Holistic Healing & Massage is run by Colleen Smith from Bethlehem in Tauranga's Bay of Plenty, where the practice relocated to over four years ago after nearly 30 years in the industry. Colleen completed her full training at Wellpark College in Auckland in 1996, having already begun practicing beforehand.
Her early career was based at a Physiotherapy Clinic in Mt Eden, Auckland, run on a spiritual basis, which she describes as her first step toward bringing a true holistic approach to her work. There she offered Advanced Remedial Massage, Aromatherapy, Pregnancy massage, Reflexology, Myofascial release, Lymphatic Drainage Massage and Swiss Ball stretch programmes.
Since then Colleen has trained further in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Kinesiology/Touch for Health, Reiki, Energy Balancing, and completed a Masters in Elohim Healing. For the past nine years she has worked with Ascension Expert and multi-dimensional channel Judy Satori, and as well as being an open channel for spirit, Colleen also brings through what she describes as the Languages of Light.
Having worked in high-pressure corporate and other environments herself, Colleen says she understands how everyday stress can affect people spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically. Her focus is on understanding how thoughts and emotions can manifest in the body, helping clients clear issues carried from the past and shed what no longer serves them.
In Bethlehem, on the edge of Tauranga's Bay of Plenty, Colleen Smith runs Holistic Healing & Massage, a practice she relocated to the area more than four years ago after building it over nearly three decades. Her tagline sums up the intent behind the work: "Illuminating the pathway - and supporting you through change."
Colleen was already practicing before she completed her full training at Wellpark College in Auckland in 1996. At that time she worked as a body therapist from a Physiotherapy Clinic in Mt Eden, a centre that was run on a spiritual basis. She describes this as her first real step toward bringing a genuinely holistic approach to her work. During this period she offered Advanced Remedial Massage, Aromatherapy, Pregnancy massage, Reflexology, Myofascial release, Lymphatic Drainage Massage and Swiss Ball stretch programmes — a breadth of bodywork that laid the foundation for the practice she runs today.
Rather than stopping at that early foundation, Colleen has kept training across a wide range of modalities. Over the years she has studied Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Kinesiology and Touch for Health, Reiki, and Energy Balancing, and she went on to complete a Masters in Elohim Healing. For the past nine years, she has worked alongside Ascension Expert and multi-dimensional channel Judy Satori.
Alongside this, Colleen describes herself as an open channel for spirit, and part of her work involves bringing through what she calls the Languages of Light. This channelled element sits within the Healing and Light Language service listed on her site, alongside more familiar offerings such as Spiritual Counselling, Massage, Lymphatic Drainage and Reflexology.
Colleen has worked in high-pressure roles herself, in both corporate and other environments, and says this gives her a real understanding of how the stresses and demands of everyday life affect people — spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and ultimately physically. She notes that this is even more true today, given the scale of change many people are navigating in the wider world.
What matters most to her, she says, is understanding how thoughts and emotions can manifest in the body as dis-ease, in whatever form that takes, and working to heal the root cause rather than just the symptom. Part of that work involves helping clients clear issues they've carried through from their past. For Colleen, there's no greater reward than helping someone let go of what no longer serves them, so they're free to be more fully themselves.
Holistic Healing & Massage is based at 4 Bell Common Close in Bethlehem, Tauranga. Gift vouchers are available for those wanting to give the experience to someone else. Bookings are made by getting in touch with Colleen directly through the practice's contact page, where she can talk through which service — whether that's massage, lymphatic drainage, reflexology, spiritual counselling, or the channelled Healing and Light Language work — best fits what a client is looking for.