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* Insurance Prices Reduced for 2012 *

Insurance prices have been reduced for 2012!!  

Now only £20 pa for students and £55 pa for practitioners for £5,000,000 cover. If you are not insured and would like cover for the new year, contact the office for an insurance form.

** BREAKING NEWS **

The updated Systematic Review for Shiatsu is now available!

We are pleased to announce the release of "Shiatsu and Acupressure: A Review of the effectiveness of evidence" commissioned by the Shiatsu Society, and carried out by Professor Nicola Robinson, Dr Ava Lorenc, Dr Xing Liao and Julie Donaldson at London South Bank University.  Also available is the preface and executive summary.

This is the second review we have commissioned. It has been updated with additional research published after 2006. The researchers are now preparing a paper for publication in an academic journal, which will make the review widely accessible to the academic and healthcare communities. Acupressure studies were included along with studies of Shiatsu, in order to broaden the research base the researchers were able to draw on. Consequently, the review can give us good evidence of the effectiveness of certain points for certain conditions.

European Shiatsu Week: September 2011

During Shiatsu Awareness week Aberdeen School of Shiatsu raised over £260 for CLAN a local Cancer Charity that provides support and treatments to Cancer patients and their families. They have had new clients from our taster sessions in Aberdeen.

I hope we can get more folk involved so it is bigger and better next year.

Laura Davison

Busy London MEP is a fan of Shiatsu

London MEP Marina Yannakoudakis is one of the growing number of converts to Shiatsu.

Read the full story here.
 

Shiatsu may have helped triplet mum conceive

Hannah Philips has just given birth to triplets – and believes Shiatsu may have helped her and her partner Paul Miller with the conception, as well as alleviating her morning sickness.

Read the full story here.
 

Midwives learn Shiatsu to help mums in labour

The latest course aimed at enabling midwives to use Shiatsu techniques to help mums in labour has been enthusiastically received by nursing staff in Sussex – who also appreciate the added bonus that it can help them reduce the stress of their jobs.

Read the full story here.

Shiatsu can help Dads play a vital part in childbirth

Although fathers are far more involved in pregnancy and childbirth than they were in the pre-1960s era of pacing up and down outside the labour ward, there is still a danger that they can be sidelined and feel left out of the whole process.

Read the full story here.

Shiatsu Action Day for Japan

Many Shiatsu practitioners are forming local groups and doing Shiatsu treatments in order to raise money for the Japan Earthquake Appeal.

The NW London Group raised £255 on 30th June, taking the total to £3409.83. Someone who had just returned from working in Japan came to talk directly about the disaster and also he had some very good photos

Thank you and well done to everyone taking part!

Virgin Atlantic masseurs’ £300,000 court case prompts call from Shiatsu Society

The high profile case of two airline masseurs who sued Virgin Atlantic for £300,000 has prompted the UK’s largest professional Shiatsu body to warn people to use only officially approved therapists when booking complementary treatments.

Read the full story here.

New Research - ESF results now out

The long awaited results of the 3-year research project with the ESF (European Shiatsu Federation) and University of Leeds is now available! Very positive results! Confirms the benefits of Shiatsu we have known of all along.

The aim of the European Shiatsu Federation (ESF) Research Project was to scientifically document the ‘experience and effects of Shiatsu as experienced by both receiver and practitioner’. This was a unique Shiatsu research foundation study that has never been done before. Phase One was a two country exploratory study into ‘The Experience and Effects of Shiatsu’ and was an open-ended interview based study undertaken in the United Kingdom and Germany.

Phase Two, where questionnaires specifically created from Phase One were returned by clients under a scientifically governed protocol to the Research Department headed by Professor Andrew F. Long at School of Healthcare at Leeds University and we are now pleased to announce that the results are available. This aspect of the research was designed to look more directly at the benefits of Shiatsu treatments and its long-term efficacy.

What follows is an overview of the project by Professor Long, Health Systems Research University of Leeds.

The first phase of the research project and the Executive Summary of the Findings can be viewed on the ESF website.