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 SHOULDERS

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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Blue Skies and Lines of Communication (actual ones to represent the other kind) I spend a lot of time wondering how much calmer and better the world would feel if everyone felt heard and understood. It’s such a lovely feeling.
I’ve been trying to move my body more. To be honest, at the beginning, I found my feelings around this complicated - I was pretty negative and resentful. I didn’t know what I was trying to achieve. Was I trying to tone up and lose weight? To get a ‘beach body’ to be proud of. To look ‘slamming’ in jeans or a dress. If this is the case, why? Am I so hideous, that I need to take up less space on the earth? Am I a bad feminist if I do want to look 'slamming’ in jeans. Who judges this slamming anyway?! I dislike the attention that is placed on bodies, aesthetically speaking, especially women’s bodies. The language used around them, how most of us will find we are lacking when held up against a ‘perfection’, that we now know is mostly fake anyway. What this does to us, our relationship with each other, with food, with ourselves. It’s tiring and takes up a lot of time in our heads. I have felt controlled by my body for a long time, when you’re undergoing treatment, that’s kind of how that goes. I have also gone through stages of wanting to punish my body for failing so spectacularly. I have moments when, if I could be a floating brain, I’d happily take it. How freeing. Though I realise, I could never just be a floating brain; I like my job too much and find bodies in general, endlessly fascinating - which is the crazy thing here. I LOVE other people’s bodies. The millions of tiny procedures that happen in them every minute, they are miracles. Solar systems all our own. I like hugging them, I like how they feel, I like how different they are. And so I am trying to move my body more. What I have come to realise (or I am continuing re-educating myself to realise) is if I move my body, I feel happier in it, my brain feels lighter. I don’t know if my body is changing, I can’t judge, but I can say that it feels stronger, I have more confidence in it. I am still deeply uncoordinated but what you gunna do? If I wobble and fall I’m learning to get back up and try again, which is always a good lesson to learn. Move your body because it’s a fun thing to do. The rest will follow.
Love this, feels apt for a Sunday morning...
As an MT I often get asked, with such a physical job, how do we keep energy levels up, how we stay present in a treatment, deal with people who are themselves dealing with big emotions etc Well, we’re pretty mindful to have rest days for recovery. We have breaks built in to our work day (sometimes we’ll invite you in earlier and sometimes if you’re super early we may politely ask you to come back). It’s so we both get the best from a treatment. We try and eat well, stretch well and exercise same as we might suggest to you but we’re human so we might slip up. Helping someone, even in a small way, deal with often painful emotions can be harder. Giving someone the time and space they need is key to what we do; but we have to try not to take that with us through our working day or back home. I’m a believer in dancing it out. To raise energy, lift spirits and free the mind between treatments I’ll pull the curtain and have a 30 second dance party. I’ve been a fan for years. If I’m sad or having a hard to processing something, I’ve always thrown my limbs about. There was a horrid week when they thought my cancer had spread. The night we found out, I could not sit still, I don’t think I’d been actually scared until then. Dad poured me a glass of wine and asked what I needed. I said to dance. He put on the radio (he’s a little low tech, so that meant R2’s finest; it happened to be Coldplay) and we danced in the kitchen. I felt a little better. Dance it out, move your body and your mind will calm. Best advice I ever gave myself. My summer ‘dance it out’ playlist has been the following, if there’s anything that works for you pop it in the comments ☺️ Juice - Lizzo Make me feel - Jonelle Monae I think he knows - Taylor Swift Shut up and dance with me - Walk The Moon You are the best thing - Ray LaMontagne Keep Me in Mind - Zac Brown Band
I love layers. Layers of clothes - I like having options plus my internal thermometer seems to run cold so I like throwing on more layers. Layers of personality- the levels you can get to know someone. The layers you show the world, and then it just gets deeper from there. Until you’ll show someone the bones of you, figuratively speaking. It’s such a privilege. Layers of the body - which is important to a massage therapist. You often find us working slowly and what feels less ‘deep’ to begin. As we proceed we can physically and figuratively work down in to the layers of the body, of the muscles and work a little bit of magic (figuratively only this time). Layers of trust - your relationship with a massage therapist, like with friends, gets better over time. It can become intuitive. Like finishing each other’s sentences, saying just one word or simply meeting eyes with a friend. We get to know what works and what your muscles need. Layers make life rewarding.
There’s hoping for next week....
I am an urban fox 🦊 Brightening up a Friday, I often take snaps on my (very short) commute to work. This is honestly one of my favourite views. I love the graffiti, the colour of the tiles, the random tower. I love the peace and quiet of the countryside but oh my gosh do I love a city. Especially this city. Enjoy your weekend Bristol.
Not going to lie, I had planned to post a joyous Sunny September photo, but it doesn’t feel quite right today. I find myself anxious. It started with the WiFi being weird, an email which probably didn’t mean to do any harm but knocked me and it went from there. I’ve been sitting here, thinking what’s going on? Nothing is particularly wrong, you’re ok. And then I zoomed out. The country is anxious, the world is anxious. There’s a lot of uncertainty. There’s also a lot of voices. So today, I thought to help calm and ease the mind, you can join me in studying this close up of a crystal, notice the colours, the corners and the crevices. Marvel with me that the world created such a beautiful object. Use it as a meditation, or light a candle and stare at the flame. Just concentrate on something beautiful and breathe. That’s really all I’ve got for everyone today. Be gentle to yourselves and be kind to people, even when it’s hard to understand. X
I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t think this will steer us wrong for the week. We’re still ‘accepting’ clients for the week and for the month 😉
Got Knots? (They’re those annoying niggles of tightness in your muscles) We’ve got appointments! Let us help to unravel them for you.. You can book Online at loopmassage.com @dewintonpaperco drew this for me ages ago and I just redound it and it’s perfect.