Evelyn Jasmine Holistic Healing, Romiley (2025)

22/08/2025

Feedback Friday 💜💜

Honestly I have the best clients 😍😍

It’s such a privilege to be a massage therapist.

21/08/2025

What have we all been up to to cause our trigger points / knots?!

First thing to say about the causes is it’s nearly always a combination of 2 or more of the below that contribute to the formation of trigger points.

🏋️Muscle Overload
Acute strain: when you lift something too heavy or move awkwardly. I mean how many of us twist in a strange way and suddenly feel ‘our backs go’?!
Repetitive microtraumas: things like typing, playing instruments, kneading bread, sewing… any repetitive activity can lead to straining the same muscle fibres repeatedly.

💻 Poor Posture
Sitting in a slouched position, head down looking at your phone a lot, uneven weight-bearing loads, for example having a heavy backpack but only ever having it on one shoulder.

🤕 Injury - Direct Trauma
This one is pretty self- explanatory: falls, being hit, whiplash and surgical incisions can all directly cause trigger points.

🛌 Prolonged immobilisation
Being bed bound, being in a cast, sitting in one position for too long limits blood flow and weakens muscles causing trigger points to develop.

🌵Dehydration
Reduces the elasticity of your muscles and causes poor circulation.

😖 Stress
Increases muscle tension and keeps your sympathetic nervous system activated.

🥣 Nutritional Deficiencies
In particular Vitamin D, Magnesium and Iton

🫀Metabolic Issues
Hypothyroidism, diabetes and chronic fatigue can cause persistent muscle contraction.

Thing is prevention is key as once they are there they aren’t always necessarily coming out, its more management rather than cure.

14/08/2025

Earlier this year I went to a fantastic talk on The Science of Cortisol with Seed Talks.

I always saw cortisol, our stress hormone, as the bad guy but really we need it (obviously we’re do, that’s why we have it!).

On the most basic of levels is what gets us up in the morning (well some of us but that’s a different story).

It’s when our cortisol isn’t regulated that we have issues, particularly when we are living with chronic stress.

So what if I told you one of the ways of regulating your cortisol is adventure?! The type of adventure, or exhilarating activity, that requires healthy stress to even face it.

I had a first hand experience of that last year when I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro! It was an experience of a life time, took a good amount of healthy stress to complete it, but what a rush! It felt incredible to achieve it!

Thing is I also raised money for The Genie’s Wish while completing my epic adventure. This meant that I also had all those wonderful feelgood hormones rushing round my body - oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine, endorphins - heightening how amazing and healthy I felt.

Thing is you can also have this experience. The Genie’s Wish had some amazing opportunities for the adventurous among us to help us live full, healthy lives while also supporting them do the same thing for people living with terminal, critical and life-limiting illnesses, and their young carers. The one that comes to mind is their epic Arctic Treks! Or perhaps you’re more inclined towards a skydive 🪂

Fancy getting involved and living to the max? Get in touch with thegenieswish to hear about all their fundraising opportunities.

Trust me, you mind, body and soul will thank you ✨✨

14/08/2025

It’s been a while since I said Hi to you all and let you know who I am and what I’m about.

I’m Vic you friendly, neighbourhood massage therapist 💆‍♀️💆💆‍♂️ based in Romiley, on Urwick Road.

My business is Evelyn Jasmine Holistic Healing; named in memory of my beautiful baby girl. She changed my life and showed me what it was to live. It is under her legacy that I now help people to thrive by supporting their physical and mental health.

I use a variety of massage techniques to target your needs and requirements. Every massage is personally tailored for you.

I am trained in the following styles:
Deep tissue
Pregnancy
Manual lymphatic drainage
Natural face lift and rejuvenation
Acupressure
Indian head

I am trauma informed and I aim to create a psychologically safe and non-judgmental space to calm your nervous system and help you let go of the unnecessary stress you carry.

All new clients receive a 15% introductory discount.

