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Temple-style bodywork and therapeutic massage treatments for Men & Women.

Supporting deep relaxation, emotional healing, renewed energy & sensuality..

Located in Paddington, Brisbane.

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Ritual Touch is where the whole of you is met with presence, patience, and care.

Here, time stretches. Breath deepens. Your body is gently guided out of holding and into rest.

Touch unfolds in rhythmic, wave-like strokes, guided by intuition and deep listening rather than routine.
Each movement follows the body’s natural currents, inviting a return to ease, sensation, and inner coherence.

This is not about fixing or achieving, but about being met.

The body is approached as a living, feeling whole: intelligent, responsive, worthy of devotion and pleasure.

Ritual Touch is a space to receive.
A space to be held.
A space to come home to yourself.

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Incorporating Traditional Hawaiian (KaHuna Lomi Lomi) massage, Polynesian floor-based bodywork techniques, ancient Tantric and Taoist philosophy and modern somatic wisdom…

Ritual touch is the expression of over 10 years dedication to the embodied healing arts.

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The Temple:
Tantric Bodywork for Women

The Temple is a luxurious *full-body* massage for women, including therapeutic yoni massage. Designed to support deep relaxation, emotional healing, increased sensuality, confidence in intimacy and relational depth.

The Sanctum:
Bodywork for Men

A sanctuary of deep care for Men. The Sanctum combines flowing Hawaiian temple-style massage, guided breath, and attuned feminine presence to relieve stress, restore energy, and support embodied masculine receiving.

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The Haven:
Bodywork for Women

A nurturing massage experience for Women who desire to slow down and receive. Gentle breath guidance, emotional safety, and rhythmic temple-style Hawaiian massage invite deep surrender, energetic renewal, and emotional healing.

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For over a decade now, Ashleigh has devoted her life to the embodied arts.
First through sensual movement and dance for women, and now through professional tantric and therapeutic bodywork.

Her work is grounded in deep listening, relational presence, and a reverence for the body as a place of wisdom, healing, and aliveness.

She offers slow, devotional, temple-style sessions that honour the body as an intelligent, feeling whole. Each experience is shaped by what is present in the moment, creating space for deep relaxation, emotional healing, and a renewed sense of aliveness and connection.

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Ritual Touch is an interwoven practice informed by multiple embodied healing traditions.
Each lineage offers its own wisdom, rhythm, and way of listening to the body.

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  • Devotional Tantric Bodywork places presence, reverence, and attunement at the heart of touch. Founded by Stephanie Avis, DTB is a somatic sexual healing modality that integrates ancient tantric principles, devotional touch, and nervous system supporting techniques. Encouraging the body to soften, open, and integrate pleasure and sensation as pathways to healing and vitality.

  • Rooted in Polynesian wisdom, KaHuna bodywork honours touch as a form of prayer. Rhythmic, flowing, and guided by breath and presence. The emphasis is on restoring harmony, flow, and connection within the whole being.
    Includes pregnancy-safe massage, supporting comfort, circulation, and relaxation during pregnancy

  • Heartworks Lomi Lomi brings long, wave-like strokes and heart-centred presence to support deep relaxation, emotional release, and a sense of being held.

  • Polynesian floor-based bodywork is a rhythmic, full-bodied style of massage where the practitioner works from the floor, using body weight, breath, and flowing movement to create continuous, wave-like strokes.

    The work is deeply grounding and integrative, supporting the body to be met as a connected, living whole.

  • Drawing from ancient Tantric philosophy, Taoist sexual alchemy, and contemporary Neo-Tantra, these traditions inform a conscious relationship with energy, breath, pleasure, and vitality. Pleasure is understood not as stimulation, but as a life-force that can be cultivated, contained, and integrated.

  • Zenthai Shiatsu blends traditional East Asian meridian theory with assisted stretches and mindful pressure. It supports energy flow, nervous system balance, and embodied awareness through rhythmic, responsive touch.

  • Modern somatic and trauma-informed frameworks underpin the work, ensuring sessions are paced, consent-led, and responsive to the nervous system. Safety, choice, and regulation are central to how the body is invited to open and receive.

Ritual Touch is not a formula,
but a listening.

Drawing from multiple lineages and traditions of touch, each session is tailored to the individual
in service of what is most supportive for them in the moment.

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“What I experienced during the session transcended my understanding of what my body was capable of…

My body felt alive and supercharged with energy that resonated with Ashleigh's touch.
I could feel a charged sensation literally following her hands around my body.

It was all at once metaphysical, ethereal, visceral, sensual, and erotic.

I felt that Ashleigh was safely guiding me towards a new state of consciousness and awareness that I had locked deep inside of me, but never knew existed within me.
I forgot about my worries and concerns, and I didn't care about making sounds, what I looked like, or what my body was doing.

At the end of my session I felt an overwhelming sense of relief.
The energy that was still buzzing inside my body felt like it was supporting and caring for me.

For a period of time I was no longer burdened by the overwhelming weight of PTSD and the things that have been anchoring me to the past for far too long.

The place I briefly visited towards the end of my session was an experience that I am still struggling to comprehend. I experienced an unfamiliar state of tranquility where I felt completely aware of my body and safe to explore. I am looking forward to hopefully experiencing the same state in future session so that I can start to understand more about it.

Overall, I am so grateful for meeting Ashleigh and I can't emphasise enough just how much I appreciate her tenderness, acceptance, care, and devotion to helping me on this journey.

Thank you, Ashleigh!”

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If you feel drawn to this work, you’re welcome to get in touch.

You can use this form to ask questions, enquire about sessions, or clarify whether Ritual Touch is the right fit for you. I read all messages personally and will respond as soon as I’m able.

Ritual Touch sessions are offered by appointment only, within a private, professional, and respectful studio setting.

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Most bodies I work with don't need more stimulation. They need permission. 🦋 To soften 🦋 To feel 🦋 To let go 🦋 To express 🦋 To receive without expectation What do you need more of right now? 🤍 #massagebrisbane #bodyworkbrisbane #ritualtouch
Tension softens when there is safety. Armour relaxes when there is presence and space. What once served as protection can release its grip. My role is to provide an environment where your body can let go at its own pace. 🤍🤍🤍 #massagebrisbane #
In my offering for Men I wanted to create a space where you are able to lay down your armour, even briefly, and experience what it is to be received. Without pressure, without performing, without needing to hold it all together. The Sanctum for Men:
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“I had a 3 hour Temple session with Ashleigh. She made me feel heard, safe and comfortable right from the get go.
The room was clean, beautifully set up and radiated a sense of calm.

Ashleigh was amazingly intuitive, attentive, dedicated and professional throughout the entire session and leant a kind, caring and empathic ear during both the introductory chat and the debriefing chat afterwards.

The communication to book the appointment was clear, the introduction form comprehensive and the follow up feedback form built with a genuine sense of care and concentration on client well being.

The massage itself was second to none I have experienced.

Tension held in a number of muscles for years melted away and I can't recall the last time I felt so present within my own skin.

Absolutely transformative.

There are not enough stars in this scale for how highly I'd recommend a session with Ashleigh. Thank you for your wonderful work.”

- Alesia, The Temple (for Women)

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