Body Work Practitioners 2026
Come and experience the healing power of touch with our amazing bodywork practitioners at our Emerging Hearts Contact Improvisation Camp.
Our skilled bodywork practitioners are here for you to explore different modalities of bodywork and self-care.
Offering 121 sessions throughout the whole camp to support your physical and emotional well-being, helping you to release tension and find greater ease in your body.
Whether you are recovering from an injury, seeking relaxation, or simply looking to deepen your connection with your body, they are offering a nurturing environment where you can receive the care and attention you deserve.
Cost of £65 for the first hour paid directly to the practitioner. We recommend booking your treatment in advance. Please contact your preferred practitioner, their details are linked in their profiles. Sign-up sheets will be also available when on-site.
Justin Philpott
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My practice is an intuitive flow of slow stretches and deep (but not painful) pressure, given through the hands, elbows, feet, and knees with sensitively applied bodyweight. This combines acupressure, rhythmical movement, fascial work, and other techniques, all offered with an intuitive, listening touch.
Beyond technique, the practice is a moving meditation, with the intention to offer a clear space that invites you to enter gentle, deep and perhaps profound states of rest, self-healing, and insight.
I work on the floor on a king-size futon, and receivers remain fully clothed.
You can read more about my practice and proceed to booking here: moving-stillness.com/thaimassage/treatments
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Justin began his journey with Thai massage in 2006 through the fusion practice of AcroYoga. He started formal study of Thai massage in 2007 and continued to study with a variety of teachers in Europe and Thailand, mainly in the Sunshine Network tradition.
He began assisting courses at Sunshine House Greece and elsewhere in 2011 and has been gradually building his teaching practice since.
He runs "Moving Stillness - School of Somatics," offering private sessions, private tuition, workshops, and courses in Thai massage, and also workshops in Contact Improvisation.
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Please book Thai massage sessions during this camp here: moving-stillness.com/tm-with-justin
You can also find me to book in person.
You can also email me: justin@moving-stillness.com
Or contact me via the camp WhatsApp group (if we're not contacts, you'll see my name as "Moving Stillness")
Kika Degani
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Lomi Lomi is more than just a massage; it’s a sacred practice rooted in presence, connection, and flow. It invites the body to slow down, the mind to quiet, and the spirit to soften into a deeper state of awareness.
With flowing, wave-like strokes and generous amounts of warm oil, Lomi Lomi carries the receiver on a journey of surrender. Each movement is a dance, graceful, intuitive, and deeply attuned, guiding the entire body-mind system into a space of wholeness. Each session is unique and a shared exploration of healing, presence, and connection.
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Kika is a certified Lomi Lomi practitioner trained by Dan Joy at slowandaware.com. A weaver of experiences, she brings together different healing modalities to create spaces of connection, transformation, and deep presence. During the summer, Kika primarily offers Lomi Lomi at festivals and camps, where it complements the energy of community and celebration.
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Jan-Ming Lee
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Pantarei is a unique one-to-one therapy that combines hands-on bodywork, empathic spoken communication and movement.
It uses an innovative somatic approach that empowers the client to tap into their body intelligence as energy, resource and strength. This allows for blocked energy to move and release; for the client’s emotional, mental and physical parts to connect with more clarity. Together, the practitioner and client verbally describe the client’s experiences, and the practitioner uses both touch and instruction to guide the client through the sessions. Often an expansion of breath and free movement happens as an integration process, which is supported if the client wishes to follow it. Movement can be internal or external, initiated by the client or guided by the practitioner.
“My body feels looser, happier, more fluid… I have more energy and vitality” – Sara
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Jan-Ming is a certified Pantarei practitioner, who is informed by her studies of hands-on bodywork, dynamic fascial movement, Taoist internal energy arts, consensual practices, ancestral healing and integrative somatic trauma therapy. With her background also as a dance artist and musician, she nurtures each person’s innate and unique voice and expression, trusting that every human, when feeling safe enough, will begin to understand their own art of feeling truly themselves.
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Steve Lamb
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Breathwork can be an incredibly powerful means to ground, to be more somatic and less in our heads. At times of stress, especially when triggered, it can really help us come back to ourselves.
On the camp I'm offering 60 minute 1:1 sessions, during which I'll teach you how to become more conscious of your breath and how to change your state of consciousness. I will teach you how to access the magic of breathwork on your own. As part of the session, I will lead you in a breathwork meditation which can be focused on whatever you would like to explore, whether that is grounding, raising your energy, or simply floating off into deep relaxation.
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Steve began exploring conscious sexuality six years ago and quickly realised that I was very much "in my head" - I had trauma in my body, and I was disconnected from my inner world. I began a journey of introspection (guided and alone) and spiritual exploration. I happened across the work of Ram Dass and shadow work which is a way to gain insight into the patterns in the subconscious and how to lovingly reprogramme ourselves through play therapy. I learned to "be here now", and to let go of patterns and things that no longer served me. I trained to become a shadow work teacher and mentor to share this with others.
Dance has been a really big part of my journey as before I started letting go of my masks through inner-work, I was too self-critical to dance at all unless fuelled on booze - far too worried about "was I doing it right?", "what would other people think?".
I kept finding that I needed a way to become more somatic and have found that breathwork really helps me. I studied to become a breathwork facilitator (with a school named "Breathing Space") which took the form of a 450-hour training course - a big focus of the course was on being trauma informed. I've subsequently mentored on the course several times and now help teach aspiring breathwork teachers.
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Please WhatsApp me on 07503 957692 or come and speak to me at the camp.