Shiatsu 144 Winter 2017

WINTER 2017 - ISSUE 144

ISSN-2045-3590

shiatsu society journal

Shiatsu as Spiritual Practice

By Carola Beresford-Cooke MRSS(T)

Shiatsu and its Power to Connect

By Clifford Andrews MRSS(T)

Self Care - Jin Shin Tara

By Sally Ibbotson MRSS

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from the editor Happy New Year and a warm welcome to your Winter issue of the Shiatsu Society Journal. As you’ll see, the design team at Matrix have responded to our feedback and adjusted their new layout, so we hope you will be happier with the look of this edition.

We include more news from the Board with updates on recent developments. Please read the letter from the Chair, and it would be great to see as many of you as possible at the EGM on Feb 3rd.

It’s our Society and right now it actively needs us, if we are to shape its future structure and role as we would wish.

I looked out my precious notes from a long-ago seminar (1997!) with Ted Kaptchuk, ‘The Ladder of the Soul’ - a discussion of what he called ‘the 5 partate division of the soul’ in Chinese medicine.

Despite being technically a very poor example of teaching style (more on that later…) this was one of the most inspiring and enriching classes I’ve ever attended and has informed my practice ever since. I’m particularly delighted therefore, to present Carola Beresford-Cooke’s article on ‘Shiatsu as Spiritual Practice’. She offers her personal interpretation of how each of the 5 spiritual capacities (the 5 Shen) together can support the creation of ‘sacred space’ in a Shiatsu session, ‘…a dimension without limits, where giver and receiver are deeply connected to a ‘whole’ that feels like home’.

Cliff Andrews also writes about the power of Shiatsu to connect - across the divisions between body, mind and spirit, characteristic of the contemporary western paradigm. Drawing on material he presented at the European Shiatsu Congress (ESC) he describes how modern western thought has tended towards increasing separation - economically and socially as well as in ‘scientific’ medicine. He suggests that this is fundamentally opposite to our experience of ourselves as part of a

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connected oneness. I was reminded of Annie Cryar’s article, ‘Anatomy, Fascia and Biotensegrity’ (SSJ 139, Autumn ’16), where she quotes one of her sources saying, ‘the study of human anatomy has evolved from wholeness to fragmentation and is now on a return journey back to wholeness.’

I too went to the ESC in Vienna and was interested to read the feedback, kindly collated for us here by Anne Palmer. Among the ‘lowlights’ mentioned are references to the poor teaching styles of some presenters. In the Ted Kaptchuk seminar I mentioned above, he basically just talked all day! However his warmth, wit, wisdom, encyclopaedic knowledge and fascinating material, meant that we were captivated throughout.

Clearly not all the teachers in Vienna were equally gifted… But it was good to hear how for some this actually highlighted the excellent quality of the workshops presented by British teachers. Among other highlights mentioned was the sense of our flourishing wider Shiatsu community, connected across national borders.

Resonance is the theme of Wilfried Rappenecker’s article and I was reminded of Alice Whieldon’s comment (during a recent webinar) that holding the conscious ‘intention’ to enter into resonance with your receiver is part of the discipline aspect of Seiki. According to Kaptchuk, resonance is also a key concept in the Chinese understanding of Qi. To paraphrase him - ‘when we treat St 36, we’re not adding to the Qi of the person…early texts used words like ‘evoking’ and ‘precipitating’ - we’re evoking the possibility of resonance with the Qi that’s already in the cosmos…. All the cosmos and all human experience is potentially within all of us… We have the potential to resonate with the person - and evoke within them the possibility that this resonance will move them to a fuller state of being…’

All best wishes for 2018

Dinah John MRSS(T)

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News

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Yin, Not to Mention Yang

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Shiatsu as Spiritual Practice

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Resonance in Body Therapy

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Shiatsu and its Power to Connect

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Book Review - Words that Touch

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Self Care - Jin Shin Tara

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Supplementing Mainstream Healthcare

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Board News

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Letters

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Letter From the Chair

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Peer Support & Shiatsu Practice Groups

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The Shiatsu Society Congress 2018

The latest from The Shiatsu Society

By Carola Beresford-Cooke MRSS(T)

By Clifford Andrews MRSS(T)

By Sally Ibbotson MRSS More updates

Recovery and Renewal

European Shiatsu Congress Feedback

By Wilfried Rappenecker

By Adam Hellinger MRSS(T)

By Margaret Coats From members Updated details

Details and booking

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News Upcoming Events

New Directors In September ’17 two new directors were voted onto the Board.

Ralph Taylor is an acrobat and Shiatsu practitioner who has just completed his third year of training with the Shiatsu College London. He worked with the Marketing Subcommittee before joining the Board and we quickly recognised his skills in developing Shiatsu at grass roots level. He has taken on provisional responsibility for re-building the Social Media Sub-committee with a view to starting a clean-up of our website, injecting some life into our social media profile and starting to put together some ideas on what we ideally need from a new website.

Adrian Harper is another great asset to the Society. He is a consultant with extensive experience of working with charities and organisations like our own. With a good understanding of accounting systems and governance, he is able to offer us muchneeded support and advice in these areas. He is working closely with Elaine, our Treasurer, and has already given us good service and advice.

EGM 2018 Sat Feb 3rd ’18 University of Westminster, New Cavendish Street, London and live streaming.

Congress 2018 Fri 27th – Sun 29th Apr ’18 The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre 25 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh EH12 5AP AGM 2018 Sat Sept 8th ’18 Venue tbc

Board Meeting Minutes Board Meeting Minutes now available on the website for: • • • • •

Jan 19th ’17 Mar 2nd ’17 May 5th ’17 May 5th ’17 Addendum Jun 28th ’17

We would like to welcome them both to the Board.

