Healing Resistance Massage & ScarWork

08/21/2025

Summer abundance

06/13/2025

After a year of rest and research, tending to our gardens and gathering botanicals on our travels, Eco-Arts Collective, invites you to our Living Room for an evening of communal sustenance.

𝘈 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨,

𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴,

𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥.

𝘈 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵-𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦

𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦,

𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘣𝘦,

𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦.

Hosted at Black-led community space, ONYX Lab, Living Room offers a BIPOC-focused space for reconnection and recalibration, within ourselves and one another.

Leaning into the power of medicinal foods and ancestral healing practices that have supported liberation movements for generations, Living Room opens the portal to a plane of rich communal rejuvenation.

In this series, Healing Practitioner , Manna Mu offers walk in 30-60 minute 5-point ear acupuncture and ear seeds, a revolutionary medicine developed by the Black Panthers & the Young Lords.

Along with a selection of Southern-inspired snacks, Chef Berlin Reed plays bartender at our handcrafted tea bar, with personalized blends made from foraged and homegrown herbs.

ONYX Lab at LPM, 1221 Crescent St.

6pm-8pm, June 18

PWYC - kids welcome

02/03/2025

This lunar new year I wanted to share an ecological somatic clay enquiry from my time at artist residency in dec.

This was a land listening , ancestral research piece exploring the kokdu ( wooden death companions carved onto funeral biers during the Joseon Dynasty in Korean cultural practice ).

The kokdu are guides, companions and beings who support the dead on their journey to the next life. They exist in the boundary between this world and the world beyond , and whilst some representations are in human form they are neither human nor not human.

Some of the traditional roles they offer include : the guide, the guard, the entertainer, the carer as well as mythical creatures such as the dragon and the phoenix .

My process included digging raw clay from the earth, listening , observing , mapping the ecological landscape of the land of for a week , , noticing who grew where and with whom.

Meditating with the plants to connect to their energies , observing how the clay is made up of the decomposed plant material of the land , remembering in death we return to earth, so how could clay kokdu made of the earth guide us in our earthly return, remembering we will decompose and then guide others .

I wanted to explore what emerges from the clay itself, the shapes and textures , what companion creature will they become ?

How does the clay kokdu represent an earthly embodiment of the locality and stories of the land ?

How does this land want to support us ?

12/03/2024

Last week I said goodbye to 10 pine an ecosystem that has been home as well as the hearth of my practice since 2020. There is much to feel about this which don’t have words right now . But it made me reflect on the many studios and tables of my massage practice journey. So here’s a fun timeline snapshot for you :

🦋Slide 2 & 3 : I used to spontaneously instigate massage lines at raves and then when I was on exchange at McMaster uni in Hamilton I started a weekly massage circle that would pop up around diff locations on campus and invite students walking by to join in. Slide 3 is a massage line I started in Cuba on Xmas day !

Slide 4 &5 : after graduating from Bristol college of massage and bodywork , I shared a studio with a collective of massage school friends at Picton street in a building that had cheap rent cos it was part of an ethical properties initiative for social impact led projects .

Slide 6 & 7

09/22/2024

the distance between us is measured by vegetables

the distance between us is measured by vegetables
Sometimes its the length of 20 super pumpkins
Like the ones you grew last summer
Big and engorged and never ending
Thick and fibrous
A mouthful of bitter seeds
Each pearl a letter
An alphabet to string together
Mediated by google translate
And a lifetime of ears that hear the z in the j

The distance of love is measured by vegetables
And the number of tube stops it takes to deliver
zone 9 to zone 3, 2 1 and back again
A best friend as a surrogate daughter
or an emblematic extension?

You gave me a super box of ramen the first time i left home
It lived under my bed and i gave every lover a packet
A stand in for what my heart could not give.

I cross the ocean and sink my hands into soil to find myself
And instead find you,
The world is ending and all we can say to each other
Are a series of photos of vegetables
Lettuce, radish, aubergines, tomatoes , green beans,
Strung out like a bridge
A temporal language
We found we can both speak.

03/27/2023

wonderful humans... im back in blighty after 3 years away.

between gallivanting around trying to see everyone i am available for 3 days only for massage & scarwork in NW London - Kensal Rise.

come and see me cos f**k me uk is mad expensive since i left but also cos who knows when i'll next be back and i promise my skills are ageing as marvellously as a bottle of wine.

Booking link: https://calendly.com/healingresistanceuk/60min?month=2023-04

low income QTBIPOC - if my sliding scale is inaccessible for you DM me and will work something out

02/10/2023

Hey friends! I am back in the UK this spring for a short stint!

