My Experience With the Ixchel System:

I live in Ibiza and I am passionate about empowering people to feel comfortable in their bodies in order to be their best selves. I grew up in the UK an avid dancer. I have always loved being active, outdoors and travelling, which I have achieved to greater and lesser degrees at different stages of life.

My fascination with human behaviour led me to study psychology at UCL, however the traditional career paths after psychology didn’t resonate with me. So in 2011 I began training to teach yoga and provide massage therapy so that I could bring joy to people’s bodies wherever I went in the world. In 2015 I moved with my young family to live and work in Ibiza, Spain.

Clinical massage therapy is an amazing tool and I feel honoured to have helped many people reduce pain and feel more ease in their bodies. But I have also became aware that some clients will heal quickly, while others keep returning to the same pain patterns again and again. Sometimes this relates to a repeated unhelpful movement or posture pattern, whereas other times a personality trait or a difficult emotional issue seems to lead to these repeated unhelpful patterns.

What could I do to help? In 2023 I heard an inspirational talk from Victoria, explaining how she had seen exactly this and created a methodology of simple but transformational practices to remind the body how it can function optimally. It has changed the way I look at the human body: at how my clients can feel into their own patterns of pain and how they can help themselves find ease, both physically and emotionally.

I taught my mum as my first case study and she has been astounded how simple it feels now not to move into an “old-person” posture. It also changed how I experience my own body for the better, so I can stop niggles becoming pain and now when I dance I have found a freedom and specificity of movement that I didn’t think was possible in my body. I believe that everyone should be empowered to understand their body in this way; stand tall, move with ease and feel aligned.