Essence of Healing

A connection with the land, the self and the heart.

Healing is more than manual therapy on a static table—it’s a living, multifaceted journey. Each person we treat is a unique expression of divine essence. Here, you’ll learn to connect deeply, hear your inner wisdom, and come to know your true self.

Experience ceremonial practices in Cornwall’s sacred landscape—remember your nature to connect in authenticity and hold space for transformation.
Engage in a beyond-technique approach that awakens your client’s own healing intelligence.
Explore creative expression to move past linear thinking, open to your intuitive and imaginative side and access deeper insight and wisdom.
Cultivate sacred space through intentional creation and deep listening—ensuring safety, trust, and profound connection.

Movement and self-care is the cornerstone in successful care of others-receiving first for oneself and giving from the overflow.

This blend of land-rooted ceremony, somatic embodiment, and imaginative play invites you to reclaim wholeness from the inside out.

Immerse yourself in learning through experiential practice

The Art of Sacred Space

The Art of Science and Energy

The Art of Sacred Space

Sacred space is an essential component to a safe and nurturing healing environment for the client and practitioner. You’ll learn to create and sustain space that supports both your clients’ transformation and your own wellbeing. Sacred space becomes a living, holistic element of every session—nurturing connection, trust, and deep healing.

The Art of Movement

The Art of Science and Energy

The Art of Sacred Space

Through the art of movement, you’ll learn self-care rituals that soothe your nervous system, enliven your energy, and keep your body resilient—so you can hold safe, sacred space. All practices can be seamlessly woven into client sessions, inviting deeper engagement and embodied healing.

The Art of Science and Energy

Here, empirical wisdom meets subtle alchemy: you’ll explore body-centered science alongside energetic practices that honor the unseen currents of healing.
You’ll leave with a deep understanding of evidence-informed rituals and energetic attunements, ready to support clients both biomechanically and beyond the visible spectrum of healing.

The Art of Expression

The Art of Facilitation

The Art of Science and Energy

You’ll be invited into playful, creative practices that bypass the linear mind and open portals to intuitive insight. Using art as a somatic bridge, you’ll learn to translate felt sensations into visual and written form, deepening your own embodied knowing. You’ll also discover simple, client-ready rituals to guide others through their ow

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The Art of Connection

The Art of Facilitation

This is where nature becomes the teacher. You’ll learn to tune into the subtle messages of trees, plants, and stones, translating their wisdom into grounded practices. These experiences deepen your relational attunement, so you can hold both the seen and unseen with equal reverence—and guide your clients to feel that same soulful alliance with the natural world.

The Art of Facilitation

This is the heart and soul of this immersion! You’ll learn to listen deeply to the body’s language—tracking sensations, patterns of tension, and the whispers of held emotion. Through gentle Myofascial Release and guided touch, you’ll discover how to facilitate release and resilience in both yourself and your clients. By honing your ability to sense subtle shifts in the tissue and nervous system, you’ll cultivate a somatic literacy that transforms touch into a dialog, guiding each person toward embodied freedom and lasting restoration.

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Discover the Essence of Healing

The Essence of Healing is for.......

This is a full immersion into the art of healing facilitation. We believe that healing is a partnership where presence, listening, connection and relationship is an honored part of the process. Healers serve as guides to educe and evoke the client's inner wisdom and ability to heal, provide sacred space and safety.

This immersion is for practitioners who work with the body, fascial system, energy system and/or nervous system.

We will learn from experiential fascial informed practices how to best serve our clients as we serve our selves as facilitators. This is an immersion into the heart of you the healer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us by contacting clairesangster@hotmail.co.uk or
deborah.epstein.23@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

Why Cornwall, UK?

Cornwall has a rich and sacred history. The land, ancient trees, stone circles, and ocean all add a deep and sacred feel to support this immersive journey.

I don't know much about the fascia or how to work with it, is this for me?

No worries! Deborah and Claire are both highly trained and much sought after healing facilitators who have worked with the fascial system for many years. They are here to guide you and expand your knowledge in all systems and how to work within them for your clients highest healing abilities

Are meals provided and are they vegetarian or vegan?

