The Quiet Space Massage Therapy for Sports, Injury Recovery,
Pregnancy and General Well-being and Relaxation Canary Wharf, East London

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

Hello. Welcome to The Quiet Space

My name is Annie and I have been providing Massage Therapy for Sport, Pregnancy, General Wellbeing and Reiki to those who work and live in Canary Wharf, The Docklands and East London for over 23 years since July 2000. Before that I was based in New York where I originally completed my Massage Therapy training.

For a period of time between 2009 and 2019 I worked within Nursing and maintained my practice at The Quiet Space in my free time. I have since 2019 returned to full time practice at The Quiet Space and have allowed my Nursing And Midwifery Council registration to lapse.

My treatment room is large and spacious and situated along with other smaller businesses within a Grade 2 Listed building at the end of West India Quay right on the perimeter of Canary Wharf. There is free parking in the courtyard and entrance to my corridor is available directly from the courtyard. The historic Grade 2 listed workshops definitely do not look anything like our immediate vicinity shiny glass walled image concious neighbours.

Regarding image consciousness, I appreciate the lack of of it around here and I hope when you arrive you can feel like you can simply relax in the same way you would like to do when at home. You are here in a personal and confidential capacity not to live up to anyone else’s expectations. Appointment times are spaced to maintain your privacy.

I know that most of us skim read. 🤗 So while I am refreshing the web site a little bit and re-editing the pages, I have condensed the most immediately relevant information onto this home page.. There are some reviews, a bit about me, opening paragraphs about the therapies... direct links to email, location etc and so forth.

Please scroll further down past fees times and reviews etc. to see other background information that as yet has not been placed on other pages 🙂.

REAL LIFE RELATABLE BENEFITS

I invite you to remember you are not a ‘text book’. You are a complex individual, life has it’s ups and downs and phases and your body is not a statue but is built for dynamic adaptable movement.

You are not going to find an ‘Owners Manual’ or even an ‘Annie’s Guide’ to the body on these pages! I have definitely not cut and paste what others have to say on any topic; only drawn on my observations and experience over the years to give a realistic but still generalised insight into how you may benefit from your massage therapy.. Remember you are unique.

Regarding formal standard anatomy and physiology: Once you are with me I can discuss issues with you that are relevant and pertinent to you. I will also be able to point you to good reliable sources of information or give you suggestions for other options if they will serve you better and more expediently. Until then lets keep it simple on these pages.

Just want to lay down and relax for an hour? I really enjoy the opportunity when it arises to deliver a ‘simple’ relaxing timeout massage. Not because it is easy to deliver. (Quite the contrary; not the least because I am not executing some mindless routine on you). Those ‘simple relaxing’ kind of massages actually take all of my attention, experience and presence to facilitate for the totally individual you, which is why I enjoy them.

THIS WEEK’S GENERALLY AVAILABLE APPOINTMENT TIMES

The below is really a bit of a guide for new people. Availability can change and I do not always update this section immediately, this is mostly because new enquirers are often not as prompt as me in replying or confirming!

** In the interest of succinct efficiency, simply ask for what works best for you. Be time specific please with options if you have them ready.

One or two hours notice is usually required because although I allocate and commit to being available for appointments, I don’t live here!

Where there are exact times or small gaps listed I am likely to be available within or at them for shorter notice bookings. (You still have to text or email).)

Next few days from SATURDAY 3rd June

SATURDAY 9am (book day before). Flexible from 2.30pm. Book by 2.30 though.
SUNDAY CURRENTLY fully booked. Check for cancellations.
MONDAY Flexible 10am-4pm and 6.30pm-8pm


Popular times before the pandemic were mainly evening. Post pandemic it has been more daytime. Now it seems to be shifting back to evening. Weekends I am happy to start from 9am generally. Saturdays are quiet which is annoying as I wish they were busy. Sundays usually max out between pre scheduled and on the day bookings. I would advise booking before 3pm if you want an evening appointment during the week. If you want an early morning appointment; arrange it the day before. If it says not available, that is what it means.

Background:To remain physically healthy as a therapist, have time for my own daily interests and life and thus be totally ready to do my best for you, I have a maximum amount of appointments I will take in a day/week.

Additionally, I have always really disliked having too short a time between client appointments because I like the room to rest, settle and clear energetically. On a more tangible level I want the air to be totally refreshed for you when you arrive.




HOW IT ALL WORKS

What I have outlined below sounds complicated when it is written down but is perfectly straightforward really as I am not seeing crowds of people every week!

•When you first enquire I always respond promptly.

