Gemma Ireland
Gemma Ireland is Director and co-founder of Bodyflow. Clients often describe her as having “healing hands and a touch like no other”. She has worked full time in complementary and integrated health for over 27 years, and believes that if we treat our bodies with care, we are more likely to feel healthy, happy and well for life.
Training and Experience
Gemma qualified as a reflexologist at the Self Centre in Harley Street in 1999. She is also a Japanese acupressure therapist and spent five years as a birth doula, supporting births in hospitals, at home, in water, and sometimes in the corridors of clients’ homes. That experience gives her deep knowledge of prenatal health and allows her to support clients through pregnancy, birth and postpartum, including pain relief approaches, exercise, breastfeeding and recovery.
Bodyflow Reflexology
Over the years, Gemma developed the Bodyflow Reflexology sequence, which many clients find very different from the reflexology they’ve had before. We carry a history of our lives in our feet, and this treatment is designed to gently create space, movement and breath, and to support the body’s systems to work as they should. Each session is tailored to the individual, working with long-standing imbalances to support the organs, nerves, muscles and tendons. Clients often tell us they feel taller, lighter and full of spring afterwards.
Gemma specialises in supporting both men and women to prepare their bodies for conception, as well as pregnancy and postpartum care. She believes many couples are guided towards a medical route very quickly without first considering a holistic approach.
Her own journey inspired this work. At 17, Gemma was diagnosed with PCOS and endometriosis and was told she might find it very hard to conceive. That shattered her dreams of becoming a mother. She is now a mother to an adult son, and for over 26 years she has supported clients who want to prepare their bodies for conception, with many happy outcomes.
Wider Wellbeing
Gemma also supports clients who have cancer or are recovering from it, helping to restore energy and wellbeing during and after chemotherapy and radiotherapy. She also works with sports injuries, including footballers, tennis players and runners. Treatments are tailored to each person, and she treats men, women, children and babies.
Gemma is passionate about her work and treats every client individually and personally. Many clients tell us they feel a new lease of life after their treatments.
Clients Who Love Bodyflow
Our loyal client base includes well-known names, some of whom have kindly shared their testimonials.