All of our meals are plant based. We offer gluten-free options upon request. Please let us know of any dietary restrictions or preferences in advance.

Are payment plans available?

Yes! We do offer installment plans that include a 5% administration fee. Simply choose which option you prefer–installments or pay in full and then follow the prompts to complete the process.

Testimonials

"To work with Deb is to embark on a deeply profound journey. Within minutes of my first treatment, I felt my entire body exhale with relief. I felt seen, safe, honored, protected and guided by her healing touch and deep wisdom.

Since my intensive with Deb I have gained so much clarity in my path forward in life. My body has released eons of generational trauma. I am physically stronger, softer and grounded in my truth. I feel like I have come back to life and have the capacity to embrace it wholeheartedly.

I bow with honor and gratitude to you Deb."

- Deirdre M., Sweden

We were lucky to have Claire attend one of our retreats as a therapist in MFR.

Her warm and passionate knowledge about the therapy enthused many to have a first treatment, including myself. Claire's touch is confident and gentle and generates a lot of heat. Although she moves her hands not very much, the stretches feel deep and delicious. She releases emotional and physical congestion which feels incredibly cleansing. The healing effects are palpaple. I felt several inches taller, I felt lighter and had a spring in my step from just one treatment.

Other guests reported similar experiences and those with specific problems shared that they were able to deeply feel the healing effects of her gentle but powerful touch.

Working with Deborah has been nothing short of a revelation. She is guiding me in how to work with subtle energies and deepen my connection to my higher self and soul’s purpose. The questions that have stirred within me are finding space, shape, and answers. What am I here for? What am I still holding onto that is ready for release? How do I move forward with clarity, abundance, and ease in my work and life?

Deborah brings together a rare and powerful triad of gifts: she is an accomplished shamanic practitioner, a visionary artist, and a masterful practitioner of Myofascial Release. These three areas of mastery align beautifully with what I’ve been longing for—the release of old patterns still held in my physical body, communion with the higher creative realms, and a more grounded connection with the Earth and her boundless gifts of life and joy.

This work is my next level—an embodied, intuitive path of inner knowing, deep listening, and living from a place of resonance, flow, and truth. I’m so grateful to have found a guide and channel like Deborah who can help me fine-tune my own.

— Linda Seebantz, Founder, True Story Communications

My treatment with Claire (at the Secret Space in Hertford) has been utterly transformative and totally game-changing. I’m blown away. In just a few short weeks Claire has significantly reduced the pain and tension in my body that I have been carrying around and suffering with for years. Myofascial release is such a unique therapy, arguably lesser well-known, and I promise you it is magical! Moreover, I’m certain it is Claire’s special talent, kindness, and energy for her clients that really stands her treatments apart. She matches an impressive technical expertise with a deeply empathetic intuition. I am immeasurably grateful for how she’s helped me through such a challenging time - she continues to amaze me, and I intend on being a client for life! - Catherine

Deborah has an incredible gift, taking you on a journey deep inside your body in a way that you don't tend to do very often.

She expertly brought my attention to areas in my body where I was able to feel and release areas of tension and bracing

of which I was previously unaware.

The treatment I received from Deborah was so intuitive,

guided by her deep spiritual grounding -it felt like such a deep experience despite her incredibly gentle touch.

I look forward to returning soon, it's definitely worth the journey.

-Jules M., Ireland

Claire is an extraordinary teacher who blends humour, kindness with what it's obviously many years of experience.
I felt empowered to take charge of my own healthcare and trust my body. She has helped me to develop a kind of attitude towards myself and my body and I would recommend anyone to her classes.

"Deb's exceptional skills as a therapist are only surpassed by the depth of her compassionate soul. Within moments, I felt an unprecedented sense of safety under her care." -Gem B. UK

My MFR session with Claire was absolutely amazing. I went in with very various aches and pains And left feeling relaxed and pain-free. The extraordinary thing about having a session with Claire is that she is so gentle and yet the benefits are powerful. I highly recommend Claire to anyone.