Complementary Therapies & Counselling
The following therapies are all available for weekend packages:
- Counselling is available for weekends for Deaf and hard of hearing people
The Lakeland Balancing ACT Handbook has factsheets explaining more about the therapies on offer.
Click here to download the Lakeland Balancing Act Handbook (PDF file)
Relax and revitalise with essential oils!
A whole body massage with oils specially selected for you. These therapeutic oils are absorbed through the skin and work on any areas of need – whether due to stiff muscles or anxiety!
Benefits
- A calm and soothed mind
- Relief of stress and tension
- Improved blood and lymph circulation
Used in conjunction with Ayurvedic massage and Deep Tissue Massage, the therapist will use a heated ball of medicated powder soaked in a special blend of oils
Benefits
- Relief of painful muscles
- Deeply relaxing
- A very different massage technique
See Ayurvedic Massage and Deep Tissue Massage
Ayurvedic massage uses warm oil specially blended for its therapeutic properties to balance the doshas.
Benefits
- brings the individual's doshas into balance
- works towards harmony by revitalising or calming
- works on the marma pressure points
Personal time for yourself
Life in the 21st century can be hectic and stressful with pressures at home and work and in our personal lives that can lead to anxiety and depression.
Many people say they have nobody to confide in when feeling low.
A counsellor provides a safe and confidential situation to explore and discuss your feelings.
Benefits
- The opportunity to step back from the rush of everyday pressures and consider yourself and your life
- To think through any changes you want to make with a person who will be non judgemental
- To ‘offload’ past troubles that have been hidden away and let them go
Have fun with crystals - be amazed by their energies!
Crystals are used to promote positive energies throughout the body. Crystals can help with freeing blockages. Both relaxing and energising, they help with a positive outlook.
Benefits
- Works subtly at deeper levels to achieve balance.
- Crystals are chosen specifically for each individual
- Brings in positive energy and clears the chakras and auric field of negativity
A strong, deep massage that works on groups of muscles.
Benefits
- Promotes relaxation of tight muscles
- Increases circulation and nutrition to the muscles and tendons
- Targets problem areas
- Maybe useful following strains and injury
Hopi Ear Candling - Thermo-Auricular Therapy
Relaxing and balancing
Special candles made from beeswax, herbs and honey are used. Gentle vibrations as the candles burn work to balance pressure in the ears, Eustachian tubes and sinuses. A warm feeling gently balances, helps remove wax and other material from the ears. Process is followed by a soothing facial massage.
Benefits
- Can help with tension and headaches.
- Very soothing and relaxing
- May help with sinus congestion and possibly tinnitus
- Clears energy in the crown chakra
Indian Head Massage is handed down from generation to generation in India . In the UK it has been adapted so that therapists can receive training. It concentrates on the upper back, neck, shoulders, scalp and face.
Benefits
- Increases circulation, releases tensions. Ideal if you store tension in neck and shoulders.
- Can help with headaches, blocked sinuses, jaw tension
- Good for hair growth and a healthy scalp
- Can help with fatigue
A different massage routine that encourages your lymphatic system to work more efficiently. This in turn helps toxins and waste products to be removed from the body.
Benefits
- Encourages the removal of toxins and waste products
- Can help if you are feeling sluggish, tired or ‘run down’
- A gentle but effective treatment that often leads to feeling more energetic
A whole body workout without the suffering!
Both feet (and hands) contain tiny reflex points, which relate to other organs or parts of the body. The feet reflexes are worked systematically, the body balanced and toxins released.
Can be combined with vertical reflexology.
Benefits
- All the major systems in the body can be reached through the feet/hands.
- specific problem areas can be worked
- Helps circulation, encourages the lymphatic system to get rid of toxins.
- Balances and harmonises the body’s energies.
- Relaxing and energising!
Balance the energies of your body, mind and spirit!
‘Rei’ means life force and ‘ki’ means energy. Calming and gentle healing through touch. Reiki can’t be explained it has to be experienced!
Benefits
- Works at all levels – physical, emotional and spiritual
- Gentle and safe
- Releases blockages
- Its subtle benefits go on working long after the treatment finishes
The therapist works to relax muscles, get rid of knots and tension, and help muscles stay supple and smooth.
Benefits
- Relaxation
- Increased circulation
- A general massage Ideal for all and can be very gentle for the frailer person
All sound is vibration and the therapist uses her voice instead of her hands to bring about change.
This subtle but powerful therapy often surprises the recipient!
Benefits
- Relaxing and soothing
- Brings in positive energy, clears the auric field.
- Can be used fully clothed
- Works subtly to bring about balance
- Does not involve touch
Go with the flow for a supple body!
A traditional discipline working with the body, breath, mind and spirit. Very helpful for working on specific areas of the body and improving breathing and balance.
Benefits
- A programme of yoga postures that are just for you.
- Can be used in a remedial way after surgery or injury
- Balancing physically and emotionally
If you would like to download a handbook of factsheets explaining more about the therapies on offer, then please click here (PDF file).
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