•Don’t ask me what is free; ask me for the time and day you want.

•If it is free I will immediately put the time aside for you, reply to your message to say the time is available and offer you the appointment.

•When and if you reply. I will confirm it.

•A quick acknowledgement from you is the final text or email.

Please note: The Phone always goes to voice mail. All appointments are arranged by text or email. A brief message including your name is required. (I don’t maintain any mail or contact lists. Communication is only related to appointments).

MORE DETAILS FOR THOSE WHO NEED THEM🤗

After my first response, I do not ever press for confirmation from you (unless someone else also wants the time), because I appreciate and understand that you have your own schedule to organise before you get back to me or you may have changed your mind etc.

If someone else does also subsequently want the same time and I haven’t heard from you since you enquired, I will; if it has been less than a day or so contact you first to give you the opportunity to confirm with me. There will then be a timeframe within which you can reply.

Therefore my reserving and offering you the time for you to agree to is not the same as a confirmation.
Until I hear back from you that yes you will take the time and I write ‘confirmed’ to you it is not confirmed.

(Remember that I am always happy to respond to enquiries personal to your suitability for an appointment that are not generally covered on the web page; act as resource for advice etc)


CANCELLATIONS and ARRIVING LATE

Of course you can cancel!

Late cancelling however is never good for me though and so you don’t get many opportunities to do that…Effectively, more than once or twice I will no longer take advance bookings from you.

‘No shows’ are a total rarity, I can’t actually remember so think there has been just one or two in the past twenty years.

If you don’t show and don’t call or if you arrive late first time and then go on to make a habit of lateness I simply don’t take any more appointments from you.🙂

FEES

I believe there is something here for everyone and aim to provide a valuable experience which is worth both your time and your money. 30 minute appointments relate to time on the table not actual time spent here.

You are equally welcome to pay by either cash or by card.

£36 (30 mins) *See reviews for what is achievable in just 30 minutes!
£72 (1 hour)
£92 (1.5 hours)
Reiki £70 (1 hour allow additional time any questions afterwards)
Reiki distant Healing £25 (30 mins)

Remote payments for your friends and familyare easily made using Sum Up secure web links or Pay Pal. For a gift type purchase; I am not currently organised for electronic gift vouchers, so you will have to let them know in your unique way! Please communicate with me first before paying via Pay Pal. For the Sum Up link, I will be sending that to you.

REVIEWS

Regarding reviews, I feel that your experience here at The Quiet Space should be completely confidential.

I never used to use reviews as a way of describing the potential benefits to YOU of our working together.

However there has over the past few years appeared many reviews about various aspects of people’s experience of themselves when they have been here. All of the reviews here and on the Review Page are independently verifiable on Google which is where I found them myself. They have not been edited by me. They are almost exclusively from people who I never met before many of them who only came came for a 30 minute massage.

I will admit they are very nice to read, and I accept they help people make a decision.. but please keep in mind that you are here for you; not to file a report for others with totally different needs, history and goals.

As the reviews on the other page testify quite uniformly, this is not a standardised one size, one technique experience. Wanting what someone else seemed to have got is yet another boundary to actually getting and receiving what you want and need. You are not them, they are not you.

YOUR SPORTS, ANTE NATAL, POST NATAL, GENERAL RELAXATION MASSAGE ETC ETC ETC…

Biomechanics -‘fixing shoulders etc are mostly what prompts a new appointment with those wanting a ‘quick fix’ and a reset. That is fine by me and I am happy to help you with that. Do consider though that the benefits to you of massage are really multi dimensional Your muscles reflect your mental and emotional states as well as mechanical physical habits.

The power of and the potential of body work has seemed to be lost in the pile it high sell it cheap generic ‘set moves routines’ approach to ‘getting a massage’ nowadays. Obviously I cannot totally predict an outcome for you as that is dependant on many variables.. but after all these years I definitely can construct the massage around an intended outcome for you as an individual and how you are presenting on that day at that time that week and with your schedule…

So ask.. and understand that the pre massage chat and intake is for me an important part of the appointment, not a corporate box ticking liability exercise. The more appointments we engage in the more the relevance of it will be apparent to you, because you will discover that each of your massages is different.

On other pages I focus on outlining in everyday language the actual potential benefits for you from each ‘type’ of massage rather than an educational anatomy and physiology approach. Because that gives more scope to describe the multi-dimensional affect that massage can have.

So…Aside from the actually multi dimensional ‘specifics’ How do you want to feel generally after your massage?

