• Massage, reiki & reflexology treatments/workshops
• Massage - aromatherapy, hot stones, Indian head

Complementary therapist including: massage specialising in relaxation, stress and pain relief through aromatherapy, hot stone massage, deep tissue, on-site massage and Indian head massage, baby massage, hopi ear candles, reflexology and reiki master helping the body find balance and harmony aiding back pain, headaches, insomnia, depression and many more. Hypnotherapy, life coaching, emotional freedom technique and NLP all helping you take control and be who you want to be enabling you to reach

Stop Smoking, lose weight, gain confidence, overcome fears, phobias and anxiety

Using advanced structured hypnotherapy and neuro linguistic programming, Freedom Therapies can help you stop smoking, lose weight, get over fears and phobias e.g. flying, spiders etc. It can increase confidence and self esteem, help with panic attacks, insomnia, stress management and increase sports performance. Also past life regressions.
We can make a major difference to your life helping you make permanent, positive change by breaking through barriers which have been holding you back from being the person you have always wanted to be. Take control of your body and mind and reach your goal. Hypnotherapy is about working with the subconscious mind which you gain access to when you are relaxed. It protects you from harm and you can not say or do anything that you do not want to. For some reason we seem to act in a certain way, repeating patterns which may not be useful to us and by using regression and visualisation we can go back, release and heal those issues and negative patterns enabling you to live a freer life in health and harmony.

Massage treatments tailormade for your requirements to relax, invigorate, release tension, ease neck, head and back ache

Freedom Therapies offer many different types of massage from basic body massage and hot stones for relaxation and invigoration to deep tissue to release those deep seated knots causing you aches and pain throughout the body. We will tailor make the routine for your specific needs and combine hot stones with aromatherapy and deep tissue for the one price if that is what is needed. We ensure the pressure is right for you and not too deep or as deep as you require. Every client is different and with feedback each visit and after/home care advice specific for your needs you will return again and again to us knowing you can not get a better treatment anywhere else. Anna Gatland has over 15 years experience massaging clients of all ages with all problems. Massage is something everyone can enjoy; it increases the immune system and circulation. It relieves spasms, knots and nodules. It has a truly powerful effect and can truly de stress your body, mind and refresh your soul.

Reflexology treatments to help rebalance and heal; often used as a prevention as well as a cure

Freedom Therapies use advance reflexology techniques to maintain health, harmony and balance within the body. It is a study of the reflexes of the feet and hands corresponding to every part of the body and by pressing on these reflexes releases blocked energy and helps the body seek its own equilibrium. The huge benefits are: it relaxes and calms the nervous system; nurturing and re-energising, it helps the body detoxify encouraging elimination of toxins, it improves circulation and the immune system and can help disorders such as: allergies, acne, anxiety, arthritis, asthma, backache, cystitis, depression, headaches, insomnia, infertility, migraines, stress, reproductive problems e.g. PMT, menopause, menstrual pain, POS, painful muscles and many more. Over the years we have helped positively with all the above problems. We often combine treatments giving half an hour of reflexology and a back massage or reiki treatment.

Aromatherapy massage and advice how to use it at home for yourself and family members

Using pure essential aromatherapy oils which are the "life force and soul" of plants, many symptoms can be helped. The special oils mimic hormones and help relax, uplift and energise balancing the body, mind and soul. A truly wonderful treatment. You will complete a detailed consultation form to see which systems of the body need treating and with your therapists knowledge and experience of choosing, blending and applying the essential oils you will receive an amazing massage relaxing your muscles whilst the essential oils are applied to your skin and can stay in your blood stream for up to 3 days allowing them to continue to work. At Freedom Therapies we give you left over oil to take home and use in your bath or to apply the next day and give detailed specific after/home care advice. Aromatherapy can help with insomnia, depression, PMT, menopausal symptoms, fertility, arthritis, aches and pain, acne, allergies, asthma, anxiety and many more.

