About Me
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
I have a degree (AOS) in massage therapy with specialised training in Chinese medicine. I am qualified in Swedish, Thai, Reflexology, Prenatal, Tui Na, Sports, Orthopaedic and myofacial massage. I offer cupping and gua sha as part of my treatments. This program also included learning full anatomy and physiology.
I also have a Bachelors degree from Goldsmiths university in Cultural Anthropology.
I am a qualified shamanic practitioner and have spent many years learning from indigenous Peruvian shamans in the Amazon. I have also completed formal training in the UK.
I am a qualified Reiki Master
I have completed training with Teal Swan and am qualified in 'The Completion Process'.
I am a certified Trauma and Somatic therapy coach.
I have completed 'Compassionate Inquiry' training with Gabor Mate.
My name is Zannah and Ma Massage is the quiet expression of my deepest work.
I am a mother. And it is with due respect to all mother's and all those that mother that I created MaMassage. There is no harder job, especially when the children are young. It's a critical time to be cared for yet few of us ever really get real respite. And so with respect to all the caring roles that people take on in life, and to all those that feel they have little time to themselves, MaMassage is for anyone who needs stillness from a life that feels chaotic. For all those that deserve a break but rarely get it.
I know what it means to hold, to stretch beyond yourself again and again.
I also know the ache that lives in the spaces between: the moments when no one is asking, but your body is still bracing. Motherhood has been the best thing in my life and the most difficult, taking time to lean on and be supported by other mother's has been invaluable to me. Mothers tending to mothers is as ancient as humanity.
I've walked many paths in my twenty years experience. Through energy medicine, massage therapy, plant ceremony, silence, grief and truth. I've learned that healing isn't something we do to ourselves. It's something we remember, when we are finally met with presence in safe space.
For years, I have felt the call to work with mothers knowing just how invaluable this kind of work can be. I have found new respect for the work I do since becoming a mum. Time alone to me where I can just be cared for unapologetically is gold, transformational and necessary.
I created Ma Massage as a way to offer not just physical release, but a return to Self.
I'm not here to guide you. I'm here to hold a space where you can meet yourself again.
With warmth, with reverence, and with deep respect for everything you carry.