I will be offering massage & scarwork sessions from a private studio in NW London - Kensal Rise and there are limited spots available!

Join my UK mailing list for first dibs on dates, bookings & possible Bristol pop up!

Offering:
🌱 Holistic Massage
🌱 Remedial & Sports Massage
🌱 Trans ScarWork - healing post transmasc top surgery
🌱 ScarWork - C Section / Injuries / Surgeries

Spread the word if you know of anyone who might benefit!

Consent lead * Trauma aware * Q***r ,trans & s*x worker inclusive * Body positive * BIPOC centred

Hey folks! I'm in the UK for the first time in 3 years and will be offering bodywork in London and possibly Bristol this spring! Join the mailing list to find out when and how to book for March & April dates!   

05/03/2022

As part of my Reflective Practice I asked folks to fill in my feedback form.

Section 1 of the form asked about ethos & values & how the practice embodies them. This part is core to what underpins my work.

Embodiment is about moving beyond structurally putting something into place.

For me it's an adaptive way of being, that recognises that how we cultivate and live values such as accessibility, community and consent are evolving in RELATION always.

embodying values to me is about a dynamic aliveness that can learn, respond & pivot.

to only implement a structural change without embodiment in order to represent a value or ethos - is static, stationary and can result in being devoid of relationality.

without the embodiment piece alongside the structural, it means values are easy to abandon when we are put under stress or when challenged.

i have witnessed this a lot in past work environments when organisations try to be " inclusive"

values and ethos must be lived. in bodies. and they need to be continuously kept alive and fed like a fire.

embodiment is felt by others - it is an energetic communication & can create whole nervous system shifts that moves worlds beyond words and correct discourse.

musings over -what are your thoughts?

01/14/2022

dearest clients this sunday is my birthday... I would LOVE LOVE LOVE for you to participate in my reflective practice and answer the feedback form I spent all week putting together !

It's been TWO years of full time private practice, and a total of FIVE years of part time private practice .

You can give anonymous feedback and the form has 5 sections:
- Values
- Structure
- Strengthening what I offer
- Expanding what I offer
- Open Format

My client community is f**king inspirational and I LOVE sharing space with you all.

I want to make sure I am responding to and meeting your needs as best I can.

So it would mean the world to me if you can take 10 mins to let me know!

There are 5 sections to this form & not all questions may feel relevant to you so feel free to skip the ones that do! The last section is open format so if that feels like a more accessible way to give feedback you can skip straight there also! The form is anonymous but if you want to write your nam...

12/01/2021

Dec 15th Community Healing Day - Free Bodywork for Undocumented Folks/ Refugee and Migrant Communities

This project brings together complementary health practitioners in montreal to offer their time and skills free of charge, bridging the gap that exists between private and public health models.

This Dec 15th 2021 we are offering free bodywork sessions ( massage/ reflexology/ craniosacral therapy/ scarwork / thai yoga massage/ menstrual health consultation) centering undocumented folks, refugee, and low income migrant communities.

Sign up Form : https://bit.ly/3D1ZfNn

Languages offered are French, English and Spanish.

We would love it if you can share this amongst your community networks, with the communities and clients you serve.

There is a short sign up form for participants and the deadline to sign up is Friday 10th December, folks will then be matched with a practitioner based on their treatment, gender and language preferences.

Treatments will take place in a community format with 5 treatments at the same time in a shared space, with unclothed treatments in private rooms and clothed sessions in the main space. A community lunch will be provided between 12:30-1:30pm. Each treatment will be 45 mins.

Please get in touch if you have questions and share !
Sign up Form : https://bit.ly/3D1ZfNn

11/18/2021

super important tonight is the last night to sign the petition to remove transphobic sections from bill 2.

https://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/exprimez-votre-opinion/petition/Petition-9319/index.html?fbclid=IwAR06tIEPuGHJPnmFWZbqJQ75EjNe_qAApEftiD87Hu6CI222qE1LrKx2Y1I

CONSIDERING THAT Bill 2 mandates that birth certificates would now include a gender marker added on demand as well as a “biological s*x” marker, and considering that this identification would enable trans persons with ge****ls not corresponding to their gender identity to be immediately identifi...

11/01/2021

Channelling Maggie Cheung. The real Halloween horror this year is the transphobic which will affect many dear clients, loves, friends, colleagues & community’s lives, safety & dignity in Quebec.

Links to info, resources, the petition & consultation are in my bio.

You can also sign & comment in the official petition if you reside outside of Quebec.

Follow / support and engage with the trans, non binary & inters*x folks on the frontline

are hosting a panel this nov 3rd about the bill 2

Thank you to for the link to their website & resources which I have put in my bio for ease of access and is also in their bio
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