Restful Change Age Break Therapy
A Personal Introductory Message from Rick and Sue Sayer

“Restful Change Age-Break Therapy was very simply born of our own lives and experience. It is something that happened naturally and evolved over a number of years, yet we had no idea it was occurring until we became the therapists we are today when, some years ago, we took a step back and applied our own learnings and experiences……. to ourselves. 

For these reasons we know that Restful Change Age Break Therapy is a natural, holistic and safe way to achieve the rejuvenescent dreams and aspirations many of us hold. No surgery is undertaken, no chemicals or drugs are digested and we use no mechanical interventions. The principles to which we subscribe consist of a healthy lifestyle, healthy mind and the appropriate use and application of gentle skin care products. 

We are nearly one hundred years old!”

The Structure of the Therapy: 

The unique Restful Change Experience of combining gentle relaxation interventions with health enhancing massage could not be better suited to the aims of Restful Change Age-Break Therapy. Each session is a combination of the two and the foundations of the therapy are built upon eight consultations spread over weekly intervals. They are conducted as follows:

First consultation – Slowing Down Time (2 hours) 

You are introduced to Restful Change Age-Break Therapy. We explain how our tranquil, natural interventions help you to overcome anxiety, reduce stress and use your own resources, learning's and past experiences to enhance your wellbeing, enabling you to enjoy the benefits of a longer, active, healthy life.  

Physically, your skin is massaged and therapeutically treated reducing wrinkles and encouraging the maintenance of a supple and healthy complexion. 

We take time to get to know you, enabling us to tailor the Restful Change Age-Break Therapy programme to best suit your needs and to fulfil your expectations.

We describe how our psychological and physical interventions are used in tandem to provide you, not only with the tools and techniques that you will use to reduce and slow down the on-set of signs of ageing but also to provide you with an immensely enjoyable and calming session of relaxation. 

The Initial Consultation is concluded with a wonderful facial massage and the process of natural rejuvenation begins.

Second Consultation – Firm Foundations (1 hour 30 minutes)

We believe it is important to ensure that the structure of your wellbeing is prepared and good shape; ready to accept the changes to your life style and unconscious thought processes that will be proposed and introduced as the programme develops. During this session we work to achieve this, building a solid foundation on which the framework for change can be constructed. 

This, and every, session of Relaxation Therapy “in the chair” is brought to a close with positive reinforcement. 

These achievements are then confirmed and enhanced by a delightful head massage.

 

Third Consultation - A Long Life (1 hour 30 minutes)

Pseudo Orientation (the opposite of Regression Therapy) is used to explain what is possible and to reassure you; inwardly confirming your attainable goals and focusing your mind and body on the benefits of the Restful Change Age Break Programme. 

Safe, gentle, regressive techniques can then be used to start to awaken inner resources and strengths, allowing you to rediscover forgotten or over-looked natural talents, resources and abilities which can be used to help you to move the process naturally forward.

An initial session of Reflexology is then incorporated, to begin the change on a more physical level.

 

Fourth Consultation - Self Help and Focus (1 hour 30 minutes)

We believe that your body deserves, and is entitled to, more than just the sleeping time you would usually permit it to naturally rejuvenate and repair. For this reason the fourth consultation is used to teach you relaxation techniques and to provide you with the tools that you will need to be able to practise self-repose on a daily basis. This will enable you to continue the work we undertake together and to learn how important you are in your every day life – important enough to take time and space for yourself, bringing a clarity of thought and mind, whilst, physically and emotionally recharging and strengthening. 

During this session direct suggestions are also made to begin the rejuvenation process from within. 

You will then experience your first facial and hand massage as we begin to help you to rejuvenate your skin and facial features.

 

Fifth Consultation - Strengthening Your Immune System (1 hour 30 minutes)

Your immune system is, of course, central to enhancing wellbeing and maintaining a healthy mind and body. If you have a strong immune system and keep your body appropriately fit, healthy and vibrant, huge strides can be made to achieve your goals. 

During this session natural energy flows through your entire body from head to toe, cleansing and revitalising leaving you feeling balanced and centred. 

We also discuss diet (that is diet with a small “d”) and exercise to a level that is appropriate and tailored to your lifestyle.

