Recognition of the flame of an idea

Catherine

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.

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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.

Tailored Touch
Restorative Reflexology
Hands that listen in
Sacred Oils
meditation and healing for deep connection
best practice assured
unique and bespoke
Curated Therapeutics from Prime Wellbeing Foundation
Therapeutic treatments curated to best suit your requirements

Coming home

Catherine

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

Catherine

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

Catherine

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

Catherine

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

Catherine

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 

therapeutic touch
mentoring and coaching
mindful montage
creative textiles
bringing 30 years of practice together
meditation and healing
listening in to respond to touch
reflexology
and how we stay focused
Meditation and Healing
they may even be a bit sweary
read that again

How it takes time

Catherine
letter from consultant CEA blood test is normal

So it’s August 2025. It has been however many days since 26th Feburary 2023 and i still can’t imagine how i’ve come through. The recent letter from the Consultant stating that all is well. Recent blood test is showing ‘normal’. Grateful to all those who are looking out for me in this inbetween time, feeling like i have a target on my back and ringing in my ears of all those people who said it will come back.

How did I come through this? Why did i survive? Can i use this time to take scared and now scarred into making it sacred.

Recently, at Deershed Festival, an absolute riot of lovliness for a weekend, meeting up with friends, having annual chats and hugs, treating guests for the weekend, i managed to work 13 clinic hours. I’ve received some amazing feedback and relished seeing clients leave my tent more upright, smiling faces and brimming with joy.

How is that possible after everything i’ve been through? We will never know, never be able to pinpoint that which made the difference. Many may try, they’ll have their theories, they’ll produce supporting evidence with conviction. Those that embrace me as i am now, those that hold me in their thoughts, hold my gaze with eyes to see the wonder of the world, envelope me in their arms to feel our hearts beating, these are the folks i want to be around, those that have no words, no explanations, just love and kindness. Because that echoes where i am right now.

Words cannot truly explain the extraordinary journey I have walked through my life, most recently in the valley of potential death. Now embracing a life, not full of expectations to achieve, just each day unfurling, bringing joy and wonderment, finding the sacred in every day, in simple activities and achievements.

Emotional Evolution

Emotional Evolution

Catherine

Summer is for growth. And sometime not rapid extensive accumulating growth. Sometimes it’s the unseen growth that is more valuable and long lasting

options to succeed: plan, nurture, grow

You cannot rapidly evolve out of a crisis.
Time for assimilation. Of realisation of already knowns. The never is ever wasted life experiences

When drama bites, self realisation emerges triumphant, heralding adaptations, welcoming remembered behaviours abound