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End of the Road Festival – is it really 20 years?
There’s been something happening over the last 20 years, the summer circuit offering such rich experiences. Over the years I’ve been part of many healing areas which have fallen into a ‘way of being’ that supports a different impulse. And that is why I’m so very proud of what End of the Road Festival has acheived and why i call it the ‘gold standard’.
In being invited, year on year, to curate the team for the Healing Garden we have been able to build a community. From that first year in 2006 when the garden wasn’t opened until Saturday morning due to Health and Safety checks, when we played football, gave each other treatments and prayed it was all going to work out. When the garden gates opened I took my massage chair out to the crowd waiting for the next band on the Garden Stage, drumming up interest. The years of growth, each year more stages, more guests, how the ‘village’ has welcomed many new faces. And last year, someone emailing me to say ‘you helped me get through the weekend’ due to Long Covid symptoms, and remembering the year after the ‘fallow year’ and how we’d missed the garden, the being there, the people we saw and that sense of renewing our community.
So this is a way of saying Thank You – to all those who made those early years worth the wait to celebrate 20 years at Larmer Tree Gardens, pitching our tents and sometimes performing miracles. From airbed fail saves, disco dancing injury repairs, hangover hugs and not being able to hear each other at different ends of couch when it’s really kicking off on the Garden stage. Thank you. Thank you for showing up. Thank you for putting your faith in our abilities. And thank you for all the years of laughter and love.
Recognition of the flame of an idea
It was an evening class i took after work in 1995 that was the start of it all. And now, some 30 years later, receiving an accolade such as this is awe inspiring, because each session is unique and personalised for therapeutic effect.
My practice has taken me in the GP surgeries, hospitals and care homes, festival fields and holiday lets. The funniest was in a static caravan where i had little space to set up and move around the couch, but i made it work. Personalising each session to each person, whether they are a client of many years or for a one off session, it’s all about tailoring the touch, sensing what’s needed and creating an individual space.
Feel It
“When you can’t talk yourself out of a way of thinking, it indicates a need to feel your way into a way of being”
Curated Therapeutics
body touch – calming mind – creative play
touch – talk – teach
purpose as a foundation
Each session, whether on a couch, in a coaching session or in community, into the unknown for self discovery
Have you discovered yourself recently?
Coming home
I wondered why I put ‘foundation’ in the title of Prime Wellbeing. It always felt part of the working title chosen to encompass my event work and the teams of therapists I’ve brought together these 20 years since 2006. And reading “Medicine Hands’ by Gayle MacDonald has lead me to this quote, an echo returning across the years since 2016 when i chose to rebrand.
Foundational to my practice and a foundation for a practice.
As i prepare for a home visit, it came to me. I know i want to share more and that is why this resonates so soundly now
Touch – Talk – Teach
High Praise
Global Health & Pharma Magazine launches a brand-new awards programme that puts the thriving world of Holistic Health centre stage.
“Wellness is no longer just a trend – it’s a movement! As the global focus on integrative health continues to grow, we’re shining a spotlight on the trailblazers redefining how we care for our minds, bodies, and spirits. From inspiring practitioners and dynamic wellness centres to product innovators, mindfulness leaders, and therapy pioneers, Holistic Health is reshaping the future – and it’s never looked more exciting.
The GHP Holistic Health Awards 2026 are here to celebrate the people and organisations who are breaking boundaries, driving progress, and creating meaningful change.”
and I’m thrilled to have been selected. I do love what i do and i love it when those that find me love it too. Since I first qualified in 1995 i’ve been loving it more each year. I’m thrilled to share the techniques i’ve learnt to here and all the experiences in clinic that expand my awareness of what clients need.
Thank you for such high praise – I am truly thrilled
No fake teeth but a genuine smile
These things come to me. That’s why i call this blog ‘Musings of a Masseur’. Sometimes they come to me inbetween things, walking the dog, changing the bedding on the couch in clinic or on waking. Do you get that? Almost like someone knocking on a door, they wake you in the middle of the night, and if not written down they wake you again. Although if you do get to go back to sleep, thinking ‘Wow, that’s a great one, i’m sure to remember, no need to get up and write’, and then in the morning you can’t, it can seep into your day. That sense of wanting, even needing, to remember and the longer you give to the yearning the worse those sensations are.
Yet this wasn’t one of those. Not a nightime musing, more of a day time one I remember that. It came when i saw someone with baring their unnaturally white teeth immediate before seeing someone with the sweetest of smiles. And those words from Charles Eisenstein once more came to mind – ‘the calculus of worth’ – what do we hold dear and how do we weight the judgement of it.
Whether you have all your own teeth or not, I’m sure it’s the generosity of your smile that warms hearts more.
Nurture your inner resolve to grow against the forces that are keeping you stuck
With purpose i’ve been refining a way of being present for those who seek me out.
Since 2006 when i qualified in coaching i’ve been using the framework of the GROW model and it’s starting to not feel as nurturing as it once did.
Goal – Reality – Options – Will – all have their place
Does Gain – Resources – Opportunities – Why – Timing – How will you know? feel more nourishing, less hustle culture, more affirming?
Finding a flow means find your own way, in a supported encouraging and engaging environment.
What I Do
The therapist can be an instrument of sense perception
Living a spiritual aware life means bringing spirit into matter, because it matters how spiritual you are, to sustain the balance
Seeding thoughts to feel the best way forward and to share with a wider community – globally local to nurture authentic collaboration
We grow in our dis comfort zones
Light. Speech. Touch
Flow Form Massage
Touch as an art form
Artisan practitioner
Spiritual networks need places, physical places like a HIVE to return to, a house to re nourish
Nurture places to be called home
Physical embodiment of a spiritual practice a “how to” place to home the life forces to best feel a way of being
Art helps to by-pass the intellect straight to the heart to reconnect with inner pathways
Art practice enlivens the will
A guide to welcoming each new season exploring the relationship between the human heart and the turning year
Harmony of mind and body through active and passive motion
Temple Sleep – patient with help of physician or priest to experience the correction in the spirit reawakening carried the healing impulses into the body
The sickness was purified physically then laid to sleep
Prime task of the art of healing
The value of touch as a communicative power of the human hand. Kindness. Intuition. With a touch of a hand how we don’t need words to express deep connection