On-line Journal

For the first time with this edition we are sending you an e-Journal alongside your hard copy version. We are very excited about this and hope you like it. We appreciate that you may prefer your paper copy and are not currently looking at discontinuing it. However, we

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do hope you experiment with the e-Journal and may come to enjoy the flexibility it offers.

If you find yourself preferring your e-Journal then please let us know. The Journal is widely regarded as a valuable benefit of membership but it also costs us more than 10% of our subscription income; it is expensive. We want to keep it

going, but also need to look at ways of reducing costs. So if you are happy to go paperless, we would be happy to hear from you.

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shiatsu as spiritual practice

BY CAROLA BERESFORD-COOKE MRSS(T)

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arola has been practising Shiatsu since 1978, with a detour into Acupuncture in order to learn more about Shiatsu. She was present at the founding of the UK Shiatsu Society in 1981 and in 1986 she, Paul Lundberg, Clifford Andrews, Elise Johnson and Nicola Ley co-founded the Shiatsu College. She has studied with many of the masters of Shiatsu, including a workshop with Shizuto Masunaga in 1981; her principal teacher was Pauline Sasaki. She is the author of the textbook ‘Shiatsu Theory and Practice’ and of the DVD series ‘The Meridians of Shiatsu’. Carola continues to practise Shiatsu and offer tutorials and supervision in West Wales. She can be contacted via www.shiatsu-wales.co.uk On my Shiatsu bookshelves there is an insightful book

by Simon Fall with this subtitle: ‘Shiatsu as Spiritual Practice’. I'm not here copying or reviewing that book, but acknowledging that the subject has come up before. Shiatsu is an expression of the best of ourselves, and a connection with the best of another. After a good Shiatsu session both giver and receiver can feel calm, uplifted and freshly open to the world. After time it is possible to recognise this state and allow a sense of it to exist between ourselves and the receiver from the beginning of the session. A Shiatsu session can become, however briefly, an experience of what we might call sacred space; not solemn or religious but a dimension without limits, where giver and receiver are deeply connected to a ‘whole’ that feels like home.

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What is Spiritual?

The idea of Spirit does not have to involve theories about life after death or the existence of God; in fact, it is not a conceptual idea at all, and rather falls apart when examined objectively. ‘Spirit’ is an experience, a sense of being a part of something greater than oneself, beyond the limitations of the material existence with which it is merged.

Shiatsu's inheritance from Chinese medicine, which is a philosophy as well as a science, offers us a method for examining Shiatsu as spiritual practice. The concept of the Five Shen, or five spiritual capacities, describes the various ways that consciousness manifests in action in the world.

Each one is assigned to one of the Five Phases or Elements - a useful way of categorising, but not one to get bogged down in with detailed Element associations.

The Shen, the human spirit itself, is made up of these five capacities acting together.

The Po (Metal) – the Spirit of the Body

the other martial arts. Undiluted concentration on form infuses the actions of the body with a ‘nowness’ that allows the individual body and its movements to enter a dimension of pure action without sense of self.

To give Shiatsu is really to experience the Po in action, in giving body weight and relaxing into the support of gravity. The sensations, however subtle, that arise in the session are felt in the body. The giver can be aware of the receiver's body as if it were his or her own. In no other therapy is posture and stance so important; alignment, expansion, relaxation and the sense of Hara are all key to good Shiatsu practice. When learning Shiatsu there are often questions like ‘how do I feel the Ki?’ or ‘how do I get in touch with this meridian? The majority of these can be answered by a simple change of posture. Much of the personal development practice, which accompanies our training in Shiatsu, aims to put us in touch with our Po. It encourages us to notice the movement of the breath in and out, to feel when the body is harmoniously aligned ‘between Heaven and Earth’, to awaken the sense of Hara, to increase

proprioception and to give a vivid sense of how individual body parts relate to each other.

The body knows, when it is relaxed and aligned, how to sense Ki, and to sense Ki brings us into connection with the whole of Nature. To exist, in Japanese philosophy, is to be endowed with aidagara, ‘betweenness’; we are all connected to each other and our environment by its web. Hara culture and personal development in Shiatsu practice open the sense of the individual and separate body to aidagara and a relationship with the whole.

The Yi (Earth) – the Spirit of Understanding

The Yi is sometimes translated as ‘the intellect’, which tends to reduce it to a dry concept, unrelated to spirit. Because the character for Yi contains a radical that means ‘purpose’, it is sometimes also assumed that it means a connection with our personal purpose in life. The

The body is the vehicle for the spirit. In this human realm, which we inhabit from our first breath, we cannot have perceptions or conscious life without it.

Awareness dwells in and manifests through the body.

The culture of Japan, the home of Shiatsu, fosters the development of the Po, the ‘spirit-in-the-body’, to its highest state, in the posture of Zazen, the art of the tea ceremony, calligraphy, Aikido, archery and

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personal is not enough, however, when considering spirit, which is our link to something greater than ourselves. So let us add some sense of a universal purpose, or if that doesn't feel right, a sense of the purpose within the whole, a sense of understanding or meaning, the illuminating quality of insight.

The Yi is an aid to Shiatsu practice because Shiatsu is an art based on the structure of understanding the dimension of Ki, bequeathed to us by generation upon generation of practitioners and teachers.

This understanding can support us within the constant flux of experiencing the now and give the sense of continuity that we need in order to remember and to work consistently.

Structure is initially learned from a teacher, whether it consists of meridians or points, 5 Phase associations or 6 Divisions, treatment frameworks and routines, practical techniques or diagnostic procedures. The teacher can be a book or a video or a person, but the teacher's main function is to make contact with the ‘inner teacher’, which is the Yi, our own insight. The Yi functions all the time in Shiatsu

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practice, manifesting in the ability to fine-tune our perceptions and make sense of them within a framework, to absorb the experience of teachers and other practitioners and reconcile them with our own unique experience in the now. The Yi gives the potential for transforming the forms and theories that we learn into our own understanding and tells us when we can let go of those structures, for it knows when we have internalised what we need.