All blue card holders receive a permanent 15% discount.

Here are some of the things my clients have said about my treatments:

“Thank you so much. I can’t tell you how much that massage has helped my body and mental health ❤️”

“I slept so heavy last night! And my body feels amazing today, you’re the best❤️”

I am a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapy’s which means I choose to work to their high ethical standards and code of conduct. This also means that if you have private insurance or work based wellbeing schemes you might be able to claim back for your treatment with myself.

If you have any questions about whether massage is suitable for you then please do direct message me.

If you’d like to see my treatment list, prices and to book in please click the link below:

https://evelyn-jasmine-holistic-healing.book.app/

13/08/2025

Trigger points - what are they?

We are going to get a wee bit sciencey here but bear with me!

Our muscles are made of fibres, these fibres are made of myofibrils. Myofibrils form strings of repeating units called sarcomeres.

The important part of this is that sarcomeres (these sections of muscle fibres) can become locked in a shortened, contracted state. This contracted state is often referred to as a ‘knot’ and can be felt as a lump, crunching or ‘stringiness’ in a muscle.

When we do anything involving our muscles they often tear or are damaged just slightly. This is when the sarcomere will shorten, to protect the damaged area while it heals. Once rested and healed the fibres will lengthen again.

The problems come, and trigger points form, when we don’t adequately allow our muscles the resting time to complete this process. Our muscle cells require energy to rest, this energy is created through a chemical reaction from glucose and oxygen (anyone else getting GCSE biology flashbacks?!). Thing is when a muscle is overworked and tight, the blood flow is constricted, leading to less glucose and oxygen getting to your cells. With less energy your muscles can’t relax, and it becomes inflamed.

This all happens outside your conscious awareness. It’s a reflex process governed by your central nervous system. But you certainly will know about it once the inflammation kicks in and it becomes painful.

The thing is this area of inflammation will sensitise your sensory nerve endings. This causes that localised pain in your muscle, and referred pain. Referred pain is when you feel the pain in another part of your body caused by the way pain signals are processed.

All in all trigger points can really play havoc with your quality of life.

I find it important to explain the science behind these things, as I’m so often asked why there is so much pain in someone’s muscles. That’s the real nitty gritty done, next week I’ll go into what causes trigger points in day to day life and how we can avoid them.

12/08/2025

Dream come true…

Ever since they came out I’ve dreamt of having a Fiat 500.

When asked ‘if you won the lottery what car would you buy?’ My answer was always a Fiat 500 - often met with a response along the lines of ‘well that’s not very impressive is it?!’

For me though I knew it was my perfect car… cool and cute 😉

Well, as you can probably guess from the photos, this weekend my dream came true! I bought a Fiat 500 😍

Thing is Aly and I have always had 1 car, ever since we moved in together. We vowed we’d only have 1 car until the day it became necessary to get a second car. We always wanted to to make sure we didn’t unnecessarily impact the environment. There was the odd occasion over the years where it was annoying having 1 car, but we made it work…

But recently Aly got a new job, and his commute has doubled. He has free parking at his work and with an electric car as well it makes much more sense both financially and as a time saver for him to now drive to work.

As a small business owner who has meetings to get to, networking to attend and mobile clients to visit I also need a car. When I realised my massage couch would fit in a Fiat 500 I was so excited!

So this is kind of business news, but mainly just life news - I won my lottery. It’s the small things in life that matter.

05/08/2025

So today I headed over to to have one of her gorgeous facials. I left Chom to decide what my skin needed - she is the expert when all said and done!

Just look at how beautiful my skin looks. It’s glowing, it’s radiant, it’s youthful. I’m chuffed to pieces with it and cannot recommend Chom more highly.

30/07/2025

Trigger points!

I have a pair. I’ve had them for as long as I can remember.

They flair up when I’m stressed, which when you have PTSD tends to be quite often.

Eventually they seize up leaving me in excruciating pain and unable to move freely, hindering my ability to do my job.

