Reclaim Your Self

Julia Sampson
Julia (Jools) discovered the healing potential of massage and the importance of her own health and well-being during a challenging time working overseas. The healing powers of human touch and regular treatments from her teacher helped her to turn around her own emotional and physical health. This journey led her to want to learn more about this art and share the benefits with others. Having rediscovered her self the seed was in place for Reclaim Your Self.

Jools trained extensively and qualified in massage and healing work in Tanzania and UK. She also spent time India studying ayurvedic techniques and fine tuning her passion and inspiration to create something to share with others. She returned to London in 2004 to launch Reclaim Your Self.

As the director of Reclaim Your Self, it is Jools's dream to offer high quality, creative and practical retreats and events accessible to anyone at whatever stage of their journey they are on. Her intention is to increase a sense of well-being in the Self, whether you are in an office or in an exotic location on retreat. The dream is well on the way to becoming a reality.

Helen Noakes
Helen has been practicing hatha yoga for 17 years and started her journey in Australia inspired by the teachings of Dr. Iyengar. After discovering and attending classes with various students of Vanda Scaravelli, she completed a two year teacher training with Gary Carter at Natural Bodies Yoga Centre in Brighton, UK.

Helen's extensive bodywork experience in massage by foot pressure, hot stones and holistic medical massage also has a strong influence on her teaching style and approach to yoga.

Helen's style of teaching posture and breath work is strongly influenced by Erich Shiffmann and Monica Voss, whilst her main teachers Elizabeth Pauntz and Sandra Sabitini lived and worked with Vanda for many years. Helen's classes are open to all levels and all ages and are packed with lightness and fun!

Gerry Carless
Joining the reclaim yourself team has given Gerry the opportunity to combine her two great passions of cooking and travel.

Having trained as a chef, and worked in various restaurants, Gerry moved to west Wales to bring up her four children. As a full time mother, Gerry strived to combine good home cooking with fresh seasonal produce, to provide optimum nutritional value for her growing family.

Although Gerry has always had a good knowledge and interest in nutrition and its value, cooking for reclaim yourself has inspired her to take it to a more professional level and train as a nutritionals’. Gerry’s grounded, down to earth approach to the business compliments Eleanor’s expertise and knowledge, and together they make a great team.

Stephen Yates
As a qualified NLP practitioner and professional trainer, Stephen has ten years of experience enabling people to reach new goals through innovative and exciting techniques. Using simple, down to earth methods, Stephen helps people instigate change, identify what they really want and map out a realistic and achievable path to make the change happen.

The areas Stephen works on cover all areas of personal development, career, health, habits and home life. By focusing on what can be achieved as opposed to what you may be avoiding, Stephen creates positive, safe and exciting ways to implement clear action. Stephen uses a mix of traditional coaching, NLP and alternative approaches such as the study of language patterns and the creation of visualisations to help others reach their goals. “Through knowing what you dream of and understanding how to reach those dreams, I think our own personal potential really surprises us when we do achieve those dreams!”

Annie Webb
Annie has been a fully qualified Acupuncturist and Alternative Health therapist for 11 years, prior, to which she was an Advertising Executive, enabling her to fully understand the stresses of every day modern life.

Annie is considered one of the UK’s leading alternative therapists and one of London’s top holistic experts and often writes for women’s magazines and national papers. She has created ‘Holistic Fusion’; a new method that offers people a tailor made range of alternative therapies in one session to suit their needs.

Trained in a wide range of therapies to assist the mind, body and spirit including: Self Actualisation - a new revolutionary coaching technology, Acupuncture, La Stone therapy, Massage, Reiki, and Chakra rebalancing, Annie has become renowned for her unique way of reading the body and providing insights as to what is happening in that person’s life which is causing disruption to that persons health.

Eleanor Scott
After a series of health challenges and the desire to change her lifestyle, Eleanor discovered the power of healing through nutrition. Her professional journey began with an award winning juice bar based in Wales where customers would often ask for nutritional advice to help with a myriad of health problems, which inspired her to qualify as a nutritionist and to learn the wonderful art of nutritional medicine. Eleanor’s work centres on a holistic approach, exploring both seasonal and regional influences on a person as well as their unique individual predisposition. Her approach to food is simple yet tasty, as locally sourced fresh organic ingredients cooked with passion will speak for themselves.

Nerissa Tong
Nerissa has always had an affinity with natural healing, crystals and auras and has been practising energetic healing and aura re-balancing for over 10 years. Nerissa completed her Reiki and Seichim Training in 2000 and teaches and practises reiki and seichim at level 1, 2 and Master level. Nerissa also does massage and Hopi ear candling.

Ariel Rubin
Ariel was born in South Africa, raised in Israel and has been residing with his family in India for the last 5 years. He has been practicing Tibetan Medicine and Chinese acupuncture (TCM & Stems and Branches) for 13 years. He studied in Israel, India and Tibet and served in the army as a medic as well as practising and teaching Tai Chi and Chi Kung for many years.

In his treatments he uses a wide array of massage techniques & manipulations along with acupuncture, Tibetan Singing bowls and traditional medicines such as cupping and moxibustion. Ariel's work is influenced by Krishnamurti, John Holt and a blind Russian healer named Naftaly, a truly beloved teacher and friend. "At the end of day I believe that beyond all knowledge, true healing requires mainly a sharp eye, an open heart and a skilled hand."