About Us
At Healium you'll find awesome people doing what they love - partnering with you to lift your body and spirit to a new level.
Our holistic health collective has some of the best practitioners in Wellington offering a wide spectrum of wellness services.
And if we don't have it, we'll help you find someone who does!
We're excited to share your wild, wondrous adventure. Let's go!
People
Jenifer Parker
- Yoga
- Director
For the most part, I tend to find myself in awkward positions: I excel at minor social faux pas, exhibitions of freestyle acrobatic breastfeeding, and instructing yoga postures with such intimate clarity that we have no choice but to become friends.
I've been teaching yoga for awhile, and I like it. I also like to teach other people how to teach yoga because they ask the best questions, and I love to chat - which usually leads to minor social faux pas.
Ryan Rasmussen
- Director
- Marketing
I’m often asked what it is that I do at Healium. I don't teach yoga, heal with energy or stick needles in people. The truth is, I confess, everything else. Which mostly means keeping Jenifer full of tea.
When I’m not doing all of THAT - or reenacting with Hawk the greatest match-ups in history (Beowulf vs. Grendel, the Hulk vs. Morgoth, etc.) - I write screenplays.
Martyn Cook
- Hands-on Energy Healing
- Breath Repatterning
- Process Work
- Tension-release Massage
- Deep-tissue Massage
I've been intrigued by subtle energy all my life. As a child I was captivated by the magic of flight. I've taught physics, built my own amphibious microlight, and completed a 1000- kilometer solo glider flight above the Southern Alps.
Over time, however, I realized my own body, with training, could do so much more. Just after turning 50, I began honoring my deep interest in health and healing, earning Diplomas in Brennan Healing Science, a four-year degree-level course, and Therapeutic Massage.
Oli Wiles
I'm passionate about movement and its potential, whether in Feldenkrais, yoga, jiu jitsu . . . or swinging on the jungle gym with my kids. Childlike curiosity is a bonus in Feldenkrais. I'm inspired by how kids learn - with playfulness and wonder, totally absorbed in the process.
How do you begin a movement? How does your head relate to your hips? What happens if you do this or that? It's my job to help you develop this sort of movement awareness and find freer ways to move and live.
Evan Hodson
My passion is for sports of all kinds. For years I've been involved in mountain biking, martial arts, boxing, kayaking and waka ama and it's through these activities that I came to appreciate the performance-enhancing benefits of massage.
I hold a Certificate in Relaxation Massage and a Diploma in Therapeutic and Clinical Sports Massage, practicing remedial and sports massage. I also do event massage, helping active people achieve their personal best. My clients have included professional cyclists, national-level swimmers and a certain national rugby team.
Simon Edward
I love to travel and explore diverse cultures and their healing arts. Yet it is the completeness of Traditional Chinese Medicine - how it strives for harmony and balance of not only the body but also the mind and spirit
- that inspired me to spend four years studying TCM to degree standard at the New Zealand School of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Now, I want to share my skills and knowledge to help others get healthy and stay healthy in every way.
Algernon Williams
What began as a supplement to my career in modern dance - massage - grew into a quest through many practices to learn about the connections between mind, body and spirit. My journey has taken me all over the world - to London, Toronto and more recently to Wellington. I am also a karate sensei and run the Indigo Club, both for kids.
Much of my healing work focuses on tapping into a higher source. Listen to that voice inside you. It will take you where you need to go.
Sylvia Edge-Perkins
Breaking my leg while ice skating might be the best thing that ever happened to me. My rehab program sparked an enduring interest in the mystery of the human body, cured me of my fear of the gym, and led me to bellydance (one of the loves of my life) and a fascination with
posture and alignment. I might have been an astronomer, a paleoanthropologist, or a translation theorist, but as a Pilates teacher I feel blessed to help my students find their strength, confidence and happiness.
Isa Pike
The magical time of childhood has been my chosen world since my early teens. I went from babysitting to nannying to primary teaching, and back to nannying again. Since the birth of my daughter five years ago my focus has turned to mothering, contributing to our Playcentre and working as a La Leche League Leader.
I’ve been practicing yoga for over 15 years now. Yoga’s relaxing and healing aspects suited me perfectly, and combining it with children’s education is a dream come true.
Nik Curry
My aim in life is simplicity, being comfortable at the heart of things and letting the clutter drift away. I’ve had enough challenges and periods of grace to be able to appreciate both and to allow my intuition to temper logic.
I love being involved in the process of realization and understanding that people achieve as they come to know their body and themselves. To see what their body is doing, to hear its messages and to own its reality. After all, it’s where we live.
Michelle Wood
As a natural-born Fire Horse I like meeting creative people and having fun. For me, fun means theater work and music from the Sixties and Seventies. I trained as a naturopath but now find myself leaning towards the Chinese traditions.
As a qi gong teacher and therapist I continue to deepen my understanding of the laws of life through daily practice and ongoing training. In fact, that’s my true passion - cultivating life, uplifting it and uplifting others too. That and simply being in sweet, sweet nature.
Katia Guiloff
I like moving. Myself, other people, bags big and small. I find that without movement life becomes hard going and dull. Which is why I have embarked on this journey of steering away from the computer and closer to yoga, walking, cycling, hiking. An active lifestyle.
Slowly my neck is finding space to grow between the shoulders and the ears. Over the last year I actually grew two centimeters taller! Now I want to share this goodness, so that one day we all evolve into beautiful giraffes . . .
Services
Yoga and Movement
- Jenifer Parker
- Sylvia Edge-Perkins
- Katia Guiloff
- Isa Pike
- Oli Wiles
- Simon Edward
- Michelle Wood
- Nik Curry
Sitting and looking at the computer? Do that a bit too often? Get moving! We have 45-minute classes and one-on-one sessions designed to fit into a busy schedule, so you can grab a class
while you're in town and still be home in time for a relaxing evening with friends and family!
Get classy and stay classy, Wellington!
Get classy and stay classy, Wellington!
Mon
11.15
Pilates
Sylvia
12.15
Power Yoga
Jenifer
1.15
Power Yoga Intermediate
Jenifer
5.30
Power Yoga
Jenifer
6.30
Pilates
Sylvia
Tue
7.15
Power Yoga
Katia
11.15
Power Yoga
Jenifer
5.30
Power Yoga Basics
Jenifer
Wed
11.15
Gentle Yoga
Jenifer
1.15
Power Yoga Basics
Jenifer
5.30
Power Yoga
Jenifer
Thu
7.15
Power Yoga
Katia
11.15
Pilates
Sylvia
12.15
Power Yoga Intermediate
Jenifer
1.15
Power Yoga
Jenifer
5.30
Power Yoga Basics
Jenifer
Fri
11.15
Gentle Yoga
Jenifer
12.15
Power Yoga
Jenifer
1.15
Power Yoga Basics
Jenifer
Sat
9.30
Power Yoga (75 min)
Jenifer
Sun
If your group, workplace or organization wants a class, give us a call!
All classes are all-levels and prenatal appropriate.
Yoga class pricing – you have options!
a. $15 drop-in
b. 1 class per week for 4 weeks: $48
c. 2 classes per week for 4 weeks: $88
d. unlimited classes for 4 weeks: $120
Power Yoga
A flowing sequence of postures and breathwork to develop physical and mental integrity and agility. Our Saturday class is 75 minutes – same pricing!
Power Yoga Basics
This class offers the benefits of power yoga but goes into greater depth on the alignment of postures, breathwork and philosophy. Great for everyone, perfect for beginners!
Power Yoga Intermediate
By invitation only.
Gentle Yoga
Using props and a gentle sequence of yoga postures, this class is designed to release tension and develop deep relaxation.
Pilates
A series of mat-based exercises that cultivate beautiful posture, strength and flexibility, from the core to the extremities.
Group Private Class
This 45-minute private yoga (or other movement) class is designed specifically for the needs of your organization.
Contact us to arrange a day and time. A great option for companies, sports teams and postnatal groups!
Energy Work
Just for Jedi? Not so fast, young apprentices. Since ancient times every culture has practiced energy work in its many forms.
At Healium you'll find a blend of old and new, earthy and celestial, each practice devoted to drawing upon your own life force to bring about healing on the physical, emotional or spiritual levels.
Massage Therapy
Massage just makes life better. We have so many kinds on offer - from the energetic work of tui na to the earthier work of deep tissue, pregnancy and sports massage.
And maybe you just want to relax - we have that too!
Traditional Chinese Medicine
You can't go wrong with a classic. Older than Aristotle, Levi's and Lawrence of Arabia combined, Traditional Chinese Medicine has been around for ages, and for good reason: it works.
The various practices within TCM get right to the heart of whatever issue you face. Whether you seek pain relief, greater mobility, injury healing or the development of your internal energy, you'll find a new friend in this ancient art.
Personal and Professional Development
You're already awesome. So now what?
The way we see it, being yourself is an ongoing process. And the more you do it, the better you get at it.
Interior practices such as life coaching help you do just that. Get better at being your awesome self. Discovering who you are, what you want, what you need. And maybe even what you don't.
So give it a go. After all, you've already started!
