area

- An exfoliation, or peel, to brighten your skin and make it more receptive to the products subsequently applied

- A therapeutic massage to your shoulders, neck, ears and face

- Gentle acupressure along the meridians that pass through the face to rebalance the subtle energies of the body and promote an enhanced sense of well being

- Manual lymphatic drainage to encourage the elimination of metabolic wastes

- The application of a face mask tailored to improve the feel and appearance of your skin

- A relaxing massage to the head and scalp while the mask is working

- A warm towel compress

- The performance of extractions, as appropriate

- The application of skin tonics, serums, creams or gels

- Personalised after care advice is available and products are available for purchase.

Even one Treatment will improve the feel, function and appearance of your skin while going beyond the skin to provide a recuperative retreat from a hectic world.

Therapists who provide Holistic Facials

Holistic Massage

Holistic Massage

Holistic Massage traditionally is the use of several different therapy techniques making them into one treatment. This particular type of Holistic Massage takes elements of Sports Therapy, Aromatherapy and Swedish Massage, allowing you to experience these different types of treatments. A unique combination of techniques will be designed specifically for you by the therapist targeted to your needs.

Therapists who provide Holistic Massage

Homoeopathic Medicine

HOMOEOPATHY

Homoeopathy is a simple, safe and effective medical art based upon principles that are easy to understand.

Disease is perceived to be a dynamic disturbance of the whole person, a disturbance that is expressed individually. The task for the homoeopath is to discover what is individual in each case of disease and then to select the medicine that induces the most similar disease state in tests on healthy people, according to the principle that ‘like cures like’. This medicine is given singly and in the smallest dose necessary to restore health. This is good science.

The homoeopathic consultation is an opportunity for you to explore your health situation from the inside. Most people find it to be a positive and enlightening experience and 75-80% of our patients have reported ‘significant improvements’ in their health.

Almost any problem that you would take to a GP could benefit from a homoeopathic approach.

Feel free to call us and find out what we can do to help.

Therapists who provide Homoeopathic Medicine

Hot Stone Therapy

Therapists who provide Hot Stone Therapy

Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is a natural, focused state which we all experience on a regular basis, perhaps whilst watching a favourite film or reading an absorbing book. Hypnotherapy helps you develop and use this naturally-occurring state to access your own strengths and resources in order to overcome problems and achieve the changes you want. You remain conscious, comfortable and in control throughout. Hypnotherapy is widely recognised as being effective for smoking cessation, weight adjustment, phobias, insomnia and anxieties of all kinds; it is also very helpful for a wider range of issues including self-confidence, stress-related physical illness and for skills development.

Therapists who provide Hypnotherapy

Indian Head Massage

Therapists who provide Indian Head Massage

Ka Huna Massage

Ka Huna Massage

Ka Huna massage is a deeply healing and beautiful form of massage to receive and is especially good for reducing stress and increasing the subtle energy know as ki, chi, or lifeforce. In Hawaiian this is termed mana.

When this energy flows freely and we are in balance we are happy, confident, vibrant and healthy. However when it is low or obstructed we can feel tight, tired or just lacking a certain joie de vivre.

The Ka Huna practitioner uses long flowing, rhythmical movements to facilitate deep relaxation of the mind and body performed to align, balance and harmonise the whole being.

On the Mental and Emotional levels Ka Huna:

Creates a healthy emotional balance for all kinds of traumas

Releases unhelpful patterns held in the subconscious mind

Strengthens relationships

Creates peace

The recipient leaves feeling light, peaceful and wonderfully relaxed.

Therapists who provide Ka Huna Massage

Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini yoga is known as the yoga of awareness. Classes are a dynamic blend of postures, pranayam (breathing), mantra, and meditation, which teach you the art of relaxation, self-healing and mental elevation. Kundalini yoga balances the body and mind and enables you to experience the clarity and beauty of your true identity. It balances the physical, emotional and spiritual, bringing heightened awareness and creativity to those who practice it. Kundalini yoga is relatively new to the west and was brought here by Yogi Bhajan in the late 60's to help people deal with the ever-increasing demands of 20th century living. It works by increasing the flow of ‘Prana’ or life force, in the body, which helps to unblock emotional tension and revitalise the body and mind.