The Yi understands with certainty. This inner teacher needs to be heard and acknowledged as much as the outer teacher, and to be equally honoured rather than denied.

The Zhi (Water) – the Spirit that Keeps us Going The Zhi is usually translated as the Will. Ted Kaptchuk, author of ‘The Web That Has No Weaver’, talks about the difference between the Yang Will, the effort to do something, and the Yin Will, which

gives us acceptance. We use both in our Shiatsu practice, for indeed the Zhi is the foundation of all kinds of spiritual practice (the Five Shen are sometimes also known as the Five Zhi). Just the word ‘practice’ tells us this. Shiatsu, like all the arts, requires discipline and practice in order to perform it well.

Determination fosters the learning and development of Shiatsu skill and technique; practice teaches our touch to recognise the differences between bodies, tissues and eventually, qualities of Ki. We move through the stages of learning new postures; we abandon old habits of moving and thinking. Sometimes we endure physical discomfort and pain in the process. All this requires commitment and dedication, but the final challenge of the Zhi is to recognise that the unfolding of learning is never over. Selfobservation takes over from the study mode; the will to keep the inner teacher functioning, to notice our own habits or mistakes, the will to remember and practise correct posture, to put in the daily groundwork of developing mind and body, are all examples of Zhi, in its Yang form, in Shiatsu practice.

The Zhi is ‘keeping the faith’.

Balancing this effort of will is the Zhi in its Yin form, acceptance. Being light with ourselves, recognising that to make mistakes does not mean that we are no good. By the same token, recognising that a satisfied receiver does not mean that we are wonderful. In the spirit of the Buddhist vow, ‘Even though sentient beings are innumerable we vow to save them’, we do our best for our receivers, with attentiveness and compassion, without being attached to the results. The desire to help others and the effort to improve go

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hand in hand with equanimity and moderation; the spirit of the Zhi recognises that the result of a Shiatsu session depends on many factors, most of which are unknown to us. And still we continue to do our best, with acceptance; we keep going.

The Hun (Wood) – the Spirit of the Individual The two best-known interpreters of the Five Shen differ considerably in the way they present the Hun (pronounce it in the Yorkshire way!).

Kaptchuk emphasises the ‘Ren’ or benevolence, which is the attribute of the Hun that people remember after someone's death; Maciocia emphasises its movement and its quality of inspiration during life. Both, however, concur on its likeness to the Western concept of the individual soul. The Hun is considered to survive after death

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and to retain the distinguishing qualities of the individual personality. In ancient tombs in China there were found books, dinner services, make-up kits small gifts for the dead person's individual preferences. I like to associate the Hun with the individual quality of touch with which each practitioner gives a unique Shiatsu. Some of the Shiatsu sessions I have received feel like a warm blanket, some feel silvery, some Christmassy, some like a rub-down, all wonderful in their way and all completely unlike each other except for the characteristic deep contact of Shiatsu. This individual quality of our touch is a reflection of our Hun; we could not get rid of it if we tried.

Another quality of the Hun is the kindness and benevolence that we can extend towards others, recognising that the other is still a part of a whole that includes us all, and this attitude motivates and sustains our Shiatsu study and practice. The word ‘benevolence’ is on loan from Kaptchuk, and needs to be stripped of any patronising association, because the Hun in our Shiatsu practice creates equality between giver and receiver, establishes a level playing field. Our attitude towards money in our practice is also surely related to this aspect of the Hun. Maciocia lays importance on the Hun's attribute of movement, ‘it follows the coming and going of the Shen’ and he links this to the free flow of Liver Ki. To liberate stagnation of Liver Ki, he says, can also free the Hun and open it to the potential of the future and a pathway for action. It may be that the meditative movement of a Shiatsu session liberates the giver's Hun in this way, as well as the receiver's. Qigong practice

also prepares us to recognise this state of free-flowing Hun, so that we can open ourselves to it at the start of the session.

The Shen (Fire) – the Spirit of Pure Presence

There is no adequate English word to translate Shen. Even in Chinese it is rarely used on its own except in a medical context; the common word is jingshen, the combination of Shen and Essence that make up the human being. ‘Consciousness’, ‘awareness’, ‘presence’, all have their individual associations in different contexts and so do not fully convey the purity of the Shen in its simple beingness.

When we learn Shiatsu, we also learn ‘stuff’: theory, meridians, routines and techniques. In the consultation before a Shiatsu session we apply our Yi, our insight, to the application of that ‘stuff’. When we kneel to begin the session, our conscious mind lets go of all that. We come into pure presence in contact with our receiver. This is the ‘big Shen’, which includes all the others. The Yi, the Po, the Hun and the Zhi come and go within our session as they are needed, like a shifting rainbow of colours, leaving no muddy trace in the clear space of the Shen. This is the ideal Shiatsu session. Maybe we experience it for a few minutes, occasionally!

But even a brief experience of the Shen in our session is meditation in action. We are involved completely and with all our spiritual capacities, which include the body-spirit, in the now.

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shiatsu and its power to connect

BY CLIFFORD ANDREWS MRSS(T)

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lifford Andrews has been a Shiatsu practitioner and teacher for over 30 years. He is currently working on a project to document his collaborative work in video-based online courses at www.newenergywork.com. A 90 minute video recording of a live Webinar on the theme of this article is available as part of the Free Resources section of www.newenergywork.com. You can reach Cliff personally at cliff@cliffordandrews.com ‘I know Shiatsu works on the physical level - but can we use Shiatsu to treat the emotional and psychological levels? And if we can - how does it work?’ This was a question one of our first year Shiatsu students asked me in class not long ago.

My answer to her first question was ‘yes of course’, but the second part of her question prompted me to think once again about this whole issue of how Shiatsu works! How can pressing our clients with Shiatsu technique influence their emotions and psychology? And why is it so difficult for us to explain this?

