Ceremonial Bodywork
& Healing
Heal Your Body, Awaken Your Spirit
By Joe van Niekerk
My work is dedicated to supporting you on a profound journey towards true inner peace.
This is achieved by helping you move any stagnant energy trapped inside your body. As a committed coach and lomi lomi bodywork practitioner, my role involves creating a safe space for you on your journey of healing, growth, and expansion.
One of my greatest joys is seeing the positive transformation in my clients after their treatments.
Before we delve into ceremonial bodywork, we first explore your emotional state.
Regulating the nervous system is crucial in managing your emotions. When emotions surface, your physical body reacts accordingly. Emotion = energy in motion.
Ideally, this energy should flow freely out of your body.
If this energy is suppressed or repressed, it no longer moves and becomes stuck in your body. This can create a feeling of heaviness, lead to blockages in your energetic pathways, and leave you feeling stuck. My approach is first to help you connect with your emotions and regulate your nervous system. After that, we move into ceremonial bodywork to access the deeper layers of trapped energy.
Finally, I assist you in connecting with your eternal Self!
What to expect:
My coaching practice, combined with ceremonial bodywork and the ancient art of Lomi Lomi (a practice rooted in Hawaiian traditions), guides you through a transformative experience. This helps restore your connection to self and body, and creates space for newfound awareness. This sacred therapy is more than just a massage – it’s a holistic passage towards harmony and peace, igniting physical, emotional, and spiritual alignment.
*Please know that these bodywork sessions cannot be done online, and therefore will depend on Joe’s physical location at the time of booking (between Europe & South Africa).
Bodywork
A 4-Step Approach to Healing
Joe’s bodywork approach goes beyond a simple massage. It’s a transformative journey designed to release tension, reconnect you with your body, and facilitate emotional healing. Here’s a glimpse into the 4-step process:
1. Safe Space & Intention Setting:
The session begins by creating a safe and supportive environment where you feel comfortable letting go. Joe will guide you through a brief intention-setting process to focus on areas you’d like to address in the session.
2. Intuitive Touch & Release:
Through a combination of techniques like Lomi Lomi massage and somatic work, Joe will intuitively work with your body to release tension and blockages. This may involve gentle stretching, applying pressure to specific points, or flowing movements designed to facilitate release.
3. Breathwork & Emotional Processing:
Breathwork plays a crucial role in the session. As your body releases tension, you may experience emotions arise. Joe will guide you through breathwork techniques to support emotional processing and integration. This allows for a holistic release on both physical and emotional levels.
4. Integration & Self-Care:
The session concludes with time for reflection and integration. Joe will provide tools and practices you can incorporate into your daily life to maintain the positive shifts experienced during the session. This empowers you to continue your healing journey beyond the bodywork session.
Warren Haviside
have so much admiration for Joe. The fact that he made such a massive adjustment and change from a professional rugby player to what he does now is testimony to how true to himself he is.
His honesty and openness towards himself allows him to project that onto other people, giving them the opportunity to explore their own truths and in turn live a better life. The realising and shedding of the ego mind and the reading of my natal chart is something that really helped me have a better understanding of who I am. Joe’s approach to his work and service to others comes with no judgment whatsoever and he creates such a comfortable space that not only do I view him as a teacher but also as a friend. I am extremely grateful for his positive energy, guidance and love.
Marjolien
I cannot compare a lomi lomi massage with any other massage technique. The movements along the whole body give a special sensation and afterwards a sense of deep rest. Joe is a caring massage therapist … He remains present during the whole treatment, which creates a safe space. A lomi lomi massage is a treat for both body and mind!
Jade Reinertsen
It’s been a safe, trusted, gentle and professionally held space with Joe. He is kind, non-judgmental and very intuitive at guiding you through what your body, mind and possibly your soul needs.
I can 100% confirm that I felt the shift during the session as well as after. The most powerful of the shifts is my perspective and my understanding of my own inner strength and knowing what I am able to tap into within myself. I used to be crippled at times by self doubt and this process has transformed that into complete self-compassion and belief. The physical shift of shedding and releasing guilt has also reduced inflammation in my gut. Ultimately the shifts are infusing their positive and healing vibes into my mind, soul, body and family and friendships too. My radiance is evident.
Joe is someone whom I believe knows how to gently hold you emotionally and guide you slowly at your pace, not his. His curiosity into your deeper potential and healing is where others sometimes fear to tread. He goes there with you, with compassion to guide you through it.
Aranka Pieters
A friend recommended Joe to me she exopressed, I should definitely see him for a lomi lomi healing massage. The day I bumped into her she had just come from Joe she radiated such beautiful energy. I wanted to have this experience. When I left Joe’s practice a few weeks later, I completely understood how she felt. After a warm welcome, Joe took the time to connect with me he asked my intentions for the treatment. He listened respectfully to my story & carefully addressed my needs making me feel safe. The massage was a deep experience. I felt respected, in my body and as a person. I felt safe, he held space for all my emotions. I felt connected, with him, myself and something bigger than us. I felt his presence, he was really there, tuned in with me. I am very grateful for his guidance in this experience and will definitely meet him again soon.
Pascale
Thank you Joe for the very special experience. The moment you touched my heart I could feel how much pain there was still stored in my body and for how long I struggled with this deep pain inside.
Whilst I was lying on your table and receiving your healing, I felt that my heart energy was blocked. But the more you opened it and let it flow, the more I could feel the pain leaving my body and system. You helped me release the suffering that I experienced for so many years… You gave me such a special gift and I feel so blessed and grateful!
