What's the difference between massage therapy and bodywork?

What’s the difference between massage therapy and bodywork - and how do you choose the right session? It’s one of the most common questions I receive.

In a world that constantly pulls us outward, your body holds the compass home.

Whether you’re longing for relaxation, emotional release, or a deeper sense of connection and clarity, massage and bodywork offer different pathways back to yourself.

Massage therapy focuses on physical relaxation, circulation, and tension relief, while bodywork goes deeper, encompassing a wider range of techniques, supporting emotional healing, energetic balance, and soul-level transformation.

But how do you know which session is right for you?

Let’s explore the difference in what I offer, so you can choose the experience your body and being truly need.

What is Massage Therapy?

Massage therapy is a healing practice that uses intuitive and skilled touch to release physical tension, calm the nervous system, and restore balance to body and mind.

I offer three forms of massage therapy in Morges, Switzerland:

Deep Relaxation Massage 

For when your body whispers, “I just need to let go and rest.”

This loving massage creates an experience of deep safety, inviting your nervous system to unwind. It helps with:

• Stress and overwhelm

• Anxiety and poor sleep

• Fatigue and disconnection

You’ll leave feeling lighter, softer, and more at home in yourself.
Session length: 60 - 90 minutes

Therapeutic Massage

For when your body carries more aches, pain, stuck energy, or emotion.

This massage blends classic and deep tissue massage techniques, with presence and intuition to help you:

• Release tension and pain

• Reset your energy flow

• Find ease in both body and emotions

You’ll feel more spacious, grounded, and alive.
Session length: 90 minutes

Lomi Lomi Massage

For when you long to be held, nourished, and brought back into flow with life.

This Hawaiian-inspired massage uses long, rhythmic strokes with the forearms to create a continuous, wave-like motion across the body. It helps with:

• Stress and mental overload

• Feeling scattered, stagnant, or disconnected

• Fatigue or lack of creative energy

• Difficulty letting go or relaxing deeply

You’ll feel soothed, softened, and more at home in your body - restored by touch that flows like water.
Session length: 105 minutes

So to summarise, massage therapy is ideal when you're looking for stress relief, muscle release, and a sense of embodied calm, without going too deep into emotional processing or alternative techniques.

Each session is tailored to meet your body’s unique needs in the moment.

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What Is Bodywork?

Where massage soothes and restores, bodywork invites you into transformation.

Bodywork is a holistic, integrative experience based on conscious touch and deep massage, while also working with the emotional, energetic, and spiritual layers of your being. 

These sessions are designed to support you through life transitions, emotional healing, and deep reconnection with self. 

In this category I offer: 
1. Soul Journey - my signature massage (105 min), and
2. Integrated bodywork and body-based therapy sessions (also called embodiment or somatic coaching) for greater healing and clarity (120 min and packages)

Soul Journey - my signature massage

This is not just a massage - it’s a ritual of return. 

Soul Journey is my signature bodywork that has emerged over 20 years of experience. It is an exquisite, spiritual experience creating space for the soul to inhabit the body. A profound inner journey to freedom, for those moments when you've been knocked off your centre, or you're at a threshold of change.

In these sessions I work with love and deep shamanic listening, opening up powerful healing and awakening channels. You might find me holding or pausing at parts of the body for deeper energetic work, working with breath and sound, stretching, tapping or rocking. 

The Soul Journey is great when you are:

• Feeling disconnected from yourself or your path

• Navigating emotional overwhelm or uncertainty

• Reconnecting to your inner guidance and soul essence

When you are ready to let love in and to embody your soul essence, this is for you.
Session length: 105 minutes

Integrated Bodywork and Body-Based Coaching

When life feels messy, heavy, or out of rhythm, this is where we begin. And we ask the body. 

These 2-hour sessions support you to:

• Process grief, burnout, anxiety, or emotional blocks

• Navigate big transitions (e.g. menopause, heartbreak, loss, spiritual awakening)

• Heal from past experiences stored in the body

• Restore body confidence and release shame

• Reclaim your vitality, clarity, and inner power

I combine many approaches including - conscious touch, breath, dialogue, energy work, yogic, shamanic-tantric and somatic practices to meet the whole of you - body, heart, mind, and soul.
Session length: 120 minutes and packages

These sessions are profound. They're for those ready to listen deeply to their body and honour what’s emerging. 

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Massage or Bodywork? How to Choose

Ask yourself:

• Do I need relaxation, rest, or a gentle reset? → Choose Relaxation Massage or Lomi Lomi
• Do I need tension relief? → Choose Therapeutic Massage
• Am I in a period of change or seeking deeper connection? → Choose a Soul Journey Massage
• Do I need emotional healing, clarity, or integration? → Choose Integrated Bodywork & Coaching

You are not just booking a massage. You are choosing how deeply you want to meet yourself.

🌍 Available in Morges, and soon in Geneva, Switzerland

Whether you’re looking for deep relaxation, therapeutic massage or holistic bodywork in Morges or Geneva, you’ll be met with presence, compassion, and 20+ years of experience.

This is not just bodywork. It’s a return to yourself.

Book your session online via the link below or reach out if you’d like a personal recommendation. I’ll meet you with presence and care.

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My massage are recognised by ASCA for massage classique. Please check your complimentary insurance for reimbursement options.