Workplace Wellness
You spend most of your time at work, why not feel great there? Healthy people take fewer sick days, get more done and are happier while doing it. Healium can send its mighty team to your organization for on-site renewal through massage, acupuncture or the Feldenkrais® Method, or you can host a variety of hour-long programs:
single workshops to ongoing series on health-related topics to classes in yoga, meditation or breathing techniques. Payment options vary by program but include company pay, client pay and company/client co-pay. Let us know what your team needs and we'll come on over.
Want more info?
The Feldenkrais® Method
The Feldenkrais Method of movement education helps you become aware of how you use your body, improving how you move, feel and live.
The method is taught in one-on-one sessions.
One-on-one Feldenkrais® Sessions -
Functional Integration
These hands-on sessions are tailored to your specific needs. While you are lying or sitting on a low table, the practitioner moves your body in ways that help reveal how you subconsciously organize yourself in movement. You learn to recognize habits that may be causing you pain or limiting your potential. The practitioner moves you towards more efficient options, making new connections between body and brain.
A common result is a sense of balance and ease – a body that is ready for action and free to move.
Kids’ Yoga
Children love moving their bodies, and yoga is a great way for them to have fun and explore their growing capacities. We're excited to offer Kids' Yoga courses at Healium, right in the heart of the Wellington CBD!
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
Term 4, session B (four classes, $44): 27 November to 18 December.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
Pilates
If you’ve done yoga, you’ll find Pilates both strangely familiar and challenging. Designed as a rehabilitative movement system by Joseph Pilates - German, world traveler, boxer, circus performer and all-around interesting chap - Pilates develops uncommon coordination, flexibility, strength and endurance. Many practitioners find that they stand taller and recover more quickly from injuries and chronic pain.
At Healium we practice Stott Mat Pilates. Each class starts with a special breathing technique, then moves through an alignment-based warm-up series and follows with further exercises that build on this foundation - and may provide a pleasant surprise at what your body is capable of.
Postural Patterning
A holistic approach to physiotherapy, postural patterning helps you achieve awareness and balance within your body. It answers the questions about why physical problems occur, why they aren’t resolved, why you can’t do some things and why other things are easy. It shows you what causes the problems and what to do about them.
Postural patterning is a process which shows you how you normally use your body and the way it moves and works. It demonstrates the best way to use your body and develops your self-knowledge and skills to help you find your center. Postural patterning lets you take charge of yourself.
Qi Gong
Qi gong is the wise grandfather of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), from which sprang acupuncture, massage and herbal medicine. Literally translated as "energy work," qi gong is often described as "Chinese yoga." Its meditative exercises are performed in time with breathing and awareness - they can be done fast, slow or stationary, as well as standing or seated. They can be performed individually, partnered or in a group setting.
Qi gong is a tool for self-cultivation or improvement, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.
Qi gong can be offered exclusively or in conjunction with other TCM therapies.
Yoga – Private Lessons and Teaching
Yoga Private Lessons
Yoga was traditionally taught one on one and learning yoga in this way creates the most dramatic, life-changing results. Whether you’re looking to create a total transformation or accelerate your personal growth, or needing the therapeutic applications of yoga, private lessons provide a customized practice to develop dynamic well-being.
Single private lesson $100;1 lesson per week for 4 weeks, $90 per lesson ($360);2 per week, $85 per lesson ($680);3 per week, $80 per lesson ($960).
Breath Repatterning
The way you draw in and release a breath is often an accurate reflection of what is happening deep in your nervous system. When your breath is constricted, for example, anxiety and tension quickly arise and the fight-flight-or-freeze reflex automatically takes over.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In more advanced work the breath is gently guided to fill the whole body, and this pattern can then be used to overwrite unhealthy patterns. It's a great skill for use every day to reduce the feeling of stress and regain composure.
Hands-on Energy Healing
Hands-on energy healing reaches deep into the energy-consciousness system and brings about profound changes in health and well-being.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Energy healing can be beneficial for a wide range of physical and emotional issues. It's also effective long-distance, which can be helpful if you're unable to visit Healium in person.
Process Work
This is intended for practitioners in the healing arts and others committed to consciously tracking and bringing to awareness the automatic reactions and repeating patterns of their energy-consciousness systems.
Practitioners are frequently exposed to events in their client interactions that trigger unhelpful reactions in themselves, and these reactions need to be identified and addressed to maintain professional effectiveness.
In these sessions we gently bring attention to what arises in the energy-consciousness system. This awareness evokes compassion for self and others, reduces tension in the body and allows for insight into your deepest, darkest and most challenging life issues.
Reconnective Healing
Awesome people of every culture and time have practiced and received energy healing. These practices all give benefit but don’t necessarily offer what is available today. Reconnective Healing is an accelerated version of traditional methods, one that tunes into not only all the frequencies of prior ages but also “newer” ones more recently discovered.
What should you bring with you to the table? Only your bright, open self. With Reconnective Healing, you offer yourself up to what the universal energy has in store for you at this moment.
Reiki
Reiki is a simple and natural, hands-on healing technique that relaxes, releases stress and maximizes your body's health potential. By activating healthy energy flow through the physical and etheric bodies, cleansing and harmonizing systems, Reiki promotes radiant well-being on all levels. Depending on your healer, your experience may include the intuited use of overtone chanting and shamanic body communication tools.
You may find your session an emotional experience, and physical discomfort may arise initially as blocks are released, yet you will receive a very gentle, nurturing and spiritual therapy. Suitable for people of all ages.
Deep-tissue Massage
Deep-tissue massage is exactly what it sounds like: a remedial treatment using strong pressure, within your comfort zone, to really get in there and iron out the knots! Your practitioner will often use slower strokes to access the deep muscle layers and get to the root of long-term muscular discomfort.
Deep-tissue work increases your circulation, improving immune response and muscle function. You'll feel worked over during the session and light as a feather afterward!
Joint Articulation Therapy
'Round here this treatment is known as The Works. It starts with deep-tissue massage but goes beyond muscle right down to the connective tissue, the bones, the roots of the body. Stretching and resistance techniques and even spinal realignments, if necessary, all play their part in getting to the source of what ails you and then bringing you back again -
and beyond. Indeed, there’s something downright shamanic about how you’re seemingly taken apart and then put back together - only much, much better than before.
Indian Head Massage
Sometimes you need to get away from everything, even for just a little while. In that case, the traditional treatment of Indian head massage is just the thing. All you need to do is relax - while seated and fully clothed - and receive a massage of the head and scalp, face, neck, shoulders and arms.
The increase in blood flow enlivens the scalp and strengthens the hair, providing an uplifting, even trance-like experience.
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Pregnancy Massage
Many women report that pregnancy massage is the best thing they did for themselves during the months leading up to the most beautiful of days. This treatment is totally tailored to your
needs, providing relaxation or deep-tissue care and keeping your baby safe and nurtured during this powerful and tender time in the new life you share.
Relaxation Massage
When was the last time you completely let go? Come in for a nourishing treatment using rhythmic massage strokes, gorgeous energy and gentle bodywork to ease out the crinkles.
You'll head back into the world feeling deliciously refreshed, re-floated and soothed!
Sports Massage
You might be an elite athlete or a weekend warrior. Perhaps you have a nagging injury, or want to make sure you steer clear of one. Or maybe you're just really concerned about your iliotibial bands. Whatever the case, sports massage is your ticket to muscular health and peak performance.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
Sports massage is excellent for general maintenance. If you're a competitive athlete, your therapist will work with your training program to help you perform at your very best.
Tension-release Massage
Tension might seem a mysterious and unruly visitor, but it often develops within the body in predictable patterns. By treating the whole pattern, this form of massage excels at seeing any unwelcome guests to the door!
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
By tracking these lines of tension out to the toes, fingers or head, and massaging sensitive spots at these extremities first, chronic pain and stiffness in the more central parts of the body can often be persuaded to depart with very little effort.
Therapeutic Massage
We call it a foundational, workhorse treatment; you'll call it deeply soothing and satisfying. Your body (and spirit) will get exactly what it needs in the moment, as your treatment draws upon a wide range of healing bodywork practices - Swedish massage, trigger point therapy, craniosacral therapy and Ortho-Bionomy - to get to the root of whatever ails
you. You may even feel a bit of energy work happening as your therapist’s hands are guided to give what is most needed.
Trigger Point Therapy
Beset with overstimulated sarcomeres? Fear not, trigger point therapy is your friend! Long-term chronic pain or restricted movement is a clear sign that these sometimes-pesky microscopic contractile units are stuck.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
The good news is that these bothersome trigger points can be deactivated. Working with your individual pressure scale, your therapist uses hands, elbows and sometimes other tools to elongate the affected tissues and restore their natural range of motion. Oxygen flow returns, accumulated metabolic waste products are released, and over time your muscles enjoy their normal, expansive movement. And you can get back to whatever you do best!
Life Coaching
Healing often happens in stages. We step from stage to stage as we follow our path to awakening the limitlessness within us. Emotions are often stuck in the soft tissue of the body, so the metaphysical approach of intuitive coaching involves not only verbal coaching as we discover new definitions and beliefs but also treatment - both physical and energetic - of the body.
