Massage and Somatic Therapy

with Luka Carlisle

MICHT, IIHHT Dip, VTCT Dip, Reiki Master

Tailored Holistic Therapy.

Luka takes an integrative approach to your care, offering therapies in a blended and tailored way to meet your needs and maximise your session's benefits. You can choose the depth of your work: from purely deep tissue massage to relieve aches, address injuries, or support nervous system regulation; to subtle energy work that balances the electromagnetic field, energy centres, and five elements; or transformative somatic bodywork therapy, which brings presence and healing to unresolved trauma and wounded parts of the nervous system.

Somatic Therapy

Somatic Bodywork Therapy is a trauma-sensitive, holistic approach rooted in the field of Body Psychotherapy. It offers more than a great massage: it is grounded, embodied therapy that focuses on sensation, empathic presence, nervous system regulation, and creating more space within the body. Rather than relying solely on cognitive processing, it works deeply to resolve emotional and psychological imprints and trauma stored in tissues and organs. This approach acknowledges the powerful connection between psychological, emotional, spiritual, ancestral, collective, and physical aspects of being, and works intuitively to respond sensitively to each person's unique needs.

By working consciously and unconsciously through the body, somatic therapy addresses patterns, conditioning, and aspects of the self such as inner children, shame, guilt, grief, or intergenerationally transmitted wounds. Each session creates a safe, powerful space where gentle release, integration, and profound transformation can occur. Somatic work often supports a deeper sense of resolution than talking therapy alone.

Over the years, this approach has helped many clients achieve transformation and greater resolve. Benefits often include enhanced health, clarity of mind, a more harmonious embodied state, improved relationships, and increased opportunities to explore, experience, and express one’s authentic potential.
More Information

Deep Tissue Massage.

Deep tissue massage is a gentle yet effective approach that listens to the body, reading the signs it offers to help release tension and restore alignment. Using a variety of tailored strokes and techniques, the soft tissues are soothed and manipulated to bring deep release to muscles and fascia. This supports improved circulation, lymphatic detoxification, nutrient delivery, and natural realignment of the spine, pelvis, and skeleton. The result is greater freedom of movement, improved posture, pain reduction, a regulated nervous system, and an overall sense of ease, radiance, and wellbeing.

Techniques include Deep Tissue, Holistic, Swedish, Ayurvedic, Intuitive, Acupressure, and Indian Head Massage. Incorporating therapeutic essential oils, deep tissue massage can address physical issues and injuries such as back, neck, or shoulder pain, as well as health conditions like chronic fatigue, digestive issues, and headaches. It unlocks deeply held muscle and fascia tension, promoting detoxification, tissue renewal, and long-lasting relief.
More Information

Clinical Aromatherapy.

Clinical aromatherapy combines a deep understanding of the therapeutic properties of medicinal plant oils with intuitive guidance. Several pure, high-quality, therapeutic-grade essential oils are carefully blended in an organic plant-based carrier oil to create a synergistic blend tailored to your unique personal needs.

During the massage, the oils are applied to the body, allowing their molecules to be absorbed through the skin into the soft tissues, bloodstream, lymphatic system, and nervous system. Aromatherapy is included in every session unless contraindicated or if you prefer only the carrier oil. The therapeutic effects of the oils continue to work long after the session ends, so it is recommended to avoid bathing until at least the following day.
More Information

Myofascial Release (MFR).

A safe and highly effective hands-on technique that applies gentle, sustained pressure to connective tissue restrictions, helping to eliminate pain and restore natural movement.
More Information

Polarity Therapy.

A profoundly powerful holistic healing system developed by Dr. Stone, rooted in Ayurveda. This approach works with the five elements - ether, air, fire, water, and earth - and their pathways through the body, using varied touch, off-the-body energy work, and physical exercises to release, rebalance, and harmonise the elemental energies within.
More Information

Psychic Massage.

Psychic massage is a healing technique that combines massage with psychic awareness to support emotional and psychological balance, helping you find deep resolve and inner peace. Sessions may involve inner child work, ancestral healing, trauma or grief work, five-element practices, energetic blockages, and, where appropriate, communication with loved ones who have passed, to support release for both parties.

This style of bodywork can be profoundly transformative, restorative, and revitalising. Luka is highly energy-sensitive and perceptive, bringing empathy, insight, and presence to every session, and responding intuitively to whatever arises during the work.

Pulsing.

A profoundly relaxing and soothing mode of body focussed therapy that incorporates rhythmic rocking, pulsing and gentle shaking movements to bring about deep relaxation and release. It is of particular benefit in working with deeply held trauma, emotional tension and stress within the tissues of the body.
More Information

Reflexology.

An ancient technique of applying pressure to 'work' specific points on the feet and/or hands that correspond with particular organs and parts of the body. Reflexology can be given as a stand alone therapy or integrated into a session to help support and intensify the work carried out on other areas of the body.
More Information

Reiki and Energy work.

Universal life force energy (also called light energy or chi) is channeled and directed to where it is needed, helping to clear energetic blockages, rebalance the system, and support healing at both a cellular and energetic level. This gentle, sensitive work often brings a profound sense of nurturing, deep relaxation, reconnection, and release.
More Information

Breathwork.

Simple, yet often profound, conscious breathing helps deepen relaxation and encourages a sense of letting go, supporting gentle physical, psychological, emotional, and energetic release, as well as overall healing and wellbeing.
More Information

Talking Therapy

Within every session, space is naturally available for talking therapy. Sometimes this arises from something you consciously bring to the session, while other times it emerges spontaneously as the body releases cellular memories, emotions, trauma, or tension. And at other times, there is simply a deep, restorative stillness - a healing restfulness in the pure silence of being.