people most often pushed to the margins of care:

• qtibipoc, black, brown, indigenous and low socio-economic global majority communities

• lgbtqia+, two spirit, flinta, queer, trans+, non-binary and gender-expansive folx

• migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, diasporic folx and sex workers

• disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent folx

• survivors of violence, trauma, policing, prisons or institutional harm

• people living through war, genocide, displacement or precarity

• anyone who’s never felt safe being touched and held

i also welcome anyone seeking touch held with clarity, dignity and right-relationship.

if safety has been difficult to find, my practice holds you in mind.

• slow, continuous, non-sexual touch, guided by attention and care

• consent established clearly, with space to adjust or pause at any point

• no pressure to talk or explain

• a pace that allows your body to settle

• space to rest, soften, and breathe

• being met with care, without expectation

a steady rhythm and sense of being held with space to arrive in your body.

you’ll be met as you are, through careful, attuned presence.

my practice is shaped through my training with the slowandaware community, where I first encountered what was called lomi lohi: a slowed, relational form of lomi-style touch.

what stayed with me was tactile slowness. multi-handed relational work. deep listening through the hands. creating embodied safety through rhythm and attuned presence.

i describe my work as lomi-informed because i don’t claim hawaiian lineage.

i trained in the uk, and what i received came through layered histories of suppression, survival and global circulation. i take that history seriously.

i honour the kānaka maoli practitioners, communities and māhū elders who protected lomilomi through united states militarisation, colonisation, criminalisation and commodification.

my responsibility is to practise with humility, avoid extraction, and remain accountable to the histories this wisdom carries, recognising how these struggles are connected across time and place.

you can read more about my position on lineage and responsibility over on my substack.

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right-relationship is the ground of this practice. it means care that is aligned, accountable, and connected to land, to lineage, to community, to justice, and to the world we’re trying to restore balance to.

within touch and justice, right-relationship means:

• care that honours the body and the systems shaping it

• consent as collaboration, not procedure

• touch that strengthens agency rather than compliance

• working at the pace of trust, not expectation

• holding bodies within the realities of race, gender, class, disability, migration, and history

• refusing neutrality in the face of violence

• staying aligned with movements resisting colonial harm, racial capitalism, policing, and extraction

• understanding that personal restoration supports collective resistance

• building a space where care and justice aren’t separate paths but are always in ‘right relationship’

right-relationship and right-path is how people begin to return to themselves and to the wider work they‘re part of.

it’s one way this work stays honest.

as someone practicing within an imperialist-colonial island, I hold responsibility and accountability for how touch intersects with history, power, identity, trauma, entitlement and privilege.

care is a relationship. right relationship keeps this work honest. it’s something we practise together, in the body and in relation.