Lara Ansell
Holistic Bodyworker, Somatic Psychedelic Practitioner, & Multidisciplinary artist
Inner-landscape Massage and Somatic exploration
I offer a fusion massage and bodywork ritual combining somatic therapy, deep-tissue release , energetic flow 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.
INTENTION AND CULTIVATION
Somatic Experiencing
We will meet the body where it is at in this 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
Intertwining Somatic Inquiry with touch and energy~work:
࿔ Allows the client to meet with and be with their own medicine before receiving any outward exchange.
࿔ This gives me, the practitioner, time to sense and somatically attune my body to what is occurring in client’s body.
࿔ Activates a psychedelic body awareness in the client at the beginning of the session, which can enhance the effects of therapeutic touch.
࿔ Witnessing and being present: softens and co~regulates the body so that it is less resistant to receiving.
Full body Swedish massage
Deep tissue release, sport massage, pressure points and mobilisation.
Relax Massage
Energetic flow and tension release.
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’)
Contact
Bookings:
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.