Venus Moon didn't start as a brand. It started with me.
I was born on a Friday. Venus's day, with both my Venus and Moon in Cancer: the sign of care, water & feeling. The name was always going to be this. For fifteen years I've worked across some of Belfast's most respected holistic spaces, and now I've brought everything I've learned home to Venus Moon. As much as I've studied this work, it has always felt like something I was remembering rather than learning …as though my hands knew it before I did.
Hi, I’m Sophie!
My Approach
No fixed routine, no two treatments the same. I read what your body is saying on the day, the mood you've carried in with it, and draw on the whole of my training to shape something made only for you. I've never believed the body stops at the skin, so I work with the physical and the energetic together, the way the older traditions always did. I also live with chronic health conditions myself, which changes everything about how I treat people. I know what it is to be in a body that doesn't always cooperate - to be tired in a way sleep doesn't fix, to be in pain that doesn't show. So if you arrive in a body that feels like hard work, you won't have to explain yourself here. I understand more than you might expect.
My Training
My training is wide: massage in many forms - Swedish, Balinese, Lomi Lomi, hot stone, Indian head, plus Ayurvedic Abhyanga and Shirodhara learned in Goa, sports, pregnancy, trauma release and womb work, craniosacral, and both manual and Brazilian lymphatic drainage. My aromatherapy traces back to Amanda Brady, who taught the first Neals Yard Remedies aromatherapy course in Covent Garden and was my own tutor. My reflexology runs to advanced level across fertility, maternity and cancer care. I'm a Usui Reiki Master, also trained in Angelic, Ascension and Kundalini Reiki, and I hold an HND in Hair and Beauty Management, completed with Distinction and the Jill Black Award.
What to expect
Your first visit is unhurried, and led by you. We'll talk through what you need, then I'll shape the session around it. There's nothing to prepare and nothing to get right - just come as you are, and let yourself stop for a while. No two bodies arrive the same, and no two treatments are