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Jaw Health and Wellness
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Jaw Health and Wellness

Discover relief from jaw discomfort and facial tension through Claire’s specialised massage techniques. With nine years of experience, she focuses on addressing the root causes, including teeth grinding, stress-induced clenching, and poor posture. By employing a holistic approach, her treatments offer wonderful benefits!

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Naturopathy Nourishment: Insights and Recipes
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Naturopathy Nourishment: Insights and Recipes

Embark on a wellness journey with Charlotte, the Gut, Liver, and Skin Naturopath at Healing Space, as she guides us through embracing the tranquility of winter and making small intentional steps toward a balanced health paradigm. In this introspective season of rest and rejuvenation, she encourages us to conserve energy, celebrating incremental progress rather than pressures of drastic changes. Charlotte emphasizes the importance of mindful nourishment over rigorous detox, advocating for hearty soups, stews, and herbal teas that warm both the body and soul. As we navigate this journey together, we should create a sense of community, sharing victories, discoveries, and favorite winter recipes. Enjoy a taste of Charlotte’s naturopathy knowledge with a delicious Coconut and Cauliflower Soup recipe and a refreshing Cleansing Drink. Here's to a season of tranquility, warmth, and nurturing well-being, one small step at a time.

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Self-Care This Festive Season
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Self-Care This Festive Season

Amidst the festive hustle, it's important to reconnect with the roots of Christmas, once celebrated as Yule in these Ancient Isles, and tied to the Winter Solstice. This season marks the rebirth of the sun, inviting us to transition from the deepest Yin of winter back into the light. Today’s modern celebrations mirrors the ancient principles of coming together with loved ones for feasting and gift-sharing. However, festive occasions can also evoke stress. It becomes crucial to set boundaries, allowing for mindfulness. It’s a time to prioritize self-care, be it a relaxing bath, a rejuvenating massage, or a solitary walk to find inner calm.

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The Ancient Art of Energy Healing
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The Ancient Art of Energy Healing

Discover the Ancient Art of Energy Healing, where treatments like acupuncture, sound massage, and vibrational medicine help restore balance to mind, body, and soul. Drawing on Traditional Eastern practices such as Tibetan sound healing, Reiki, and Chinese massage, these holistic therapies are gaining renewed popularity for their calming and restorative effects. Perfect for those seeking relief from stress, anxiety, and imbalance, this age-old approach invites your body’s natural healing process to unfold.

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High Level (Class IV) Laser Therapy
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High Level (Class IV) Laser Therapy

MLS Laser Therapy is a safe, non-invasive, and painless treatment that helps reduce pain and inflammation. Ideal for conditions like arthritis or injury. Using dual wavelengths, it stimulates tissue repair, relieves pain, and promotes healing by improving circulation and flushing out inflammation. Treatment is cumulative, with most people needing between 2–15 sessions depending on the condition.

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Back to School! - By Tara
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Back to School! - By Tara

Back to school season is upon us! As September ends, we enter the Earth season in Chinese Medicine. It is a time to nourish the body, support digestion, and strengthen the immune system. Learn how to align with the season through food, acupuncture, and mindful habits as we prepare for the shift into winter.

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The Autumn Equinox - by Rita
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The Autumn Equinox - by Rita

The Autumn equinox, also called Mabon, is a pagan celebration, originating from the Celts, who once populated Britain and much of North West Europe before the march of the Romans. This druid-led tribe celebrated nature and the progression of the seasons by dividing the year into eight segments, at key turning points, creating eight festivals.

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Can Myofascial Release help with depression, fatigue and anxiety?
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Can Myofascial Release help with depression, fatigue and anxiety?

Most of us have no trouble identifying our five senses. They are after all, the ones we depend on to see, hear, smell, touch and taste our way through life. But hands up who knows their three further senses? Proprioception and Exteroception aside, there is another, hidden sense that is key to mental wellbeing.


Interoception is our ability to have a sense of how we feel inside our bodies at any given moment.

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Bereavement Counselling with Becky

Becky Reeve-Jones is now qualified as a grief & bereavement counsellor and uses this in her practice, alongside herbal remedies and naturopathy. Through losing loved ones herself, she wanted to know how best to help her clients deal with the darkness of grief and loss and how to help steer them through it towards inner peace and acceptance. 

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Fertility Treatments at Healing Space

It’s May already! And the days are finally getting longer and brighter. The month of May has always been strongly associated with fertility in England and the surrounding Celtic countries in ancient times. The Mayday Maypole around which young maidens danced with flowers in their hair was seen as an ancient fertility rite. Romans also chose to celebrate this time of year with dancing, wearing flowers and spreading seeds of all kinds. It symbolises fertility of the land, but also that of its people. 

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Physiotherapist Joins Healing Space

I was particularly interested in recruiting Alice as she has a strong focus on pregnancy and postnatal treatments. At our clinic we pride ourselves in being a center of excellence for all pregnancy and postnatal treatments. Alice is a very welcome addition to our team of experts who can support you during this wonderful time. She joins our team of pregnancy specialists which includes acupuncturists, massage therapists, nutritionists and reflexologists.

In this country sadly the postnatal focus is always on the baby and not the mum. After my first baby the GP just asked if I was ok, I said yes, and that was it.

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Western Herbalism - what is it?

Because much of our European herbalism was destroyed by Christianity, it has taken much time, research and love to slowly regain its rightful place as the origin and foundation of modern medicine, our medicinal heritage.

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