Simple Touch

01/10/2026

🍂 AUTUMN is here… have you tried a HOT STONE FUSION massage yet? 🔥

As the days get cooler, there’s nothing quite like the warmth of hot stones melting away muscle tension while helping your whole body slow down, relax and reset.

Deeply warming. Restorative. The perfect autumn treat. 💜

Next availability:
📅 Tuesday 13 October — 12:15pm | 4pm | 5:15pm
📅 Thursday 15 October — 5:30pm

🔥 Come in from the cold and let the stones do their magic.

BOOK NOW to grab your appointment.

07/09/2026

30/08/2026

A little social media tidy-up 💜

You can now find Simple Touch under one name across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp:

Simple Touch 🤲 body care practitioner

Same Simple Touch, just a little easier to find and connect with. 🏔️💜

14/08/2026

What do you do for recovery?

After pushing my body hard at L’Étape du Tour de Femmes on Mont Ventoux, this week has been all about recovery — and it’s paid off.

My HRV was 101ms yesterday and 129ms today 🙌 and I’m feeling slightly bionic again! ⚡️

I’ve focused on nourishing food, plenty of good protein and giving my body what it actually needed rather than rushing straight back into training.

And I’ve had a little help along the way…

🧘‍♀️ Sunday — Power Yoga at Lac Montriond with Ursula at Yoga Snow to get my body moving again.

🙌 Monday — Shane at Morzine Chiropractic helped calm the muscles that had gone into overdrive protecting my osteoarthritic knee during the event and got my hips moving properly again.

✨ Followed by a wonderfully relaxing treatment “Wild Magic”, energy combo of massage, Reiki and reflexology with Carrie at Little Wild to help calm my nervous system.

🧘‍♀️ Tuesday — Movement again with Yoga by Sara Harbeth.

💆‍♀️ Wednesday — Sports massage with Kristina at Alpine Body Care Massage.

🏋️‍♀️ Thursday — Time to start rebuilding with a strength class with Rachael Hallewell at Buzz Performance.

💪 Friday — TRX this morning, followed by three glorious hours at Les Sources de Chéry spa this afternoon. Sauna and cold dipping, I’m coming for you! 🧖‍♀️🥶

🚴‍♀️ And tomorrow… back on the bike.

We put so much thought into our training schedules — the rides, runs, gym sessions, distances, weights and performance goals.

But how much thought do we put into our recovery schedule?

Recovery isn’t time wasted between training sessions. It’s when we give the body the opportunity to adapt, repair and come back stronger.

Massage can be an important part of that — helping restore movement, reduce muscular tension and giving your nervous system an opportunity to switch out of constant go mode.

Invest in your recovery as much as you invest in your training. Your body will repay you.

I’m now feeling slightly bionic and very curious to see where this new release of energy takes me! ⚡️

What do you do to help your body recover?

28/06/2026

What is a muscle knot? 🤔

Despite the name, a muscle doesn’t actually tie itself into a knot.

Your muscles are made up of thousands of tiny muscle fibres, which contract and relax to create movement. Normally, after they’ve done their job, they switch off and return to a relaxed state.

Sometimes, due to repetitive movements, overload, injury, poor posture or stress, a small group of these fibres doesn’t fully relax. They remain in a shortened, contracted state, creating a small, sensitive spot known as a trigger point.

Because these fibres stay contracted, they can:
✨ Reduce local blood flow.
✨ Increase pressure on surrounding tissues.
✨ Become painful when pressed.
✨ Even refer pain to another part of the body.

How does trigger point therapy help?

During massage, sustained pressure is applied directly to the trigger point. Although it can feel tender, this gentle, sustained pressure helps calm the nervous system, encourages the contracted fibres to let go, improves circulation, and restores normal movement within the muscle.

It’s important to remember that massage doesn’t simply “break up knots.” Instead, it helps the muscle return to its normal resting length while addressing the reason the trigger point developed in the first place.

💆‍♀️ The goal isn’t just to relieve pain—it’s to help your muscles move, function and feel their best.

I use a number of massage techniques to help your body feel its best and restore your well-being.

31/05/2026

Not quite a cold dip — searching for my iPhone!

The horrible accident occurred last night… taking an evening walk to help enjoy the evening and help me sleep better. Walking along the river Dranse and stopped to check the temperature… out jumped my mobile phone from my rucksack to enjoy a swim to the bottom of the riverbed. Despite our efforts wading in the water, it was too deep with a strong current to risk diving underwater.

So bye bye phone.. thank goodness for once the insurance will replace it!

Therefore, for now, my old phone has come back to life, limping, and hopefully tied me over until the replacement arrives. It’s not so up to date, so bear with me if you are trying to connect, best way via WhatsApp on either my English or french number.

Ps. It’s been a very stressful 12hours getting bank accounts working and SIM cards sent when everyone wants to verify you via your mobile text!! (Which you can’t access).