Hopi Ear Candles or auricular thermal therapy including Indian head massage

Hopi Ear Candles are an ancient healing technique used by the Hopi Native Indians centred in Arizona, in the South West of the United States. I include this technique with an Indian Head Massage for those people needing some ear treatments or those just interested in this wonderful ancient process.
How the candles are said to work:
The candle is lit, and gradually its ingredients vaporise and are drawn, by convection, down the hollow centre of the candle into the outer portion of the ear. The herbal vapours circulate within the external parts of the ear, soothing irritation, softening wax, stimulating blood supply, massaging the ear drum by gentle suction, helping the lymph glands and immune system to function efficiently.
Conditions for which the candles may be helpful:

• Excessive or compacted ear wax
• Snoring
• Colds and flu
• Headaches and migraine
• 'Glue ear' • Noises in the ear and tinnitus
• Relief of stress
• Neuralgia
• Bell's Palsy
• Meniere's Disease
• 'Swimmer's Ear' •
The cylindrical candles are about 22cm long and 0.5cm in diameter, and are hollow. They each contain a filter which prevents residues from the candle from entering the ear.

INDIAN FACIAL REJUVENATION (Natural Facelift Massage)

We would all like to stay looking youthful for as long as possible – and now this can be achieved in a completely natural and holistic way. This treatment is a fusion of ancient ayurvedic and modern western techniques. It was devised by Kundan Mehta (whose husband, Narendra introduced Indian Head Massage to the West) and offers a gentle non-invasive approach to looking younger.
A wonderful 45 minute treatment – suitable for both women and men - that works gently over every centimetre of the face, lifting, smoothing, toning, draining, relaxing and healing. Only fingertips are used - no oils, potions or lotions.
It is lovely as a one-off treatment that leaves the recipient looking and feeling great. However, as the effects are accumulative, a course of 8 to 10 weekly treatments is usually recommended to fully appreciate the benefits – with monthly maintenance treatments thereafter. The results are subtle – clients usually notice a tighter feel to the skin, a more toned refreshed and radiant look, lines softened, under eye bags and general puffiness reduced, a happier more relaxed expression.
Apart from any visual benefits the treatment relaxes on a very deep level, encouraging the body's own healing ability and leaving the client with an increased sense of well-being.
How it works:
• Energy work relaxes and balances
• Activation of Ayurvedic pulses encourages healing, energises and regulates the skin and helps to reduce puffiness.
•Gentle repetitive massage movements smooth and exfoliate the skin, and tone the major muscles of the face, relaxing tension locally, encouraging stiffened connective tissue back to mobility and leaving the skin looking plumped up and firmer.
• Blood circulation is increased locally bringing oxygen and nutrients to the cells.
• Lymphatic drainage is encouraged, helping to reduce under-eye bags and general puffiness, discouraging spots and blackheads and leaving the skin brighter and more radiant.
To achieve optimum results facial exercises can be tailored to the client's specific needs along with general lifestyle advice.

Reiki healing treatments - energy work using hands on or hands off healing. Also reiki workshops for reiki 1 and 2 attunements and reiki share groups.

Reiki is an ancient Japanese form of healing which encourages the body to find balance, by unblocking stagnant energy and heal physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Reiki means “Universal Life Force" and the practitioner is acting as a channel through which the energy reiki flows. It is a very non-invasive, extremely effective form of healing aiding all ailments from migraines, backaches to broken bones.
You can even be initiated into reiki and become your own healer and heal others including family, friends and even pets and plants – anything with a life force.
WHAT HAPPENS IN A HEALING SESSION?
The client will stay fully clothed and become comfortable either lying on a massage couch or sit in a chair and the practitioner can either lay the hands on or slightly above them. Then usually an hour session takes place where the practitioner moves down the body working on the main chakras of the body and intuitively wherever they feel attention is needed. Also they may ask the client to turn over so that they can work on the back.
Heat may be felt from the hands and slight tingling in areas of the body which is the energy flowing to an area that needs some attention. The client will feel a total sense of peace and may fall asleep during the treatment. Upon awakening they may feel tired and need sleep or feel vibrant and full of energy as reiki gives the body whatever it needs. Also the client can have a clearer sense of direction and feel emotionally nurtured. Alternatively there may be a healing crisis where the body is ridding itself of toxins, so a little after the treatment the client may temporarily feel a bit under the weather, but it is all good as physically and emotional a clearance has taken place.
Anna Gatland has been practicing reiki since 1997 when she had her first attunement on a beach in Thailand which was a huge turning point in her life. Becoming a reiki master in 2003 she has been running reiki workshops since then leading relaxing, calming workshops from the tranquility of Freedom Therapies in Bognor Regis. Included in the one day workshop for reiki 1 and 2 is a manual, certificate and lunch.
WHAT HAPPENS IN AN ATTUNEMENT?

