The six sessions at the practice

The session to take when you do not know where to start

• Stress that will not come back down
• Patterns that keep repeating
• Children: fears, separation, school

It is the widest way in at the practice, and the one people ask for most. You stay dressed, lying down or seated, and muscle testing amounts to very light pressure on the forearm. We start from what you can put into words — or from what you cannot put into words yet — and we move at your pace. You leave with one or two concrete keys to practise at home.

It is the only one of the six that is also for babies and children. For a very small child the test goes through the parent, and the session is far shorter in terms of attention.

The massage that is done with oil

• A knotted neck and shoulders
• Days spent at a screen
• Tiredness on waking

The massage is done with oil, on a couch and under a sheet: you are uncovered only on the area being worked, and the rest of the body stays covered. The pressure is firm, never rough, and you set it with me all the way through the session. It is the format chosen by women who find a relaxing massage too uncommitted.

Not to be confused with physiotherapy: massage for a medical purpose is the field of masseurs-kinésithérapeutes, state-registered health professionals holding a state diploma. What happens here is a wellbeing massage.

The gentlest session at the practice

• Heavy legs
• A feeling of swelling
• A need for lightness

The pressure is deliberately very light — that is the condition for the movement to make any sense at all. We always start with the collecting areas before going any further, and plenty of people fall asleep halfway through. Allow an hour and a half in your diary, and drink water in the hours that follow.

It is the format I suggest when you are shy about your body, or worried about being pressed on: you are uncovered only on the area being worked, and the rest of the body stays covered at all times.

The most vigorous session, and you feel it

• Silhouette and firmness
• The orange-peel look
• Circulation at a standstill

Wooden instruments — rollers, cups, boards — then a time of manual drainage to finish: that is what I call the Madérosculpt. It is firm, never violent, and the intensity is yours from beginning to end. Slight redness can appear, and it goes within a few hours.

It goes alongside the way you eat and the way you move, it does not stand in for either — and nobody can honestly promise you a result in figures.

The only format that also exists in a group

• Stories that repeat
• Family secrets
• Finding your place

In a group, you choose participants to stand for the people in your system and you place them in relation to one another. One to one, we use markers set on the floor. In both cases you put one question, a single one, and you are never required to give details.

It is the longest session and the most intense emotionally: it is something you prepare for, and we talk about it beforehand. Booking is by phone only: I am the one who sets the dates of the group constellations. It is neither psychotherapy nor a medical act.

Announced, not yet open

• A tight upper back
• The cupping tradition
• A woman practitioner

DRY cups only, on intact skin, with no incision at all — wet hijama is a medical act reserved for authorised health professionals, and it is not practised here. The equipment is single-use or sterilised, and the work most often covers the upper back and the trapezius muscles.

This practice is not open for booking yet. Write to me to be told as soon as it is.