Rural Solace

17/12/2025

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We have taken the liberty to research the opening hours of our businesses over the Christmas period so you know what is open and where to take visiting friends and family. If we have left your business off the list, please post your opening hours in the comments section below.

10/12/2025

Sometimes you read something that reaches your soul.
Reading this literally moved me to tears.
This is what gentle, present therapeutic massage/bodywork is about and I love what it can do.

Leanne

Confessions of a Myofascial Trigger Point

I was never meant to be permanent. I began as a moment, a response, a slight tightening when holding felt safer than releasing. At first, it was subtle, just a brief pause in the tissue's rhythm. But the body asked me to stay. So I did. I shortened my fibers, thickened my layers, and held the chemistry still. I became a place where the river slowed and gathered its weight.

The body learned to move around me. Fascia stiffened along familiar lines, rerouting tension and sensation elsewhere. Pain drifted outward, tracing old pathways through the shoulder, jaw, back, or breath. I wasn’t creating chaos. I was containing it. I held pressure because something inside wasn’t ready to let go.

Then the hands came, not hurried, not demanding. They rested with warmth and attention, and I felt the first change before I understood it. Compression softened the alarm. The nervous system quieted its vigilance. Hyaluronic layers warmed and began to slide. A gentle current brushed past me as the fascial wave moved through the body, reminding the tissue of motion I thought had been lost.

When the wave reached me, it paused. I was seen. The hands didn’t press me deeper into holding. Instead, they slipped beneath me, lifting me gently toward the bone. The pressure shifted in different directions, changing the shape of everything I had been holding together. My fibers lengthened. Blood returned. Chemistry softened. I felt warmth where there had been tightness and a trembling where there had been certainty.

I tried to stay. Old patterns don’t dissolve easily. But time was offered instead of force. Breath moved. Electrical chatter quieted. The nervous system loosened its grip on the story I had been carrying. Slowly, and with only a little drama on my part, I melted. The dam cracked, and the water I had been holding found its way forward again.

As I released, the river surged outward, carrying the change through the fascial lines that connect the whole body. Where I once stood, there was space, warmth, and movement.

I was never the enemy; I was the pause that kept the body safe until it was ready. And when it was finally met with patience, presence, and understanding of a healer like you, I let go. The river remembered itself, and so did I.

05/12/2025

Some pain and restriction is different.
I found the older I got the more my past appeared.
Eventually we experience everything we choke down, good or bad, right or wrong.

Taking care of ourselves, nutrition, rest, hydration and moving as much as we can helps.

Leanne ❤

The Anatomy of Being Dismissed

There is an ache that settles in when the body keeps speaking, but no one truly hears it. You feel off, unsteady, uncomfortable in ways that don’t make sense, yet every test comes back perfect. The scans are clear. The bloodwork is normal. The doctor smiles and reassures you that everything is fine, and still the pain hums beneath the surface. What begins as confusion slowly becomes self-doubt, as though the body’s truth is somehow an exaggeration.

The reality is far more compassionate. Pain does not always originate in organs or lab values. It often begins with experience. Trauma reorganizes the nervous system, changes how the brain processes sensation, alters muscle tone, and thickens fascia through years of bracing. Research by Stephen Porges, Bessel van der Kolk, and Helene Langevin shows that unresolved stress, chronic overwhelm, and unexpressed emotion can live in the tissues long after the moment has passed. These patterns cannot be detected by imaging because they are woven into the body rather than broken within it.

The body learns to survive by holding. The jaw clenches. The diaphragm tightens. The shoulders lift. The pelvic floor contracts. Fascia adapts to these patterns, binding old protective strategies into posture, breath, circulation, lymphatic flow, and nervous system behavior. This architecture of tension can create pain, fatigue, migraines, digestive distress, dizziness, and emotional heaviness even when every medical marker looks pristine. Normal test results do not negate real suffering. They simply mean the story lives in a deeper layer.

Bodywork becomes powerful in these hidden landscapes. Through touch, we listen to places the medical world cannot see. Releasing the diaphragm restores vagal tone. Unwinding the neck and sacrum quiets the reflexes the brainstem has held for years. Slow myofascial work softens patterns shaped by fear and endurance. Lymphatic techniques reduce stagnation that mimics illness. Emotional body mapping helps clients understand how their history became sensation.

For every client who has been dismissed, minimized, or told “it’s all in your head,” this work offers something radically different. A place where your experience matters. A place where fascia, nervous system, breath, and story are treated as parts of the same truth. A place where healing does not begin with data, but with understanding.

For Body Artisans, this is the heart of our craft. We do not treat symptoms. We witness the human beneath them.

04/12/2025

02/12/2025

A.I will never be able to hold space for you in the way your MT will.
Just saying 😊
Red

24/11/2025

OPEN APPOINTMENTS THIS WEEK
Tuesday 25th 2pm and 3.30pm
Thursday 11.30am
Booking link on Bio

16/11/2025

Grateful and humbled by all those that trust me to work with their souls home.
I don't underestimate the immense privledge this truly is.

Leanne ❤

14/11/2025

RANT WARNING.
Due to the fact many illicit businesses run under the banner of massage therapy. Many of us are subject to rude and sometimes down right scary situations.

Many female therapists that work alone refuse to work on male clients because of it.

Not a week goes by that I don't see a story from a therapist of inappropriate requests or abuse, it's terrible.

If you know a therapist please don't joke about it. Its disrespectful, we get it too much from people we don't know without those we do.

Just don't do it, don't be a jerk.
Rant done
Leanne