Sarah Oldfield

"The quickest path to change is to first, connect with awareness to the body, this brings you into the present moment. It is from this place of presence that real change can happen in the body and mind". Sarah 2025

Sarah has run a successful and busy shiatsu therapy practice in Sheffield and other countries since qualifying in 2007. Sarah enjoys seeing a wide range of clients with a broad range of reasons for seeking out shiatsu. From general relaxation and helping with anxiety and stress to recovering from injury to long term digestive issues and much more. 

Sarah has been working with Sheffield cancer charities to deliver professional, therapeutic Shiatsu Massage therapy to clients (and their families) in hospital and as outpatients at the since 2022. Sarah has received training in how to work safely with peopl  with a cancer diagnosis and knows how to work with any contraindicationsthat may be present. Sarah enjoys bringing this therapy to people who really benefit from it at a time when they really need it. She is confident working with people with new diagnoses, people in active treatment and also post treatment and palliative care. 

Sarah is happy to offer home visits for those who are physically unable to travel. Sarah is confident and skilled at working with people with disabilities and has clients who have experienced great benefits from the effects of shiatsu therapy.

Sarah has practiced in the healing arts of the East since her late teens. She started to understand the mind - body relationship with Chi Gong and T'ai Chi. At this time Sarah also began the practice and study of Buddhism and Buddhist meditation. Sarah considers this training the foundation stone in her life and Shiatsu Therapy practice. 

After 7 years of study and practice Sarah went on pilgrimage to India, Nepal, Malaysia and Thailand. She found a new home and spiritual community with the White Tara School of healing arts in Sydney, Australia. Here, Sarah continued her exploration of the body mind relationship with a more dynamic form of healing martial arts called Pancha Tan Mantra. In this practice she was introduced to the Chinese 5 Elements and how they interplay in the body and effect all aspects of the human experience. Buddhist practice with mantra meditation and ancestral healing retreats took Sarah on a deep personal journey over 7 years. Qualifying as a teacher of Pancha Tan Mantra and leading retreats was the culmination of this journey. 

During this time Sarah was drawn to Shiatsu Therapy as a compasssionate expression of the inner work she was doing. It was time to find a modality, where this understaning of how the body mind work together, could be shared and benefit others. Qualifying in 2007 in Sydney, Sarah began working with older people in aged care facilities and in thecorporate sector as well as beginning her own private practice. 

Post Graduate Study
*Pregnancy and Shiatsu with Susanne Yates, Sydney
*Extraordinary Vessels with Suzanne Yates, Sydney
*Certified Doula training with Autralian Doula College, Sydney
*Feeding Your Demons practioner,Tara Mandala Buddhist retreat Centre, Colorado
-Kapala 1 and 2
*Shintai Shiatsu with Kindy Kaur, Nottingham
- Central Vessel and Hara
- Governing Vessel 
*Reiki 1 and 2 with Usui Reiki masters, Sheffield
Working safely with cancer patients training at Weston Park Cancer Support Centre, Sheffield
*HEARTS Process with the Christie School of Oncology, Manchester