Therapists who provide Kundalini Yoga

Life Coaching

Life Coaching:

The key to becoming highly successful in any area of life is really quite simple. Successful people are highly motivated, have a clear focus of what they want to achieve, why it is of value to them and have a plan of action regarding how to go about achieving it. Through Coaching we can facilitate your personal transformation, so that you can act and feel the same way that most successful people do.

"He who looks outside dreams.

He who looks inside, awakens."

Carl Jung.

Life Coaching will help you ......with the following:-

• Gain clarity about what is important to you in all areas of your life i.e. family, business, relationships, spirituality etc, etc.

• Identify your 'life purpose' and ensure your goals and actions support this.

• Create new empowering beliefs for yourself.

• Identify your strengths and what you do best.

• Get motivated and stay motivated.

• Develop new strengths and strategies to build the bedrock for a happy fulfilling life.

• Set compelling goals and have clear actions to enable you to achieve them.

• Have the confidence to overcome any obstacle to your personal transformation and success.

So, if you want to achieve consistent, positive and outstanding results - then invest in yourself and sign up for the balance-for-life Coaching programme .

What will I get from my Coaching programme?

You can choose to either follow the whole 10 session Balance-for-life Coaching Programme looking at all key areas of life, or sign up for 4-6 Coaching sessions designed specifically to address the areas of life you want to change.

These sessions can be weekly fortnightly or monthly. You can choose what works best for you.

The sessions are usually face-to-face but you can choose to have Coaching sessions over the telephone .

Email support in between sessions to discuss progress and any tasking or homework set.

Therapists who provide Life Coaching

Manual Lymphatic Drainage

A Manual Lymphatic Drainage Facial uses the Vodder method of working along the pathways of the lymphatic vessels. This promotes the elimination of waste products, toxins and excess fluid from the tissues, spring cleaning your skin from within.

By cleaning the intercellular matrix your skin cells are provided with a healthier environment in which they can thrive, thereby boosting your skin's radiance.

Very precise, gentle, rhythmical movements are applied to the surface of your skin with the pads of fingers which stimulates the movement and circulation of your lymph, helping your lymphatic system to do it's job more efficiently. Decongesting the lymph can benefit skin conditions such as rosacea and acne and generally improves the health of your skin.

The benefits of regular Treatments may include:

* A healthier and firmer connective tissue.

* The removal of excess fluid from the face with an accompanying reduction in puffiness.

* The eyes themselves look clearer and brighter.

* The speeding up of the healing process after surgery or injury to the face or neck. A reduction in swelling and scar tissue.

* Relief from the discomfort of sinusitis.

Several Treatments have a noticeable effect on the skin and the face as well as being deeply relaxing to the body as a whole.

Includes a double cleanse of the skin, a masque while the neck and shoulders are worked on and the application of serums and products.

Therapists who provide Manual Lymphatic Drainage

Massage

Massage is one of the most ancient of the healing arts, highly valued by many cultures and recommended by some of the greatest physicians in history. The powerful healing qualities of massage can help with many conditions, counteracting the effects of modern day stress, releasing mental, emotional and physical tension, providing relaxation, promoting recovery and helping us to maintain a positive attitude towards health.

Therapists who provide Massage

NLP

NLP:

So what is NLP?

The term Neuro Linguistic Programming refers to the processes we use unconsciously (also known as sub consciously) to produce behaviour, and therefore results.

Neuro:

Refers to the nervous system. Our experience of the world enters our brain via our nervous system and 5 senses. NLP is concerned with how we process this sensory experience and translate it into conscious and unconscious thought.

Linguistic:

Refers to the way we use language to give meaning to experience. We communicate our unconscious and conscious thoughts both verbally and non verbally.

Programming:

Indicates the ways in which we consistently think and behave. Just like a computer each of us runs specific programmes to produce our behaviour. NLP can reveal the programmes we run and the results they produce. This then gives us the means to change our own and other people’s programmes to produce the results we want.