Once a belief or definition that you want to release is found, energetic techniques are used to remove them. By releasing on all levels permanent change more easily comes about. This combined process allows you to rediscover who you really are, to choose who you want to be. Rock on!
Acupuncture
There's more to acupuncture than needles! We are all energy, or Qi, which is a combination of Yin and Yang. The healthier we are, the easier our Qi flows, harmonizing the Yin and Yang. Imbalances occur because of things like diet, lifestyle or stress, and can cause sickness, pain, emotional distress, digestive or sleep disorders and more.
Using a variety of tools and techniques to increase, decrease or move Qi, acupuncture improves your health, well-being and awareness beyond where you were originally. Combine this with simple lifestyle and dietary changes, and things begin to look up!
Tui Na Massage
Chinese medical massage that incorporates deep-tissue, therapeutic, relaxation and acupressure techniques and has been around for a few thousand years. It works on your muscles, tendons and ligaments as well as on your energy channels, and is as theoretically sound as acupuncture.
People use tui na for stuff like sprained ankles, strained backs, the tight neck and shoulders most of us seem to get, and all kinds of headaches, as well as anxiety/depression, insomnia, menstrual pain, digestive disorders and stress. It's a unique situation, indeed, that'd find tui na not up to the task. We're keen on challenges - bring us what you've got.
The Feldenkrais® Method
The Feldenkrais Method of movement education helps you become aware of how you use your body, improving how you move, feel and live.
The method is taught in one-on-one sessions.
One-on-one Feldenkrais® Sessions -
Functional Integration
These hands-on sessions are tailored to your specific needs. While you are lying or sitting on a low table, the practitioner moves your body in ways that help reveal how you subconsciously organize yourself in movement. You learn to recognize habits that may be causing you pain or limiting your potential. The practitioner moves you towards more efficient options, making new connections between body and brain.
A common result is a sense of balance and ease – a body that is ready for action and free to move.
Kids’ Yoga
Children love moving their bodies, and yoga is a great way for them to have fun and explore their growing capacities. We're excited to offer Kids' Yoga courses at Healium, right in the heart of the Wellington CBD!
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
Term 4, session B (four classes, $44): 27 November to 18 December.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
Pilates
If you’ve done yoga, you’ll find Pilates both strangely familiar and challenging. Designed as a rehabilitative movement system by Joseph Pilates - German, world traveler, boxer, circus performer and all-around interesting chap - Pilates develops uncommon coordination, flexibility, strength and endurance. Many practitioners find that they stand taller and recover more quickly from injuries and chronic pain.
At Healium we practice Stott Mat Pilates. Each class starts with a special breathing technique, then moves through an alignment-based warm-up series and follows with further exercises that build on this foundation - and may provide a pleasant surprise at what your body is capable of.
Postural Patterning
A holistic approach to physiotherapy, postural patterning helps you achieve awareness and balance within your body. It answers the questions about why physical problems occur, why they aren’t resolved, why you can’t do some things and why other things are easy. It shows you what causes the problems and what to do about them.
Postural patterning is a process which shows you how you normally use your body and the way it moves and works. It demonstrates the best way to use your body and develops your self-knowledge and skills to help you find your center. Postural patterning lets you take charge of yourself.
Qi Gong
Qi gong is the wise grandfather of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), from which sprang acupuncture, massage and herbal medicine. Literally translated as "energy work," qi gong is often described as "Chinese yoga." Its meditative exercises are performed in time with breathing and awareness - they can be done fast, slow or stationary, as well as standing or seated. They can be performed individually, partnered or in a group setting.
Qi gong is a tool for self-cultivation or improvement, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.
Qi gong can be offered exclusively or in conjunction with other TCM therapies.
Yoga – Private Lessons and Teaching
Yoga Private Lessons
Yoga was traditionally taught one on one and learning yoga in this way creates the most dramatic, life-changing results. Whether you’re looking to create a total transformation or accelerate your personal growth, or needing the therapeutic applications of yoga, private lessons provide a customized practice to develop dynamic well-being.
Single private lesson $100;1 lesson per week for 4 weeks, $90 per lesson ($360);2 per week, $85 per lesson ($680);3 per week, $80 per lesson ($960).
Breath Repatterning
The way you draw in and release a breath is often an accurate reflection of what is happening deep in your nervous system. When your breath is constricted, for example, anxiety and tension quickly arise and the fight-flight-or-freeze reflex automatically takes over.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In more advanced work the breath is gently guided to fill the whole body, and this pattern can then be used to overwrite unhealthy patterns. It's a great skill for use every day to reduce the feeling of stress and regain composure.
Hands-on Energy Healing
Hands-on energy healing reaches deep into the energy-consciousness system and brings about profound changes in health and well-being.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Energy healing can be beneficial for a wide range of physical and emotional issues. It's also effective long-distance, which can be helpful if you're unable to visit Healium in person.
Process Work
This is intended for practitioners in the healing arts and others committed to consciously tracking and bringing to awareness the automatic reactions and repeating patterns of their energy-consciousness systems.
Practitioners are frequently exposed to events in their client interactions that trigger unhelpful reactions in themselves, and these reactions need to be identified and addressed to maintain professional effectiveness.
In these sessions we gently bring attention to what arises in the energy-consciousness system. This awareness evokes compassion for self and others, reduces tension in the body and allows for insight into your deepest, darkest and most challenging life issues.
Reconnective Healing
Awesome people of every culture and time have practiced and received energy healing. These practices all give benefit but don’t necessarily offer what is available today. Reconnective Healing is an accelerated version of traditional methods, one that tunes into not only all the frequencies of prior ages but also “newer” ones more recently discovered.
What should you bring with you to the table? Only your bright, open self. With Reconnective Healing, you offer yourself up to what the universal energy has in store for you at this moment.
Reiki
Reiki is a simple and natural, hands-on healing technique that relaxes, releases stress and maximizes your body's health potential. By activating healthy energy flow through the physical and etheric bodies, cleansing and harmonizing systems, Reiki promotes radiant well-being on all levels. Depending on your healer, your experience may include the intuited use of overtone chanting and shamanic body communication tools.
You may find your session an emotional experience, and physical discomfort may arise initially as blocks are released, yet you will receive a very gentle, nurturing and spiritual therapy. Suitable for people of all ages.
Deep-tissue Massage
Deep-tissue massage is exactly what it sounds like: a remedial treatment using strong pressure, within your comfort zone, to really get in there and iron out the knots! Your practitioner will often use slower strokes to access the deep muscle layers and get to the root of long-term muscular discomfort.
Deep-tissue work increases your circulation, improving immune response and muscle function. You'll feel worked over during the session and light as a feather afterward!
Joint Articulation Therapy
'Round here this treatment is known as The Works. It starts with deep-tissue massage but goes beyond muscle right down to the connective tissue, the bones, the roots of the body. Stretching and resistance techniques and even spinal realignments, if necessary, all play their part in getting to the source of what ails you and then bringing you back again -
and beyond. Indeed, there’s something downright shamanic about how you’re seemingly taken apart and then put back together - only much, much better than before.
Indian Head Massage
Sometimes you need to get away from everything, even for just a little while. In that case, the traditional treatment of Indian head massage is just the thing. All you need to do is relax - while seated and fully clothed - and receive a massage of the head and scalp, face, neck, shoulders and arms.
The increase in blood flow enlivens the scalp and strengthens the hair, providing an uplifting, even trance-like experience.
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Pregnancy Massage
Many women report that pregnancy massage is the best thing they did for themselves during the months leading up to the most beautiful of days. This treatment is totally tailored to your
needs, providing relaxation or deep-tissue care and keeping your baby safe and nurtured during this powerful and tender time in the new life you share.
Relaxation Massage
When was the last time you completely let go? Come in for a nourishing treatment using rhythmic massage strokes, gorgeous energy and gentle bodywork to ease out the crinkles.
You'll head back into the world feeling deliciously refreshed, re-floated and soothed!
Sports Massage
You might be an elite athlete or a weekend warrior. Perhaps you have a nagging injury, or want to make sure you steer clear of one. Or maybe you're just really concerned about your iliotibial bands. Whatever the case, sports massage is your ticket to muscular health and peak performance.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
Sports massage is excellent for general maintenance. If you're a competitive athlete, your therapist will work with your training program to help you perform at your very best.
Tension-release Massage
Tension might seem a mysterious and unruly visitor, but it often develops within the body in predictable patterns. By treating the whole pattern, this form of massage excels at seeing any unwelcome guests to the door!
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
By tracking these lines of tension out to the toes, fingers or head, and massaging sensitive spots at these extremities first, chronic pain and stiffness in the more central parts of the body can often be persuaded to depart with very little effort.
Therapeutic Massage
We call it a foundational, workhorse treatment; you'll call it deeply soothing and satisfying. Your body (and spirit) will get exactly what it needs in the moment, as your treatment draws upon a wide range of healing bodywork practices - Swedish massage, trigger point therapy, craniosacral therapy and Ortho-Bionomy - to get to the root of whatever ails
you. You may even feel a bit of energy work happening as your therapist’s hands are guided to give what is most needed.
