Sheffield Centre for Massage Training

27/10/2025

Has anyone tried this?

25/10/2025

True that!

22/10/2025

14/10/2025

What do you say?

🧠💆 Massage is powerful – but not because it squeezes toxins out of muscles. Science shows its biggest influence is on the nervous system. By stimulating receptors in the skin, massage helps calm stress responses, supports balance and enhances wellbeing.

This is far more meaningful than the old ‘toxin’ story. Our clients trust us when we speak with accuracy and confidence.

Learn more in the full blog 👉 https://smto.co.uk/why-flushing-out-toxins-is-a-myth-a-critical-look-at-massage/


GCMT The General Council for Manual Therapies

24/09/2025

I am delighted to introduce to you Kay Morris. Kay graduated in 2014 and until now she has been honing her skills working with the broad spectrum of conditions that come under the umbrella term ‘disability’. She is an expert in this area having worked many decades. Please take a look at her new website

Every body and mind deserves expert, respectful touch. I bring my fully equipped massage tools and techniques to your home, care facility or community space - so you can relax in a familiar environment without barriers.

15/09/2025

I’m always looking for novel ways to teach touch anatomy.

The Opera of Touch: Meet Ruffini, Pacini, Meissner and the Merkel Twins When we teach anatomy, receptor names like Ruffini endings, Pacinian corpuscles, Meissner’s corpuscles, and Merkel cells can …

08/09/2025

Anatomical Prayer

Skin stretches—
dermis, epidermis,
each pore a gate of light.
Fascia glides,
layers sliding,
fibres yielding to direction.

Ulna leans in,
edge of bone meeting
intercostal space.
Rib cage lifts,
sternum arcs,
diaphragm softens
into the waiting hand.

Elbow becomes eye—
scanning, sensing,
palpating the secret map
beneath the surface.
Channels open like rivers,
blood quickens,
lymph stirs in hidden tributaries.

Flesh draws away from bone,
creating breath-room.
Vertebrae unstack,
pelvis tilts,
sacrum drops into earth.

No separation—
nerve sings to nerve,
muscle to tendon,
tissue to tissue.
Boundaries blur,
yet edges remain,
holding the dance in form.

To touch is to listen:
to contraction,
to release,
to the synapse sparking,
to the heart pushing
its crimson tide.

Wise hands know
which fibres to lengthen,
which to invite,
which armour to cast down
like a sheath of rusted plates.

Beneath the surface—
hidden self,
waiting.
I enter through anatomy,
and meet you there,
in the marrow,
where we are
already one.

29/08/2025

The body carries stories that words alone can’t tell. Our nervous system holds the imprints of our experiences — moments of safety, connection, and joy, but also traces of overwhelm and disconnection. This nine-week training is an invitation to come closer to that intelligence, to learn the language of the body through movement, mindfulness, and gentle somatic exploration. Together, we’ll explore the Autonomic Nervous System and Polyvagal Theory not as abstract concepts, but as living processes we can feel and shape in real time.

Rather than pushing or forcing, we move in the Hakomi spirit of curiosity, loving presence, and nonviolence. Each week offers embodied practices that help us touch uncomfortable places with care — using titration (small steps) and pendulation (moving between activation and calm) so that the body knows it is never alone. We will experience how ventral vagal states feel like home, how sympathetic energy can become strength and boundary, how dorsal states can hold rest as well as collapse. Movement, co-regulation, and somatic experiments will guide us, offering both resources and renewal.

This training is for therapists, facilitators, and students of body-based work who want to deepen their understanding of trauma and nervous system healing in a way that is experiential, integrative, and profoundly human. It is also for anyone longing to feel more at home in their body. As we journey together, we will discover how awareness, movement, and connection open pathways to resilience — so that wellbeing is not just an idea, but a lived, embodied experience.

**Starts October 2nd 2025**
Wisdom of the Body training
a Hakomi Approach to Healing Trauma ONLINE
with Vicky Gaughan and Gabriela Valdés Villarreal
Expand your healing practice and join us for a deep experiential learning and transformation through somatic practices, learning the skills for trauma healing.

Duration
9 sessions of 3 hours

Dates 2025
October 2nd, 9th,16th
October 30th,
November 6th,13th 20th 27th
December 4th

Schedule
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm UK
* 12:30 am – 3:30 pm CST
Time change adjustments for October 30th onwards * 1:30 – 4:30 pm CST
Contact wofthebody@gmail.com

06/08/2025

Most of us have heard of the fight, flight, or freeze responses when it comes to trauma. But there’s another survival response that tends to go under the radar – appeasement. This isn’t about being…

01/08/2025

Book your place on the MTI conference and tap into these amazing workshops including Sheffield’s home grown Craig Foden and Dr Sarah Bryan!

✨ Conference Update – Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy Now Full! ✨

Our Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy – Practice and Assessment with Earle Abrahamson workshop is now fully booked – thank you to everyone who signed up! �
But don’t worry – there’s still space to dive into Transformational MFR with Craig Foden, offering a different perspective on this powerful approach. �

We still have spaces available in these brilliant workshops:
💛 Heart-Centred Sales with Dr Sarah Bryan
�🌀 Transformational MFR with Craig Foden�
🧱 Building Firm Foundations in Business with Katie Warburton
�🎤 Find Your Massage Voice with Jenny Hampton�
💆 Positional Release with Tim Bartlett�

Book now and deepen your practice at the MTI Conference 2025!
�📅Saturday 20th September
📍Penny Brohn Centre, Bristo

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01/08/2025

Wired for Life - how our Nervous System shapes our experience. This free or by donation two hour workshop on Thursday 14th August 6.30pm - 8.30pm is an introduction to our Wisdom of the Body online training that starts in September with Gabi in Mexico & Vicky in the UK

Ever wondered why certain situations leave you feeling stuck, anxious, or drained—no matter how much you “talk it through”?

22/07/2025

Get a massage with Beth, she’s one in a million!