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Congratulations: Ian McPherson Wins the Prize Draw🥇for a Complimentary Post Race Massage!
Congratulations to Ian McPherson who is the winner of the prize draw competition for a complimentary post race massage for running the...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Oct 16, 20231 min read


Each half of the year holds a different type of energy!
Spring and Summer encourage extroverted 'Yang' and Autumn and Winter are about dark, still and introverted 'Yin'. Embracing a 'Yang' way...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Oct 14, 20231 min read


Good luck for the Bath Half Marathon this Sunday! Win a Complimentary Post Marathon Recovery Massage
To Win a Complimentary Post Marathon Recovery Massage: Message or email us back if you are running in the Bath Half Marathon this Sunday,...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Oct 12, 20231 min read


Body Assessments Available
As pain and tension in the body is caused by incorrect posture, we can address it in the long term by identifying the areas of...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Oct 5, 20231 min read


Meet Metta's lovely new Massage Therapist, Phoebe! Also, 7pm to 9.30pm massage slots now available!
Phoebe: "I offer a number of Soft Tissue Massage therapies for clients at Metta Yoga and Massage. I am a Health and Exercise student at...
Joanna Marie Leytham
May 10, 20231 min read


The Healing Abilities of Manual Lymphatic Drainage for Face and Body
Looking for a powerful treatment that detoxifies, cleanses, increases immunity, relieves swelling and excess fluid retention, heals skin...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Apr 15, 20233 min read


Do you want to address your well-being and beauty in one treatment?! Then look no further than the:
HOLISTIC FACIAL Beauty truly meets wellness with a Holistic Facial, as they boost both beauty and well-being, and are a natural and...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Apr 8, 20232 min read


Yoga Therapy: individualised yoga courses to relieve pain and tension, and correct posture
Yoga Therapy is one to one Yoga, that specifically focuses on a client's pain areas and/or misalignments (normally causing that pain),...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Feb 15, 20232 min read


Private Yoga Courses to learn a Yoga sequence for home practice or confidently attend group classes!
One-to-one Yoga courses are a great way to learn a series of postures, with the correct alignment and modifications; and the vital...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Sep 29, 20221 min read


Another Way To Meditate: Relax and Calm Your Mind and Creatively Problem Solve
Do you find it difficult to sit still in meditation and try not to think of anything or focus on your breath or a mantra? There are other...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Jan 4, 20221 min read


Neck And Upper Back Pain Relief
Do you look down over your computer, phone or books? When you lean forward, you bring your head out of alignment, which effectively makes...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Jan 3, 20221 min read


BOOK YOUR FREE CONSULTATION - talk with Joanna to discuss your wellbeing needs and goals.
Sometimes we feel unsure of what it is we need to feel better - is it physical, mental or emotional? It is most likely a combination of...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Dec 24, 20211 min read


Gifts Vouchers For Wellbeing.....
Metta Yoga and Massage offers Gift Vouchers for Massage and Beauty treatments, and Yoga courses all year round. A relaxing massage,...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Nov 17, 20211 min read


The biomechanics of creating good upper body posture and relief of pain of the shoulders and neck
Most people in our Western society, who tend to be sat at a desk or standing lazily, round their shoulders forward, when the shoulders...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Oct 27, 20212 min read


Releasing Pain & Tension In The Rhomboid Muscles (the shoulder mover muscles)
Want to get rid of upper back pain and tension in the rhomboid area and surrounding (as well as other body pain and tensions)? Work on...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Feb 11, 20211 min read


Yoga Therapy: Bio-Mechanic Alignment for Pain, Injury & Disease Relief
If you are suffering physically (and also mentally) during lockdown and beyond you could be very interested in Yoga Therapy. I carried...
Joanna Marie Leytham
May 6, 20202 min read


Metta brings Online Massage Therapy to you at home!
In the current COVID-19 climate of social distancing we have not been able to have our Massage therapy fixes to relax and relieve us of...
Joanna Marie Leytham
May 4, 20201 min read


Donation based Metta Yoga & Pranayama Classes brought to you during COVID-19 for your wellbeing
The COVID-19 virus has been a shock and a life changer for all of us in this country and globally. It has literally caused a complete...
Joanna Marie Leytham
Apr 27, 20203 min read


The Surprisingly Effective Results Using Trigger Point Therapy and Neuro-Muscular Technique (NMT)
"The daily clinical experience of thousands of massage therapists, physical therapists, and physicians strongly indicates that most of our common aches and pains, and many other puzzling physical complaints, are actually caused by trigger points. Pain clinic doctors have found that they are the primary cause of pain roughly 75% of the time and they play a part in virtually every pain problem." (The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook, Third Edition) Trigger points are areas of myo
Joanna Leytham
Sep 30, 20193 min read
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