Trigger Point Therapy
Beset with overstimulated sarcomeres? Fear not, trigger point therapy is your friend! Long-term chronic pain or restricted movement is a clear sign that these sometimes-pesky microscopic contractile units are stuck.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
The good news is that these bothersome trigger points can be deactivated. Working with your individual pressure scale, your therapist uses hands, elbows and sometimes other tools to elongate the affected tissues and restore their natural range of motion. Oxygen flow returns, accumulated metabolic waste products are released, and over time your muscles enjoy their normal, expansive movement. And you can get back to whatever you do best!
Life Coaching
Healing often happens in stages. We step from stage to stage as we follow our path to awakening the limitlessness within us. Emotions are often stuck in the soft tissue of the body, so the metaphysical approach of intuitive coaching involves not only verbal coaching as we discover new definitions and beliefs but also treatment - both physical and energetic - of the body.
Once a belief or definition that you want to release is found, energetic techniques are used to remove them. By releasing on all levels permanent change more easily comes about. This combined process allows you to rediscover who you really are, to choose who you want to be. Rock on!
Acupuncture
There's more to acupuncture than needles! We are all energy, or Qi, which is a combination of Yin and Yang. The healthier we are, the easier our Qi flows, harmonizing the Yin and Yang. Imbalances occur because of things like diet, lifestyle or stress, and can cause sickness, pain, emotional distress, digestive or sleep disorders and more.
Using a variety of tools and techniques to increase, decrease or move Qi, acupuncture improves your health, well-being and awareness beyond where you were originally. Combine this with simple lifestyle and dietary changes, and things begin to look up!
Tui Na Massage
Chinese medical massage that incorporates deep-tissue, therapeutic, relaxation and acupressure techniques and has been around for a few thousand years. It works on your muscles, tendons and ligaments as well as on your energy channels, and is as theoretically sound as acupuncture.
People use tui na for stuff like sprained ankles, strained backs, the tight neck and shoulders most of us seem to get, and all kinds of headaches, as well as anxiety/depression, insomnia, menstrual pain, digestive disorders and stress. It's a unique situation, indeed, that'd find tui na not up to the task. We're keen on challenges - bring us what you've got.
The Feldenkrais® Method
The Feldenkrais Method of movement education helps you become aware of how you use your body, improving how you move, feel and live.
The method is taught in one-on-one sessions.
One-on-one Feldenkrais® Sessions -
Functional Integration
These hands-on sessions are tailored to your specific needs. While you are lying or sitting on a low table, the practitioner moves your body in ways that help reveal how you subconsciously organize yourself in movement. You learn to recognize habits that may be causing you pain or limiting your potential. The practitioner moves you towards more efficient options, making new connections between body and brain.
A common result is a sense of balance and ease – a body that is ready for action and free to move.
Kids’ Yoga
Children love moving their bodies, and yoga is a great way for them to have fun and explore their growing capacities. We're excited to offer Kids' Yoga courses at Healium, right in the heart of the Wellington CBD!
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
Term 4, session B (four classes, $44): 27 November to 18 December.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
Pilates
If you’ve done yoga, you’ll find Pilates both strangely familiar and challenging. Designed as a rehabilitative movement system by Joseph Pilates - German, world traveler, boxer, circus performer and all-around interesting chap - Pilates develops uncommon coordination, flexibility, strength and endurance. Many practitioners find that they stand taller and recover more quickly from injuries and chronic pain.
At Healium we practice Stott Mat Pilates. Each class starts with a special breathing technique, then moves through an alignment-based warm-up series and follows with further exercises that build on this foundation - and may provide a pleasant surprise at what your body is capable of.
Postural Patterning
A holistic approach to physiotherapy, postural patterning helps you achieve awareness and balance within your body. It answers the questions about why physical problems occur, why they aren’t resolved, why you can’t do some things and why other things are easy. It shows you what causes the problems and what to do about them.
Postural patterning is a process which shows you how you normally use your body and the way it moves and works. It demonstrates the best way to use your body and develops your self-knowledge and skills to help you find your center. Postural patterning lets you take charge of yourself.
Qi Gong
Qi gong is the wise grandfather of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), from which sprang acupuncture, massage and herbal medicine. Literally translated as "energy work," qi gong is often described as "Chinese yoga." Its meditative exercises are performed in time with breathing and awareness - they can be done fast, slow or stationary, as well as standing or seated. They can be performed individually, partnered or in a group setting.
Qi gong is a tool for self-cultivation or improvement, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.
Qi gong can be offered exclusively or in conjunction with other TCM therapies.
Yoga – Private Lessons and Teaching
Yoga Private Lessons
Yoga was traditionally taught one on one and learning yoga in this way creates the most dramatic, life-changing results. Whether you’re looking to create a total transformation or accelerate your personal growth, or needing the therapeutic applications of yoga, private lessons provide a customized practice to develop dynamic well-being.
Single private lesson $100;1 lesson per week for 4 weeks, $90 per lesson ($360);2 per week, $85 per lesson ($680);3 per week, $80 per lesson ($960).
Breath Repatterning
The way you draw in and release a breath is often an accurate reflection of what is happening deep in your nervous system. When your breath is constricted, for example, anxiety and tension quickly arise and the fight-flight-or-freeze reflex automatically takes over.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In more advanced work the breath is gently guided to fill the whole body, and this pattern can then be used to overwrite unhealthy patterns. It's a great skill for use every day to reduce the feeling of stress and regain composure.
Hands-on Energy Healing
Hands-on energy healing reaches deep into the energy-consciousness system and brings about profound changes in health and well-being.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Energy healing can be beneficial for a wide range of physical and emotional issues. It's also effective long-distance, which can be helpful if you're unable to visit Healium in person.
Process Work
This is intended for practitioners in the healing arts and others committed to consciously tracking and bringing to awareness the automatic reactions and repeating patterns of their energy-consciousness systems.
Practitioners are frequently exposed to events in their client interactions that trigger unhelpful reactions in themselves, and these reactions need to be identified and addressed to maintain professional effectiveness.
In these sessions we gently bring attention to what arises in the energy-consciousness system. This awareness evokes compassion for self and others, reduces tension in the body and allows for insight into your deepest, darkest and most challenging life issues.
Reconnective Healing
Awesome people of every culture and time have practiced and received energy healing. These practices all give benefit but don’t necessarily offer what is available today. Reconnective Healing is an accelerated version of traditional methods, one that tunes into not only all the frequencies of prior ages but also “newer” ones more recently discovered.
What should you bring with you to the table? Only your bright, open self. With Reconnective Healing, you offer yourself up to what the universal energy has in store for you at this moment.
Reiki
Reiki is a simple and natural, hands-on healing technique that relaxes, releases stress and maximizes your body's health potential. By activating healthy energy flow through the physical and etheric bodies, cleansing and harmonizing systems, Reiki promotes radiant well-being on all levels. Depending on your healer, your experience may include the intuited use of overtone chanting and shamanic body communication tools.
You may find your session an emotional experience, and physical discomfort may arise initially as blocks are released, yet you will receive a very gentle, nurturing and spiritual therapy. Suitable for people of all ages.
Deep-tissue Massage
Deep-tissue massage is exactly what it sounds like: a remedial treatment using strong pressure, within your comfort zone, to really get in there and iron out the knots! Your practitioner will often use slower strokes to access the deep muscle layers and get to the root of long-term muscular discomfort.
Deep-tissue work increases your circulation, improving immune response and muscle function. You'll feel worked over during the session and light as a feather afterward!
Joint Articulation Therapy
'Round here this treatment is known as The Works. It starts with deep-tissue massage but goes beyond muscle right down to the connective tissue, the bones, the roots of the body. Stretching and resistance techniques and even spinal realignments, if necessary, all play their part in getting to the source of what ails you and then bringing you back again -
and beyond. Indeed, there’s something downright shamanic about how you’re seemingly taken apart and then put back together - only much, much better than before.
Indian Head Massage
Sometimes you need to get away from everything, even for just a little while. In that case, the traditional treatment of Indian head massage is just the thing. All you need to do is relax - while seated and fully clothed - and receive a massage of the head and scalp, face, neck, shoulders and arms.
The increase in blood flow enlivens the scalp and strengthens the hair, providing an uplifting, even trance-like experience.
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Pregnancy Massage
Many women report that pregnancy massage is the best thing they did for themselves during the months leading up to the most beautiful of days. This treatment is totally tailored to your
needs, providing relaxation or deep-tissue care and keeping your baby safe and nurtured during this powerful and tender time in the new life you share.
Relaxation Massage
When was the last time you completely let go? Come in for a nourishing treatment using rhythmic massage strokes, gorgeous energy and gentle bodywork to ease out the crinkles.
You'll head back into the world feeling deliciously refreshed, re-floated and soothed!
Sports Massage
You might be an elite athlete or a weekend warrior. Perhaps you have a nagging injury, or want to make sure you steer clear of one. Or maybe you're just really concerned about your iliotibial bands. Whatever the case, sports massage is your ticket to muscular health and peak performance.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
Sports massage is excellent for general maintenance. If you're a competitive athlete, your therapist will work with your training program to help you perform at your very best.
Tension-release Massage
Tension might seem a mysterious and unruly visitor, but it often develops within the body in predictable patterns. By treating the whole pattern, this form of massage excels at seeing any unwelcome guests to the door!
