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Mind Body Soul
Massage - Somatic Practices- Meditation
What is a Mind Body Soul Massage?
For those of us who have experienced trauma, the body is the very place we learnt to disconnect from in order to cope, survive, and keep going. Yet it is also the place that can guide us back to ourselves.
Mind Body Soul Massage is a holistic body-based session that combines somatic & meditation practices, fascia release massage and breathwork to help you reconnect with your body and emotions.
Many of us spend years stuck in our heads. Disconnected from our bodies, emotions, and sense of inner calm. Mind Body Soul offers a different approach by focusing on the body rather than talking and analysing thoughts alone.
Your body senses stress, overwhelm, anxiety, and emotional tension long before the mind can fully explain it. Through touch, body awareness, and meditation-based practices, these sessions help you regulate your nervous system, reconnect with yourself, and develop a deeper sense of grounding, presence, and emotional awareness.
You are not separate from your body, you are your body. These sessions offer a way back home to yourself.
You do not need to have any spiritual beliefs to benefit from this work.
What Can Mind Body Soul Help With?
Each session is tailored to what you need in the moment and may support you with:
Anxiety and chronic stress
Emotional overwhelm or numbness
Feeling disconnected from your body
Nervous system dysregulation
Being “stuck in your head”
Difficulty processing emotions
Burnout and exhaustion
Learning how to regulate emotions
Developing a calmer, more grounded “meditation mind”
Reconnecting with your body after trauma
You’ll also learn body-based meditation practices you can continue using at home for ongoing support.
A Gentle Somatic Approach
This work follows a “bottom-up” approach, which means we work through the body rather than trying to think our way through emotions.
There is no fixed structure or pressure to “perform” during a session. Every experience is different because each session responds to what is genuinely arising for you in that moment.
Nothing is forced, rushed, or analysed excessively. Rather than digging for answers, we create space for emotions, sensations, and experiences to be safely felt through the body.
We spend years disconnected from ourselves without realising how much stress, tension, and emotional holding we carry each day. These sessions are a space for you to pause, reconnect, and come back to yourself.
What Do Our Bodies Have To Do With Emotions?
Our bodies carry our lived experiences just as much as our minds do.
While the mind can disconnect us from difficult emotions or stressful experiences, the body continues to hold patterns of tension, stress, emotional memory, and nervous system responses.
Somatic and body-based practices help bring awareness back to the body so emotions can be felt and processed, in a way that we weren’t able to at the time of the event.
The body and our emotional pain, is not just something we live with. It can be our guide.
Why Mind Body Soul?
Mind Body Soul honours the connection between the mind, body, and soul. In my experience, healing rarely happens through thinking alone.
Many of us learned to suppress emotions in order to cope, survive, or function.
While these protective patterns have absolutely served a purpose, over time they can leave us feeling numb, disconnected, overwhelmed, or unable to fully experience life.
Mind Body Soul supports you in reconnecting with yourself gently and safely, so you can feel more present, alive, emotionally connected, and safe in your body. All that most of us want, deep down, is to feel safe and be loved as we are.
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To note: These sessions are intended to support wellbeing and nervous system regulation, but are not a replacement for medical care, psychotherapy, or crisis mental health support.
FAQs
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Somatic means relating to how the body feels, rather than just its physical structure.
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Somatic practices are an essential part of connecting with the body.
For example:
When you feel stressed — where do you feel it?
Is it deep or surface-level? Tight or heavy?By tuning into these sensations, we quiet the mind and begin to understand what’s really happening within. These practices builds our ability to introspect.
What is introspection?
The ability to witness what is happening inside our bodies, whilst it is happening. Introspection is a fundamental key to healing trauma.
Why?
It allows us to no longer be driven by these imprinted habituations.
We all have imprinted habituations from trauma or cultural conditioning. Imprints from trauma, of feelings like fear, despair and confusion, are particularly strong.
Through our interoceptive capacity we stop being driven by the trauma. We can feel what is happening in the body, and make conscious choices about how we meet those feelings.
We can decide how we hold it, what stories we do or don’t attach to it. Whether we feed it, repress it or let it be as it is.
It gives us back the power and choice we lost during trauma.
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Starting the sessions
Every session begins with a check-in, where we take time to explore how you’re feeling emotionally and what’s happening in your body.
From there, the session is guided entirely by what you need that day. Some sessions may be more centred around massage, while others may focus more deeply on somatic practices. This intuitive approach allows the work to meet you exactly where you are.
Techniques used in your session
Somatic Practices
Somatic practices are a way of connecting with the body and exploring your inner world. This might involve noticing what emotions are present, where you feel them in your body, and how they show up physically. By bringing awareness to these sensations, we begin to access deeper parts of ourselves that are often overlooked in day-to-day life.Breathwork
Breathwork helps to calm the mind and shift the nervous system into a rest-and-digest state. Simple techniques — such as slow, steady inhales through the nose and gentle exhales through the mouth — can have a powerful effect on how you feel, both physically and emotionally.Energy Work (Integrated Energy Therapy)
Similar to Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) works to clear stagnant energy and stored emotions from the body. Once this energy has been released, we gently invite in a more supportive, balanced state. Many clients describe feeling deeply peaceful, and sometimes even slightly “trippy,” during this part of the session.Massage (Biodynamic Rebalancing)
This is a holistic bodywork approach that combines deep tissue massage, joint release, and body awareness.Closing the session
As we come to the end of the session, we take a moment to notice how you feel now compared to when you arrived.
You may also be offered a simple practice to take away with you — something to support the shifts you’ve experienced and help you stay connected to your body until we meet again.
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I recommend seeing each other once a week for the first 6 weeks. This is because the body holds patterns of tension and habit, and it takes consistent, repeated sessions to begin shifting those patterns.
Just as it takes time for tension to build, it also takes time and steady support to dismantle it.
On a mind level, most of us are deeply conditioned to follow our thoughts without question. This constant mental activity can be a major source of stress and suffering. Learning to quiet the mind and tune into the body is a skill that develops with practice and repetition. Scientific research shows that practices like meditation can bring about measurable changes in the brain, particularly in areas linked to focus, emotional regulation, and the autonomic nervous system.
By committing to regular sessions, supported by simple practices at home, we create a “snowball effect” as your Mind Body & Soul begin to meet.
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For in-person sessions
60 minutes – £80
90 minutes – £110If you’d like to work with me but these prices are outside your current budget, please email me at elliejonesbodywork@gmail.comso we can explore options together.
“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.”
- Dr. van der Kolk