Cynthia Shuken

Dr Cynthia Shuken Fellow (FwSS)

Provide home visits No
Teaching status Teacher

About me

Cynthia Shuken has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since August 1990.

Cynthia is a co-founder, a principle teacher and teacher-trainer at The Shiatsu School Edinburgh. A graduate of The Glasgow School of Shiatsu, she has been practising Shiatsu part time since 1993 and has been teaching for over 20 years. As well as her first teacher, Elaine Liechti, she completed the Diploma in Movement Shiatsu with Bill Palmer. She has also studied with a number of other notable Shiatsu teachers, such as Nicola Pooley, Cliff Andrews, and the late Pauline Sasaki.



Cynthia is particularly interested in the unity of body, emotions and mind, and her work is influenced by her studies of counselling and Gestalt psychotherapy. She holds a Certificate in Counselling Skills with Moray House Institute of Education, and a Certificate in Gestalt from the Gestalt Trust, and over many years has been studying Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy (DSP) with Ruella Frank of New York. DSP is a relational and movement-oriented approach to psychotherapy within a Gestalt therapy framework.

Cynthia works from her home on the south side of Edinburgh.