If you are ever in London sometime, I really recommend a visit to the Science Museum. On the top floor is a whole exhibition devoted to the history of world medicine. The layout of the exhibition takes you through every system of medicine in the world over the centuries. When I visited I couldn’t help being awed by the realisation - made vividly clear here - that modern scientific medicine is the only system of medicine in the entire history of the world that does not have healing at the spiritual level as a central component.

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Chinese medicine as we experience it today, sourcing information from pre-revolutionary China, has avoided the divisions between body, emotion, mind and spirit that we have inherited from Descartes and the Enlightenment.

Why does the concept of Qi stubbornly resist any direct translation into Western language?

At the root of the concept of Qi illustrated by the radicals of steam and rice in the Chinese ideogram - is that all manifestations of Qi represent a link between the material and non- material. The body, mind and spirit are part of a oneness. This has been a heresy in Western thought for over 300 years, so no surprise that the whole idea of Qi is a challenging concept for us!

This year I was very happy to be invited to present two workshops at the European Shiatsu Congress in Vienna. Their themes were the Post-Masunaga Shiatsu Evolution and Why Shiatsu is the Therapy of the Future. The ideas I presented in these workshops explored the nature of the connections between the body, mind and spirit; how these connections have been broken; and why Shiatsu has a unique place in healing, at a fundamental level, the root causes of those psycho-emotional

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imbalances which are fast reaching epidemic levels worldwide.

According to the World Health Organisation, 1 in 4 people will suffer some kind of psychoemotional disorder at some point in their lives: ‘around 450 million people currently suffer from such conditions, placing mental disorders among the leading causes of illhealth and disability worldwide’.

What are the stories we tell about ourselves?

The counter-culture movement of the ‘60s and ‘70s saw a great surge in interest and a seeking out of alternative philosophies and world views. Many turned to the East and found inspiration there. Meditation became popular and valued, and many practices such as Shiatsu, Yoga, Tai Chi and Qigong were widely adopted in the west and continue to thrive today. This whole phenomenon has emerged and continues as we continue to search for alternative stories that we can tell ourselves; stories about who we are, the nature of life; to bring meaning into our lives. This is not about facts.

It is about how we experience ourselves and what we believe is important in being a human living

on our planet.

Two narratives which have spread to gain world-wide dominance are neoliberalism and reductionist materialism.

Neoliberalism originated in the work of Hayek and collaborators in the early 20th century and is an economic philosophy telling us how we should behave together economically. Materialism, which underpins ‘scientific medicine’, dates back to the work of Descartes and is the principal understanding of how our bodies work and how they can be healed.

Both of these narratives intertwine to create a system of values that undermine, both structurally and fundamentally, the very experiences that make us human. Experiences such as feeling how our body reflects our emotions and our state of mind - and knowing how powerfully we’re affected by social interaction and connection.

Neoliberalism is the dominant economic philosophy worldwide.

The story it tells is that we are all isolated individuals competing against each other - and that if we believe and act in this way we will optimise the wealth of the world economy. But where did this philosophy come from? It was not by accident…

Hayek was an Austrian thinker

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Meridian

Emotional -ve

Emotional +ve

Mental -ve

Mental +ve

Ki Effect -ve

TCM Associations

Selected Points

LU / LI

Sorrow / Grief

Positivity

Fixed ideas or beliefs Obsession

Structure and concepts

Constrict

LU Benefits the Chest Ki LI treats Heat (combine with ST)

LU 3 7 9 LI 5

ST / SP

Pensiveness / Worry

Sympathy / Empathy

Over thinking / confusion

Intellectuality Strength of Mind

Knot

ST treats Phlegm (with LI) SP forms Blood - root of Shen resolves Damp

ST 40 41 42 45 SP 4

HT / SI

Excess ‘Joy’/ overexcited

Enthusasm Inspiration / Calmness

Restless Mind Dissociation

Clarity and Calmness

Scatter

HT - Houses the Shen SI - Shen via pair of HT + connects to the brain

HT 3 5 7 9 SI 3 7

Bl / KID

Fear

Courage

Fear Phobias

Determination Mental focus

Drop / contract

KID - Nourish Yin -> to cool and calm Heart Fire Bl - connects to the brain

KID 1 3 4 6 Bl 10

TH / HC

Defensiveness

Sociability

Vulnerability

Socially aware

Surface

HC - connected to Shen TH - Protective mechanism

HC 6 8

LIV / GB

Anger

Creativity

Indecision Anger Repression

Planning / Decision Making

Rise

LIV + GB - Stagnation of Ki -> Heat disturbs the Heart

LIV 2 3 5 GB 12 23 24 44

Direct connection to the brain

Du 16 20

Du Mai

Summary of Psycho-Emotional relationships in Shiatsu and TCM

who gathered together a group of economists in the 1930s and they came up with a plan to play the long game and change the way society thought about itself. Over the decades they encouraged their ideas to be taken up in universities and within government. It was only in the late ‘70s that the time was right for their ideas to really come to the fore. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher embraced neoliberalism as the justification for their agenda. Two famous quotes from them are: ‘There is no alternative’ and ‘There is no such thing as Society’.

Materialism has been the dominant philosophy since the Enlightenment. It underpins the success of the scientific method, and indeed has been so impressive that many believe that materialism is not a philosophy at all, but has a unique handle on the truth. However, in its own way - despite three hundred years of an overwhelmingly successful project in understanding and

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controlling the material world materialism and reductionism tell us a story that is fundamentally at odds with how we experience life. It tells us that we are isolated physical mechanisms, divorced from our mind and spirit, a story that resonates strongly with that of neoliberalism in the economic and social sphere. One book that perhaps represents the epitome of this resonance is ‘The Selfish Gene’ by Richard Dawkins.