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
By tracking these lines of tension out to the toes, fingers or head, and massaging sensitive spots at these extremities first, chronic pain and stiffness in the more central parts of the body can often be persuaded to depart with very little effort.
Therapeutic Massage
We call it a foundational, workhorse treatment; you'll call it deeply soothing and satisfying. Your body (and spirit) will get exactly what it needs in the moment, as your treatment draws upon a wide range of healing bodywork practices - Swedish massage, trigger point therapy, craniosacral therapy and Ortho-Bionomy - to get to the root of whatever ails
you. You may even feel a bit of energy work happening as your therapist’s hands are guided to give what is most needed.
Trigger Point Therapy
Beset with overstimulated sarcomeres? Fear not, trigger point therapy is your friend! Long-term chronic pain or restricted movement is a clear sign that these sometimes-pesky microscopic contractile units are stuck.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
The good news is that these bothersome trigger points can be deactivated. Working with your individual pressure scale, your therapist uses hands, elbows and sometimes other tools to elongate the affected tissues and restore their natural range of motion. Oxygen flow returns, accumulated metabolic waste products are released, and over time your muscles enjoy their normal, expansive movement. And you can get back to whatever you do best!
Life Coaching
Healing often happens in stages. We step from stage to stage as we follow our path to awakening the limitlessness within us. Emotions are often stuck in the soft tissue of the body, so the metaphysical approach of intuitive coaching involves not only verbal coaching as we discover new definitions and beliefs but also treatment - both physical and energetic - of the body.
Once a belief or definition that you want to release is found, energetic techniques are used to remove them. By releasing on all levels permanent change more easily comes about. This combined process allows you to rediscover who you really are, to choose who you want to be. Rock on!
Acupuncture
There's more to acupuncture than needles! We are all energy, or Qi, which is a combination of Yin and Yang. The healthier we are, the easier our Qi flows, harmonizing the Yin and Yang. Imbalances occur because of things like diet, lifestyle or stress, and can cause sickness, pain, emotional distress, digestive or sleep disorders and more.
Using a variety of tools and techniques to increase, decrease or move Qi, acupuncture improves your health, well-being and awareness beyond where you were originally. Combine this with simple lifestyle and dietary changes, and things begin to look up!
Tui Na Massage
Chinese medical massage that incorporates deep-tissue, therapeutic, relaxation and acupressure techniques and has been around for a few thousand years. It works on your muscles, tendons and ligaments as well as on your energy channels, and is as theoretically sound as acupuncture.
People use tui na for stuff like sprained ankles, strained backs, the tight neck and shoulders most of us seem to get, and all kinds of headaches, as well as anxiety/depression, insomnia, menstrual pain, digestive disorders and stress. It's a unique situation, indeed, that'd find tui na not up to the task. We're keen on challenges - bring us what you've got.
The Feldenkrais® Method
The Feldenkrais Method of movement education helps you become aware of how you use your body, improving how you move, feel and live.
The method is taught in one-on-one sessions.
One-on-one Feldenkrais® Sessions -
Functional Integration
These hands-on sessions are tailored to your specific needs. While you are lying or sitting on a low table, the practitioner moves your body in ways that help reveal how you subconsciously organize yourself in movement. You learn to recognize habits that may be causing you pain or limiting your potential. The practitioner moves you towards more efficient options, making new connections between body and brain.
A common result is a sense of balance and ease – a body that is ready for action and free to move.
Kids’ Yoga
Children love moving their bodies, and yoga is a great way for them to have fun and explore their growing capacities. We're excited to offer Kids' Yoga courses at Healium, right in the heart of the Wellington CBD!
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
Term 4, session B (four classes, $44): 27 November to 18 December.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
Pilates
If you’ve done yoga, you’ll find Pilates both strangely familiar and challenging. Designed as a rehabilitative movement system by Joseph Pilates - German, world traveler, boxer, circus performer and all-around interesting chap - Pilates develops uncommon coordination, flexibility, strength and endurance. Many practitioners find that they stand taller and recover more quickly from injuries and chronic pain.
At Healium we practice Stott Mat Pilates. Each class starts with a special breathing technique, then moves through an alignment-based warm-up series and follows with further exercises that build on this foundation - and may provide a pleasant surprise at what your body is capable of.
Postural Patterning
A holistic approach to physiotherapy, postural patterning helps you achieve awareness and balance within your body. It answers the questions about why physical problems occur, why they aren’t resolved, why you can’t do some things and why other things are easy. It shows you what causes the problems and what to do about them.
Postural patterning is a process which shows you how you normally use your body and the way it moves and works. It demonstrates the best way to use your body and develops your self-knowledge and skills to help you find your center. Postural patterning lets you take charge of yourself.
Qi Gong
Qi gong is the wise grandfather of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), from which sprang acupuncture, massage and herbal medicine. Literally translated as "energy work," qi gong is often described as "Chinese yoga." Its meditative exercises are performed in time with breathing and awareness - they can be done fast, slow or stationary, as well as standing or seated. They can be performed individually, partnered or in a group setting.
Qi gong is a tool for self-cultivation or improvement, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.
Qi gong can be offered exclusively or in conjunction with other TCM therapies.
Yoga – Private Lessons and Teaching
Yoga Private Lessons
Yoga was traditionally taught one on one and learning yoga in this way creates the most dramatic, life-changing results. Whether you’re looking to create a total transformation or accelerate your personal growth, or needing the therapeutic applications of yoga, private lessons provide a customized practice to develop dynamic well-being.
Single private lesson $100;1 lesson per week for 4 weeks, $90 per lesson ($360);2 per week, $85 per lesson ($680);3 per week, $80 per lesson ($960).
Breath Repatterning
The way you draw in and release a breath is often an accurate reflection of what is happening deep in your nervous system. When your breath is constricted, for example, anxiety and tension quickly arise and the fight-flight-or-freeze reflex automatically takes over.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In more advanced work the breath is gently guided to fill the whole body, and this pattern can then be used to overwrite unhealthy patterns. It's a great skill for use every day to reduce the feeling of stress and regain composure.
Hands-on Energy Healing
Hands-on energy healing reaches deep into the energy-consciousness system and brings about profound changes in health and well-being.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Energy healing can be beneficial for a wide range of physical and emotional issues. It's also effective long-distance, which can be helpful if you're unable to visit Healium in person.
Process Work
This is intended for practitioners in the healing arts and others committed to consciously tracking and bringing to awareness the automatic reactions and repeating patterns of their energy-consciousness systems.
Practitioners are frequently exposed to events in their client interactions that trigger unhelpful reactions in themselves, and these reactions need to be identified and addressed to maintain professional effectiveness.
In these sessions we gently bring attention to what arises in the energy-consciousness system. This awareness evokes compassion for self and others, reduces tension in the body and allows for insight into your deepest, darkest and most challenging life issues.
Reconnective Healing
Awesome people of every culture and time have practiced and received energy healing. These practices all give benefit but don’t necessarily offer what is available today. Reconnective Healing is an accelerated version of traditional methods, one that tunes into not only all the frequencies of prior ages but also “newer” ones more recently discovered.
What should you bring with you to the table? Only your bright, open self. With Reconnective Healing, you offer yourself up to what the universal energy has in store for you at this moment.
Reiki
Reiki is a simple and natural, hands-on healing technique that relaxes, releases stress and maximizes your body's health potential. By activating healthy energy flow through the physical and etheric bodies, cleansing and harmonizing systems, Reiki promotes radiant well-being on all levels. Depending on your healer, your experience may include the intuited use of overtone chanting and shamanic body communication tools.
You may find your session an emotional experience, and physical discomfort may arise initially as blocks are released, yet you will receive a very gentle, nurturing and spiritual therapy. Suitable for people of all ages.
Deep-tissue Massage
Deep-tissue massage is exactly what it sounds like: a remedial treatment using strong pressure, within your comfort zone, to really get in there and iron out the knots! Your practitioner will often use slower strokes to access the deep muscle layers and get to the root of long-term muscular discomfort.
Deep-tissue work increases your circulation, improving immune response and muscle function. You'll feel worked over during the session and light as a feather afterward!
Joint Articulation Therapy
'Round here this treatment is known as The Works. It starts with deep-tissue massage but goes beyond muscle right down to the connective tissue, the bones, the roots of the body. Stretching and resistance techniques and even spinal realignments, if necessary, all play their part in getting to the source of what ails you and then bringing you back again -
and beyond. Indeed, there’s something downright shamanic about how you’re seemingly taken apart and then put back together - only much, much better than before.
Indian Head Massage
Sometimes you need to get away from everything, even for just a little while. In that case, the traditional treatment of Indian head massage is just the thing. All you need to do is relax - while seated and fully clothed - and receive a massage of the head and scalp, face, neck, shoulders and arms.
The increase in blood flow enlivens the scalp and strengthens the hair, providing an uplifting, even trance-like experience.
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Pregnancy Massage
Many women report that pregnancy massage is the best thing they did for themselves during the months leading up to the most beautiful of days. This treatment is totally tailored to your
needs, providing relaxation or deep-tissue care and keeping your baby safe and nurtured during this powerful and tender time in the new life you share.
