In Touch Health and Healing

✨We’re hiring! ✨

We’re looking for a Physiotherapist and Project Support worker to combine treating clients with project development at our community-based social enterprise.

- Permanent contract�- Flexible work�- 7.5 hours a week

Be part of a passionate and caring team, and make a difference in your community!

🛎 Find our more and apply to join the In Touch Health and Healing team in Chapeltown, Leeds 👉 intouchhealing.org/opportunities

✨ Hanging Out for Back Health: find the monkey in you! 🦍

Our broadest back muscle is the Latissimus Dorsi, which moves the arm by extending, adducting, and internally rotating the shoulder joint. It actually evolved from our primate ancestors’ need to climb and swing from trees!

In today’s world, we have no natural cause to move this way, and as a result the lats can become stiff and unflexible, causing pain anywhere from your back to your shoulders to your ribs or even hips.

If you can find time to do the monkey bars or a dead hang at the gym, you will notice how great it feels. But do build up to it if it’s been a while! As at-home alternative, Downward Facing Dog has a similar effect, so you can hop on your mat and treat your Lats to some Yogic strength and stretch instead.

At In Touch, we give back to our community, with treatments, classes, and information.

📰 Read more about our purpose at:
www.intouchhealing.org

Exercise for Ease

We’re currently running this fun and informative exercise class for elders and people with mobility issues. We practice different movements to build strength, balance, fitness, flexibility and coordination, with good music to help us keep pace. Seated and standing options available.

Runs term time only, booking is essential.

🛎 Book your session at In Touch Health and
Healing in Chapeltown, Leeds 👉 intouchhealing.org/book-online

“Jess has been a much-needed healing force in my life.

Each session with her, the majority of my chronic pain is instantly relieved, and I leave feeling more connected to and grounded in my body.

I would strongly recommend Jess’s deep tissue massage technique, and her seemingly endless knowledge to anyone who is looking to treat themselves to a peaceful and relaxing experience, but especially to those who are looking to relieve and address any pain or injury that they may be suffering from.”.

Our clients leave good reviews, with good reason.

When you’re ready to feel the same, we’ll be waiting. 👉 intouchhealing.org/book-online

Reflexology is a treat for your feet (and the rest of you as well)!

Based on an ancient Chinese medical system of balancing the body’s energies, reflexology uses a map of pressure points presented on the feet to energetically access all the major systems of the body. By applying pressure to specific reflex points, the therapist aims to calm or stimulate the system,
bringing equilibrium to the body. It is a relaxing treatment that supports your own healing mechanisms and includes a foot and ankle massage as well.

🛎 Book your session at In Touch Health and
Healing in Chapeltown, Leeds 👉 intouchhealing.org/book-online

✨We’re working hard to remove financial barriers to treatment ✨

Investing in your health can be costly. That’s why we offer our services on a sliding scale, to give each other a leg up when we need it.

This means that a full-priced treatment from us contributes to a lower-cost treatment for someone else: we even offer a ’solidarity rate’, because here at In Touch, we believe in community and healing for all.

📰 Read more about our purpose at: www.intouchhealing.org

💆Clinical & remedial massage ✨

This style of therapeutic massage is a highly effective treatment to relieve persistent pain, blending myofascial release, deep tissue massage, trigger point therapy and sports stretching to enhance mobility and produce lasting results. It’s also In Touch founder and therapist Jessica’s specialty!

By softening and releasing trigger points, and toning or stretching the surrounding structures, this treatment can have a lasting effect on the way your body moves and feels.

🛎 Book your session at In Touch Health and Healing in Chapeltown, Leeds 👉 intouchhealing.org/book-online

👆 Don’t be afraid to poke it!✨

It can sound counter-intuitive, but did you know that pressing on your painful points can actually help? One of our In Touch therapists likes to jokingly call it “pokey pokey hurty place”. The concept of “sweet pain” – pain that doesn’t harm or worry you – is one of the foundations of Trigger Point therapy, one of the most important healing tools we use on our clients at In Touch.

A trigger point is a tiny nodule in a taut band of myofascial tissue that causes pain, both locally and further afield. Gentle application of pressure on this point can feel immensely relieving, precisely because it replicates the pain that’s been bothering you.

Our therapists at In Touch can apply trigger point therapy on you to help your pain heal, and can also teach you self-massage techniques to manage your own pain. Book your session today!

🛎 Book your session at In Touch Health and Healing in Chapeltown, Leeds 👉 intouchhealing.org/book-online

✨Meet In Touch: your specialist health and healing experts✨

In Touch was founded by Jessica Morris and Laura Key, two Chapeltown residents who wanted to use their massage skills to help local people out of pain. They volunteered at OPAL, a charity in a nearby district that supports older people to remain independent, and got some ideas for how it could work closer to home.

They also volunteered for PAFRAS, a pioneering charity that inspired In Touch to begin their lifelong commitment of supporting refugees and asylum seekers. Seeing the benefit of what they were doing, they registered as a Community Interest Company in 2013 and proceeded to run projects with Touchstone, Behno and Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

And that’s just scratching the surface!

📰 Read more about our story at:
www.intouchhealing.org/post/our-story

Treat your loved one to a massage this Christmas!!

We have 30, 60 or 90 minute vouchers available.

Contact [email protected] to organise yours today or visit our website to get in touch https://www.intouchhealing.org/