Ashley Styring qualified as a shiatsu practitioner from the British School of Shiatsu in 2004. Making a career change from working in television journalism she also trained in Pilates with Polestar, qualifying in 2004. She's gone on to expand her knowledge of the body through studying widely including Deep Bodywork at the Open Centre, Inner Energy Healing and in the last five years trained in trauma recovery methods of TRE and Somatic Experiencing. She teaches classes in therapeutic movement and provides individual somatic sessions with an emphasis on tension and trauma recovery. She is based in Cambridge.