Roberta Rose Massage

Thank you The Skin Clinic for accommodating me so that i can continue to offer massage treatments to my clients 🙏🏻💫💛
If you have an appointment booked with me in the next few weeks ill be in touch to ensure you know about the changes.
Thank you for your paitience and understanding 🙏🏻

Seasonal yoga teacher training.
Module 7.

Ok, now finished module 8 but im way behind on posting. I asked Source for a quiet year for me to get my head down and study. Other ideas were already brewing and so far its been a year of immense change. I am learning that i am more resilient that i thought possible.

Starting to delve more into the philosophy and history of yoga is definitely revealing to me that yoga is a way of life both on and off the mat.

Breathwork has been life changing through turbulent times and my work as a massage therapist keeps me coming back to my life purpose to support and guide others back to themselves. And that doesnt come from a place of me knowing best, it comes from a place of "I am on this journey too".

I will have some larger, trainee yoga classes coming up... all welcome. Watch this space for updates 🙏🏻💫🙏🏻

Thank you 🙏🏻

Masseur, masseuse or massage therapist: do the words matter?

‘Masseur’ and ‘masseuse’ were once accepted professional titles. Derived from French, ‘masseur’ referred to a man who provided massage and ‘masseuse’ to a woman. They were not originally derogatory and did not imply sexual services or poor training.

In Britain, the Society of Trained Masseuses was established in 1894 following the Victorian ‘massage scandals’. At a time when massage had become associated with prostitution, trained practitioners wanted to distinguish legitimate professional practice from disreputable activity.

The organisation later developed into what is now the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP). Its history reminds us that ‘masseuse’ once carried genuine professional standing. However, language and its social meaning change.

During the twentieth century, ‘massage parlour’ became widely used as a euphemism for establishments associated with sexual services. Against this cultural background, ‘masseuse’, and ‘masseur’, acquired connotations that many modern massage therapists now find sexualised and professionally diminishing.

The problem became particularly visible during Covid. English regulations and UK Government announcements repeatedly classified legitimate massage services under ‘massage parlours’. Many qualified massage therapists felt this language failed to recognise their education, professional responsibilities and standards of practice.

The older terms also continue to appear in current journalism, including some BBC reporting. Their use is particularly unhelpful when the report itself concerns inappropriate or sexualised behaviour towards massage therapists. Referring to those professionals as ‘masseurs’ or ‘masseuses’ does nothing to clarify the professional identities, boundaries and standards at the centre of the story.

Not everyone who uses these words intends disrespect. Some people know them only in their original sense, while some practitioners and organisations continue to use them as traditional occupational titles.

The General Council for Manual Therapies nevertheless asks journalists, editors, employers, organisations and members of the public to use ‘massage therapist’.

It is clear, gender neutral and better reflects the education, skill, ethical responsibilities and professional standards expected within modern massage therapy.

A title cannot prove someone’s competence, and using an older term does not automatically indicate disrespect.

However, language influences how a profession is understood.

Words change. Professional recognition matters.

👉Please call us massage therapists.👈



The Sports Massage Association Scottish Manual Therapists Organisation LCSP Register of Remedial Masseurs & Manipulative Therapists Complementary Health Professionals Massage Training Institute - MTI

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There is nothing to fear in the act of beginning. More often than not it knows the journey ahead better than we ever could. Perhaps the art of harvesting the secret riches of our lives is best achieved when we place profound trust in the act of beginning. Risk might be our greatest ally. To live a truly creative life, we always need to cast a critical look at where we presently are, attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant and where new beginning might be ripening. There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable to what is new and different. I have never seen anyone take a risk for growth that was not rewarded a thousand times over.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

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A SOFT LANDING…
There are many reasons and times in our life when we require a different kind of support, one that friends and family aren’t able to give us.
Sometimes we need practical tools to navigate difficult times, there are occasions when we need help to understand and make sense of our reactions and our feelings. When we experience trauma, it can be beneficial to have a safe place for our stories to be heard and our experience to be witnessed.
For many people it is not about words but about exploring what is held in the body and the need to allow what has been stored to be safely released.
It can be really scary to take the step into therapy, while holding that truth it is my intention to offer a soft landing, a place of connection and trust.