This is the story of how a foot massage morphed into a somatic session that brought me powerful and unexpected emotional insights. So, first off, I really love having my feet rubbed. Not sure why - just has always felt great and, let’s face it, my feet do a lot of work. Whenever I worked with other massage therapists in the past I always noticed I felt sad that they didn’t work on my feet for longer but this time I decided that I would ask André to only work on my feet.

We often think the moment a massage ends is the moment to stand up and carry on with the day. But what if those last few minutes of lying quietly on the table are actually part of the therapeutic process? At Olive Tree Therapies, I invite you to stay present for a moment after the hands leave the body. That pause helps your body fully land, supports the nervous system to integrate the work done, and cultivates what is called interoception - our inner sense of what is happenin

It could be said that we all have an ideal amount of touch we’d like to receive at any given moment in time, and an actual amount that we ac

I'm pretty confident that you know exactly what I'm talking about and if you don't, well, perhaps you've taken all the rights steps in...

Us massage therapists have regularly come across this problem. To educate or not to educate someone who just used the word ‘masseur’ (or...