Field notes on bodywork. Quietly written.
The question arrives twice in almost every first booking message — one of you asks what happens, the other asks what it will feel like. Here is the whole shape of it, from the message to the door closing.
Two therapists is the most misread line on the price list. It does not mean one person working through the two of you in turn — it means two full sessions running side by side, at the same time, in one room.
Four-hand means two therapists working on one person — not one each. It is the format couples ask about most and understand least, and for two people it opens a choice about who goes first.
A couples booking puts four people in a room built for two. It works more often than it sounds, and the rooms that defeat it are never the ones couples worry about in advance.
Almost every couples booking is made by one of the two. The other is somewhere between curious and unconvinced, and pretending otherwise is what makes the evening go wrong rather than the difference itself.
Anniversaries are the most common reason a couples booking arrives, and the most common reason one goes slightly wrong. Almost all of it comes down to what time of the evening it sits.
No. A couples booking is two separate sessions that happen to share a room, and the two halves are chosen independently — different techniques, different pressure, different therapists, the same ending time.
What to send, what to decide beforehand, what to leave to us, and how long it takes to come back confirmed. A couples booking needs about four lines more than a single one.