A Reiki attunement alters a person's own internal energy system permanently. The base Chakra begins to vibrate at a new and higher level and stimulates the ability to "channel" universal energy.

REIKI 1 – Receive 4 empowering and chakra opening attunements, learn the history and philosophy of reiki, how to aura cleanse, understand chakras's, familiarize yourself with the hand positions and have a practice session. Learn how to raise the energy in your body with chi kung moves. £75-£125

REIKI II – Experience another amazing attunement and receive 3 sacred powerful symbols to increase the reiki strength and to be able to send distant healing. Learn more about chakra's and the auric field. Understand crystal healing used with reiki. £75 - £125

Price of a 1 hour healing session is £25 (discounts are available per individual case)

Baby massage benefits both baby and parent aiding bonding, sleeping, constipation and colic and many more

In countries like India, China and Thailand massage has been used for thousands of years and continues to be popular as the art is passed down from mother to daughter and baby will be massaged every day. Touch is one of our most important senses and it is a primordial instinct to touch one another. Integrating massage into the parent/child relationship offers the parents a way to get to know and understand their baby. Massaging your baby is a gentle and nurturing gift to give to your baby. There are so many benefits to massage and some are listed below.

The benefits of infant massage for your child:

• Smoothes transition from womb to the world
• Develops baby's first language: touch
• Develops a feeling of being loved, respected and secure
• Develops body, mind, awareness and coordination
• Can help to relieve colic, wind and constipation
• Helps to regulate and strengthen baby's digestive and respiratory systems and stimulate circulatory, lymphatic and nervous systems
• Promotes relaxation
• Can aid and improve quality of sleep
• Improves skin condition
• Improves babies immune system

The benefits of infant massage for parents:

• Increases bonding between parent and baby
• Helps parent to understand baby's non-verbal communication
• Enhances parent's confidence and competence in dealing with baby
• Can help with postnatal depression
• Both parents and baby relax together
• Promotes lactation in breastfeeding mums (through stimulation of hormones)
• Promotes nurturing instinct (through stimulation of hormone oxytocin)

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a unique but remarkable form of healing. It is at the cutting edge of personal development releasing any negative thoughts and feelings helping to free you from all of unwanted life patterns.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a unique but remarkable form of healing. It is at the cutting edge of personal development releasing any negative thoughts and feelings helping to free you from all of unwanted life patterns. Based on impressive new discoveries involving the body's subtle energies, EFT has been clinically effective in thousands of cases.

It centres around the profound effects of the body's subtle energies using the theory that "the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system." Accordingly, EFT is an emotional form of acupuncture except that we don't use needles. Instead, we tap with the fingertips to stimulate certain meridian energy points while the client is "tuned in" to the problem.

The subtle energies that circulate throughout the body have been largely ignored (until recently) by western scientists. As a result, our use of them for emotional and spiritual healing has been sparse at best. With EFT, however, we consider these subtle energies to be the front running cause of emotional upsets. As a result, we generate results that are FAR beyond those of conventional methods.

EFT is not just remarkable, but an absolutely non-invasive fantastic form of emotional healing.
It can help with stopping smoking, weight loss, anxieties, fears and phobias, depression, pain and many more disorders. Freedom Therapies trained with Gary Craig from America who devised this system and have helped people overcome some many barriers in their life.

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