soma space therapies

/ welcome to the soma space /

Hello, I’m so happy you’re here! My name is Marlie, I’m a Certified Massage Therapist and Aromatherapist (Level 3 VTCT/ITEC/FHT Member), specialising in Aromatherapy Massage - Swedish Classical Massage - Holistic Massage, and a Certified Yoga Instructor (200 hour, recognised by the Yoga Alliance).

I offer bespoke, therapeutic body massage treatments that help restore balance and energy to the body systems, promoting healing, rest, relaxation. As an Aromatherapist, I work with pure essential oils and cold-pressed carrier oils, creating organic herbal infusions and blends to best support a clients’ needs.

Massage and aromatherapy can help to treat a number of conditions as a complementary therapy; in my practice I also provide a particular focus on supporting women’s health (restoring hormonal balance to peri - early - menopause - premature ovarian insufficiency symptoms), with client-focused care.

My experience in the realms of holistic wellness and healing is far-reaching: in addition to my work as a Holistic Massage Therapist, I have taught as a Certified Yoga Instructor for the past thirteen years. I have also assisted with numerous retreats, workshops and client care during my time at Hollyhock -  Canada’s Lifelong Learning Centre on Cortes Island in British Columbia, and Indaba Yoga Studio in London, United Kingdom. My interest in the transformative potentials of movement, bodywork, massage, and therapeutic properties of plants, flowers and herbs began many years ago. I currently teach webinars and special events as an educator on health, wellness, and aromatherapy and essential oils for menopause and hormonal balance with Peppy Health and in my personal practice.

As a holistic practitioner, I aim to restore wellness to the whole person - mind, body, and spirit - providing clients with the space to awaken to their own individual somatic healing experience.

If this resonates for you please get in touch with me for a consultation and to schedule a session. I look forward to hearing from you and our future experience together.

Yelena Yemchuk, photograph for Antonio Marras, Ten Years After collaboration, Sardinia, 2004.

soma

4. a phenomenal Smashing Pumpkins song from the album Siamese Dream (1993) (check out that multi-layered Billy Corgan guitar solo)

2. a Greek word for “living body.”
In Vedic Sanskrit, soma can also mean
“to distill, extract, sprinkle.”

3. Somatics - a field within bodywork and
movement studies where the body is perceived from within.
Somatics enriches our awareness of the inner experience of sensations, feelings and emotions, and helps to ground and center our ‘soma’ - our body, our self - in the present moment.

  1. an ancient, mysterious Vedic ritual elixir