Inês Moura
Founder & lead massage therapist
Inês trained in Lisbon and Kyoto and opened Pelusa in 2019 to make slow, unhurried bodywork feel ordinary.
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Our story
A house built around the exhale.
Pelusa began as one room, one massage table and a kettle that was always warm. Today it is a small house in Lisbon where eleven practitioners keep the same promise: nobody here will rush you.
Fig. 01 — The vaulted hallway, Rua das Flores 48
Fig. 02 — After the ritual, tea
Inês Moura, founder
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How it began
It started with one warm room.
In 2019 I rented a single room above a bakery on Rua das Flores. It had a tall window, a creaky floor and morning light that moved across the wall like a slow tide. I put in one massage table, a kettle and a shelf of mismatched cups, and told every guest the same thing: there is nowhere else you need to be for the next hour.
Word travelled quietly. Guests came back with their mothers, their colleagues, their tired partners. The bakery moved out, we moved downstairs, and the room became a house: four treatment rooms, a stillroom for breathwork and a tea room that smells faintly of fig leaf all year round.
What hasn’t changed is the pace. We still book fewer guests than we could. We still pour tea before every ritual. And we still believe the most useful thing a wellness house can offer is not a miracle, but an unhurried hour that leaves you a little softer than you arrived.
— Inês
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Pelusa, in numbers
2019
The year we opened our first room on Rua das Flores.
11
Practitioners, each with more than 500 hours of training.
38k
Rituals poured, pressed and breathed through since day one.
4.9
Average rating across 1,200+ verified guest reviews.
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What we hold to
Four quiet promises.
They are written on a card by the kettle, so every practitioner reads them before the first guest of the day.
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The hands
The people who hold the space.
Massage therapists, breath guides and one very patient tea keeper. Every practitioner trains with us for three months before their first guest.
Clara Reyes
Breathwork guide
Clara teaches breath as a daily tool, not a performance. Her sessions are quiet, practical and kind.
Tomás Ávila
Movement teacher
A former physiotherapist, Tomás designs floor-based classes for backs, hips and desk-bound shoulders.
Maya Lindgren
Tea & nourishment lead
Maya blends our seasonal infusions and runs the tea counter that greets every guest.
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The house
Four rooms, one slow rhythm.
Thick walls, lime plaster and tall windows facing east. The house was built in 1890 and still keeps the morning light for most of the day.
The tea room
Ground floor
Treatment room II
First floor
The stillroom
First floor
As noted in
“The calmest hour you can spend in Lisbon, and quite possibly the kindest.”
The Slow Journal — Spring issue
Maison Calme
Linen & Light
Atlas Wellbeing
Soft Hours
The Slow Journal
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Come as you are.
First visits include a tea welcome and a quiet tour of the house. No experience needed, only an hour to yourself.