Relaxation Massage
When was the last time you completely let go? Come in for a nourishing treatment using rhythmic massage strokes, gorgeous energy and gentle bodywork to ease out the crinkles.
You'll head back into the world feeling deliciously refreshed, re-floated and soothed!
Sports Massage
You might be an elite athlete or a weekend warrior. Perhaps you have a nagging injury, or want to make sure you steer clear of one. Or maybe you're just really concerned about your iliotibial bands. Whatever the case, sports massage is your ticket to muscular health and peak performance.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
Sports massage is excellent for general maintenance. If you're a competitive athlete, your therapist will work with your training program to help you perform at your very best.
Tension-release Massage
Tension might seem a mysterious and unruly visitor, but it often develops within the body in predictable patterns. By treating the whole pattern, this form of massage excels at seeing any unwelcome guests to the door!
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
By tracking these lines of tension out to the toes, fingers or head, and massaging sensitive spots at these extremities first, chronic pain and stiffness in the more central parts of the body can often be persuaded to depart with very little effort.
Therapeutic Massage
We call it a foundational, workhorse treatment; you'll call it deeply soothing and satisfying. Your body (and spirit) will get exactly what it needs in the moment, as your treatment draws upon a wide range of healing bodywork practices - Swedish massage, trigger point therapy, craniosacral therapy and Ortho-Bionomy - to get to the root of whatever ails
you. You may even feel a bit of energy work happening as your therapist’s hands are guided to give what is most needed.
Trigger Point Therapy
Beset with overstimulated sarcomeres? Fear not, trigger point therapy is your friend! Long-term chronic pain or restricted movement is a clear sign that these sometimes-pesky microscopic contractile units are stuck.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
The good news is that these bothersome trigger points can be deactivated. Working with your individual pressure scale, your therapist uses hands, elbows and sometimes other tools to elongate the affected tissues and restore their natural range of motion. Oxygen flow returns, accumulated metabolic waste products are released, and over time your muscles enjoy their normal, expansive movement. And you can get back to whatever you do best!
Life Coaching
Healing often happens in stages. We step from stage to stage as we follow our path to awakening the limitlessness within us. Emotions are often stuck in the soft tissue of the body, so the metaphysical approach of intuitive coaching involves not only verbal coaching as we discover new definitions and beliefs but also treatment - both physical and energetic - of the body.
Once a belief or definition that you want to release is found, energetic techniques are used to remove them. By releasing on all levels permanent change more easily comes about. This combined process allows you to rediscover who you really are, to choose who you want to be. Rock on!
Acupuncture
There's more to acupuncture than needles! We are all energy, or Qi, which is a combination of Yin and Yang. The healthier we are, the easier our Qi flows, harmonizing the Yin and Yang. Imbalances occur because of things like diet, lifestyle or stress, and can cause sickness, pain, emotional distress, digestive or sleep disorders and more.
Using a variety of tools and techniques to increase, decrease or move Qi, acupuncture improves your health, well-being and awareness beyond where you were originally. Combine this with simple lifestyle and dietary changes, and things begin to look up!
Tui Na Massage
Chinese medical massage that incorporates deep-tissue, therapeutic, relaxation and acupressure techniques and has been around for a few thousand years. It works on your muscles, tendons and ligaments as well as on your energy channels, and is as theoretically sound as acupuncture.
People use tui na for stuff like sprained ankles, strained backs, the tight neck and shoulders most of us seem to get, and all kinds of headaches, as well as anxiety/depression, insomnia, menstrual pain, digestive disorders and stress. It's a unique situation, indeed, that'd find tui na not up to the task. We're keen on challenges - bring us what you've got.
The Feldenkrais® Method
The Feldenkrais Method of movement education helps you become aware of how you use your body, improving how you move, feel and live.
The method is taught in one-on-one sessions.
One-on-one Feldenkrais® Sessions -
Functional Integration
These hands-on sessions are tailored to your specific needs. While you are lying or sitting on a low table, the practitioner moves your body in ways that help reveal how you subconsciously organize yourself in movement. You learn to recognize habits that may be causing you pain or limiting your potential. The practitioner moves you towards more efficient options, making new connections between body and brain.
A common result is a sense of balance and ease – a body that is ready for action and free to move.
Kids’ Yoga
Children love moving their bodies, and yoga is a great way for them to have fun and explore their growing capacities. We're excited to offer Kids' Yoga courses at Healium, right in the heart of the Wellington CBD!
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
Term 4, session B (four classes, $44): 27 November to 18 December.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
Pilates
If you’ve done yoga, you’ll find Pilates both strangely familiar and challenging. Designed as a rehabilitative movement system by Joseph Pilates - German, world traveler, boxer, circus performer and all-around interesting chap - Pilates develops uncommon coordination, flexibility, strength and endurance. Many practitioners find that they stand taller and recover more quickly from injuries and chronic pain.
At Healium we practice Stott Mat Pilates. Each class starts with a special breathing technique, then moves through an alignment-based warm-up series and follows with further exercises that build on this foundation - and may provide a pleasant surprise at what your body is capable of.
Postural Patterning
A holistic approach to physiotherapy, postural patterning helps you achieve awareness and balance within your body. It answers the questions about why physical problems occur, why they aren’t resolved, why you can’t do some things and why other things are easy. It shows you what causes the problems and what to do about them.
Postural patterning is a process which shows you how you normally use your body and the way it moves and works. It demonstrates the best way to use your body and develops your self-knowledge and skills to help you find your center. Postural patterning lets you take charge of yourself.
Qi Gong
Qi gong is the wise grandfather of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), from which sprang acupuncture, massage and herbal medicine. Literally translated as "energy work," qi gong is often described as "Chinese yoga." Its meditative exercises are performed in time with breathing and awareness - they can be done fast, slow or stationary, as well as standing or seated. They can be performed individually, partnered or in a group setting.
Qi gong is a tool for self-cultivation or improvement, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.
Qi gong can be offered exclusively or in conjunction with other TCM therapies.
Yoga – Private Lessons and Teaching
Yoga Private Lessons
Yoga was traditionally taught one on one and learning yoga in this way creates the most dramatic, life-changing results. Whether you’re looking to create a total transformation or accelerate your personal growth, or needing the therapeutic applications of yoga, private lessons provide a customized practice to develop dynamic well-being.
Single private lesson $100;1 lesson per week for 4 weeks, $90 per lesson ($360);2 per week, $85 per lesson ($680);3 per week, $80 per lesson ($960).
Breath Repatterning
The way you draw in and release a breath is often an accurate reflection of what is happening deep in your nervous system. When your breath is constricted, for example, anxiety and tension quickly arise and the fight-flight-or-freeze reflex automatically takes over.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In more advanced work the breath is gently guided to fill the whole body, and this pattern can then be used to overwrite unhealthy patterns. It's a great skill for use every day to reduce the feeling of stress and regain composure.
Hands-on Energy Healing
Hands-on energy healing reaches deep into the energy-consciousness system and brings about profound changes in health and well-being.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Energy healing can be beneficial for a wide range of physical and emotional issues. It's also effective long-distance, which can be helpful if you're unable to visit Healium in person.
Process Work
This is intended for practitioners in the healing arts and others committed to consciously tracking and bringing to awareness the automatic reactions and repeating patterns of their energy-consciousness systems.
Practitioners are frequently exposed to events in their client interactions that trigger unhelpful reactions in themselves, and these reactions need to be identified and addressed to maintain professional effectiveness.
In these sessions we gently bring attention to what arises in the energy-consciousness system. This awareness evokes compassion for self and others, reduces tension in the body and allows for insight into your deepest, darkest and most challenging life issues.
Reconnective Healing
Awesome people of every culture and time have practiced and received energy healing. These practices all give benefit but don’t necessarily offer what is available today. Reconnective Healing is an accelerated version of traditional methods, one that tunes into not only all the frequencies of prior ages but also “newer” ones more recently discovered.
What should you bring with you to the table? Only your bright, open self. With Reconnective Healing, you offer yourself up to what the universal energy has in store for you at this moment.
Reiki
Reiki is a simple and natural, hands-on healing technique that relaxes, releases stress and maximizes your body's health potential. By activating healthy energy flow through the physical and etheric bodies, cleansing and harmonizing systems, Reiki promotes radiant well-being on all levels. Depending on your healer, your experience may include the intuited use of overtone chanting and shamanic body communication tools.
You may find your session an emotional experience, and physical discomfort may arise initially as blocks are released, yet you will receive a very gentle, nurturing and spiritual therapy. Suitable for people of all ages.
Deep-tissue Massage
Deep-tissue massage is exactly what it sounds like: a remedial treatment using strong pressure, within your comfort zone, to really get in there and iron out the knots! Your practitioner will often use slower strokes to access the deep muscle layers and get to the root of long-term muscular discomfort.
Deep-tissue work increases your circulation, improving immune response and muscle function. You'll feel worked over during the session and light as a feather afterward!
Joint Articulation Therapy
'Round here this treatment is known as The Works. It starts with deep-tissue massage but goes beyond muscle right down to the connective tissue, the bones, the roots of the body. Stretching and resistance techniques and even spinal realignments, if necessary, all play their part in getting to the source of what ails you and then bringing you back again -
and beyond. Indeed, there’s something downright shamanic about how you’re seemingly taken apart and then put back together - only much, much better than before.