Shiatsu and healing on all levels

The role of the healer in traditional medicine breaks down the division of roles we have created in modern society.

Amongst those divided roles, the physical is in the realm of the doctor and surgeon, the emotions and mind are addressed by the psychiatrist and spiritual matters are the concern of the priest. In traditional systems of medicine the healer is expected to address

all of these four levels. Even more fundamentally s/he has a responsibility to practice personal selfdevelopment, to be able to integrate all these levels in their work.

What is so fundamental to Shiatsu? When we centre and align ourselves; when we prepare ourselves with Qigong exercises, yoga or meditation, we systematically develop connections in our body-mindspirit that cut across the artificial divisions created by materialism.

And when we act with simple kindness and connect with another person, we are affirming our shared human connectedness - a connectedness that is constantly undermined by the neoliberalist model of how society works.

The meridian system is a powerful tool that has provided us with a map to connect the spirit, mind and emotions to our experiences in the physical body. This, combined with our expanded Shiatsu touch, gives us techniques specifically to develop

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our diagnosis and treatment on all four levels. This creates a system of healing that touches us and affirms all aspects of our ‘humanness’. Chinese medicine also gives us a highly practical system of relationships that I have summarised in the table above.

New developments in understanding

When I started my Shiatsu training in the ‘80s I had real difficulty in linking what I learned in western anatomy and physiology with my experience of the energetic system. In the last 30 years I have been so excited to see that increasing understanding of how the body works has meant that the worlds of western anatomy and physiology have actually converged with Shiatsu energy work.

Dr. James Oschman and Dr. Dan Keown convincingly describe a body-mind connected via the fascia and a meridian system, which can be understood as an embryological system of ‘information transfer’, linking the fascial planes and the internal organs within a tensegrity system.

We now understand much more of what happens when we apply Shiatsu touch to the meridians.

The belief in many traditional societies is that the universe itself is conscious - so the earth, the

rocks, plants and animals all have consciousness. The development of our human consciousness is actually an evolution and development of this more basic consciousness that exists in all things.

The metaphorical language that we use to describe our psychoemotional states is a vivid example of the reality of how our body-mind connection works: ‘I am brokenhearted’; ‘it took my breath away’; 'it was like a punch in the stomach’; ‘I can feel it in my bones’; ‘put your back into it’; ‘you are shouldering all the responsibility’. It is no surprise then that this process can work in reverse.

Shiatsu can help to heal a broken heart, allow the breath to come in, relax and support the stomach, reach the deep tissue of the bones, support the adrenal function and relax the back muscles, and lift a weight from the shoulders.

So we can think of Shiatsu

working on the psycho-emotional level as affecting our consciousness - by harmonising embryological fascial connections that work at a fundamental tensegrital level in adjusting how we experience ourselves in our body-minds. The mechanism for this harmonising is sophisticated, as it includes a direct resonance between our energy field and the receiver’s.

This is why we emphasise selfdevelopment as an essential part of Shiatsu training. The specific techniques are designed to reconnect and harmonise the energetic body of the receiver.

Why are Yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, Shiatsu and other holistic health practices still so popular? Could it be that - far from just increasing our health or providing us with another modality in health care they are still increasingly popular because they affirm qualities in us that we know at a deep level are essential to our humanness? That they are part of an emerging way of thinking about ourselves as connected, co-operative beings connected to the earth and universe in a fundamental way?

REFERENCES AND LINKS James Oschman, ‘Energy Medicine, the Scientific Basis’ Dan Keown, ‘The Spark in the Machine’ Peter Russell: www.peterrussell.com

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self care jin shin tara

BY SALLY IBBOTSON MRSS

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ally qualified as a Shiatsu practitioner in 2001 and works in palliative care and general private practice. She is a Qigong Teacher and runs regular retreats in Dorset - details can be found at www.willesdenbodywise.co.uk As Shiatsu practitioners our self-care needs prioritising! This ‘Earth suit’ that carries us through life increasingly needs input of a tender and loving kind that feeds energetic pathways and engenders good mental and physical health.

So it was that last September I spent a month at the Findhorn Foundation in the North of Scotland, on a four week ‘Spiritual Deepening’ course. I wanted to pay myself back for ‘pushing through’ when I was really too tired and for sometimes seeing just one too many clients in the day.

The course was rich in so many ways, however I wanted to write specifically about the self-care techniques that we were taught and which continue to feed joyous and playful expansion in my own life.

The Spiritual Deepening programme initially included the creation of a ‘safe’ group. Safe enough so that any unfinished business from the past, or now less useful behaviour, might be triggered and ‘held’ while it was gently and safely let go.

Allowing the flow of life to continue.

During this process it was suggested that we take care of ourselves by performing daily self-care techniques, to prevent the ‘overwhelm’ that can accompany deep self-exploration.

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One of our ‘focalisers’ (as course facilitators are called in Findhorn) had studied and qualified under Dr Stephanie Mines, who has developed the Tara Approach.

This includes what some Shiatsu practitioners will know of as Jin Shin Jyutsu. Dr Mines studied directly under Mary Burmeister, the founder of Jin Shin Jyutsu, for 20 years. However, Dr Mines also adds her own knowledge as a neuropsychologist specialising in embryology and the resolution of shock, an extensive knowledge of 5 Element healing and an unreasonably sharp intuition! Quoting directly from her online biography:

‘Stephanie devotes herself to the resolution of personal and collective trauma. Her explorations into natural, non-pharmaceutical ways to unburden the nervous system from overwhelm.’

My attention was caught by the fact that the ‘sacred sites’ (key areas to energetically ‘hold’ on the body) relate to the Extraordinary Vessels, their opening points and trajectories. Having studied with Suzanne Yates, soon after qualifying as a Shiatsu practitioner, and now treating people in end of life care, I almost exclusively work with these powerful pathways and reservoirs.

