Massage and Somatic Therapy

with Luka Carlisle

MICHT, IIHHT Dip, VTCT Dip, Reiki Master

About Luka.

Having been involved in the field of complementary healthcare, healing, nutrition and personal development since the late 1980's, Luka is a highly experienced and skilled therapist with a real love and deep passion for her work. Her multiple trainings, long term client work and her own personal therapeutic journey over the years, has resulted in her developing her own unique style of massage based bodywork infused with Somatic Therapy, energy work and therapeutic plant oils. Her thriving private practice has been based in Totnes since 2006. Originally at The Totnes Natural Health Centre until she relocated her practice to The Arcturus Clinic in 2009, where she was a senior therapist. In 2015 she began practicing from The Rose Room at The Ola Centre. Then, in 2021 she moved her practice to a more peaceful, relaxing and nourishing setting, The Dartmoor Wellbeing Clinic in Buckfastleigh.

Luka works intuitively from the heart, holding an impeccably safe, warmly empathic and deeply nourishing grounded space for every client. She is committed to delivering a high quality, non-judgemental and congruent service that meets her clients unique needs. Luka recognises the privilege that it is for her to work with each and every client.

As a young woman in her home city of Nottingham, Luka became interested in counter-culture and alternative lifestyles, natural health, nutrition, herbology, yoga, astrology, personal growth and self empowerment. She was naturally drawn towards meditation, energy work and therapeutic bodywork.

In 1991 she travelled to India where she began studying energy work, bodywork and Somatic Therapy. Over a four year period she attended trainings and workshops run by world class therapists and trainers. These included Intuitive massage, Ayurvedic massage, Energy work, Reiki, Reichian Breathwork, Emotional release, Somatic Bodywork, Movement therapy, a variety of meditation practice techniques and a range of in depth self development therapy groups.

Following several years of travelling in Asia, Australasia and Europe, Luka and her baby daughter returned to England in 1997 and came to live in Devon where she supported her daughters home education for ten years, whilst still making time for long trips to India. In 1999, she became a Reiki Master and qualified in the UK as a Holistic Therapist in 2000, following a one year intensive training; which enabled her to practice her bodywork in the UK and become registered and insured with a leading respected regulatory body, the FHT. This resulted in her gaining qualifications in Holistic Massage, Advanced Massage, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Indian Head Massage, Counselling, Nutrition, Anatomy and Physiology. Luka is a fully insured and registered member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists and The International Council of Holistic Therapists.

In the years since, adding workshops and trainings in Polarity Therapy, Pulsing, Psychosynthesis, Myofascial Release, Unwinding, Somatic Experiencing, Treating Trauma with Internal Family Systems Therapy and Hot Stone Massage to this list. In November 2018, Luka completed a 200 hour Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher Training with Still Flowing Yoga in Ibiza. Her continuing studies, research, personal and professional development are an ongoing and ever deepening process.

Luka has trained and performed as a contemporary dancer and has rock climbed for much of her life. These activities have helped her to develop her own embodiment awareness and physical strength. She is well travelled and adventurous. In more recent years she has developed a passion for offshore sailing, becoming a professional sailor. She loves to dance, write, craft, make music, create pieces of art, grow her own food, live simply and spend time in nature.

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