Sessions
Everyone starts in the same room. ANTARA is ninety minutes, fully clothed, in silence, with nothing required of you.
Battersea, London · One to one, in person · Sixty to ninety minutes · In English or French
The work practised here is called NERVANA. Kilian created it, and it is practised nowhere else. It works slowly, with the breath and the nervous system.
It is a suite, not a selection. ANTARA is the entrance. Everyone passes through it, and what lies beyond opens in its own order, in conversation, never from a list. What they share: you stay dressed, and the room is silent. What they change: the amount you are holding when you leave.
ANTARA
90 minutes · The threshold session
For the weight you have carried longest.
Ninety minutes for the thing underneath the other things. ANTARA is the entrance. It is unhurried by design, long enough for the body to stop bracing, and then to let go of what the bracing was holding.
You will not be asked what it is. The body knows where it is kept.
Most leave quieter than they have been in years. Some leave having released something they could not have named on the way in.
90 minutes · One to one, in person · Everyone begins here
VAYU
60 minutes · For the tightness that lives high
When you cannot get a full breath.
Sixty minutes for the held chest, the shallow breath, the sense of running slightly ahead of yourself. VAYU works with what restricts, and returns the breath you have been taking in halves.
You leave with more room. Not a metaphor. More room.
60 minutes · Opens after ANTARA, in conversation
SOMA
60 minutes · For what the body has stored
The tension you have stopped noticing.
Sixty minutes for the held body: the shoulders that no longer come down, the jaw, the places that have been tight so long they feel like structure. SOMA meets the tissue where it has settled and lets it change its mind.
You leave lower to the ground. Steadier. Returned to your own weight.
60 minutes · Opens after ANTARA, in conversation
TRANSMISSION
By application · Rarely, and to few
The deepest room. Not for everyone, and not often.
TRANSMISSION is not booked. It is applied for, and it is granted rarely, and to very few people at all.
It asks more of you and returns more. Those it is for tend to recognise it before it is described.
If you feel it is yours, say so.
Also practised here
Older than the house.
Four practices are offered apart from the suite. Abhyanga and Marma are Ayurvedic, learned in India and practised in their old form.
ABHYANGA
Ayurvedic · 60 minutes
Warm oil, worked over the whole body in one unbroken rhythm. It is the oldest practice in this house, and the only one that uses oil.
MARMA
Ayurvedic · 60 minutes
An Ayurvedic massage with no oil. You stay dressed, and the pressure is held at named points that sit in the same place on every body. Slower than massage, and more deliberate.
REIKI
60 minutes
Hands resting on the body, or just above it, and held. Nothing is pressed and nothing is moved. Fully clothed, in silence.
Kilian is a Reiki master. He teaches the first level and the second.
SOUND HEALING
60 minutes
Bowls set directly on the body and struck softly, so the tone arrives through the body before it reaches the ear. Fully clothed, face down, then turned. It is the only work here you will hear, and for an hour there is something to listen to.
Marma
A massage that does not travel.
The massage most people have had travels. Oil, a towel, long strokes along the muscle, and a hand that keeps moving until it finds the knot. Marma is a massage too, and it goes the other way. You stay dressed. No oil is used. The pressure arrives at one point and is held there.
The points are called marma. They are named, and they sit in the same place on every body, so nothing in the hour is a search. Kilian works at the points and not between them, and he holds each one for longer than you will expect.
Nothing is kneaded. Nothing is chased. The pace does not change from one point to the next, and the body has a long time to stop expecting the next thing. You leave dressed, and slower than you came in.
For someone who would rather be left still than be worked on. Staying dressed is not a concession here. It is how the hour is built.
Ayurvedic · 60 minutes · One to one, in person
The Arc
The work is not a single visit.
What is set down once can be set down more completely across a series. The Arc is a sequence of sessions, taken over time, for those who would rather go all the way than go once. It is arranged privately, in conversation.
By arrangement