I returned to the Findhorn Foundation in September 2017 to study the Tara Approach with Dr Mines. There is much to tell about this wonderful course named ‘Essence and Empowerment’. We learnt protocols (‘flows’) for each meridian and for also for emotions - shame, fear, anger etc. It seems there is a flow for everything human.

In terms of self-care (the advanced course covers working with clients), I would like to share

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Hand on GV20 (Bai Hui) ‘100 convergences’ For Lifting the Spirit and Clearing the Mind

Bai Hui and Ren 17 (Shan Zhong) ‘Chest Centre’ Ren 17 tonifies the Heart and Lung Qi and dispels tightness in the chest area

Other hand on Upper Dantian (Yin Tang) ‘Hall of Impressions’ For influencing the pineal and pituitary glands

Bai Hui and Ren 15 (Jiu Wei) ‘Turtledove Tail’ the source of all Yin organs For worry which creates a knot in the stomach

Hands connect Bai Hui and the tip of the nose - I hold my tongue tip on the roof of the mouth Connecting the Ren (Conception) and Du (Governing) vessels

Connecting Bai Hui and Ren 22 (Tian Tu) ‘Celestial Chimney’ Also Kidney 27 (Shufu) ‘Shu mansion’ For quelling rebellious Qi. For contentment with the present and what we have

Bai Hui and Ren 10 (Xia Wan) ‘Lower Venter’ For assimilation of food…and experience

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the Central Vertical flow protocol with which we started our Tara course days and which is now my daily practice – the first thing I do each day in fact.

Our ‘vertical axis’ is our connection with the Sky and the Earth, the Yang and the Yin. As a Qigong teacher, I always start classes with the words:

‘Top of the head pressing the Heavens and feet kissing the Earth’

Bai Hui and the pubic bone, connecting with Ren 1 (Hui Yin) ‘Meeting of Yin’ To resolve physical stress. Also holding Spleen 12 (Chong Men) ‘Surging Gate’. This is known as ‘wash your heart with laughter’ in the Jin Shin Tara world

Connecting the coccyx (Bl 35) with the pubic bone. Bl 35 (Hui Yang) ‘Meeting of Yang’ now meets with Hui Yin, ‘Meeting of Yin’ A lovely hold to finish – enjoy connecting deeply down into the ever-supportive Earth

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Simply making this connection is enough. It is a connection present in almost all esoteric teachings – the Mountain Pose in yoga, the Chakra system, the Easy Pose in kundalini yoga.

Those who attended the Shiatsu Society AGM will have witnessed Debbie Heaney ‘spiralling’ around the central vertical axis in her beautiful Biospiral Qigong set.

With regard to how long one should hold each of these connections, we are looking and listening to feel a certain change - deeper breath, heat, release of tension etc. In much the same way as you would intuitively know how and when to move on when treating a Shiatsu client, try just moving on when it feels right – explore for yourself and see what happens.

As a lifelong student of TCM, I could not resist adding the points that seem to relate to the ‘sites’ and some of the qualities they bring. I have also made Qigong Sets for this and many of the other flows, which can be found on my YouTube channel. I will certainly be presenting some of these Sets at our annual Qigong retreat in Dorset next spring.

REFERENCES The Findhorn Foundation: Essence and Empowerment course 2018 www.findhorn.org/ programmes essenceand-empowerment Dr Stephanie Mines www.tara-approach.org ‘We are All in Shock’ by Dr S Mines (New Page: ISBN13:978-1-56414-657-1) ‘Essential Anatomy’ (Weatherhill: ISBN 0-8348-0443-3) Debbie Heaney www.godalmingshiatsu.co.uk ‘The Foundations of Chinese Medicine’ Giovanni Maciocia (Churchill Livingstone ISBN 0-443-03980-1) Suzanne Yates Well Mother www.wellmother.org

CPD Questions: • What do you do to take care of yourself?

• Reflect on whether you need to do more or something different.

• How will this affect your Shiatsu practice?

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board news Membership Renewals and Payments

Sub-committees Following on from the Board’s ‘Away Days’, we recognised that we needed to step back from some of the Sub-committees, at least for a period, while we agree on what the best structure for the Society is going to be. Some of the Sub-committees however remain vital to the Society’s ongoing work, including the Education, Journal and Ethics committees in particular. We also have some work going on in the social media/website area.

We have written to the relevant members to let them know that, for the time being, we’re standing down the other committees, pending a review of overall structure. We’d like to offer our sincere thanks to all those members of hard-working Subcommittees for all the time, energy and effort they have put in over the years.

Continuing Professional Development

Don’t forget that, as part of your CPD, you can earn up to 10 points per year as ‘reflective practice’ under Section D (1 point per hour). You can reflect on any article you read in this Journal and write up your reflections under this heading.

CNHC (Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council)

We are continuing to build our relationship with the CNHC and would like to thank their CEO, Margaret Coats, for her support and advice which have been invaluable in the past year. You will see an article by Margaret in this issue of the Journal, explaining the great leap forward she has made with the Royal Society for Public Health.

She is doing great work to support CAM professions and we would like to encourage you to join this organisation

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alongside the Shiatsu Society.

This would lend support to what is probably our most important advocate at the level of government and regulation.

We are unable to offer block membership, as they only deal with individuals, but we are keen that as many of our members join as possible.

They offer an excellent complaints process, as well as their advocacy, and we will continue to work alongside them as much as possible.

Finally, from November 2017, we have an automated system for sending out renewal letters.

This might seem obvious, and a rather dull piece of news, but to the office it is fantastic! Members may be surprised to learn that arranging membership renewals is more or less a full-time job for one person. When we started looking into our systems, back in December ‘16, we discovered that not only were they full of errors but that renewals were actually being run on two systems that did not cooperate with each other!

