Surrey Massage Studio

There are so many things you can spend money on in the name of recovery.

Supplements. Gadgets. Fancy drinks. Exercise equipment that promises to target one very specific thing.

Personally, we wouldn’t bother with most of it.

That doesn’t mean none of it has a place. If you’ve been advised to take something, you need a piece of equipment for a specific reason, or you just really enjoy using it, absolutely go for it!!

We just don’t think most of these things are going to transform your life in the way they’re often sold to you online.

Most of the time, we’d rather keep it simple. Eat well. Move. Rest. Use the basics. Give new gadgets a bit of time before assuming you need one.

And if we’re going to spend more money, we’d rather spend it on something that’s actually tailored to us.

A treatment. A session. Something where somebody is looking at what we need specifically, and we’ve actually set the time aside for it.

That’s always going to feel more worthwhile to us than buying another thing we have to remember to use.

Mariah’s reason for becoming a therapist says a lot about the way she works.

She knows what it feels like to need support and not quite get it, so making people feel cared for is a huge part of what she does now.

Five years into massage and currently training to become an osteopath, she’s still learning, still curious and very much where she’s meant to be.

Hopefully she feels a little less like just another name on the booking system now 💚

We have our ways of doing things

Differently? Maybe.. but thats exactly what sets us apart.

Bottom line is we love what we do and the impact we have on helping you feel better in your bodies.

So whens your next massage? 💚

We work with real people and real bodies every day.

Every single one of us is unique. Bodies make noises. People get nervous. Sometimes you want to chat, sometimes you desperately don’t. Sometimes the pressure that felt great five minutes ago suddenly doesn’t.

You never need to lie there uncomfortable because you don’t want to make a fuss.

Tell us what you need. Move if you need to. Ask for the blanket. Have the tissue. Let yourself fall asleep.

You don’t need to be a “good” massage client.

You just need to turn up as you are and switch off while we work our magic.

As massage therapists, we spend a lot of time one-to-one with people.

And one of the most underrated parts of what we do has very little to do with the actual massage.

It’s the hour.

An hour where nobody needs anything from you. No messages to answer. No one to look after. Nothing to organise or remember.

For some of the people we see, it’s one of the only hours in their week that looks like that.

People come in with their minds still going. Thinking about work, what’s for dinner, something they forgot to do, the conversation they had three days ago…

Then, slowly, it gets quieter.

They stop thinking about what comes next and start noticing how they actually feel.

Yes, the massage matters. Of course it does.

But sometimes I think having an hour where your only job is to lie there and let somebody else look after you matters just as much.

When was the last time you had an hour where nobody needed anything from you?