Bodyflow LONDON
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Brides Magazine, 07 July 2010
Home Girl
This week I had a visit from Bodyflow, a nationwide at-home spa company that sends a therapist to your house, wedding venue or hotel room.
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Harpers Bazaar, September 2008
Six of the best - Experts to go
Beauty Essentials
Bodyflow
When your shoulders have tightened and your neck is aching, but you're miles from a spa or salon, ring Bodyflow. Specialising in massage - from Thai to Pregnancy - the therapists know just what you need. Each arrives with massage bed, towels and oils in hand and none of the frilly extras (incense, prayer balls and crystals) that often fall short of their tension-busting promise.
Quintessentially, December 2007
Bodyflow was recommended in the Quintessentially monthly newsletter.
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Financial Mail Women's Forum, November 19th 2007
Make your life easier - Bodyflow
We've all been there; sat at our desks with aching necks and shoulders or collapsing into bed after a busy day at work and finding ourselves unable to sleep because of the thousands of knots we have in our back.
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Harpers Bazaar, October 2007
Boom or Bust
They say: 'Increase health and well-being in the workplace when we help your team unwind.' We say: 'Your staff will thank you, after Bodyflow has put their nerves to rights.'
24th November 2006
O2's inspirational business of the week
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Vogue Beauty Book 2006
Specialist Treatments
www.bodyflow.co.uk
Reflexology, yoga, pilates, fertility, pre and post pregnancy massage, shiatsu and nutrition.
Vogue, October 2006
Star Beauty - Celebrity Beauty Secrets
Families Magazine, April 2006
Look After Number One
Vogue, October 2005
'The Ultimate Shoe Guide' by Calgary Avansino
The London branch of this London/Zurich well-being clinic is headed by reflexologist Gemma Ireland, who specialises in techniques relating to fertility and maternity.
Vogue, September 2005
'Spirit' by Calgary Avansino
I know I am a minority, but having a foot massage is my idea of torture. Expecting reflexology to have the same effect, I was surprised by my reaction to the treatment. Instead of my usual squirming and whinging, I went limp almost immediately, only to come to an hour later feeling fully refreshed. Reflexology is a complementary therapy more than an indulgence, stimulating specific reflex points to help restore the body's equilibrium and encourage the release of toxins. It's common to enter a very deep state of relaxation so it's wise to book an at-home treatment. Gemma Ireland's company Bodyflow (0207 376 5278) focuses on infertility, pregnancy and birth, all of which can benefit from regular reflexology.
Brides, September/October 2005
'Presents' by Kathryn Blundell
Still stuck? Go for gifts that are purely indulgent - a course of reflexology to get you sanely through the thank-you card writing www.bodyflow.co.uk offers home visits around London.
Harpers & Queen, July 2005
'Spirit Level' by Rebecca Broadley
Guardian Angel
Who Gemma Ireland, Reflexologist
Why Reflexology stimulates the body's natural healing process and restores equilibrium. Gemma's company Bodyflow also provides massage therapists, yoga teachers and birth doula's to your home.
Her disciples Gemma's confidential clients list includes film stars, supermodels and VIP's.
CV A member of the Association of Reflexologists, and trained in matters of pregnancy, fertility and maternity, Gemma specialises in priming labour.
Philosophy 'The body has an incredible way of healing itself. With reflexology, it will respond to your needs.'
Style Warm and reassuring, like welcoming an old friend into your home.
DIY tip 'Balance is the key; life is fast, but try to keep everything in moderation.'
What her fans say 'There is no one else for reflexology. Gemma's treatments transform my busy days into relaxation,' says celebrity facialist Amanda Lacey.
Families Magazine, April 2005
'Baby Feature'
Looking after yourself in the comfort of your own home - Bodyflow is a friendly company offering a variety of massage and alternative therapy treatments to the comfort of your own home, taking all the pressures of travel and parking away from you. Birth doula's and fertility treatments, deep tissue, sports, pregnancy, Swedish and lymphatic drainage massage, nutritional advice and yoga, from £65 per hour.
Saturday Times Magazine, February 2005
'The Moment I Wake up' by Hannah Betts
Contemporary platitude has it that cocooning was a concept invented by trend guru Faith Popcorn in 1991 and was the reason why many of us spent the decade lounging about at home not doing very much. Pah, I say, pah. This is on a pah with that other great contemporary platitude, namely that teenagers were invented in the Fifties, when anyone with an ounce of awareness knows that it was 1920, 1589 or, in fact, 1212. My own capacity for domestic lounging knows no bounds, historical or otherwise. Indeed, it is one of the reasons why I am not quite convinced about this child-rearing business. They will insist on doing things, nippers, and, unless I were to produce a particularly depressive specimen, I might actually be forced to leave my flat.
Bodyflow organisation is right up our street. Bodyflow brings chair massage to work and corporate events. More importantly for ³cooners/agoraphobes² it brings massage, reflexology, yoga, nutritional and fertility advice to your own home. For if there is one thing better than sinking like a dead weight into a massage table, it is sinking like a dead weight into one's own bed, with none of the jiggery-pokery of parking, dressing or drooling in a public place.
Gemma is the brains behind the operations, marshalling a crack team of 20 practitioners; but she is also the hands, being a reflexologist of such mesmerising powers that, 400 years or so ago, she would have been burnt as a witch. Now, I adore reflexology. I've had reflexology of the foot, hand and ear. I've had reflexology where I have felt energised, and reflexology where I've been felled like a tree. Hell, I've even had reflexology where the therapist's conclusion was that the spirit of my mother was with us in the room. But, never before have I felt the affinity between the area of the foot being kneaded and the body part to which it relates.
A blissful trippiness gave way to great plunges into relaxation, punctuated by involuntary shudders from my ribcage. Somewhat disconcertingly, Gemma can also read minds, effortlessly taking control of the fact that when my body switches off, my brain spirals into mania. Moreover, her sessions are perfectly choreographed to appear hypnotically drawn out, leaving one without that craven, resentful feeling at the treatment's close. That night, I slept the sleep of the righteous for a good week and a half.
Gemma is also a doula, a type of professional birthing partner (more of which in a couple of months), and has officiated at 50 or so births. Four-fifths of her reflexology work involves those who are up the duff or seeking to be so, not least priming babies into action. But she also addresses a range of other issues: asthma, arthritis, fatigue, back complaints, digestive problems, insomnia, migraine, menstrual pain and, yes, burgeoning mental illness (depression, panic attacks, etc.) With a little more going with the flow, I may even be able to leave the house.
Canary Magazine
If you're stressed at your desk, then Bodyflow's chair massage is for you. The practitioners come to your office and, using Japanese acupressure techniques, increase circulation in the body. They focus on the back, shoulders, arms, hands, neck and scalp and the result is an invigorating energy boost.
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