Lara Ansell
Massage therapist, Holistic Bodyworker & Somatic Psychedelic Practitioner
A fusion deep~tissue release and energetic flow massage
This holistic massage ritual combines deep~tissue release, long flowing strokes and Zen Thai principles, working along the meridian lines and acupressure points. Depending on individual client’s needs, this flows anywhere between a softer interaction to deep muscular release. This bodywork is a rhythmic dance that is renewed each time. Connecting with each client’s intention at the beginning of the session weaves a unique pathway for them to explore their cosmos within.
Benefits:
࿔ Supports nervous system regulation
࿔ Relief of anxiety and stress
࿔ Release of muscular tension
࿔ Chronic pain management
࿔ Connection to your present truth
࿔ Release of emotional blockages
࿔ Activation of deep relaxation
࿔ Activation of expanded states and a psychedelic awareness
Inner-landscape Massage and Somatic exploration
This holistic bodywork ritual combines somatic inquiry, deep-tissue release , Reiki and Zen Thai principles. Adapting a focus to individual clients' needs, this flows anywhere between a more energetic interaction to deep muscular release. The ritual opens with an inner landscape meditation, with the intention to ground in your body and invite an exploration of your unique eco-system. Through somatic enquiry , curiosity and softness, you will be guided to meet with some of the elements or creatures occupying this space inside. Together, we will bring intention into these spaces through touch. This massage is elemental guided and we will call in a force or body to help activate this intention.
Benefits:
࿔ Supports nervous system regulation
࿔ Relief of anxiety and stress
࿔ Chronic pain management
࿔ Connection to and understanding of your unique biosphere (body eco~system)
࿔ Welcoming ‘parts’ of yourself without judgement
࿔ Release of emotional blockages
࿔ Activation of the bodies inner~healing intelligence
࿔ Accessing your embodied resources for self~healing
࿔ Activation of expanded states and a psychedelic awareness
The grounding principles of this practices:
Intention and Cultivation
Through Somatic Experiencing meeting the body in its present through Somatic Inquiry and the Five intentions framework:
࿔ Trust in inner healing intelligence ࿔ Inner directed focus
࿔ Self observation across multiple dimensions of experience
࿔ Access to embodied resource
࿔ Welcoming ‘parts’ of ourselves
Wholeness and Embodiment
࿔ Understanding and connecting to the ‘felt-sense’, through our inner landscape, i.e. our present day truth. This practice awakens our inner knowing, the body’s Somatic healing Intelligence.
࿔ Attention is energy - bringing awareness to our body eco-system to release stagnant bodies and cleanse our biosphere.
࿔ Acknowledging our body, spirit, soul, emotions as one fluctuating being.
Working with therapeutic ritual
࿔ A structure and foundation to create a sacred space.
࿔ To cultivate a supportive connection to the unknown
࿔ to support parts of us that seek to control us or parts that are afraid of the unknown.
࿔ A liminal space where mysteries unfold.
࿔ A container of possibility ~ a portal of discovery.
࿔ Listening to the imaginal realm
Massage and Energy-work
࿔ A structure and foundation to create a sacred space.
࿔ To cultivate a supportive connection to the unknown
࿔ to support parts of us that seek to control us or parts that are afraid of the unknown.
࿔ A liminal space where mysteries unfold.
࿔ A container of possibility ~ a portal of discovery.
࿔ Listening to the imaginal realm
Prices and Packages:
60 mins: €80 // 3 x 60 mins - €210
75 mins: €90 // 3 x 60 mins - €240
90 mins: €105 // 3 x 60 mins - €285
120 mins: €130 // 3 x 60 mins - €360
(It is recommended to book minimum 90 minutes for ‘Inner-landscape Massage and Somatic exploration’)
Bookings:
Whatsapp:+447842311870
https://calendly.com/laraja-arts
For additional dates or availability requests:
About me
I am a holistic bodyworker, somatic psychedelic practitioner, and multidisciplinary artist exploring elemental bodies, ruptured realms, and more-than-human knowledge systems.
My path into bodywork began long before I trained as a therapist. In 2011 my thesis researched Sinhalese-Buddhist exorcism rituals in Sri Lanka, which opened a lifelong inquiry into beyond-human bodies, ritual, and somatic healing. Since 2015, I have explored how somatic experiencing and non-human transmissions reconnect us with the felt-sense, grounding my work in a phenomenological and anthropological approach to embodied learning.
In 2019, I moved to Berlin for a Master’s in Visual Anthropology and Performance, researching decolonising technologies and environmental anthropologies. This culminated in a thesis on how natural entities unsettle Western notions of a singular self. Learning from Indigenous healing practices across Africa, South America and North India shaped my understanding of the body as an ecosystem in constant dialogue with the Earth.
This expanded further in 2022, when I lived with the Lickan Antay community in the Atacama Desert, Chile. There, I witnessed how ancestral knowledge is sustained through deep relations with salt-eating plants, cyanobacteria, volcanic rhythms, and countless other beings that co-inhabit the desert. In a landscape whose conditions resemble Mars more than Earth, survival emerges through intricate exchanges with the land.
In recent years, co-hosting residencies centred on somatic therapy, ritual, and ecological grief across Scotland, Poland, and Berlin has drawn my practice into a deeper dialogue with earth-bodies.
Acknowledging the entanglement of planetary crises and wounded bodies, my therapy seeks to reconnect inner and outer worlds, drawing on life-giving forces and plant and animal medicines. At its core, my practice responds to a growing human need to cultivate a ‘soft armour’—a resilience that is both protective and responsive in increasingly unstable times.
Over the past five years, I have trained in psychedelic somatic therapy, Kikokara (Zen Thai and osteopathy), Swedish massage, fascia release, reiki, and sound frequency therapy. These modalities inform a practice that approaches the body as a multidimensional eco-system.
Qualifications
Psychedelic Somatic Practitioner. Somatic therapy and inquiry, psychedelic preparation, psychedelic facilitation, psychedelic integration Completed through the Embody Lab
Kikokara bodywork level 1. Zen shiatsu, thai-yoga massage, somatic psychotherapy and dance. Completed through Liam Ebb’s.
Facia Release massage Completed through Stay Yang
Full-body massage practitioner; sport massage, anatomical knowledge, pressure points, mobile massage. Completed through Wellness Akademie Parter von Medios-Seminare.
Frequency facilitation training Sound frequency facilitator; scientific theory of sound healing, tuning forks, gong, crystal bowls, facilitating groups and 1-1 consultation. Completed through Frequency with Kimi.
Reiki Level 1 practitioner History, principles and ethics, Energy healing, anatomical knowledge, chakra association. Completed through the Visionary School of Reiki