A small spa, built on long practice
The Workshop opened in Royston in 2011 as a permanent home for a practice that goes back to 1995. It's a quiet building on Lower Gower Road, with private parking, a chill-out area, sauna and walk-in shower, and proper time held between bookings so the room is calm when you arrive.
Most guests come from around Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and North London. We're appointment-only, and we work by phone rather than online forms because most first conversations are easier that way.
The five treatments
Each has its own page with the full detail. All five follow the naturist approach, given naked throughout, with sauna, shower, towels and a hot drink included.
The standard massage, where most first-timers start. Every part of the body in one continuous flow, no fixed sequence and no breaks for towel adjustments.
For when you've come in with something specific. Shoulders that won't drop, a lower back tight for a fortnight, recovery from training. Deeper pressure where the muscle wants it.
The slowest of the treatments. Long, even strokes with plenty of time held in stillness. Best at ninety minutes or more. The slower pace tends to feel reflective and deeply settling.
Two therapists on one client at the same time. The mind tends to stop tracking which hand is where, and the work goes deeper for it. Available as a standard or tantric session.
You and your partner in the same room, each with your own therapist working separately. Available as a standard massage or as the slower tantric variant.
How a first visit unfolds
Almost everyone is here for the first time when they first arrive. The building is quiet enough that within a few minutes it simply becomes a very good massage.
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1
Arrive
Park in front of the building. Settle in the chill-out area while you wait for your therapist.
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Shower and sauna
Use the walk-in shower before your session. If you've allowed thirty minutes, the six-person sauna is yours to use first.
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The session
Naked throughout, both you and the therapist, no draping. Most people find this more natural than a draped session within the first few minutes.
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Rest
When the session ends there's no rush. Shower again, sit with a hot drink, leave when you're ready.
Antonio and the team
I'm Antonio. I founded The Workshop in 2011, after running the practice on my own from 1995. I take the bookings and teach the couples tuition sessions personally. I'm not on the daily rota, but I still see clients when someone asks for me by name, or when a couple wants one male and one female therapist working together. Usually a day or two's notice is enough.
Day-to-day massage is the work of a rota of seven therapists: Jessica, Roxanne, Sophia, Maria, Cindy, Scarlett and Lilly. Every therapist on the rota is qualified and works to the same approach: calm, unhurried, properly trained. You can see who's working today on the rota page.