2 minutes walk from East Putney tube station...

Treatments offered: therapeutic massage,
remedial massage, conciousness body work, spiritual teaching, oracle card readings, energy channelling.

Emily's qualifications:          LONDON COLLEGE OF MASSAGE, December 1999 ENERGY BALANCING and CHANNELLING, June 2007 currently studying at LONDON COLLEGE OF MASSAGE, post-graduate course in REMEDIAL MASSAGE, due to qualify in 2008 With a background in Laban dance, Alexander Technique, Hatha Yoga, Gestalt Psychotherapy, Buddist meditation, Shiatsu and traditional massage, Emily Edmunds offers a very broad knowledge of physical, emotional, and spiritual disciplines as the basis to her bodywork. As a child, Emily's mother - herself a practising physiotherapist - encouraged an awareness of posture and taught her daughter to fundamentally understand the body and how to move with awareness.  Often, the causes of discomfort in the body are simply postural.  Emily offers advice when appropriate in altering posture, and exercises to enhance this. As a student of dance at the Laban Centre, and at Roehampton University, Emily suffered a cycling accident which created the cause to seek physical help in the form of massage, shiatsu, and osteopathy.  As she recovered, her fascination with massage had taken root, and she decided to devote her energies to developing her own technique.  She found an unexpected correlation between her physical body and her emotional world.  Each massage session became an epiphany!  At the time, Emily was experiencing many issues from her childhood and past lives, and decided to embark on a journey of discovery, combining Gestalt Psychotherapy sessions with regular massage.  The combination provided an ideal state for healing. Emily has been studying massage since 1994, and in 1999 qualified as a practioner of therapeutic massage with The London College of Massage, studying with Marcus Salnicki. Emily often recieves massage from the director of The London College of Massage, Isabelle Hughes.   This provides a very physical basis for Emily's work, which has a spiritual healing quality, and an emphasis on energy redistribution and balancing. Emily uses a variety of techniques, gleaned from her years of study and research, ranging from classic Swedish style, to Eastern acupressure, to healing energy flow, Reiki style, and basic understanding of chakra blocks and emotional stagnation.  Every treatment Emily gives is different, because every person has there own ever changing needs. Now Emily has established her own therapeutic massage  and energy balancing practice in Putney, London.  CONCIOUSNESS BODY WORK This work is most near to Emily's heart. The teachings form the essence of all Emily's work and addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of people. This work is inspired by her lifetime of research into spiritual matters, especially the teachings of Buddha and Christ, culminating in reading and studying "The Power of Now" by the spiritual teacher for the 21st century, Eckhart Tolle.  More recently still, "A New Earth", also by the pioneer Eckhart Tolle, has influenced the work even more clearly.   Emily uses the ideas from these three teachers (Buddha, Christ and Tolle) in her treatments, and would recommend that all her clients read them. Conciousness body work is done during a treatment.  The client's concious focus is encouraged to "flood" any part of their body, creating a powerful sense of awarness of the body.  This is deeply healing work, and as such is difficult to describe in words. This work can also be done fully clothed, lying or sitting, and focusing the conciousness on the present moment as it unfolds.  Whatever occurs in that moment, will be noticed and attended to.  This is very healing work and Emily would encourage anyone interested in having this treatment to also read the book by Eckhart Tolle, "The Power of Now", or "A New Earth".  Emily will guide you and help you to maintain your concious focus on the present moment and on the energy of the inner body. This work can be very helpful when a client is experiencing challenging "life situations" and processing many emotions, or finding their mental processes overwhelming.  Techniques can be taught to help find some "stillness" and begin to make sense of it all. Do not worry, Emily is very used to dealing with people in floods of tears...it is a natural process in the release of negativity from the body. The types of things which are brought up to the surface, to be experience in the "now" are many and varied.  Sometimes a feeling of sadness, sometimes frustrations. Emily works to encourage the client to attend only to the "feeling" or sense perception which is alive at that moment in the body.  Any "conceptual" thoughts, or judgments, or "labels" are not given much attention.  What is important in this work is the attention given to the actual moment. When working with the body in this way, often the locked becomes unlocked and released.  