(With thanks to Carolyn Boyes for the definitions used)

NLP, (Neuro Linguistic programming) Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis are fast and extremely effective methods in dealing with a whole range of personal life issues. These techniques can make powerful and lasting changes in even one session because they work directly with your unconscious mind.

We also provide a unique blend of NLP with Thought Field Therapy (TFT). TFT works on unblocking the meridian/energy pathways in the body to resolve emotional and physical problems. This is an extremely fast and effective treatment enabling you to 'tap' away your issues in just minutes.

We have helped clients overcome anxieties/panic attacks, fears (including fear of public speaking), phobias, low confidence, self-worth issues, depression, feelings of rejection, limiting beliefs and release from the effects of past traumatic events.

Sometimes you don't really know what is wrong- you just feel unhappy, disillusioned, stressed or 'stuck' in a negative cycle. The methods we use can help identify and deal with what the real issue is for you, and help you move forward in life feeling positive and energised.

Therapists who provide NLP

Nutritional Therapy

NUTRITIONAL THERAPY

Nutritional Therapy explores the therapeutic benefits that can be gained from the interaction of nutrients from food and supplements with the cells, organs and systems of the body. The aim of the nutritional therapist is to help an individual to achieve the correct balance of nutrients in order to support the body’s systems and help promote healing. The approach is tailored to the individual and recognition is given to the potential negative effects of factors other than diet; including inefficient nutrient absorption and toxin elimination, medical history, lifestyle, and physical and emotional stressors.

Many conditions can respond well to nutritional therapy, including: anxiety and stress-related problems, joint aches and pains, low energy,digestive complaints, hormonal imbalances, poor immune status, and weight issues. Nutritional therapy can also be useful for anyone who feels their diet may be contributing to health issues but aren’t quite sure what changes to make.

Therapists who provide Nutritional Therapy

Past Life Regression Future Life Progression

Past Life Regression & Future Life Progression

A session of past life regression or future life progression can be life changing. So often we struggle through life making the same mistakes over and over. We read the books, go to the workshop, do the meditations but somehow never seem to move forward. A past life session can clear old patterns, explain why we have certain people and situations in our lives. It can reveal talents and abilities. Most of all we can leave the past behind us and clear the way for a better life.

A future life progression session is a life changing and powerful insight into your own future. You can discover who you will be with, where you will be living, how your career is going. You can look at alternate futures and even go forward into your next lifetime and bring back the wonderful energy from the future you.

Sessions are available in person at Exeter Natural Health Centre. See www.juliebladon.com for more information.

Therapists who provide Past Life Regression Future Life Progression

Person Centred Counselling

Person-Centred Counselling is an approach that places trust in the inner knowing of you, the client. It’s founded on the belief that you need to experience certain qualities in your relationship with a counsellor, for your answers to emerge.

Whereas the counsellor must have such qualities as great awareness of themselves, strong sensitivity and compassion, a courage to challenge, and awareness of the counselling process, you are accepted as the expert on your inner world.

As you hear yourself describe your life situation, you will learn about yourself. Your counsellor senses feelings and experiences that seem particularly important, and encourages you to explore them further. They seek to build trust in your relationship with yourself, through empathy, genuineness, and respect. Your deep beliefs and desires may emerge through this process, guiding your future direction.

In contrast to sympathy or reassurance, the quality of empathy allows you to feel more accurately what is happening inside you. Greater freedom, self awareness, and self acceptance emerges from connecting with the deeper truth of your feelings, emotions, and thoughts. Reassurance takes you away from this truth. Your counsellor wishes to know what it’s like to be you, a picture that's built at your pace.

The genuineness and openness of your counsellor gradually builds trust in your relationship with them, helping your own openness to expand. With sensitivity and appropriate timing, they will share their experience of being with you, things that may be just outside your own awareness, but which they sense as they listen carefully. You can check whether these fit for you.

Your counsellor may briefly share experiences from their own life, where these are likely to support your growth – it’s about two people being human, rather than one trying to fix another.

Respect for your unique experiences and choices in the world, build confidence in you, allowing you to gradually be more free in being your true self.

