Shiatsu Society (UK)

Paula Kent has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since April 1992. Until March 2020 she had been employed by the NHS working in the Mental Health sector for fifteen years. During this time she encountered a whole range of issues ranging from Anxiety and Depression to Bipolar Disorder and psychosis. She is currently working from home, as well has holding a bi-weekly local clinic for the over 60's, where she has gained considerable experience in addressing many of the common problems associated with ageing. This includes a thorough understanding of structural problems such as back pain, loss of mobility, frozen shoulder and recovery from injury and surgery such as joint replacement. 

Ruth Lander has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since June 2003

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Jane Lyons has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since May 1990. v Jane started bodywork in 1984 when she worked as an ITEC masseur. She discovered Shiatsu through a chance encounter with Nicola Pooley and enrolled in the newly formed Shiatsu College in 1986. Jane has been a Shiatsu practitioner since graduating from the Shiatsu College in 1989. She then became an assistant at the College and then qualified as a teacher. Jane started the Shiatsu College Manchester which she ran for 10 years and then became Head of Branch at the Shiatsu College London.  Jane is also a Ki Aikido Teacher, an approved Shiatsu Society (UK) assessor, a visual artist and member of the Ki Federation of Great Britain.

Elizabeth Evans has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since August 1991

George Strino has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since January 1989

A dedicated treatment space with parking at the foot of the Mendip Hills in Cheddar, Somerset.  Futon, couch or seated treatments.   Daytime and evening appointments   75 minutes - ample time to de-compress, reaping the benefits of a pampering re-set.   30 minutes - targeted to specific areas                 Head, neck and facial / Shoulders / Back   Additions   Body Massage & Reflexology –  include aspects of Shiatsu, my primary passion!   Hoop Skills PT– more than just waist hooping! aims to improve coordination, flexibility and balance for those who find exercise a struggle     Just-For-Fun Hoop Skills workshops, interactive tasters etc    

Kiran Nahal has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since December 1999

Lucy Trend is a teacher level Fellow of the Shiatsu Society (FwSS), a member of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC – the Department of Health recommended regulatory body), and the Mindfulness Association. She qualified as a Shiatsu therapist in Montreal, Canada in 1996 and has been practicing and teaching Shiatsu in Glasgow since 1997. Since 2008 she has been teaching at the Glasgow and Edinburgh Schools of Shiatsu and also offers post graduate training for Shiatsu practitioners.  Lucy is a specialist in pregnancy, fertility, post natal and baby. She is a doula (trained with Michel Odent and Liliana Lammers) and a trained Well Mother teacher, also offering post graduate training courses for Complementary Therapists, Midwives, Doulas & OBGs, in Massage, Shiatsu and Moxibustion. From 2012-2020 she was active in the Positive Birth movement. Lucy teaches meditation and is trained with Mindfulness Association to deliver the 8 week Mindfulness Based Living Course. She also holds Mindfulness based workplace team building and self-development training for private and public sector organisations across Scotland including Diageo, NHS Glasgow and 3D Drumchapel. She is currently studying part time with Aberdeen University on the MSc Studies in Mindfulness programme and has passed her second year with distinction. In the years 2000 & 2009 she travelled to Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand to study traditional Thai massage and herbal medicine with Surin Janpanet, a retired monk who trained in the temple, sadly now deceased. She continues her professional development including study of derivative therapies such as Myofascial Release, Cranio-sacral therapy, Dynamic Thai Massage, and Osteo-Thai but firmly believes the wisdom of the ancient therapies that developed over thousands of years runs deep, and she honours that basis in her treatments and teaching.  She is director of Thai Massage Training Scotland, offering training in Shiatsu, authentic Traditional Thai Therapies and Mindfulness. Her past background is in dance performance and movement therapy, she offers treatment to a broad spectrum of clients including musicians, dancers, athletes, people with special needs, and provides wellbeing services in the workplace

Alice Doherty has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since November 2020