ENERGISED?
RELAXED?
MENTALLY FOCUSED?
‘CENTRED’?
MORE COORDINATED?
READY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD?
READY FOR A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP?
IN LESS PAIN?
CALMER?


Or do you simply /primarily want to take the opportunity for some controlled 'time out'
(One review comment - ‘refreshed’

There is a bespoke massage waiting just for you here with me at The Quiet Space. Make an appointment

MORE ABOUT YOUR MASSAGE HERE AT THE QUIET SPACE

MINI BIOGRAPHY

My original training was at The Swedish Institute in Manhattan USA in 1998.
On graduation from The Swedish institute we were qualified to and expected to apply our skills as required with sport and injuries, with pregnancy or medical conditions both in our private practice and when working in collaboration with chiropractors, in hospitals or with medical insurance companies

I have training, qualifications and have practiced in Shiatsu and five element theory and Dr.Vodder Lymphatic Drainage but I do not offer them anymore as standalone therapies as I have always focused on massage therapy.

I have also been Reiki attuned since 2000 and am currently undergoing a very traditional albeit long distance apprenticeship in Reiki master with my original teacher who lives and practices in New York. We are of the Usui lineage and our branch or lineage is comprised of six prior masters.

For a period of time from 2009-2019 I worked as a nurse within the NHS and continued with my massage therapy practice at The Quiet Space in my free time. It was very fulfilling to take care of acutely and seriously unwell patients; an honour and a privilege. I liked and admired many of my colleagues and often felt very proud to be part of some of the experiences.

It took a long time to extricate myself from the nursing role. I finally managed it in November 2019 and was completely satisfied with the decision until Covid. I have since let my registration as a nurse lapse and once again my focus now is solely on The Quiet Space and my original and true vocation as a therapist.

STRENGTH COORDINATION AND FLEXIBILITY

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all you had to do was lay down on my massage table and acquire these attributes! That is so not going to magically happen! This is a massage (various methodology aside, it is not a training session and there is plenty of work to be done within the massage ‘just’ massaging.

Any physical endeavour is a combination of strength, coordination and flexibility.. Skilled massage...can help you discover self limiting patterns and habitual responses and to begin to change them. The change and work still lies with you. The massage is an opportunity to become more aware and sensitive to yourself.

For the less ‘muscle bound’ feeling good and at ease in your body sends a positive message to your brain and therefore your mind state.

SPORTS MASSAGE

PREGNANCY MASSAGE

LOCATION DIRECTIONS

My treatment room is located within the Grade 2 Listed buildings of The Cannon Workshops on Hertsmere Road just off West India Quay.
Post code is E14 4AS. See map on side bar.

FREE PARKING is available during your appointment time. I will need your car make, colour and reg as the parking permit system is camera and licence plate recognition controlled.

Nearest DLR/Tube: Canary Wharf, West India Quay, Westferry London E14

Bus: D3, D8, D7, 277, 135, D6

Cycling The treatment room can easily accomadate your bike. So feel free to just bring it inside. This can also be useful for any related assessment.

My room is found by entering the doorway ‘INSIDE’ the actual archway. Most people just don’t notice it and walk straight past it and into the courtyard!

FROM CABOT SQUARE
It is a 5 minute walk from Cabot Square.
Cross over the pedestrian bridge onto The West India Quay; turn left as you come off the bridge and you will see The Cannon Workshops ahead of you facing the end of the quay. (The water is now on your left and the bars and restaurants are on your right and
The Cannon Workshops will be visible straight ahead of you once you pass The Docklands Museum.)

WEST INDIA QUAY
West India Quay DLR and the Elizabeth line are a three minutes walk straight along the quayside same as above. Water and Canary Wharf on your left. Bars and restaurants on your right. It brings you directly to The Workshops.
Westferry DLR
Is five minutes walk. If you are familiar with all the clocks from different countries on the brick wall opposite the Limehouse link they are on the back wall of The Cannon Workshops. Don’t use city mapper, it takes you to a location right beside Westferry DLR we left in 2005! I have notified them several times, to no avail.

NEVER HAD A THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE BEFORE?

I wrote the text featured at the bottom of the page titled ‘Thoughts on Massage’ way back in 2000 when I first returned to London. 20 Years ago skilled therapeutic massage was not really so widely available in London and generally people were less well educated about the benefits.

In any case, times and attitudes have certainly changed and massage therapy clients are now familiar with concepts of deep tissue, trigger point, sport massage and so forth. However the words I wrote 20 years ago below when still relatively inexperienced still hold true and apply in some way to every type of massage whether it be sport, deep tissue, general relaxation, remedial or pregnancy or any other description currently in vogue!