Indian Head Massage
Sometimes you need to get away from everything, even for just a little while. In that case, the traditional treatment of Indian head massage is just the thing. All you need to do is relax - while seated and fully clothed - and receive a massage of the head and scalp, face, neck, shoulders and arms.
The increase in blood flow enlivens the scalp and strengthens the hair, providing an uplifting, even trance-like experience.
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Pregnancy Massage
Many women report that pregnancy massage is the best thing they did for themselves during the months leading up to the most beautiful of days. This treatment is totally tailored to your
needs, providing relaxation or deep-tissue care and keeping your baby safe and nurtured during this powerful and tender time in the new life you share.
Relaxation Massage
When was the last time you completely let go? Come in for a nourishing treatment using rhythmic massage strokes, gorgeous energy and gentle bodywork to ease out the crinkles.
You'll head back into the world feeling deliciously refreshed, re-floated and soothed!
Sports Massage
You might be an elite athlete or a weekend warrior. Perhaps you have a nagging injury, or want to make sure you steer clear of one. Or maybe you're just really concerned about your iliotibial bands. Whatever the case, sports massage is your ticket to muscular health and peak performance.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
Sports massage is excellent for general maintenance. If you're a competitive athlete, your therapist will work with your training program to help you perform at your very best.
Tension-release Massage
Tension might seem a mysterious and unruly visitor, but it often develops within the body in predictable patterns. By treating the whole pattern, this form of massage excels at seeing any unwelcome guests to the door!
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
By tracking these lines of tension out to the toes, fingers or head, and massaging sensitive spots at these extremities first, chronic pain and stiffness in the more central parts of the body can often be persuaded to depart with very little effort.
Therapeutic Massage
We call it a foundational, workhorse treatment; you'll call it deeply soothing and satisfying. Your body (and spirit) will get exactly what it needs in the moment, as your treatment draws upon a wide range of healing bodywork practices - Swedish massage, trigger point therapy, craniosacral therapy and Ortho-Bionomy - to get to the root of whatever ails
you. You may even feel a bit of energy work happening as your therapist’s hands are guided to give what is most needed.
Trigger Point Therapy
Beset with overstimulated sarcomeres? Fear not, trigger point therapy is your friend! Long-term chronic pain or restricted movement is a clear sign that these sometimes-pesky microscopic contractile units are stuck.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
The good news is that these bothersome trigger points can be deactivated. Working with your individual pressure scale, your therapist uses hands, elbows and sometimes other tools to elongate the affected tissues and restore their natural range of motion. Oxygen flow returns, accumulated metabolic waste products are released, and over time your muscles enjoy their normal, expansive movement. And you can get back to whatever you do best!
Life Coaching
Healing often happens in stages. We step from stage to stage as we follow our path to awakening the limitlessness within us. Emotions are often stuck in the soft tissue of the body, so the metaphysical approach of intuitive coaching involves not only verbal coaching as we discover new definitions and beliefs but also treatment - both physical and energetic - of the body.
Once a belief or definition that you want to release is found, energetic techniques are used to remove them. By releasing on all levels permanent change more easily comes about. This combined process allows you to rediscover who you really are, to choose who you want to be. Rock on!
Acupuncture
There's more to acupuncture than needles! We are all energy, or Qi, which is a combination of Yin and Yang. The healthier we are, the easier our Qi flows, harmonizing the Yin and Yang. Imbalances occur because of things like diet, lifestyle or stress, and can cause sickness, pain, emotional distress, digestive or sleep disorders and more.
Using a variety of tools and techniques to increase, decrease or move Qi, acupuncture improves your health, well-being and awareness beyond where you were originally. Combine this with simple lifestyle and dietary changes, and things begin to look up!
Tui Na Massage
Chinese medical massage that incorporates deep-tissue, therapeutic, relaxation and acupressure techniques and has been around for a few thousand years. It works on your muscles, tendons and ligaments as well as on your energy channels, and is as theoretically sound as acupuncture.
People use tui na for stuff like sprained ankles, strained backs, the tight neck and shoulders most of us seem to get, and all kinds of headaches, as well as anxiety/depression, insomnia, menstrual pain, digestive disorders and stress. It's a unique situation, indeed, that'd find tui na not up to the task. We're keen on challenges - bring us what you've got.
The Feldenkrais® Method
The Feldenkrais Method of movement education helps you become aware of how you use your body, improving how you move, feel and live.
The method is taught in one-on-one sessions.
One-on-one Feldenkrais® Sessions -
Functional Integration
These hands-on sessions are tailored to your specific needs. While you are lying or sitting on a low table, the practitioner moves your body in ways that help reveal how you subconsciously organize yourself in movement. You learn to recognize habits that may be causing you pain or limiting your potential. The practitioner moves you towards more efficient options, making new connections between body and brain.
A common result is a sense of balance and ease – a body that is ready for action and free to move.
Kids’ Yoga
Children love moving their bodies, and yoga is a great way for them to have fun and explore their growing capacities. We're excited to offer Kids' Yoga courses at Healium, right in the heart of the Wellington CBD!
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
In these classes children ages 3 to 5 learn a number of basic yoga poses, work together in pairs and as a group, and develop an increased awareness of their bodies.
Sessions run 2.15-3.15 pm on Tuesdays, with yoga practice starting at 2.30 and ending at 3.00. Parents or caregivers attend with their children.
Term 4, session B (four classes, $44): 27 November to 18 December.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
You'll help us support local children's education too! Kids' Yoga at Healium supports the Wellington City Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten and the Wilton Playcentre. For each student per class Healium will contribute $1 to these organisations.
Each class is limited to 15 children (each with a parent or caregiver). Registration required - email us at hi@healium.co.nz or call on 04 499 0334.
Pilates
If you’ve done yoga, you’ll find Pilates both strangely familiar and challenging. Designed as a rehabilitative movement system by Joseph Pilates - German, world traveler, boxer, circus performer and all-around interesting chap - Pilates develops uncommon coordination, flexibility, strength and endurance. Many practitioners find that they stand taller and recover more quickly from injuries and chronic pain.
At Healium we practice Stott Mat Pilates. Each class starts with a special breathing technique, then moves through an alignment-based warm-up series and follows with further exercises that build on this foundation - and may provide a pleasant surprise at what your body is capable of.
Postural Patterning
A holistic approach to physiotherapy, postural patterning helps you achieve awareness and balance within your body. It answers the questions about why physical problems occur, why they aren’t resolved, why you can’t do some things and why other things are easy. It shows you what causes the problems and what to do about them.
Postural patterning is a process which shows you how you normally use your body and the way it moves and works. It demonstrates the best way to use your body and develops your self-knowledge and skills to help you find your center. Postural patterning lets you take charge of yourself.
Qi Gong
Qi gong is the wise grandfather of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), from which sprang acupuncture, massage and herbal medicine. Literally translated as "energy work," qi gong is often described as "Chinese yoga." Its meditative exercises are performed in time with breathing and awareness - they can be done fast, slow or stationary, as well as standing or seated. They can be performed individually, partnered or in a group setting.
Qi gong is a tool for self-cultivation or improvement, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.
Qi gong can be offered exclusively or in conjunction with other TCM therapies.
Yoga – Private Lessons and Teaching
Yoga Private Lessons
Yoga was traditionally taught one on one and learning yoga in this way creates the most dramatic, life-changing results. Whether you’re looking to create a total transformation or accelerate your personal growth, or needing the therapeutic applications of yoga, private lessons provide a customized practice to develop dynamic well-being.
Single private lesson $100;1 lesson per week for 4 weeks, $90 per lesson ($360);2 per week, $85 per lesson ($680);3 per week, $80 per lesson ($960).
Breath Repatterning
The way you draw in and release a breath is often an accurate reflection of what is happening deep in your nervous system. When your breath is constricted, for example, anxiety and tension quickly arise and the fight-flight-or-freeze reflex automatically takes over.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In a breath repatterning session you learn how to breathe in a more wholesome way by activating the diaphragm muscle and paying attention to how the breath flows in your body. Directing the breath consciously is a way of communicating with and calming your nervous system. When the out-breath is emphasized, as in a deep sigh, your body relaxes and you experience a stronger sense of being grounded and confident.
In more advanced work the breath is gently guided to fill the whole body, and this pattern can then be used to overwrite unhealthy patterns. It's a great skill for use every day to reduce the feeling of stress and regain composure.
Hands-on Energy Healing
Hands-on energy healing reaches deep into the energy-consciousness system and brings about profound changes in health and well-being.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Blocks or distortions in the energy system can arise in many ways, such as past experiences of stress, fear or trauma. When repressed, these persist into adult life, where they constrict our natural energy flow. Healing sessions clear and charge the human energy system, dissolve blocks leading to disease and enhance the body's natural healing ability.
Energy healing can be beneficial for a wide range of physical and emotional issues. It's also effective long-distance, which can be helpful if you're unable to visit Healium in person.
Process Work
This is intended for practitioners in the healing arts and others committed to consciously tracking and bringing to awareness the automatic reactions and repeating patterns of their energy-consciousness systems.
