Holistic Therapies at About Balance Brighton – Helping to bring balance to your mind, body and budget.
At About Balance we offer a range of therapies, aimed to heal and nurture your mind and body without leaving you financially scarred. Come and try something new!
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a wonderful holistic ancient health care system that can help in treating various illnesses of the body and the mind, and helps to bring your body back to balance.
Therapists: Effie Love, Eloise Minton, Marcus Van Slageren, Vilija Pascal
Chiropractic Care
Chiropractors use their hands to adjust the joints back to alignment (the clicking sound). A misaligned joint can compromise the healthy function of the body. If a spinal joint is misaligned it will compromise the function of the nerves related to it, this will have an effect on the whole body. This is why chiropractors can help so many different conditions.
Therapists: Helen Taylor
Craniosacral Therapy
Stemming from osteopathy, craniosacral is a very gentle form of therapy, which works with the very subtle rhythms of the body.
It can help with mental, emotional and physical stress.
Therapists: Kate Thomson
Cuddle Therapy
Cuddle therapy offers a safe, supportive environment where you can receive the many benefits of touch and/or talking therapy. Cuddle therapy can be useful if you find touch difficult and would like to work towards being more comfortable with physical contact at your own pace; if you would like talking therapy in a more relaxed environment; if you have stress, anxiety or depression; or if you simply love touch and don’t have enough opportunities for an intimate cuddle.
Therapists: Lindsay Meadows
Green Man Card Reading
Using my oracle cards as my prompt and guide I’m able pick up on your energy and tune into the Greenman nature spirit to give my vision of “what’s around you and what’s to come”, As part of these readings it has become recognised that this process has a beneficial healing quality.
Therapists: Roger Desmond
Gong Therapy
Let the waves of sound wash over you and send you into deep relaxation. The vibrations of the gong will wash through your body and help release any stuck energy.
Therapists: Patricia Carlota
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy aims to find a solution to problems such as past traumas, phobias, anxiety and negative habits. It does so by putting the patient in a very deep mode of relaxation without the loss of consciousness or control.
Therapists: Vilija Pascal
Health Kinesiology
Health Kinesiology is a holistic therapy that integrates Traditional Chinese Medicine with modern science. It works achieve balance and wellness on all levels physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Therapists: Charlotte Amery
Light Therapy
The Lucia No.03 hypnagogic light machine provides a deep nervous system relaxation while simultaneously providing a unique transcendental journeying experience. Even novice meditators can experience a state of deep relaxation, getting in touch with their own intuition and sense of wholeness.
Therapists: Mat Harvey
Massage – Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is a natural treatment that uses the power of essential oils to heal the body and the mind. Essential oils are extracts of plants, herbs and flowers’ immune system.
Therapists: Marta De Ferrari, Joanna Zwolak
Massage – Ayurvedic Abhyanga
Traditional Ayurvedic full body massage to feel relaxed and rejuvenated. Performed with a tailored ayurvedic blend to balance your dosha.
Therapists: Marta De Ferrari
Massage – Ayurvedic Face Lift Massage
A traditional Ayurvedic face massage that focuses on relaxing the facial muscles, as well as firming and toning them, for a younger and more radiant look.
Therapists:Marta De Ferrari
Massage – Chakra Balancing
An Aromatherapy based full body and face massage, that focuses on the chakra in need. You will be bathed by the energy of that chakra and will be given a mantra to keep in mind during the treatment.
Therapists: Marta De Ferrari
Massage – Deep Tissue
Deep tissue massage focuses on aligning deeper layers of muscles. It is used for chronic aches and pain and contracted areas such as a stiff neck and upper back, lower back pain, leg muscle tightness, and sore shoulders.
Therapists: Adi Howarth, Anna Bihari, Effie Love, Sukhi Tsang, Tom Cowan, Joanna Zwolak, Sarah Smith
Massage – Sport/Clinical Massage
Sports and Clinical massage is a form of massage involving the manipulation of soft tissue to benefit a person engaged in regular physical activity and also for sedentary people whose muscles have become weak or people that have suffered trauma.
Therapists: Adi Howarth
Massage – Indian Head
Indian head massage is a traditional Ayurvedic treatment incorporating massage of the head, neck, shoulders, upper arms and face. It is great at removing knots of tension and the pressure can be soft or deep depending on your preference and needs.
Therapists: Anna Bihari, Marta De Ferrari, Premal Varnam, Sarah Smith
Massage – Hot Stone Therapy
This powerful treatment incorporates the ancient healing properties of heated basalt stones to soothe and soften the muscle tissue, allowing knots and tension to be released easily and without discomfort. This cleansing and detoxifying treatment allows you to reach a profoundly deep level of relation.
