Reclaim Your Self

Julia Sampson
Julia (Jools) discovered the healing potential of massage and the importance of her own health and well-being during her long and challenging development work 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 ran a successful practice in Dar es Salaam for 2 years. 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
In 1993 Helen travelled to India, her mission was to dip into a spiritual adventure and train in chavutti thirumal/Indian rope massage. She returned home and began to grow her own business in Brighton. Her inspiration began to deepen as she became involved with natural bodies yoga centre, training with Gary Carter for two years in the spirit of Vandha Scaravelli to become a yoga teacher. She became more influenced by structural integration and unusual forms of body work so she trained in Jing massage, holistic medical massage and hot stone fusion.

She now enjoys a successful practice in Brighton and London and teaches at the Brahmani Yoga Centre in Goa every winter. Her belief is that using the quality and gifts of the breath, yoga postures and receiving massage, we can take responsibility for our own healing and well being.

Lizzie Jones
Lizzie has channelled her life-long passion for food and her taste for healthy eating into a practitioners' course in Natural Nutrition. For Lizzie, Natural Nutrition is much more than a vocation; it's a way of life. Extensive travels around the world and a natural sense of curiosity contributed to a vast knowledge of various ingredients, and have greatly enriched her nutritional recommendations. Her extensive culinary knowledge is of great help when designing individual nutritional programmes to suit people's different wishes and abilities. She strongly believes that for a nutritional plan to work, it must be personally tailored, practical and tasty!

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.

My personal motto is 'Be the person you think the world is missing' and I really truly believe this is possible. By looking at what is really important to you and what is stopping you have that, I believe there is nothing more exciting than reaching that important goal which really means something to you, whether it be health, physical fitness or a change in career. “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!”

Tanya Goodman
Tanya has been teaching yoga for 9 years in London privately and in yoga centres with a humanistic approach. Her background is in yoga therapy, pregnancy yoga and dynamic flow with a wealth of experience from ayurvedic yoga to Zen meditation. She mixes the needs and mood of the individual to influence the style and pace of each class. The outcome is a softened, strengthened and lengthened body with a mind and soul that feel at one with nature.

Tanya's biodynamic craniosacral therapy treatments 'are there to get to the parts a modern day yoga practice can't reach alone.' Through holding the body (usually at the head, sacrum or feet) the body releases deep holding patterns of tension created through emotional or physical trauma. When the body is under stress it contracts through the fight or flight response. Craniosacral therapy soothes the nervous system and allows space for you to relax and replenish your ability to heal or cope better with a long term condition. A gentle non manipulative therapy which often has a profound effect.

Antonia Maguire
Antonia is a Natural Health Practitioner who helps people regain a balanced state of health and wellbeing, through a combination of stressbusting reflexology and massage. A fully qualified reflexologist and nutritional advisor, she also holds diplomas in acupressure massage, traditional Thai yoga massage and Iridology. She is a member of the Complementary Therapists Association, Embody and a registered TouchPro Practitioner.

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."