A facial massage, head massage or reflexology session is then incorporated as deemed appropriate in relation to the progress you have made by this stage.

 

Sixth Consultation - Youthful Body (1 hour 30 minutes)

Powerful yet completely safe and natural dissociative techniques are now incorporated into the programme, furthering your self confidence and self belief in your own body and the goals you have set, from a physical viewpoint.

Your imagination will be fired up with the wonderful discoveries you will find as you create a state of regeneration in your mind, body, spirit, and emotions. Fountain of youth techniques recharge your cells with vibrant energy. Powerful, positive affirmations are used to enable you to begin to feel new sensations in your body, helping your body to turn back the clock. 

A facial therapy is the most wonderful and appropriate way to bring to a close this particular session.

 

Seventh Consultation – Youthful Mind (1 hour 30 minutes)

Body follows mind and during this consultation regressive techniques are utilised to capture positive and youthful thoughts from a time gone by. We encourage both the conscious and unconscious parts of your mind to become more creative, spontaneous and adventurous. Thinking like a younger person will encourage you to become younger in spirit, to be receptive to new learnings and potentials, more enthusiastic, energetic and positive. 

As you naturally and safely adopt these characteristics, it will be equally natural for your body to follow suit, feeling younger and looking younger. 

A facial massage merged with a head massage confirms the work of this enormously empowering session.

 

Eighth Consultation – Confirmation of Self and Affirmation of work in progress (2 hours)

We look back at eight weeks of the Restful Change Age Break Therapy and at the wonderful positive changes you have already experienced and agree on a strategy, tailored to your needs, goals and ambitions, to enable you to continue the process between the monthly progress checks to which you now commit.

These monthly visits will further your ability to overcome the effects of aging. Your skin will benefit from regular “natural face-lift massage”; wrinkles can naturally decrease as your moisturised skin heals and gently lifts and tightens, staying supple smooth and soft. 

A session of reflexology confirms you as being centred, balanced and ready to take full responsibility for your programme and for your own continued wellbeing and youthful lifestyle.

 

Between sessions you are encouraged to use the self-repose techniques which are taught as part of the treatment, thus enabling the process to continue on a daily basis.

 A Change in Lifestyle 

The work undertaken during the first eight sessions form the foundations for your lifestyle change and commences the Restful Change Age Break Process. How you continue to develop the procedure after those eight initial interventions is your choice. We will advise you and discuss with you the various options.  

This could mean that you choose a structured series of occasional Restful Change Age-Break Therapy sessions over a defined or open ended period of time. There again, you may feel that more informally arranged “top-up” sessions, to compliment your home practise and enjoyed as required, are the way forward for you.  

However you choose to continue the process, we will be there for you in whatever role is most suitable and appropriate to your needs. 

Products 

The three years we spent in France developing the concepts of Restful Change and fine tuning the techniques we use in Restful Change Age-Break Therapy were very well spent. Not only did we find the time and space we needed to focus, and to gain clarity of thought and vision, but we also found ourselves in the perfect place to explore all the options available to us by way of the very best skin care products. 

We tested a huge variety of treatments and brands, taking our time, enabling us to be certain of our endorsement of the products we would be happy to use in Restful Change Age-Break Therapy. Sue’s background and knowledge of the industry, along with her delicate skill’s in product application and massage, were invaluable and we were finally able to decide upon Caudalie as the most suitable product available. 

The romantic Caudalie story is said to have begun in 1993 when a young couple, Mathilde and Bertrand Thomas and an eminent Professor of the Pharmacy Faculty of Bordeaux, Professor Vercautern, combined minds and aspirations. The professor explained that the grape seeds that they discarded after their harvests contained a natural elixir for the skin and by September 1995 the first products had been launched. The basis of the Caudalie brand to this day is still grape seed and grape vine stalks. 

Caudalie’s ethical brand development has always maintained the greatest respect for the skin and the environment, using the most natural formulas possible and rejecting the use of artificial colouring or animal ingredients. No mineral oils are used in skincare creams and the company refuses to use animal testing. Interestingly, jars are never used to package Caudalie products, but rather tubes, in order to preserve the purity of the active ingredients. 

In our view, there is no better product available today.