Haggerston-based Massage Shala is now a regular fixture at The Health Tree on Friday mornings with their affordable clinic at The Canvas. They have been offering a low-cost community clinic here since May 2021. 

The Massage Shala is inspired by the informal massage rooms of South East Asia. They enjoy working in a shared space as it creates a safe and open atmosphere, welcoming all and providing a container that establishes community, connection, and healing.

Massage Treatments are given in a shared space with both male and female practitioners. 

About your practitioners: 

Rob (male practitioner): Robert's treatments are a unique and contemporary blend of eastern and western massage and esoteric knowledge that incorporate Zen Shiatsu, Thai massage, Osteopathic technique and Andean Shamanism.

Robert is an experienced, authentic, intuitive and empathic therapist who began practising massage in 2001. His dedication to the study of mysticism and the healing arts has taken him on a worldwide journey, and he's worked with everyone from Hollywood stars to homeless people.

Sara (female practitioner): Sara’s approach to bodywork is steeped in her experience as a dancer. Backed by her own lived-in understanding of the body’s structure, her treatments aim to restore balance and functionality.

At The Health Tree Massage clinic, she offers Shiatsu, a technique originating from Japan that uses gentle pressure and manipulations to improve the body’s energy flow according to the principles of Chinese medicine.

Sara trained in Holistic massage, Shiatsu and Structural Integration at the Chicago College of Healing Arts and has been practicing professionally in London since 2017. Working at the interface between the physical and emotional, Sara believes that true strength is being at peace with and within one’s own body.