About Adele

In 2006 I decided to explore options for a career change from lecturing at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology where I was teaching English Communication. I knew I wanted to do something to help others heal, to experience life in a more balanced way and feel freer to be themselves. The search started. I read and spoke to anyone who wanted to speak to me about various healing modalities. Massage Therapy was a field which piqued my interest. After a week long meditation course, it was clear to me that Massage Therapy was where I was heading.

After that, everything just fell into place and in January 2007 I started a 2-year full time Therapeutic Massage Therapy course at the Cape Institute of Allied Health Studies with John Hooper. The course was life-changing! Over the 2 years, I worked on classmates, our teachers, completed over 200 hours of practical case studies and 40 community service hours. When I qualified in December 2008, I  continued to practise from my home in Green Point.

We then moved to the UK where I registered with the Institute of Sport and Remedial Massage, set up practice at the local tennis club in Crouch End, London, did mobile work around the area and taught part-time in schools across the city. I also volunteered at various sporting events like the London Marathon and the Pink Ribbon Walks for Breast Cancer Care. Being in the UK afforded me the opportunity to attend some amazing CPD courses, as well as a conference by the Institute for Sport and Remedial Massage.

A few years later we moved to Stirling in Scotland where I worked at a very busy practice, Knead to Relax. While there, I trained as a yoga teacher. Yoga has influenced my life philosophy since the mid 1990s so the teacher training was more of a deeper dive into yoga. When my training was completed I started teaching yoga at The Yoga Tree in Stirling.

Currently I am back in Cape Town and working from the Cape Health Centre, 18 Kloof Road, Sea Point. I am a fully registered Therapeutic Massage Therapist with the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa (registration number A12128). 

Coming from an education background with a Masters in Education and a love for reading, I have attended and continue to seek out new learning opportunities. I feel privileged to have attended workshops with internationally respected therapists in the field of bodywork. Myofascial Release is my passion and I feel this kind of work is not only cutting-edge at the moment, but it allows me to work practically yet intuitively. I have attended MFR in-person workshops with Robert Schleip, Thomas Myers, Art Riggs; and online, the British Fascia Symposium 2022 with the latest research on fascia, and courses by the Massage Mentor Institute which brings together industry leaders for intense workshops.