Massage – Pregnancy
Massage during pregnancy is a wonderful way to relax not only the mother, but also the baby. It can help treat many conditions such as sciatica, backache, insomnia, stress and oedema.
Therapists: Anna Bihari, Effie Love , Sukhi Tsang
Massage – Swedish
Swedish massage is the most common and probably the best known type of massage, particularly in the West. It involves working the soft tissue of the body to ease day-to-day stresses and muscular tension, and promote relaxation.
Therapists:Anna Bihari, Marta De Ferrari , Premal Varnam , Joanna Zwolak, Sarah Smith
Massage – Thai
Thai massage, also known as “lazy man’s yoga”, is a very therapeutic form of massage. It’s given over the clothes on a floor mat using a combination of deep acupressure and yoga-style stretches to release tension, open the joints and bring the body back into balance.
Therapists: Jordan Paul
Massage – Thai Foot
Thai foot massage combines elements of Thai yoga massage, reflexology and shiatsu. It is a deeply relaxing and rejuvenating treatment that has a holistic healing effect on the client’s entire body and wellbeing.
Therapists: available June 2019
Massage – Therapeutic
Therapeutic massage is based on Swedish massage and deep tissue work. This style of massage can be as deep or as light as you wish and combined with Reiki and Shiatsu techniques to bring better results and help you reach a state of bliss and full relaxation.
Therapists: Effie Love, Adi Howarth
Osteopathy
Osteopathy provides safe and effective treatment for a wide variety of health problems, from lower back pain to headaches. Almost all of the physical problems that people experience in life are related to the way in which their body is working. Osteopathy focuses on how the body could be made to work better.
Therapists: Tomek Piotrowski Smart
Polarity Therapy
Polarity Therapy can help patients with busy life styles dealing with stress and various pains. Polarity helps to treat the root cause of the health issue, working with diet and nutrition, exercise, counselling and bodywork. The treatment is given fully clothed, and focuses on the head, neck, shoulders, abdominal stress release, reflexology, and back
Therapists: Tim Tse
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy offers time to talk in a safe and nurturing space – working alongside another to help you understand yourself, the decisions that you make and to consider changes which will help you live more fully. We offer mindfulness based, solution focused and integrative psychotherapy.
Therapists: David Litchfield, Maura Cowen, Vilija Pascal
Acuenergetics®
AcuEnergetics combines the latest discoveries in energy work with Chinese, Judaic, Indian and Western healing traditions into an accurate energy medicine. It can effectively treat a wide range of physical, mental and emotional illnesses.
Therapists: Premal Varnam
Personalised Yoga
As well as group classes and courses, many of our teachers also offer private 1-to-1 personalised yoga classes that can be tailored to your individual body and needs.
Therapists: Various
Shirodhara – Forehead Oil Flow Treatment
An Ayurvedic ultimate mental and emotional relaxation therapy involving a steady stream of warm oil being gently poured over the central Chakra point on the forehead.
Therapists: Marta De Ferrari
Reiki
Reiki is a spiritual practice which works to bring balance, wellbeing and harmony to the body, mind and spirit. During a reiki treatment you may find your mind becomes calm, your body becomes relaxed and your breathing and heart rate may improve.
Therapists: Anna Bihari , Joanna Zwolak
Shiatsu
Based on the ancient philosophy of Chinese medicine, Shiatsu works on the meridian lines and helps to bring the body’s energy back into balance. Using their thumbs the practitioner works up and down the meridians while the client is lying fully clothed on a futon floor mattress.
Therapists: Marcus Van Slageren, Vilija Pascal
Sussex Healers
Receive donation-based healing from Sussex Healers. Drop in every Friday.
Therapists: Sussex Healers
Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a holistic medicine which uses specially prepared highly diluted substances (given mainly in tablet form) with the aim of triggering the body’s own healing mechanisms. It is based on the principle of “like treats like”. A homeopath will prescribe medicines according to the patient’s specific set of symptoms, and how they experience them, taking into account their overall level of health.
Therapists: Adi Howarth
The Lightning Process
The Lightning Process® is a three-day neuro-physiological training programme that enables you to positively influence your health. Worldwide, it’s been used by over 25,000 people with issues spanning ME, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, anxiety and depression. The course itself covers the psychology of neurological health and the role of neurology in illness; it also provides a practical tool to implement your learnings and change your health for the better
Therapists: Lauren Stoney
Therapeutic Coaching
Using a combination of NLP and hypnotherapy, therapeutic coaching provides a solution focused approach to any issues that you may be stuck with, or struggling to overcome.
Therapists: Lauren Stoney
Reflexology
By stimulating nerve endings on the feet, this profoundly relaxing and remedial treatment incorporates massage and acupressure to unblock
the associated part of the body in order to restore balance and promote healing.
Therapists: Premal Varnam, Joanna Zwolak, Sarah Smith, Anna Bihari