Virginia Hill FwSS,  I discovered Shiatsu when working as a ski instructor in Andorra about 30 years ago. In 2004 I started my shiatsu journey in Glasgow School of Shiatsu where I had the privilege of having  Elaine Liechti  ,Vicky Smyth and Liz Arundel as my teachers. Weekend courses in Newcastle with Cliff Andrews was my awakening to discover and learning about distal points. I am lucky to work on something I love - Energy! I am fascinated by it. How it flows through the body and how it gets stuck or tangled. I compare the body with a musical instrument and a shiatsu treatment is equivalent to tuning that instrument. I also have a qualification on Myofascial techniques which I use when necessary in my treatments. I worked from home for many years and with the pandemic I moved to a studio at The Yoga Extension, at 5 Newton Terrace Ln Glasgow G3 7PB 

Tony Austin has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since May 2007

Lisa Abbott has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since July 2001. I believe in taking responsibility for my own health and I am passionate about empowering others to do the same through my work as a Holistic Therapist and Wellbeing Coach. I have been a therapist since 1993 and have supported people with their physical and mental health issues since this time. It is every individuals responsibility to look after their own body and mind where possible to enable them to have optimal health and wellbeing to live a healthy fulfilling life. Sometimes you need a little help, I can help you achieve optimum health with Shiatsu, Qigong and the other therapies I practice.  As a holistic therapist, I aim not only to treat everyone as an individual but by their symptoms as well, rather than grouping or labelling symptoms as a specific illness. Our minds, emotions and physical bodies are all connected and what affects one will almost surely affect the other. For example, anxiety or stress related to work, may affect any physical system in the body (such as the digestive system, immune system or muscle tension) and may also change a person’s mood causing them to be tearful, irritable or angry. You can see how complex we are and how differently we respond to what life may throw our way which is why it is important to remember that each and every one is unique and has their own healing journey. Based in Thurrock and Hornchurch with select home visit appointments available.  

Christina Wellbeloved has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since October 1992

Caroline Bozkurt has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since February 1996

Hello, I am Norma, I am qualified in Shiatsu Therapy-Massage and an Advanced Reiki Practitioner. I currently see clients suffering from a variety of problems and enjoy working with them to make better health changes and choices.  I became passionate about therapy and the benefits after receiving Reiki for stress and anxiety over 17 years ago. I have developed a keen interest in the body and how it works/functions. As my journey continues, I have a fascination for Oriental Medicine - after all, our health is the most important thing we have.  My treatment objective is to treat the whole person with an aim to help bring balance and harmony. Shiatsu has a very calming effect and is highly effective in counteracting stress and all the conditions associated with stress. Benefits include improved posture, circulation, and restored energy.  Like acupuncture, Shiatsu focuses on balancing the body’s energy.   The routine involves the use of acupressure points, stretches, and massage techniques. It is a vitalising and uplifting experience. The sequence promotes a sense of wellbeing because muscles relax, blood circulation is increased, and nerve responses are stimulated and through the body.  Shiatsu is a form of massage, carried out whilst fully clothed and without the use of oils. This is an effective treatment that can take place in as little as 15 minutes. It is a fantastic way to relieve tense, aching or cramped muscles in the neck, shoulders, arms and back and to help release any physical or emotional tension.  I have been a member of the Shiatsu Society since August 2008.

Offering Shiatsu and Shintai bodywork as well as Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. Sessions often integrate these compatible approaches which can also be experienced independently. My aim it to help clients feel valued and present in their body, with greater access to their innate vitality. Receivers often comment on feeling more 'at home' in their body through this interactive and empowering process of deepening into the 'felt sense' through which old patterns of restriction and dysfunction can express and transform.  My journey into this field of work began back in the early 1980's in New York City where I met Pamela Hannay, a student of Masunaga. The quality of her touch and listening helped me to understand myself better. Some years later, when back in London, I discovered the East West Centre in Old Street where I learnt about macrobiotics and shiatsu at the Kushi Institute with Michio & Aveline Kushi, and Shizuko Yamamoto and Patrick McCarthy. This evolved into the 3 year professional training program at the British School of Shiatsu-Do who subsequently invited me to teach.  Amongst many wonderful teachers, I found particular inspiration with Saul Goodman who greatly influenced my understanding and skills. I have continued Shintai work with him and am also qualified to teach post graduate workshops in Shiatsu Shintai.  My practise includes Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (trained with CSTET completed in 1997).  In addition my work has been with equines, integrating Equine Craniosacral Therapy (trained ECST), the Masterson Method and an understanding through Equine Shiatsu.  Sessions are offered in the quiet village of Chilmark some 12 miles west of Salisbury. 

