Massage and bodywork for you
as a playful youthfull adult
Wanting to feel
all you enjoy in life deeper
Your body will thank you
Expect
Insight
Various methods to deepen the contact with your body. To relax, release and restore. With short exercises to do at home/on your way to integrate it into your life
Down to earth
Taboo breaking playfullness and honesty we build on trust to make you feel more and more joy in your body.
Patience
Since 2019 I work with people who want to feel deeper in their body. This takes time and courage. I am honoured to hold space for you.
Receive free simple exercises
and release relax restore your body
when and where you have the time
Each session is designed to create space
In your muscles, bones, fascia, posture, and mind.
Using a blend of techniques such as relaxing massage, deep tissue work, foot reflexology, holistic pulsing, and joint movement, every session is guided by your personal feedback and the sensations your body communicates in the moment.
Touch can be gentle, firm, or sometimes absent — always in attunement with what your body needs. The intention is to help you reconnect and experience your body on new levels of awareness.
4,9 ★★★★★
More then 75 Reviews on Treatwell and Google maps
Featured in Happinez magazine April ’24
“The heart tells you what to do
and the head tells you how to do it”
Alexander Lowen
The main focus at Amagdala is to love all of your feelings, even the challenging ones like that nagging shoulder pain and your inner critic.
Have you ever loved someone so deeply that you wished you could absorb their pain, love it untill it dissolves into pieces, just to make their world brighter?
That same tenderness belongs to you, too.
I hold space for you to turn that love inward — to meet every part of yourself with compassion.
My wish is that each of us can say,
“Yes, I love myself — completely, as I am.”
Let’s leave this world a little more beautiful than we found it.
Your body will thank you.
A single session can bring relief from symptoms.
However, if you’re seeking deeper transformation or lasting ease from recurring stress, I recommend starting with a series of five sessions.
These sessions can work both preventively and in complement to psychotherapy.
When you are currently in therapy, I collaborate with your psychologist when appropriate because working together can strengthen and support your process to love yourself deeper.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of massage and bodywork types do you use?
Relaxingmassage,
Swedishmassage,
Deep tissue,
Psoas release,
Fascia stretching,
Firm massage,
Footreflex massage,
Pulsing massage,
Reiki,
Body posture,
Breathing exercises,
Emotion expressions exercises,
Voice liberation,
and a lot more…
Where does the name amagdala originate from?
It’s a combination between my name Magda and the Amygdala. The amygdala or focusses on emotional responses. Basic feelings like happiness, fear, anger, and sadness. Its helps the human brain to form memories associated with emotional responses. And sometimes we need to update these memories. Thats what I love working with.
Massagetherapy sounds big, do you have a psycology degree?
In short, no. These sessions can work both preventively and in complement to psychotherapy. When you are currently in therapy, I collaborate with your psychologist when appropriate. Because working together can strengthen and support your process to love yourself deeper.
I am intent to end the Core Energetics practitioner program in 2028. This is a 4-year education to become a body oriented psychotherapist. This will bring even more variation to the sessions at Amagdala. Working even more dynamic, off and on the massagetable.
Whats your education?
After highschool I studied in fine arts and education. In 2018 I changed my focus to studying massage therapy. Amagdala was founded as a relaxingmassage practice, growing out to become a practice for massage therapy and still thriving. I did a lot of small courses and retreats to gain more skill in deep tissue, foot reflexoligy, moving with ease and loving myself deeper and deeper.
I am intent to end the Core Energetics practitioner program in 2028. This is a 4-year education to become a body oriented psychotherapist. This will bring even more variation to the sessions at Amagdala. Working even more dynamic, off and on the massagetable.
If I want to read more about loving my body and its emotions where do I start
The body and its emotions have so many variations that its not that easy to form a step by step plan. Most of these dutch and english books focus on surrendering into the not knowing of it all, releasing the need of control the mind wants to have.
De maskermaker – Wiebe Veembaas
Het sprookje van de dood – Marie Claire vd Bruggen
Ik Maria Magdalena – Geert Kempen
A way of life: core energetics – Stuart Black
The myth of normal – Gabor Maté
Wisdom of the body moving – Linda Hartley
Bio energetica – Alexander Lowen
Language of the body – Alexander Lowen
Eastern body western mind – Judith Anodea
The undefended self; living the pathwork – Susan Tsenega
Courage – Osho
Hands of light – Barbara Brennan
Trailguide to the body – Andrew R. Biel
What languages do you speak?
My sessions are given in English and Dutch (my mother toungue) to meet most of the people living in Amsterdam. I have experience with giving sessions with a translator in the room.
For my own fun I’m learning French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and sign-language.
Location
Practice Amagdala
Kanaalstraat 77-2
Amsterdam
mon-fri 11-20:00
Amagdala holds a 48h cancellation policy
email to postpone or rescedule
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