So it was taking at least 4 times as long to sort out a renewal as it does now, which of course was unsustainable. With careful use of our limited resources over the year, we have not only eliminated errors but have finally achieved this huge step forward.

In an effort to build on these improvements we are encouraging members to set up ‘rolling direct debits’ for their fees, which will further cut down on administration.

Finally, we are looking into bringing in a single renewal date for all members. We will keep you informed about progress.

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letter from the chair

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e had our long-awaited Away Days in October this year. We met at the Norwich Wellbeing Centre for two days to start working on plans for the future shape of the Society. Our first task was to look at the mission, vision and values of the Society. This was an interesting exercise in itself and we were all enthused by the material we came up with.

On the second day we took a good look at the Society’s current situation. Before we could capitalise on our renewed vision, we had to make sure that the recovery process we have been going through this year was safe and that the Society was stable. In October this was still by no means certain. So we spent a long and fruitful day working on a short-term action plan to enable us to have a secure foundation for the proposals we wanted to take to members.

This included: a plan to tidy the existing website until such time as the Society could invest in a new site; putting work into keeping our social media presence alive; finishing the tidying up of the systems so that these are as streamlined as possible; looking into employing a new member of staff to help in the office; working up business proposals to take to members for the EGM; contacting lapsed members; investigating the best block-insurance deal; minimising Journal costs while maximising quality; ensuring the next Congress is well planned; developing infrastructure to support streamlining.

Over the months since the Away Days, the Board has been working on the details of this action plan within their areas of responsibility and will be reporting back in December. Following this, the Board will finalise proposals to take to members at the EGM in February.

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on from an exceptionally busy year. What has become clear over this time is that the Society has, for some years, been moving with increasing momentum towards a cliff edge. With the gradual decrease in membership added to the steady growth in complexity and cost in running such an organisation, combined with failures to update systems and recognise business realities, we believe we stepped in with appropriate expertise just in time! We have needed to invest much of our capital in new systems and ‘systems rescue’. This leaves us in a much healthier but also much leaner place. We no longer have the financial reserves, but we do have a cleaned-up operations arm. For the first time in years we are looking at breaking even in 2018, though with little left to spare.

This year has been a valuable reality check; we have to think carefully now about what will best serve members, and the public, while staying within our means. The Board will be sending out proposals for you to consider very soon and it is vital that enough members engage with us in this.

While we may have to scale down our ambitions, we believe we are in a very good place now to offer the benefits of an efficient, clearly defined professional association.

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in February.

With all good wishes for the New Year,

Alice Whieldon Chair

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the shiatsu society (uk) congress 2018 Innovation, Integration and Inspiration with a Focus on Women's Heath

Venue: The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 25 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh EH12 5AP

April 27th – 29th 2018 An opportunity to widen your Shiatsu practice with inspirational professionals, to build new relationships within the Shiatsu UK community and beyond, and to contribute to the development of Shiatsu awareness

Outline Programme

Friday 27th from 12:00: Workshops in the afternoon / Chaired forum discussion in the evening

If you are a Member you will need to Login to your Member Account to book

Saturday 28th: Qigong & Yoga classes before breakfast / Workshops throughout the day / Party in the evening / Walk-in Shiatsu Clinic during the day

Early Bird Fee: £225 per person (available until Feb 1st ‘18)

Sunday 29th until 5:00pm: Qigong & Yoga classes before breakfast / Workshops throughout the day

If you are a non-member individual you can process your booking directly by following the relevant link

Booking

Early Bird Fee: £245 per person (available until Feb 1st ‘18)

The Congress 2018 online booking process is now open: www.shiatsu society.org/members/congress

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Standard Fee: £245 per person (by April 25th ‘18)

Standard Fee: £260 per person (by April 25th ‘18)

If you are an Overseas organisation and want to book for a group of individuals, you can process your booking directly by following the relevant link. Please note that a minimum of 5 people is required Discounted Fee: £225 per person (available until Feb 1st ‘18) Full details available on our website: www.shiatsusociety.org click on ‘News’ then ‘Events’ For any other queries regarding the Congress, please contact us by email at: congress2018@ shiatsusociety.org

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Further Details

Following the success of the ESC in Vienna in Sept 17' - with extended coverage in local press and associated media - the Shiatsu Society is delighted to be organising the UK congress this spring. To be held in the centre of the vibrant city of Edinburgh, this Congress will differ from previous ones in not being residential. This gives greater choice and means we can each choose accommodation and meals to suit our preference and budget. Free tea, coffee and biscuits will be available throughout and we will also be providing a walk-in Shiatsu clinic on the Saturday, open to members of the public as well as those attending the Congress.

The event offers 14 workshops and classes with the overall theme of ‘Innovation, Integration and Inspiration - with a Focus on Women's Heath’: • ‘Samurai Shiatsu - touch from the Heart’ with Karin KalbantnerWernicke Karin will be presenting her groundbreaking approach to working with children in schools using the principles of Shiatsu.

This approach has now developed across the entire age spectrum and is currently being adopted

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widely in schools and learning centres throughout Europe • ‘Linking the Spiritual and the Physical’ with Nicola Ley Nicola will be exploring our physical touch and how this links to spiritual aspects of connection with the receiver • ‘Menopausal Yoga’ with Kate Burford Kate will share with us how aspects of yoga practice, combined with our Shiatsu knowledge, can offer support both in preparation for and during the menopause • ‘Introduction to Shiatsu Shin Tai - Conception Vessel & Hara’ with Kindy Kaur and Liz Arundel Kindy and Liz will present both theoretical and practical aspects of this powerful and effective approach to bodywork and Shiatsu • ‘Proprioceptive & Somatic Exercises’ with Liz Arundel and Kindy Kaur Liz and Kindy will explore our connection to self-awareness and to our surroundings through these valuable exercises • ‘Creative Singing - Raga Style’ with Tal Calthrop Tal will help us to find and enjoy our voices and the wide range of

benefits that singing can bring us • ‘Spirits of the Yin organs, Shiatsu and the Five Spirits’ with Laura Naismith Laura will be using the perspective of the Yin organs of traditional Chinese medicine to look at connections to the forms of spirit • ‘Touching where Touch is Difficult’ with Laura Davison Laura will be developing how we connect with and support our clients in situations and instances where ‘our regular approaches may be difficult to apply’ • ‘Unspoken Messages - the Inspiring world of Gesture, Movement and Non-verbal Signs’ with Tamsin Grainger With Tamsin you will explore how to interpret your receivers' movements and diagnose using mindful observation ‘Shiatsu within the Community’ is the title of Friday evening’s forum discussion, to be chaired

by Elaine Liechti And we’ll have a chance to let down our hair and have some fun at Saturday evening’s party - with a DJ and Ceilidh Calling