Fiona Carson has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since October 2000. Hello, my name is Fiona Carson and I have been working as an holistic health practitioner for 20 years, using zen shiatsu, energy healing and kinesiology to help clients with a wide range of ailments.  Every person is different and every session is individually tailored to suit your needs. My mission is to help you feel better on every level, and to support and empower you to connect with your body and your deepest levels of self, in order to heal, grow and thrive. I discovered shiatsu over 20 years ago through a friend who was studying shiatsu and used me to practice on - I couldn't believe how fantastic I felt after a shiatsu session - as if I was floating on air and had been re-assembled into a more fluid but grounded form! I qualified from the European Shiatsu School in 1994, following three year's training and have been fully accredited by the UK Shiatsu Society. I qualified as a kinesiologist in 2019, after completing two years training in Systematic Kinesiology and I am registered with the Kinesiology Association. I have run clinics in Reading, Henley, Marlow, Midgham and London over the past 16 years. I was resident shiatsu therapist at HM Treasury for 5 years, helping staff cope with working in an incredibly stressful environment. I have been running a weekly clinic for NHS staff at The Royal Berks Hospital for the past 7 years . I currently work from clinics in Marlow and Midgham, West Berkshire and at my home in Reading. I am also available to do home visits.

Clive Conn has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since January 2006

Robin Wagg has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since January 1991, specialising in use of the “Seitai Experience” within the context of “Therapeutic Shiatsu”. Seitai means “correct body”, our natural state of physical comfort, mental clarity, emotional stability and overall sense of wellbeing. and represents the key outcomes associated with this approach to physical and energy based treatments. Based upon the “The Relaxation Response” this immersive wellbeing system works to facilitate a deep level of relaxation and initiate healing at both physiological and energetic levels and thereby enable individuals to reconnect with their body at all levels as a means of supporting their return to health and wellbeing. The Seitai Experience, adds an alternative perspective on how to interface with the body through therapeutic touch therapy, providing an integrative approach to holistic therapies that combines both physiological and energetic approaches drawn from western and eastern therapy disciplines. This approach integrates; neuromuscular, myofascial, muscle energy and positional release techniques, stretching and Mobilisations within the context of; Seitai, Shiatsu and Sotai, to provide a unique approach that represents a synthesis of all these disciplines combined to provide a comprehensive approach to treatment. Robin is a Fellow and Instructor with the Shiatsu Society and a Graduate of the International Academy of Remedial Arts (Kokusai Ryojutsu Gakuin) with thirty years of clinical and teaching experience, he is a registered Touch For Health instructor, a Registered Nurse and a former College Lecturer in Complementary Therapies. 

  I love Shiatsu, I love to practice it and receive it. I have a busy practice and see a varied set of clients. Regular sessions of Shiatsu have helped me to be both physically and mentally stronger. I consider it a privilege to be able to use my Shiatsu knowledge to help my clients, to see them relax, be more grounded and to improve their general health and well-being. I have been a member of the therapy team at the Mulberry Centre for 10 years providing Shiatsu to people affected by cancer .The centre is based at West Middlesex hospital.

Working as a body psychotherapist using both Shiatsu, Gestalt psychotherapy, mindfulness and somatic experiencing.  Specialising in : Mental Health Trauma- sexual violence Pregnancy Birth attendance

Elizabeth Knight has been a member of the Shiatsu Society since March 1991