Welcome to Ayurvedic Yoga Massage UK

Become a therapist

Therapist Training courses are now resuming in accordance with official guidelines and with additional safety measures in place. Please contact us for a student application form and further information.

Workshops

You don’t have to be a therapist to give an amazing massage

We’ll teach you an enjoyable and effective sequence of massage strokes and stretches that you will love giving, and your friends and family will love receiving

Upcoming Workshops

Concessionary rates are available where applicable

London, Hoxton Square

12 October, 12-4 pm

£65-80

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Leeds, Hot Yoga Chapel

26 October, 12-4 pm

£60

Find a Therapist

Would you like to book a healing, relaxing massage for yourself or others?

We offer an extremely effective method for balancing your physical, emotional and energetic body in a welcoming space, to help you be pain free, centred and joyful

Latest News and Updates

  • October 2025 newsleter

    By Despina Psarra • 24/10/2025
    Click here to read our news, updates on upcoming workshops, weekend trainings and the 300-hour Ayurvedic Yoga Massage therapist training, and a couple of exciting new offerings cooking with We Wilder and Singing with Nightingales!
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  • How much Ayurvedic Yoga Massage do you need?

    By Despina Psarra • 02/02/2025
    Clients often ask me how much AYM is too much – really, there is no maximum of how much would be beneficial! Unless you’ve been on a yoga retreat for the past couple of months, in which case, maybe you’re already *really* close to your optimal health. For most of us, that just doesn’t tend…
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  • Introducing our 300-hour therapist trainings

    By Despina Psarra • 08/09/2023
    Hi everyone! We hope the Summer months have been kind to you all! As we enter the new academic year it seems the perfect time to update you all on some important changes at AYM UK. As some of you may know, Despina has been working hard over the summer to develop a new AYM…
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Customer testimonials

  • Michelle Owen

    I’d been looking for a massage course for a long time before finding Despina. Nothing had felt right before. I was looking for a teacher who was wise, experienced, has a heart for people, and an instinctive way of responding to health and the body. Despina is all of those things. She is very knowledgable, and that shines through. She really knows her craft and cares about people and those she is passing it on to. She believes in what she does, and having spent a week with her, feeling the impact of this approach – so do I. I have left the course really excited about sharing, and feeling confident to do so. Not only have I learnt loads, I feel like I’ve been on the most amazing retreat.
  • Kelly

    The treatment was fantastic, Amy is excellent and professional. I felt calm and relaxed and afterwards I felt rejuvenated and de-stressed . I would recommend Amy to anybody.
  • Debra

    I have known Alison for several year’s and been fortunate to benefit from her calming breathing sessions and wonderful gong baths. As lifelong insomniac, I still use her breathing techniques to focus and help clear my mind before sleep. Recently Alison came to my home to give me a back and shoulder massage. I had been feeling some aches and tightness in lower back and left shoulder. She brought all her equipment and oils and set up very efficiently. She was very reassuring, explaining what she was going to do and even incorporated some breathing practice at the start, win win for me! Using the oils as well as powder gave two very different experiences, but I have to say this was wonderful and I loved the more  textured massaging with the powder. The shoulder treatment and just right amount of pressure almost instantly relieved the tightness. Alison did some great massage on my lower back, concentrating on outer hips and this was so relaxing and eased the aches I had considerably. This was a wonderful experience Alison thank you, and I’m looking forward to further treatments and would highly recommend you to my family and friends.