Book an Appointment at HACKNEY DOWNS STUDIOS - Abuelita's Wellbeing CIC - Hackney Downs Studios, Lower Clapton
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Yoga Classes & 1:1
Yoga is a mind-body practice that combines physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditation. It offers a holistic way to improve mobility and strength whilst building ease in the body and mind.
Improved Mobility and Flexibility: Yoga’s postures help improve joint and muscle flexibility, reduce stiffness, and promote better movement.
Strengthening Muscles: Many yoga poses help strengthen core muscles and improve posture. This reduces the strain on joints, providing structural support and minimising discomfort.
Stress Reduction: Yoga’s calming effect on the nervous system through breath work and mindfulness, helps reduce the body’s stress response, lowering cortisol levels and promoting relaxation.
Endorphin Release: Practicing yoga can trigger the release of endorphins—our natural feel-good and pain-relieving chemicals in the body. This can improve mood and reduce pain perception.
Body Awareness: Yoga promotes mindfulness and body awareness, helping individuals tune into their bodies, recognise pain triggers, and adjust movements or postures to reduce discomfort.
Stretch Therapy
Stretch therapy is about more than flexibility. It helps the body release what it has been holding often for far too long. Through supported movement and fascia-informed touch, this work creates space in both the body and the nervous system in ways that self-stretching rarely reaches.
In each session, the client lies fully supported while Noémie gently guides the body through slow, responsive stretches that meet it exactly where it is. The rhythm is mindful, the touch is informed, and every session is tailored to what the body needs in that moment.
While trained in the Be.Stretch® method, Noémie also weaves in breath-led movement, fascia release, and massage techniques to support deep, lasting release without force.
People often come to this work when they feel disconnected from their bodies — tight, fatigued, or overstimulated. Some are recovering from intense training or preparing for a race. Others are simply looking for calm and clarity in an overactive nervous system. Whatever the reason, this practice offers a reset. It helps bring the body back to a state of balance, flow, and ease.
What clients often feel after a session:
• Lightness and space in the back, neck, hips, and joints
• A calmer, more regulated nervous system
• Deeper, more effortless breathing
• A sense of clarity, grounding, and reconnection
Deep Tissue Massage Therapy
Deep Tissue Massage offers targeted relief for deep muscle tension and fascial restrictions caused by stress, poor posture, or overuse. This focused treatment improves circulation, reduces inflammation, and restores mobility by addressing the underlying layers of muscle and connective tissue.
Sports Massage Therapy
Sports massage therapy is a specialised treatment designed to improve performance, support recovery, and maintain overall muscle health. It focuses on the areas of the body most affected by physical activity, helping to release tension, increase flexibility, and boost circulation.
Ideal for athletes of all levels — or anyone experiencing muscle discomfort from daily movement — sports massage helps prevent injury, ease soreness, and promote faster recovery.
With over 17 years of experience, our therapist tailors each session to your specific needs, drawing on techniques such as Myofascial Release, Neuromuscular Therapy, Soft Tissue Release, and Muscle Energy Techniques (MET). Whether you’re training hard or simply need relief from everyday strain, this treatment will leave your body feeling balanced, mobile, and refreshed.
Holistic Deep Tissue Massage Therapy
This treatment blends targeted deep-tissue techniques with a holistic approach to help you find balance, ease tension, and relieve muscle soreness. We’ll focus on your areas of tightness, assess posture, and explore simple lifestyle or movement adjustments to support long-term relief. If appropriate, we can also discuss whether seeing a specialist may help address underlying causes.
Restorative Massage Therapy
Relax, Release, Reconnect
This session combines gentle yet effective techniques to ease muscle tension and bring you back into balance. Whether you seek deep relaxation or targeted relief, each treatment is tailored to your body’s needs.
Grounded in the mind–body connection, one-off and regular sessions help calm the nervous system, improve sleep, and support emotional well-being.
Head, Neck, and Face Massage
A 45-minute session for screen fatigue, jaw tension, and calming the nervous system. Facial sculpting, gentle neck work, and massage to restore space and softness.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage Therapy
A gentle way to support your body’s healing.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) is a soft, flowing massage that encourages your lymphatic system to do what it does best — clear away waste, reduce swelling, and restore balance. With light, rhythmic movements, this therapy helps your body feel lighter, calmer, and supported from the inside out.
How MLD can help:
- Speeds up healing after surgery
- Eases swelling, fluid retention, and lymphoedema
- Supports your immune system and circulation
- Brings relief from fatigue and tension
- Brightens skin and promotes deep relaxation
- Different ways people use it
- Recovery: after operations, managing chronic conditions, or reducing inflammation
- Wellbeing: stress release, gentle detox, and pain relief
- Aesthetics: reducing puffiness and improving skin tone
Pregnancy Massage
A nurturing, restorative treatment designed to support you through pregnancy and beyond. Safely performed after the first trimester (with your doctor’s approval), this massage helps relieve tension, promote relaxation, and ease the physical changes of pregnancy. After birth, gentle techniques aid recovery, restore balance, and offer much-needed care during your postnatal journey.
Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, non-invasive, and deeply restorative form of bodywork that works directly with the nervous system. Using light touch, it supports the body’s natural ability to heal, release tension, and find balance.
