a place your body remembers how to exhale
a place your body remembers how to exhale
trauma-conscious, lomi-informed bodywork in london
queer and trans+ centred
60, 90 or 120 minutes · sliding scale £60–£170
most of us carry more than we can name.
the body holds it all: pressure, survival, lineage, migration, silence.
this is a practice that moves slowly, and listens to what your body is carrying.
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people systematically pushed out of care: qtibipoc and global majority communities, lgbtqia+, trans+ and gender-expansive folx, migrants, refugees and s*x workers, disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent folx, survivors of violence, policing and institutional harm, and people living through war, genocide, displacement and precarity.
and anyone who’s never quite felt safe being touched.
if that’s you, you don’t need to explain yourself here. if it isn’t, you’re still welcome, and the same care applies.
the resourced rate is how this practice stays open to everyone.
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warm oil, and a room kept warmer than you’d expect.
long wave-like or snake-like strokes that travel the whole length of you rather than stopping and starting.
a pace slower than anything you’ve booked before. most people notice their breathing change in the first minute.
no conversation unless you want one. no explaining yourself, no history required.
and a way to change or stop anything without speaking at all.[more about how a session works →]
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i describe my work as lomi-informed because i don’t claim hawaiian lineage.
i trained in britain, and what i received came through layered histories of suppression, survival and global circulation. i take that history seriously.i honour the kānaka maoli practitioners, communities and māhū elders who protected lomi lomi through united states militarisation, colonisation, criminalisation and commodification.
my responsibility is to practise with humility, avoid extraction, and remain accountable to the histories this wisdom carries, recognising how these struggles are connected across time and place.
my practice is shaped through my training with the slowandaware community, where i first encountered lomi lohi: a super slow, relational form of lomi lomi.what i’ve carried from it is the tactile slowness. multi-handed relational work. deep listening and prayer through the hands. endeavouring to create embodied safety simply through slowness and attuned presence.
you can read more about my position on lineage and responsibility over on my substack.