Expert teaching and specialist knowledge are hallmarks of the COMO Shambhala experience. From yoga and Pilates to personal training, our practitioners embrace a common approach — to meet clients where they are in their journey and enable a lifelong commitment to wellness.
Matteo Pasquali started his journey 10 years ago as a chef and nutritionist. Pasquali then embarked on the study of anatomy, physiology and massage in the United Kingdom, and deepened his studies with a degree in Sport Traumatology in Italy. Through his years of practice, Pasquali has created his own style of ‘massoterapia’ – a series of specialist treatments that work with the individual's natural physiology to bring homeostasis back to the body.
This massage is the perfect aid to recovery from a workout, muscular imbalances or injuries. It helps to restore the range of movement in your joints and improve the holistic wellness of the body. The initial consultation lasts 15 minutes, followed by an integrated remedial massage of a duration of your choosing.
Our Thai Abdominal Chi Massage is an internal organ massage that works over the navel and surrounding abdominal areas where stress and tension can accumulate. This helps promote a number of benefits, including improving digestion, soothing bloating and aiding in the relief of constipation. We recommend a course of three treatments for enhanced benefits.
Assisted stretching is a form of passive stretching which uses an outside force to stretch your muscles. The benefits are numerous and most importantly, it helps to increase your flexibility, range of motion and reduce stiffness and tension in the body.
By understanding how the body’s organs respond to firm pressure applied to reflex points on the feet, this treatment is designed to create a state of balance and relaxation in the body, the first step in allowing the body to heal itself. Pasquali has used this treatment to help clients suffering from a wide range of ailments, including digestive problems, poor circulation, migraines and stress.
After your outdoor adventures and working out on activities like skiing, biking or hiking, this leg massage will leave you feeling light and revitalised. Focusing on your leg and foot muscles, the body work helps to bring relief to pain in your lower limbs, and reduces swelling and muscle fatigue.
Yoga expert Sabine Platter graduated in Austria as a health and fitness instructor, went to India to become a qualified yoga teacher, and has since deepened her knowledge by studying Ayurveda in Milan. Platter’s goal is to help people reconnect with their inner selves through an integrated approach of Ayurvedic treatments, yoga practice, meditation and relaxation.
Abhyanga is a rhythmic Ayurvedic massage that uses warm oil to help energise the body and improve circulation. As impurities and toxins loosen from the muscles, it helps to enhance the body’s immunity while inducing a state of deep relaxation in the mind.
Mukha Abhyanga is an Ayurvedic treatment for the face that purifies deeply and nourishes the skin, tones and oxygenates all the tissues of the body. It improves the brightness of the skin by reducing wrinkles.
This Ayurvedic foot treatment is a swift yet deeply hydrating and relaxing therapy which helps to improve stiffness and joint flexibility.
This gentle abdominal massage aims to improve the abdominal condition and regenerate elasticity, tone and tissue strength. The massage activates the body’s metabolism and enhances its digestive capacity, making it beneficial in cases of constipation, hyperacidity while also helping to relieve stress and physical tension.