I have no words to express my gratitude and love for the person you are and what you showed me.
Martyn Edge
Had my 1:1 today and I can honestly say with my whole heart it was a Very eye-opening experience. Joe helped me look at things in a different light and made me realise that the things I was scared to let go of were the the things that are holding me back from being my true self. He does great work and if you’re willing to be honest and open(with your self mainly) there is a lot he can help you with. Highly recommend.
I’m looking at things In a different light instead of worrying what will happen if I don’t hold on to things I’m actually excited to let them go and move forward healing and accepting.
You allow people to be authentically themselves vulnerabilities and all, Without judgment. Which helps them accept themselves more allowing them to be able to heal and move forward happy and free.
For me personally you did everything I needed and that was without me expecting anything. You allowed me to speak my truth and never told me that I was wrong for how I felt, you encouraged me to look at things from a different angle and it worked so for me, it was brilliant.
Michael Elliot-Murray
Working with Joe exemplifies brotherhood, warmth, respect, love and support. I am so incredibly optimistic about my transformational journey with Joe.
I understand the lay of the landscape and see the vision, so now I plan leveraging Joe’s guidance and love to take the next steps in my life.
Life can be so incredibly challenging in it’s unique ways. Joe will be able to help you understand and transverse the various seasons in life to integrate and leverage the lessons from your childhood, teenage and adult trauma’s to help you realise the best version of yourself.
It’s only the beginning for Joe and I.
Chris Eggermont
Safety is a thing for me and yet I was completely at ease from the first second. After an exploratory talk, I was able to enjoy over 2 hours of a profound massage by Joe’s loving and magical hands and presence. It brought me completely out of my head into my body. I (and those around me) could enjoy the openness it created in my heart for a long time. It brought movement in head, heart and body. During the coaching afterwards it was nice to be able to look back and receive a piece of essential wisdom. I felt more deeply rooted and at the same time delightfully light to tackle things.
Anita Reynolds
Were do I start… First of all Thank you dear Joe. I have had so many sessions, treatments, massages in my life BUT NOTHING LIKE TODAY. Today shifted something inside me FOR ME. Today was not just another session. Joe and I connected and with his soft and safe way of guidance I just let go. I cant remember when last, or if I have ever tapped in so deep to myself, finding my voice, awaking the WOMAN I KNEW that was there all along “but I never had time for her” I was to busy with the world and what was going on around me that I totally “left her in the dark” thank you for awakening “the ballerina” looking forward to our journey with sooo much excitement and joy.
It like a light went on inside of me, my mind feels lighter, like taking control of my thoughts now feels easier. The light fills my whole body not just some parts. The darkness has “cracked” open and now the light can come in and heal.
If you want to grow, heal and find your voice. Taking charge of life FOR YOU, FINDING YOU, that special special you inside yourself and it is just FOR YOU. Loving yourself starts from within, its time…
Marjan Megan
Joe is a healer who works with you from a holistic and balanced perspective: spiritual vs. physical, feminine energy vs masculine, deep dive vs. lightness, brother vs. sister…
He opened his arms and held space for me so beautifully. Having a session with Joe feels like seeing a long lost relative who had been hidden from my life, a brother to share my deepest shadows, my childlike wishes with, and to feel completely safe within bodywork.
Joe takes you on deep dive, dig up those old wounds and then helps you heal it without getting lost in the stories. He helps you to stay focused and lets you find that gold you’ve been looking for to start healing the wound. The Lomi Lomi massage is truly magical: it is a journey where two spirits can exchange and find a connection that is rare, so rare in this earthly life!
Haldane Luscombe (Wales)
I recently had the privilege of participating in an online session with a remarkable human being whose expertise extends far beyond the field.
The session was an enlightening journey through diet, mindset, and specialised healing modalities, all tailored to enhance both physical and mental well-being. Joe shared invaluable insights into nutrition that are specifically beneficial for healing alongside strategies to cultivate the right mindset.
His approach to integrating healing modalities into overall wellness practices was not only unique but also deeply effective, offering immediate benefits and actionable steps I could incorporate into my daily routine. The personalized advice and genuine care and love Joe brought to our session have made a significant impact on my approach to health and healing. I am truly grateful for the guidance and would highly recommend Joe to anyone looking to work with him.
Els de Wilde
Strongly grounded and present in the moment, Joe as spiritual guide created a safe haven where I was allowed to explore the deeper layers of my consciousness in full surrender.
His gentleness, listening ear and unconditional support whilst guiding me in this left a deep impression.
Infinitely grateful for the energetic way he was able to carry my whole Being and at the same time strengthen my body, mind and spirit with his unique healing touch.
He is a true Spaceholder supporting humanity to heal…
Philip Deceuninck
The short meditation helped me to get more into my body and let go of any stress in my mind. Joe feels the tension in my body and tries to reduce it in a loving way and with a lot of attention and care.
I noticed myself becoming more open and spacious over time… He worked on the heavy and difficult emotions being stored in my body in a very gentle and loving way. All my hugs to you Joe, I feel so much gratitude for this valuable, intense, spiritual, relaxing journey!
Luce
A healing blend of meditation, shamanism and Lomi Lomi in the presence of the unseen world, this charismatic man manages to integrate in his own unique way. A cocktail that flows into my body like a divine breath and becomes palpable to my deepest fibers as I lie on the massage table. Everything “makes sense” in this ultimate experience passed on with so much love and passion. I can only recommend it very highly…