A Mindful Massage with Amanda Jones

21/04/2022

The start of a new Summer Season of Massage at Seatown Beach on Sundays (weather permitting) pm or telephone me to book in. 07733 045 289

03/08/2020

Hello, if you would like to get in touch please e.mail bridport.massage@gmail.com, thanks for looking

19/01/2020

I just had to share what the lovely Tigger Macgregor has said about NO HANDS Massage, if you are ever in Galloway...book a Treatment

The approach I practice is called NO HANDS Massage. But don’t let the title deceive you – I do use my hands! NO HANDS is a zero-strain approach to Massage that evolved as one practitioner’s clinically developed response to the horrendous injury pandemic that continues to afflict the profe...

06/11/2019

03/10/2019

Enlightening words from a fellow Therapist

As a therapist I will sometimes feel that clients expect me to fix them and will want all the bells and whistles in their massage. I’ll feel the need to use every available stroke I know of that might help the particular issue they’ve come with. I worry that I might let them down, not be effective, not be good enough.

However, if I remove my own limiting beliefs and remember the many days of training I do every year, I know that less is more. Using fewer strokes so that I do more of just a few is actually more powerful than throwing in the whole shebang. Our brains can switch off with the security of the repetition of rhythmic, soothing massage strokes.

Yesterday I went to my massage therapist for one of my twice monthly massages. It’s often hard for us to switch off our therapist heads and go in with a client mindset. However, with the knowledge I have I was able to confidently say I wanted less. I wanted some deeper work on my spine to realign and lighter work everywhere else, I wanted it to be slow. I love to feel strong, tall, capable, effortless, graceful.... like a ballerina, after my massage.

Having said that I wanted ‘less is more’, because I know that is usually the best way to get my brain to switch off and go into that magical place between awake and sleep, I did worry slightly that I wouldn’t get there.

Well, I focused on my breathing, I thought about my positive outcome, I lingered on how the touch felt, I got swept along by the music and disappeared into the never world. My mind was empty. No cares. No stresses.

How could I have ever doubted the magic of repetitive, rhythmical, soothing, flowing touch? I don’t really remember it all but I know my NO HANDS Massage Therapist used just a few strokes and yes, less is most definitely more!

Once dressed I walked around the room noticing what felt different. I was walking easily, smoothly, effortlessly. I felt calm and confident. Tall and straight. It’s not that she did anything in particular to ‘fix’ me. I mean, she only used a few strokes out of the toolbox. What she did was give me space to let go, to release. And so I could set down the stress of modern life and walk out feeling recharged, reset, rejuvenated.

How would you like to feel? Get in touch to book your massage

07/09/2019

https://www.facebook.com/earthspirithealinggardeens/videos/2446691958948479/

19/08/2019

What IS...NO HANDS Massage?" the answers are all here

TRUSTING THE TOUCH   It is now over 25 years since I qualified as a Massage therapist. I have often wondered what I would say to myself if I met myself today, just as I was starting out on this wonderful career of Massage?   The number of Massage treatments that I have actually given …

18/05/2019

Doug & I have been a couple of magpies over the 20 yrs that we have lived here, we are so blessed to have the space to appreciate STUFF!

Just for fun, some shots of our "clutter". all with just available light.

14/11/2018

I have decided to focus on delivering potent therapeutic massage to my clients from deepest of deep to lightest of light in 2019, so i will no longer be teaching the NO HANDS Massage Transforming Touch and Practitioner courses. Discover the massage that you truly deserve. Contact me on 07733 045 289 to book an appointment

30/06/2018

Hear what the founder of NO HANDS Massage has to say about DEEP touch

09/11/2017

This is a great read and explains why i do what i do

An article by Gerry Pyves, Founder & Creator of NO HANDS® Massage The Victorian paradigm of healing, from Florence Nightingale onwards, has been that we must suffer in order to help others. This is deeply embedded in most western Christian cultures. It is a sacrificial act to help others. Like most…

10/05/2017

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=UPiPhKY5F7E&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djsd5uE_9J_s%26feature%3Dshare

Fit For Life is a new project by Access Dorset aiming to inspire disabled people older people and carers in Dorset to exercise in order to improve health. We...

08/02/2017

What lovely feedback from a client

10/11/2016

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154550241522184&set=gm.1337580392960549&type=3

19/10/2016

Please take a look at this short video which has information about NO HANDS Massage This is for any qualified Massage Therapist who is interested in learning massage that is zero strain for you!! No more painful hands or discomfort at the end of your day. You can enjoy the work that you love again. For more info call me on 07733 054 289

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-EyFCkxfHw

Gerry Pyves, the founder of NO HANDS Massage, talks about the best way to learn NO HANDS Massage. For details of our next courses visit www.nohandsmassage.co...

23/09/2016

https://www.facebook.com/pauline.hinge/posts/10210149887881808