This holistic approach helps to restore physical health while nurturing emotional and mental well-being. By recognising the deep connection between body, mind, and emotions, CST encourages harmony throughout the whole system — leaving you feeling calmer, lighter, and more grounded.
Conditions Craniosacral Therapy Can Support:
- Stress, anxiety, and emotional imbalances
- Headaches and migraines
- Chronic pain and fatigue (e.g. fibromyalgia, ME/CFS)
- TMJ (jaw) dysfunction
- Digestive issues (IBS, reflux)
- Sinus problems and ear infections
- Post-surgical recovery
- Birth trauma and developmental delays in babies
- Trauma recovery and PTSD
- Nervous system dysregulation
- Sleep disorders
For Adults and Older Adults:
- Chronic stress and burnout recovery
- Managing long-term conditions gently
- Supporting emotional resilience
- Improving mobility and reducing stiffness
- Aiding mental clarity and restful sleep
Ergonomic Assessment
Our practitioner will visit your workplace (office or home) to carry out your DSE assessment, which takes around 30 minutes.
Following the visit, you’ll receive a detailed report by email, including key findings and tailored recommendations to improve your workstation setup. We also offer ongoing support to help you implement any adjustments and maintain long-term comfort and wellbeing.
Nutritional Therapy
A focused session with a certified nutritional therapist to explore your diet and eating habits in detail. Together, you'll review your current nutrition, identify areas for improvement, and ensure your supplement use aligns with your health goals.
Ideal if you feel overwhelmed by conflicting advice, this session provides clear, evidence-based guidance tailored to your needs — whether you’re curious about supplements, sports nutrition, or simply want to make healthier choices.
If you’re managing a health condition or complex symptoms, we recommend booking a free discovery call to discuss a full 1:1 package for a deeper assessment.
Energy Alignment
“Fogo Sagrado” or Sacred Fire Energetic Alignment Therapy is based on the Shamanic beliefs of the Brazilian Indigenous tribes and can enable you to access some of the hidden psychological and emotional states that are carried within your subconscious, which can also be connected to your ancestors, beyond your immediate family.
By using a “sixth sense”, I give voice to what has not been seen or said. I connect to your energy field and I will describe through symbols, sensations and images underlying issues in your life at the present moment that you would like to address. This may include difficulties in relationships, social life, health, family environment, work, and other aspects of life.
This is a gentle and non-invasive type of work. I will connect to your energy field and, through symbols, sensations, and images, access an energetic body that your higher self has brought forth to be worked on. I will help make you aware of your unconscious patterns of behaviour and beliefs so that you can relate it to the issue that you need help with.
1:1 & 1:2 Mat & Reformer Pilates
Pilates Sessions (60 minutes)
A blend of Mat and Reformer Pilates, using body weight and gravity to strengthen, lengthen, and stabilize the body through controlled, mindful movement.
Specialized Pilates for Specific Needs
Instructor: Laura — Specialist in Back Pain, Hypermobility, and Prenatal/Postnatal Support, currently deepening her expertise in pelvic floor health through evidence-based training.
Lower Back Pain: Strengthen deep core muscles to support and protect the spine.
Hypermobility: Improve joint stability, coordination, and muscle control.
Prenatal & Postnatal: Gentle, safe movements to aid pregnancy, recovery, and pelvic floor balance.
What to Expect
If you're new to Pilates, your first session introduces the core principles — Alignment, Breathing, and Centering (the ABCs) — through practical, accessible exercises. You’ll also learn safe use of the Reformer machine, where relevant.
Each session is fully personalized to your goals, whether you’re focusing on recovery, strength, flexibility, or overall wellbeing. A brief health questionnaire ensures a safe, tailored experience from your very first class.
Breathwork and Somatics
Immerse yourself in therapeutic and mindful mind/body practices combining conscious and intentional breathing with body awareness, focusing on internal sensations and emotional states. Breathwork involves controlled breathing patterns that can either activate or deactivate the mind and body, promoting mental and emotional regulation, shifting “fight or flight” states of being into “rest and digest”. Somatics uses breath, movement, and touch to tap into and release stored emotions and traumas, bringing awareness to the body’s signals and feeling into any discomfort that arises, instead of rationally analysing them.
Combining these powerful practices can help you better understand your state of being and work through any stored energy, emotions, and sensations that may be disrupting your inner balance and peace.
Sound Healing
Sound Healing
Journey through a pure sound experience to calm the senses and release any stress or tension in the body, regulating the nervous system. Different instruments are used throughout the session (such as singing bowls, tibetan bowls, percussions, chimes) as you lie down comfortably and soak up the sounds and vibrations. The human body is primarily made up of water, making it a great conductor to absorb all the sounds and vibrations down to a cellular level.
Whether you are looking to destress from your daily routines, find inner peace and connection, immerse yourself in a relaxing and healing experience, or just try something new, this session is for you!
Benefits:
- Dislodge energetic blockages and release stagnant energy
- Stress & anxiety relief - reduced cortisol, blood pressure, and heart rate.
- Improved sleep through frequencies altering brain wave patterns to a calmer resonance.
- Influence brainwave activity to release serotonin and dopamine to promote shifts in mood and emotional processing.
- Enhance cognitive processing, creativity and problem solving abilities.
- Stimulate endorphin release, nitric oxide production, and immune cells' activity in the body to support the body's natural healing process.
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Located at: 17 Amhurst Terrace, Hackney Downs Studios, Theatre 5, London
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