Therapists who provide Person Centred Counselling

Polarity Therapy

Polarity

"The infinite within is ever-becoming"

Dr Randolph Stone, Founder of Polarity Therapy

Come experience the magic of Polarity Therapy and the Principals of Life Energy. Polarity gets the energy moving through your body and life in simple and effective ways, creating opening and alignment to ones true nature. It is excellent for people who are in transition, needing resource, re-invention or just want to understand the way that Life Energy moves in our lives.

“Energy is the foundation of all life!” Modern science is just beginning to document this simple truth, which has been the basis of Eastern medical traditions for thousands of years, and it is revolutionizing our views of health. Polarity Therapy is on the cutting edge of this revolution-bringing the study of energy out of the realm of quantum physics and particle accelerators into, quite literally, the palms of our hands. Just as there are subtle electromagnetic forces that bind atoms together, there are subtle patterns of energy that create and sustain all living things. This “life energy” expresses itself not only through our physical bodies but also through our thoughts, feelings, relationships and everyday experiences.

Polarity, a full holistic healthcare system, works with life energy in all of its forms, using a comprehensive system of bodywork, exercise, breathwork, nutritional guidance and verbal counseling to bring body, mind, emotions and spirit into a state of balance, harmony and robust health. When we are truly well, our bodies vibrate with vitality and our thoughts and emotions are in alignment with our soul’s truth. But Polarity is, at its heart, a set of principles about the balance and flow of life energy.

Polarity Therapy was developed by Dr. Randolph Stone (1890-1981), an osteopath, chiropractor and naturopath who sought to integrate Eastern and Western modalities.

Pregnancy Massage

Therapists who provide Pregnancy Massage

Psychotherapy

Therapists who provide Psychotherapy

Reflexology

Reflexology

Reflexology is an intense treatment of the feet originating from China and Egypt to help detoxify the body and relax the mind. It is based on the principle that the foot, divided in reflex zones, is a mirror image of the body. By applying pressure to the 10 energy lines that run through our body to our feet, blockages in corresponding glands, organs and other parts of the body can be reduced or eliminated. This ancient therapy is believed to promote the body's own healing powers. Reflexology is more than a foot massage; it's a natural healing therapy which is highly effective in dealing with many complaints.

Therapists who provide Reflexology

Reflexology for pregnancy and labour

Reflexology in Pregnancy and Labour

Pregnancy

Maternity Reflexology is a gentle, non invasive treatment that can help with many of the common ailments of pregnancy. It is a deeply relaxing therapy that can help to calm anxieties and stresses and help you to focus on your baby and the changes that are taking place in your body. This deep relaxation can also help to provide the ideal conditions for the production of Oxytocin which is a vital component during labour.

In her book, The Gentle Birth Method, Dr Gowri Motha describes Reflexology as one of the most powerful tools in her programme and lists some of the benefits that Reflexology treatments can have throughout pregnancy:

Reflexology and Labour

A study of 593 women giving birth at a Danish hospital found that 89.7% of those who chose reflexology with no anaelgesic drugs, felt it reduced pain, with only 4 of them requiring additional pain medication.(Easier Births Using Reflexology." by Gabriella Bering Liisberg, "Tidsskrift for Jordemodre," No. 3, 1989)

This study also showed that not only can it help reduce pain but it can also help bring about labour, often without the need for further intervention in about half the cases. And as if that wasn’t a good enough reason to try this extremely relaxing and calming therapy, a further study has also shown that it can reduce labour time by over 60%. The study conducted in London by Dr Gowri Motha showed that women having regular reflexology treatments had an average first stage labour of 5-6 hours, compared to textbook expectations of 16-24 hours. It also found that Stage 2 and 3 of labour combined was less than 25 mins for those having had reflexology, compared to more typical experiences of 1-2 hours.

If you would like to book an appointment for any of my therapies please contact me on 01626 862469 or at www.susanquayle.co.uk

Therapists who provide Reflexology for pregnancy and labour

Reiki

Therapists who provide Reiki

Remedial Massage

Remedial massage focuses on the treatment of injuries and is used effectively in the treatment of back, neck and other joint and musculoskeletal problems.