BUT I know my body. I started to feel the recognisable symptoms of a flair up - my arm started feeling numb, I could feel pain in my neck, my movement felt heavier.

I went to see my massage therapist - Hannah Rosborough. She found both trigger points and my god when she did the pain was high! But she loosened them back out and since all my symptoms are gone, I feel lighter again.

Thing is most people come to me (and I’m sure Hannah would say the same) once they’ve got to the ‘my back/neck/shoulder has seized up stage’. There would have been signs though that that was coming but most people just aren’t tuned into their body.

That’s what regular massage does for you, it keeps your muscles and fascia healthy and helps regulate your stress levels. It also makes you more aware of your body, you are more tuned into it and more likely to spot when things feel off.

If I didn’t have regular massage I would probably be trying to type this in excruciating pain, unable to do any basic tasks let alone my job.

So what exactly are trigger points? I’m glad you asked… I’ll do a little mini series on them so tune back in next Wednesday 😉

23/07/2025

I have been revamping!

To match my switch to blonde I decided it was time to revamp some of my online presence.

I’ve reorganised my booking website. I originally set it up to have my treatments separated between my treatment room in Romiley and mobile. However, I’m no longer offering mobile appointments except on exceptional basis.

So all my treatments were all listed under one drop down and I just felt it wasn’t easily accessible. So I have reorganised it all by type of treatment. Id love you to take a look and let me know what you think?

https://evelyn-jasmine-holistic-healing.book.app/book-now

Then I got to thinking about my Linktree. It has served me well specifically for my massage business for years BUT I don’t just have my massage business anymore.

I took the decision to change my Linktree to cover everything I am currently working on… and eventually, when I finally can financially, my websites will be listed there.

Again, I’d love to know what you think.

https://linktr.ee/victoriagreenhough

I’m on a roll… what next…

16/07/2025

How many of you find yourselves wearing a mask?

The thing is we all hide behind a mask sometimes, it’s a way of protecting ourselves when we feel vulnerable.

We put a smile on our face when really we want to hide away because we are having a bad day… you face carries that tension, your jaw gets tighter, the skin starts to lose its firmness, it becomes dull.

I have a wonderful lift and sculpt facial massage that releases the tension in your face, bringing back your youthful glow…

but what’s more important is how it makes you feel…

you get to take off the mask, be yourself and truly relax.

You end up glowing both inside and out.

Touch is powerful.

10/07/2025

Have you been suffering with a frozen shoulder?

Now would you believe massage can help with that? (Well obviously Vic or why would you be telling us?!)

Massage supports the natural healing of your body and can help specifically with frozen shoulders in a variety of ways:

💪 chronic pain causes muscles around the effective area to tense up, causing further mobility issues and secondary pain. Massage helps relax these muscles, reducing the secondary pain and bringing natural movement back to those surrounding muscles.

💪 as always massage increases blood flow. This means that oxygen and nutrients are more efficiently getting to the affected area. In order to heal and have healthy muscles efficient absorption of oxygen and nutrients is key.

💪 and inversely it more efficiently takes away all the waste and toxins created by inflammation and general cellular function away by improving lymph flow. This also reduces swelling.

💪 With the lack of mobility and inflammation adhesions (scar tissue) can form in your connective tissue. Massage helps to restore your soft tissue and ease joint restriction.

💪 Massage stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system. This promotes relaxation as well as trigger the release of endorphins - our natural pain relief.

💪 massage increases awareness of your body. For a frozen shoulder it is the increased awareness of joint position that it’s important. What massage does is “remind” your body how to move your shoulder. This is called neuromuscular re-education.

It is important to remember that massage is a complementary therapy and the best results will come in combination with other therapies - this this case physiotherapy, stretching and range-of-motion exercises.

Don’t keep suffering! Look after yourself so you can thrive💪

Touch is powerful!

09/07/2025

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https://evelyn-jasmine-holistic-healing.book.app/book-now

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