Practitioners are frequently exposed to events in their client interactions that trigger unhelpful reactions in themselves, and these reactions need to be identified and addressed to maintain professional effectiveness.
In these sessions we gently bring attention to what arises in the energy-consciousness system. This awareness evokes compassion for self and others, reduces tension in the body and allows for insight into your deepest, darkest and most challenging life issues.
Reconnective Healing
Awesome people of every culture and time have practiced and received energy healing. These practices all give benefit but don’t necessarily offer what is available today. Reconnective Healing is an accelerated version of traditional methods, one that tunes into not only all the frequencies of prior ages but also “newer” ones more recently discovered.
What should you bring with you to the table? Only your bright, open self. With Reconnective Healing, you offer yourself up to what the universal energy has in store for you at this moment.
Reiki
Reiki is a simple and natural, hands-on healing technique that relaxes, releases stress and maximizes your body's health potential. By activating healthy energy flow through the physical and etheric bodies, cleansing and harmonizing systems, Reiki promotes radiant well-being on all levels. Depending on your healer, your experience may include the intuited use of overtone chanting and shamanic body communication tools.
You may find your session an emotional experience, and physical discomfort may arise initially as blocks are released, yet you will receive a very gentle, nurturing and spiritual therapy. Suitable for people of all ages.
Deep-tissue Massage
Deep-tissue massage is exactly what it sounds like: a remedial treatment using strong pressure, within your comfort zone, to really get in there and iron out the knots! Your practitioner will often use slower strokes to access the deep muscle layers and get to the root of long-term muscular discomfort.
Deep-tissue work increases your circulation, improving immune response and muscle function. You'll feel worked over during the session and light as a feather afterward!
Joint Articulation Therapy
'Round here this treatment is known as The Works. It starts with deep-tissue massage but goes beyond muscle right down to the connective tissue, the bones, the roots of the body. Stretching and resistance techniques and even spinal realignments, if necessary, all play their part in getting to the source of what ails you and then bringing you back again -
and beyond. Indeed, there’s something downright shamanic about how you’re seemingly taken apart and then put back together - only much, much better than before.
Indian Head Massage
Sometimes you need to get away from everything, even for just a little while. In that case, the traditional treatment of Indian head massage is just the thing. All you need to do is relax - while seated and fully clothed - and receive a massage of the head and scalp, face, neck, shoulders and arms.
The increase in blood flow enlivens the scalp and strengthens the hair, providing an uplifting, even trance-like experience.
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Available in 30-minute sessions only - a great mini-holiday in the middle of your day!
Pregnancy Massage
Many women report that pregnancy massage is the best thing they did for themselves during the months leading up to the most beautiful of days. This treatment is totally tailored to your
needs, providing relaxation or deep-tissue care and keeping your baby safe and nurtured during this powerful and tender time in the new life you share.
Relaxation Massage
When was the last time you completely let go? Come in for a nourishing treatment using rhythmic massage strokes, gorgeous energy and gentle bodywork to ease out the crinkles.
You'll head back into the world feeling deliciously refreshed, re-floated and soothed!
Sports Massage
You might be an elite athlete or a weekend warrior. Perhaps you have a nagging injury, or want to make sure you steer clear of one. Or maybe you're just really concerned about your iliotibial bands. Whatever the case, sports massage is your ticket to muscular health and peak performance.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
Sports massage is excellent for general maintenance. If you're a competitive athlete, your therapist will work with your training program to help you perform at your very best.
Tension-release Massage
Tension might seem a mysterious and unruly visitor, but it often develops within the body in predictable patterns. By treating the whole pattern, this form of massage excels at seeing any unwelcome guests to the door!
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
Sometimes rubbing or massaging a tense or tight part of the body isn't enough to relieve the ache, pain or tightness. It may even cause bruising or irritation. This can be because the tension is "anchored" out in the extremities of the body, as roots anchor a tree into the ground.
By tracking these lines of tension out to the toes, fingers or head, and massaging sensitive spots at these extremities first, chronic pain and stiffness in the more central parts of the body can often be persuaded to depart with very little effort.
Therapeutic Massage
We call it a foundational, workhorse treatment; you'll call it deeply soothing and satisfying. Your body (and spirit) will get exactly what it needs in the moment, as your treatment draws upon a wide range of healing bodywork practices - Swedish massage, trigger point therapy, craniosacral therapy and Ortho-Bionomy - to get to the root of whatever ails
you. You may even feel a bit of energy work happening as your therapist’s hands are guided to give what is most needed.
Trigger Point Therapy
Beset with overstimulated sarcomeres? Fear not, trigger point therapy is your friend! Long-term chronic pain or restricted movement is a clear sign that these sometimes-pesky microscopic contractile units are stuck.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
When your muscles are sore or beat up from heavy training, your body lays down more fasciae to defend against further damage. These fasciae, however, bind up your muscles and impair their proper functioning. Your therapist breaks up these adhesions using a variety of tools: postural assessment, deep massage techniques, soft-tissue manipulation, stretching, bodywork and trigger point therapy.
The good news is that these bothersome trigger points can be deactivated. Working with your individual pressure scale, your therapist uses hands, elbows and sometimes other tools to elongate the affected tissues and restore their natural range of motion. Oxygen flow returns, accumulated metabolic waste products are released, and over time your muscles enjoy their normal, expansive movement. And you can get back to whatever you do best!
Life Coaching
Healing often happens in stages. We step from stage to stage as we follow our path to awakening the limitlessness within us. Emotions are often stuck in the soft tissue of the body, so the metaphysical approach of intuitive coaching involves not only verbal coaching as we discover new definitions and beliefs but also treatment - both physical and energetic - of the body.
Once a belief or definition that you want to release is found, energetic techniques are used to remove them. By releasing on all levels permanent change more easily comes about. This combined process allows you to rediscover who you really are, to choose who you want to be. Rock on!
Acupuncture
There's more to acupuncture than needles! We are all energy, or Qi, which is a combination of Yin and Yang. The healthier we are, the easier our Qi flows, harmonizing the Yin and Yang. Imbalances occur because of things like diet, lifestyle or stress, and can cause sickness, pain, emotional distress, digestive or sleep disorders and more.
Using a variety of tools and techniques to increase, decrease or move Qi, acupuncture improves your health, well-being and awareness beyond where you were originally. Combine this with simple lifestyle and dietary changes, and things begin to look up!
Tui Na Massage
Chinese medical massage that incorporates deep-tissue, therapeutic, relaxation and acupressure techniques and has been around for a few thousand years. It works on your muscles, tendons and ligaments as well as on your energy channels, and is as theoretically sound as acupuncture.
People use tui na for stuff like sprained ankles, strained backs, the tight neck and shoulders most of us seem to get, and all kinds of headaches, as well as anxiety/depression, insomnia, menstrual pain, digestive disorders and stress. It's a unique situation, indeed, that'd find tui na not up to the task. We're keen on challenges - bring us what you've got.
Booking
In a hurry? Book online right this very second with MINDBODY. You're just a single click away, and, yes, it really is easy.
Or, if you prefer, fill out our booking inquiries form, take a seat, and we'll get back to you with our availability lickety-split.
Opportunities
We're so happy and grateful for all of our awesomely talented and business-minded practitioners - and would be thrilled to count you among their number. Because counting is fun. And working with lots of cool people? Even more fun.
Currently we’re seeking practitioners in the following fields: structural integration, craniosacral therapy, chiropractic (especially Network Spinal Analysis), osteopathy, massage and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Currently we’re seeking practitioners in the following fields: structural integration, craniosacral therapy, chiropractic (especially Network Spinal Analysis), osteopathy, massage and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
If this sounds like you, email Jenifer at hi@healium.co.nz. Send your CV or whatever best demonstrates your passion to build a thriving, sustainable business facilitating the awesomeness of others!
Media
Now there’s yoga for children
The Wellingtonian, 24 September 2012
Why I May Never Take Another Yoga Class – A Teacher’s Response
The Yoga Lunch Box, 6 Feb 2011
Does Yoga Need Marketing, and Is There a Right Way to Market Yoga?
The Yoga Lunch Box, 17 Jan 2011
By Laughing as Hard as You Can
The Dominion Post, 27 Dec 2010
An Interview with Jenifer Parker on Healium Yoga Teacher Training
The Yoga Lunch Box, 21 Dec 2010
Wellington Yoga Teacher: Jenifer Parker
The Yoga Lunch Box, 17 Dec 2010
Rallies in support of The Hobbit
The New Zealand Herald, 25 October 2010
It's all true - Healium is popping up in print and on the Web. Have a look!
Contact
Healium
Level 4 Hallenstein House 276 Lambton Quay Wellington 6011
P> 04 499 0334
You'll find Hallenstein House just to the right of Cable Car Lane, between Glassons and Hannah's. The bus stops right outside, and there's lots of street parking nearby, on The Terrace and at the Clifton Terrace Car Park.
Walking from The Terrace? Take the elevator down through the Capital on the Quay shopping center or the James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor.
Links
wellingtonnz.com
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theyogalunchbox.co.nz
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yogawithnadine.com
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powerhousegym.co.nz
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