Therapists who provide Remedial Massage

Seated Acupressure Massage

A relaxing, calming, revitalising treatment, incorporating traditional Western style massage with the use of Japanese acupressure. This versatile massage sequence can provide a simple yet effective method of reducing stress and stress related problems. Remaining fully clothed the recipient is comfortably seated in a specifically designed chair. Seated acupressure massage is equally appropriate for private consultation and for use within the work environment providing 'on-site' massage. An ideal treatment for releasing muscular tension, restoring balance and harmonising energy throughout the body.

Shiatsu

Shiatsu

Shiatsu is a traditional style of Japanese bodywork. Its is based on the same principles as Chinese medicine and involves stretching, joint rotations and manipulation, application of bodyweight, gentle holding and acu-point stimulation.

Shiatsu aims to improve the flow of energy called Qi (life force energy) within a series of channels called meridians. For many different reasons Qi can become blocked and produce symptoms of poor health on a physicals and emotional level. These symptoms can gradually improve as the quality and flow of Qi starts to change.

Shiatsu is deeply relaxing for both body and mind. It helps to establish a calmer nervous system which allows the bodies own natural healing mechanisms to start working.

The session usually takes place on a padded futon at floor level and the client stays fully clothed throughout the treatment.

Therapists who provide Shiatsu

Skin Treatments for the Body

SKIN TREATMENTS FOR THE BODY

Back Facial – treats the much neglected skin over the back to dry skin brushing, a cleanse, exfoliation, Ayurvedic Back Massage & a specially selected mask. Completes with an organic body butter.

Body Buff, Polish & Nourish – the skin over the body is treated to a dry skin brush, an invigorating organic lemon scrub and massaged with an organic body butter.

Therapists who provide Skin Treatments for the Body

Sports Injuries Rehabilitation

Sports Injury Rehabilitation

When a sports injury occurs the main aim is to get you back to your sport as quickly and as safely as possible. Sports Injury Rehabilitation takes into consideration your lifestyle, sport of choice and type of injury. This is a unique treatment designed specifically for the individual consisting of stretching techniques, exercise routines and massage techniques enabling you to remain active while the body recovers fully, resulting in a speedy return to your sport.

Sports Therapy

Sports Therapy

An active lifestyle depends on a healthy body. Sports Therapy is a form of massage that can maintain your body’s muscle tone and increase flexibility, reducing the risk of injury. It consists of advanced techniques that work deep into the muscle to release the tensions that regular exercise and challenging training routines can cause. It is recommended for those individuals who are serious about their sport (whether professional or not) and who want to maintain their full sporting ability.

Therapists who provide Sports Therapy

Toyohari Acupuncture

Toyohari is a theoretically simple but technically sophisticated complete system of acupuncture. It is quite different from most other forms of acupuncture in that it uses a mroe delicate treatment method, placing great emphasis on the use of pulse diagnosis and palpation skills. Anyone can have Toyohari treatment for any complaint. It is classed as a root treatment and so it deals with the cause which then takes care of the effect. A Toyohari treatment is so subtle that it is a surprise how effective it can be. It is so gentle that even children like it.

Therapists who provide Toyohari Acupuncture

Traditional Acupuncture

Acupuncture is an ancient system of healing practised in China and other Eastern Countries for thousands of years. It will benefit a person's entire health and well being by regarding the physical body as intricately linked to emotional, mental and spiritual functioning. Inserting fine needles into the energy channels of the body enables the acupuncturist to stimulate the body's own healing response and restore natural balance. Acupuncture not only serves as a successful treatment method but also as an excellent preventative medicine.

Therapists who provide Traditional Acupuncture

Yoga

The centre offers the following yoga classes

Monday 11 - 12.30 Hatha Yoga with Visvadakini

Monday 6pm - 7.30pm Kundalini Yoga with Martha (this class is on summer break until September 12th)

Tuesday 6.15- 7.45pm Sivananda - Hatha yoga with Julie Bladon

Thursdays 12.15 - 1.15pm Lifestyle Yoga with Paritosh Peachey

This class starts September 2011

Therapists who provide Yoga

Treatments

Therapists

Training