LOOP MASSAGE / WAPPING WHARF
An Oasis of calm in the heart of Bristol.
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A Container Massage Studio based at Cargo 2, Wapping Wharf Bristol

 

LOOP YOUR SHOUDLERS

Welcome to Loop Massage & Wellness. Our mission is to help ease and restore you, to you.
We are a boutique massage and wellness haven based in two converted shipping containers on Bristol's Harbourside. 

So,  loop your shoulders, take a breath, relax and rest your mind - while we treat your achey, stressed out body.

 

LINEN STUDIO

We believe that just as every person (and every body) is individual, each massage should be tailored to reflect this. Our ‘house’ massage blends techniques inspired by Holistic and Deep Tissue massage; we also offer Sports and Remedial massage, Pregnancy Massage

BIRCH STUDIO

Loop has a collective of wellness practitioners, with a wealth of experience, offering a host of individual holistic treatments and small pop up events all housed within our container studios.

NATURAL BEAUTY STORE

A carefully curated selection of products to introduce you to a more mindful way to look after your skin + our in house candles, oils and soap all produced here in Bristol. Available in studio, and online.

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S A N C T U A R Y A slightly muzzy, happy & accurate portrayal of how I feel about being back in my sanctuary. I’ve already pulled the curtain and had a little Sunday dance party. We love how our studios also serve as a sanctuary for our lovely clients. Sometimes just observing people step over the threshold, you can see the shoulders sink and the breaths get deeper. People shed clothes and worries and flop on to our cosy tables. Finding a space where you can feel calm and secure is such a positive choice to make for yourself. Our doors are always open but lighting a candle, settling down on a cushion, sploshing in a bath or romping outside equally valid. Just as long as it works for you. Happy Sunday, now what did I miss? ☺️
R E S T It’s really so important to stop sometimes. Actually stop. Not a busy holiday of sight seeing or activity. Stopping and finding what bubbles up. Living with your thoughts and being ok with who you are. Stripping it all right back. I’ve been reading and pretty quiet in the best possible way, a meditation. Entering worlds and observing others. I forget how much I can learn from reading and silence. Filling up of Vitamin D Heaven. Back home to a lovely bubbly life of friends, loves, work and play - which now means more than ever because I left it for a hot minute.
So this feels particularly unfair given the current weather but for the next week this is hopefully going to be my view - between naps and if I raise my head from the heaps of books I hope to read! I promise to keep most of the holiday stuff on stories (well I’m hoping for very little signal truth be told). Don’t worry if you also need some R & R the rest of the Loop Squad are on hand to help de-stress and stretch out. Have an amazing week ahead!
You can’t drink from an empty glass People seem to start running on empty this time of year. Gearing up for the one or two weeks of time off we allow ourselves to reset a whole year of stress and strain. Wouldn’t it make more sense to spend a little time monthly, weekly, daily safeguarding ourselves against burnout? There are many ways to aid you in keeping calm and collected. Here’s our case for massage - It can help enhance the immune system, aid sleep, soothe the nervous system, improve flexibility and help keep your muscles working smoothly. That’s why we love it and why we live it! With two studios now open you can often find on the day availability. Make a mid-year resolution to make time to care for yourself.
This is a picture of a dinosaur I snapped in NYC 4 years ago, practically to the day! I’ve been thinking about how many expressions we have about bones. There’s something rather romantic about them. ‘The bones of you’, ‘feeling in my bones’ ‘bone deep’ ‘bone cold’ ‘bone tired’ ‘warming my bones’ etc - it’s the deepest part of feeling something or having feelings for something or someone. It’s the core of you and what remains. While we don’t specialise in bones here (yay muscles), we do have to work very closely with them and greatly appreciate all that the do.
Using a snap of last year’s tomatoes to illustrate and remind us all that comparison is the thief of joy. I can talk about tomatoes for an embarrassingly long time. I get mildly panicked if I’m down to 1 tin of them in the house (I blame my grandmother for this, as it was the basis for most meals). I do love a fresh one though and grow as many different types as possible. Like people all tomatoes are different - some you slice into salads, some make the best sauce, some are brilliant stuffed, don’t get me started on bruschetta! and some are a little too pretty to eat (I’m kidding, that’s never the case). Under the umbrella of tomato there is every different shape, size and colour. Everyone is just as worthy as the next, each serves a purpose. Be your own type of tomato and don’t envy those that sauce or stuff or slice better than you. Just be pleased you’re a tomato at all and not an slug....
Holy Moly! I almost forgot, Loop is 2 years old. We opened for the first time over this last Bank Holiday in May - 2 years ago! It feels like time has simultaneously stretched out and contracted, We’ve all lived many moons since 2017. Makes a person think. It also means I’ve known some of you for 2 years too and that’s awesome. Thank you for your support and all your kindness, it honestly means the world. If you want to celebrate with a massage we’ve appointments this week (later today even!) so get on that!
#meetheteam This is Callum, who has joined us quite recently. When I was first looking for new squad members, Laura L told me about him with the glowing phrase ‘one of the people I’d choose to be massaged by’. When anyone of my team says something like that, I know I need to meet that particular therapist. We are often referred to as ‘body workers’ and I think this sums up Callum particularly, he brings so much into the mix with his treatments: I’m Callum. Massage found me in 2016 and since then I have become pretty obsessed with bodywork. Before massage I was an electrician but didnt have much passion for wires and circuit breakers. After coming back to Bristol after a long stint of travelling, discovering yoga and making a connection with my own body. I enrolled on a massage course and wanted to learn as much as possible. The endless education, discovery of new techniques and modalities of bodywork excites me as I am forever developing my trade. Our body is a device to enable to find connection with all that flows within the universe and massage is a way of bringing sensory awareness of the physical, emotional and energetic realms that weaves throughout all of reality! Also it feels really good :) Big fan of - mountains, yoga, saunas, fascial matrix, podcasts, coffee, compassion.
#meettheteam Lovely Erika, another of our newer therapists. Erika brings a beautiful flow to her massage and lots of lovely influences to her work. She is also a wonderful jewellery worker. Erika has been working as a professional massage therapist for over 7 years, qualifying with Bristol School of Massage and Bodywork in 2012. Erika is passionate about what she does and as well as working as a therapist in the UK, she has worked in India, Australia and New Zealand. Her treatments are tailor made to individual needs, working intuitively with pressure and flow, with influences from Lomi Lomi and Thai yoga massage.
#meettheteam Heather is up next, she’s one of our new squad members but I think one of the first people to pop in to Loop and just chat about massage and bring me cheer when it was all extremely new and I was feeling wobbly. Now she works with us! YAY! I think she’s endeared herself to the team by bringing us cake multiple times and saving us all from the 4pm slump! Very cheery and constantly looking to learn Heather is awesome and we’re thrilled to have her with us. Here’s what she has to say # Heather is a therapist and gardener, with her sensitive touch she aims to nurture and ‘make people feel better’. ”Since the beginning of my massage journey relieving friends and family from aches and pains, through my holistic training and into practice, the power of touch to heal is something I am increasingly fascinated by. It can work in so many ways be it de-stressing or helping muscles and connecting tissues function better. I focus on adapting my techniques to every person, because all of you beautiful creations are unique.”