Meet the circle - highly qualified facialists, bodyworkers and holistic guides, each bringing their own practice to care for your skin, body, mind and spirit.
Jo Blaydes
Founder & Holistic FacialistJo has always been passionate about skincare. After many years working in the media industry, and later with start-up health and wellbeing brands including - Three Spirit, Mason & Fifth, Numan & LevelOut - she turned that lifelong devotion into her profession. She trained one-to-one with holistic practitioner Shelly Murphy and with Re:lax Skin School (VTCT, BABTAC and ABT accredited), and is currently studying cosmetic and facial micro-systems acupuncture at The Yuan Centre and College of Acupuncture.
Having lived through her own challenges, health-related and otherwise, Jo works with empathy and an open heart. She believes in our capacity to grow beyond the labels we're given, and that touch, movement and held space can provide long-lasting changes to both skin, body, mind and spirit.
Ruth Aird
Massage Therapist & Holistic FacialistRuth has worked in wellness for nearly four decades, specialising in holistic massage and facial treatments, and is ITEC and CIDESCO qualified. Her career spans some of the UK's most respected spas, including Bamford Spa in the Cotswolds and the award-winning In Harmony at Hampton Court, as well as spas across London and Surrey. It has also taken her further afield, to Dubai and two seasons in Ibiza. Over the years her touch has become deeply intuitive, so no two treatments are the same; each is shaped around what your body needs on the day. For Ruth, what matters most is how you feel when you leave the room: balanced, rested and reconnected.
Alice Armstrong
Facial AcupuncturistAlice is a Five Element and TCM acupuncturist specialising in cosmetic acupuncture, and a registered member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC). Her work rests on a simple principle: the skin reflects what is happening within. Alongside precise facial needling to release deep tension and support the skin's natural renewal, she works with points on the body to address the imbalances beneath, such as stress, poor sleep, hormonal shifts and sluggish digestion. The result is a treatment that tends to the face and the whole self at once, blending Traditional Chinese Medicine with modern cosmetic technique.
Alice is at SPELL every Thursday.
Crystal Gomez
Medical herbalistCrystal is a BSc (Hons) qualified Medical Herbalist who bridges traditional plant medicine and modern clinical science. Plants are humanity's oldest medicine, and her practice honours that lineage while holding it to clinical rigour. Each client begins with a health assessment, from which she builds a bespoke prescription of whole-plant remedies, supported by nutrition and lifestyle guidance. Her aim is to give each client sustainable, natural tools for long-term wellbeing, along with the understanding to use them with confidence.
Hazel Llewellin
INTUITIVE THERAPIST & Reflexologist Hazel is the founder of Hazeology, offering intuitive energy and sound healing that helps people slow down, reconnect and find balance. She draws on Reiki, sound therapy, ancestral healing and earth-based wisdom, and lets each session unfold intuitively to meet you where you are.
Alongside one-to-one treatments, Hazel holds sound journeys, cacao ceremonies and women's healing circles. These are spaces to settle the nervous system, release what no longer serves, and return to peace, clarity and connection. Her work is rooted in compassion, presence, and the belief that healing begins when we feel truly seen, safe and supported.
Madeleine Preston
Shiatsu Therapist & AstrologistMadeleine is a Shiatsu practitioner and astrologer with a background in art. A mother and carer herself, she brings a calm, grounded, non-judgemental presence, meeting each person exactly where they are. Shiatsu is Japanese bodywork connected to Traditional Chinese Medicine and is received fully clothed and warm. Madeleine works along the meridians and acupressure points (tsubos) to rebalance, release or nourish your energy. Her astrology readings translate the ancient language of your birth chart into insight about your strengths and challenges, your relationships and direction, and what is presenting right now. She offers birth chart readings, year-ahead forecasts and bespoke packages.
Alice Shepperd
Holistic FacialistAlice grew up in Hastings in a medical household, where curiosity about the body came naturally. A decade in Sri Lanka, immersed in Ayurveda, yoga and a slower, more sensory way of life, deepened that curiosity into something devotional. Facials have long been her way back to herself, a ritual for luminosity as much as stillness. She trained at Ray Cochrane in London (VTCT Level 2) and at MSTA in Liverpool (Level 3, including microneedling), with advanced facial massage at the Brighton School of Massage. She has since completed the Natural Face Lift Academy training with Sophie Anne Perry and Reiki training with Shelly Murphy. Alice offers two of SPELL's most advanced treatments, The Transmutation and The Invocation, every Friday.
Dorin Varza
Naturopathic NutritionistDorin is an ANP-registered Naturopathic Nutritionist (BA (Hons), DipCNM, mANP, mGNC) specialising in personalised nutrition and lifestyle support. Taking a systems-based approach, she explores the connections between digestion, hormones, blood sugar, energy and stress, combining nutritional science and naturopathic principles to support long-term health and wellbeing.
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