I've been interested in shiatsu and traditional Chinese Medicine since my mid-twenties, and began to learn shiatsu in depth through a diploma course with Shiatsu College, London, in 2019, which I completed in 2024. The power of respectful, caring and knowledgeable touch along vital energy lines of the body has such a huge capacity for health. I've felt very inspired with what can be done with what is a mixture of simple techniques and a real depth of understanding that has been brought to us across many centuries of accumulated learning..

I practice 'Zen' or 'Iokai' shiatsu, as taught by Shizuto Masunga and through the influence of his student Pauline Suzaki, which uses Masunaga's interpretation of five element theory and an 'in the moment' diagnostic response to the energetic patterns of the body, with a technique of a still and active hand: 'mother hand' and 'child/active hand', as was taught by Shiatsu College.