The body may have been holding on to unprocessed issues, and with this work can at last bring the issues up to the light.  Emily will not encourage great detailed descriptions of past events.  This is counter productive.  Rather, she will attend to the actual feelings the body is experiencing in the here and now.  This makes for a deeply truthful experience.  Whatever comes up is accepted.  There is no resistance to it.  Even if it is a feeling of "non-acceptance" of whatever it is (and this is common), that in itself is not resisted, and tends to dissolve in the depth of acceptance.  Please read Tolle's book, "A New Earth" for a very clear and detailed explanation of this.  Any clients who are working in this way with Emily are very excited and enthusiastic about it.  They become awakened to a level of their conciousness which they previously had not been aware of.  Please see the testimonial page of this website for their comments.   ENERGY CHANNELLING Recently, Emily's work has often become spiritual.  Clients have been experiencing quite dramatic changes in their lives, as a result of the relaxing of their "armour".  As a result of this, Emily decided to develop this dimension further, and trained in ENERGY BALANCING AND CHANNELLING.  This involved an initiation and attunement to the energy of "VIOLET FIRE".  This energy grounding and positive.  It can release stuck and negative blocks, creating the chance for released energy to flow through, removing stagnation in the body and spirit.  Emily also channels the energy of Christ. Clients who have recieved this energy have reported greater levels of relaxation throughout their lives, and have "shifted" to a better understanding of themselves and their purpose. If you feel drawn to this type of work, please mention it when you contact Emily (07900 667 357). ORACLE CARD READINGS This work is useful if you have a question or situation which you want to resolve, or find some guidance.  The cards used are direct interventions from ascended masters, and as such are powerful sources of advice and help. Emily uses these cards to create a reading which directly relates to your question. Emily would however suggest that you try the "conciousness" work first, as you may well hold the answer to your question in your own being, and simply need help stilling the mind and becoming aware of the body so that you can access your true Being. POST TREATMENT RAW SALAD MEAL Emily offers all her clients a meal to take away with them.  It consists of pure plant power!!! and is the ideal solution to the post treatment munchies....and will continue the powerful detoxification of your body by taking pure raw energy right into your digestive system, thus prolonging the effect of your treatment... Emily will prepare it and offer it in a take away container with a fork and a napkin! You can eat it on your journey home!!! It must be eaten within 2 hours of the treatment, as it is pure raw plant material, and dressed with pure olive oil, white wine vinegar, mustard and honey.  Delicious!!! All my clients also recieve a free bottle of mineral water, every time they come for a treatment. AROMATHERAPY Emily uses pure plant oils to enhance her sacred treatment room.  She has a good understanding of essential oils, and will mix a special tailor made blend to suit you and your situation and needs.   This will be used in the oil burner, and also in the oil blend on your skin. The oils Emily uses for therapeutic and remedial massage work are blended organic grapeseed oil and organic sweet almond oil.  She then adds the pure essential oil, depending on your needs.  All the oils Emily uses are 100% organic.  Emily's personal favourites are: jasmine, neroli, lavendar, bergamot, frankincense, geranium, sweet orange.... TOWELLING AND LINENS All the linens used by Emily are pure Egyptian cotton of the highest quality.  No expense has been spared to ensure your comfort.  The white fluffy towels, the soft flannel sheets, the pure wool cellular blanket...all provided to maximize your relaxation. THE MASSAGE COUCH This couch is a wonderful and beautiful creation.  Made from pure wood and leather, it is silent and strong.  Designed to carry the largest, heaviest human being, you will feel totally relaxed and accomodated!  Sink into its soft padded mattress and let go of all the tension... THE TREATMENT ROOM The room used for Emily's treatments benefits from her knowledge of creating "sacred space".  It is regularly "smudged" and "cleared" so as to create the highest possible frequency of energy vibration.  The room literally glows with light and purity.  Your treatment will benefit from this, as the space itself is healing.  You will be able to bring all that you need to this simple room.  Your healing process starts here. Emily works from home, so this sacred room is just a part of her life.  Please expect a very informal atmosphere on arrival.