All about our staff

At Bodyworks Massage Therapy we're passionate about getting your body working!  Being Christchurch based is great - there's so many active people here and you've got so much choice for sports and physical activities. 

Your massage therapist - Rachel Ah Kit

Rachel loves the opportunities massage therapy provides her to work with clients to produce visible results - whether its allowing them to move freer, run faster, become pain-free or just seeing a look of total relaxation as they leave the clinic.  She switched careers after nearly 15 years in a variety of marketing roles - and has relished every moment!

Rachel holds a Diploma of Massage Therapy from the Canterbury College of Natural Medicine.  She is also registered as a Remedial Massage Therapist (RMT) with Massage New Zealand, the professional association for massage therapists.  As a RMT, Rachel must undertake ongoing professional training, teaching and/or research.

She has worked with a wide variety of people - so if you're an office based worker, in sales and on the road, you're in a trade, in hospitality, the health & fitness industry, the police, or you're a student, a stressed out mum (or mum-to-be) or you're retired - Rachel knows about you. If your background is something completely different - don't worry, it won't take her long to understand where you're coming from! 

Rachel's also worked with people who take part in a variety of activity levels - from those recovering from major surgery, daily walkers or joggers, recreational or competitive cyclists, runners and multisport athletes, through to professional sportspeople.

Rachel has also trained in:

• Thermal Stone for Remedial Massage Therapists (read more about thermal stone massage)
• Certificate in Advanced Sports Massage (treating sports specific conditions & injuries)
• Anatomy Trains (understanding of whole-body patterning in posture and function - read more here)

Rachel also has training and experience in pregnancy massage, massage for the elderly and infant massage.  Recently she's been involved in post-earthquake relief work - both as a volunteer and paid.

When she's not in the massage clinic you'll find her at the gym, on her snowboard up the mountain, at the beach, watching rugby, at tweet-ups or at home hanging out with her cat !

Book now for your massage session with Rachel.

Cat therapist - Sahry

An integral part of the therapy is Sahry the resident cat.  As an ex-Outreach Therapy cat she is well used to strangers and will quickly warm to new clients, often greeting them at the door or sitting with them during the consultation. 

As international research has shown that interaction with pets can help with lowering blood pressure and maintaining a sense of calm in a person, Sahry takes her role pretty seriously. Although she is slightly nutty too and has been known to stretch and roll herself off the sofa.

The best thing though, is that her smooches are complimentary to all willing clients.  All part of the service

Our environmental policy

We try to do our bit to help the environment, as well as to ensure your health & wellbeing.  We choose to wash all linen in ecostore laundry powder, with their oxygen whitener using a state-of-the-art Bosch washing machine with a 4-star energy rating and a 4-star water rating. Surface cleaning is done using ecostore citrus-based cleaner, glassware is washed with ecostore auto-dishwash powder, and hands washed in ecostore liquid handwash - in case you hadn't figured it out, we love ecostore products.  Not only are they good for the planet, and good for your body, they're good for your bank balance too.  Most of their products are concentrated so you use much less than other brands.

And on your body, we either use Purefx massage balms and creams, containing 100% natural ingredients and NO parabens,  or pure vegetable massage oils incluing almond oil & grapeseed oil.