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yin, not to mention yang

Experiences from the European Shiatsu Congress, Vienna, Sept 28th – Oct 1st ‘17 INTRODUCTION BY ANNE PALMER MRSS(T)

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was fortunate to be among the more than 600 Shiatsulovers attending the European Shiatsu Congress in Vienna – and an enormously Shiatsu-enhancing experience it proved to be. Themes included Shiatsu as a Profession, the Evolution of Shiatsu and the Future of Shiatsu – and the programme was packed. No, really packed… very early morning Qigong/yoga sessions, presentations and workshops all day, discussion panels in the evening. Actually it was totally exhausting, but it would have felt churlish, if not impossible, to miss this opportunity to work with teachers from far afield, including Japan, Canada, and South America - as well as many European countries!

I hope the following samples of feedback from several other participants will give you a fuller flavour of the Congress, and possibly inspire you to go to the next one in 2019 - I hope to see you there! Photos with thanks to Mili Badic and Phil Cheshire-Neal.

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Highlights • A wonderful cornucopia of nationalities, skills and cooperation • It renewed my faith in Shiatsu and the feeling that I'm not alone.

The organisation was stunning - the volunteers could not do enough, the translators were spot on, and the organic Red Bull drinks were delicious and refreshing.

That’s when I discovered that Red Bull is Austrian!

• It was fantastic to be amongst hundreds of Shiatsu practitioners from all over Europe, and a few from further afield. Inspiring to hear what others are doing with Shiatsu in their own countries – I met a women from Munich who runs a ‘Shiatsu in the workplace’ company with over a hundred Shiatsu practitioners taking seated Shiatsu into offices all over the city • I found it heart-warming to be a member of such a large group of what is so often a minority within other communities. We filled the main hall to bursting, we greeted each other with joy and interest,

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and we happily shared touch and ideas, across languages and culture.

Inspirational. And the slick organisation and sunshine helped a lot.

• Vienna was a treat too.

Highlights were paying €4 (standing) to see La Traviata at the National Opera House; Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt exhibitions at the Leopold Museum and the amazing ‘Schloss Belvedere’; eating cake in the historical coffee houses and simply walking the streets marvelling at the architecture • My priority was to learn from other teachers' models for integrating language and Shiatsu.

It was both heartening and daunting to hear more about the Swiss system, where in order to achieve official recognition and insurance payments for Shiatsu, they have had to incorporate a much more detailed understanding of psychology and communication skills into Shiatsu training than we have in the UK. This is great if, like me, you see talk and touch as a kind of Yin and Yang, inseparable, sometimes antagonistic, but each essential to the success of the other. On

the other hand, official regulation also means that Shiatsu training in Switzerland is now encumbered with a lot of other subjects, not all as relevant or necessary to working with Ki, and the training path is now much longer and more expensive. What can we learn from the Swiss experience, and where do we go from here in other countries to integrate mindful language into Shiatsu?

• The organisers did a fantastic job of finding a selection of venues close together, and a wonderful selection of translators for us Brits! It gave me a chance to review my practice and see what else is going on out there. I worked with Baby Shiatsu, how to treat Burn Out clients at all stages, working with depth, self-care, watching practitioners work, using dowsing, using the eyes. The British teachers were all excellent, which is great to know • Teresa Hadland and Bill Palmer’s Voice of the Organs workshop – participants walking around the room feeling the support of the colon and making really loud, powerful sounds!

Great fun

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• Samurai Programme, for children and for seniors – brilliant presentations from both Karin Kalbantner-Wernicke and her husband Thomas. Inspirational, immensely practical, useful and achievable in our own neighbourhoods. ‘Polishing the Samurai’s armour’ was a particular favourite • Then there were the workshops themselves. Three in particular stood out for me. These were Alice Whieldon – ‘Shiatsu: Medicine for the Soul’, Gabriella Poli – ‘Integration of Fascia Work in Shiatsu’, and Wilfried Rappenecker – ‘Local Work’.

What struck me here was that, although they had developed their Shiatsu along their own individual pathways, and were calling their techniques by quite different names, it felt that essentially they had all arrived at quite a similar place in their approach to supporting clients to heal themselves. All three spent a lot of time simply holding and listening with their whole bodymind-Ki to the whole body-mind-Ki of their receiver. Giving space and acceptance to whatever came up,

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allowing movement and allowing their receiver to lead the session.

Lowlights • This was the biggest Shiatsu gathering I’ve ever attended. It was less of a Congress and more of a circus, with an extremely Yang and overly-masculine feel to the structure. The desire to make the most of the event meant I was drawn into its expending, busy Ki and attended far too many workshops/presentations. This resulted in (for me) a lack of space and time to assimilate new and challenging concepts • The workshops that I chose were interestingly annoying and disappointing (at first): X’s workshop was a disappointment to me because he kept explaining a bit and then falling into ‘actually, I don’t want to explain anything, just have faith and trust me’.

This is not a good line for me and not good teaching and this theme of teaching that was not working for me continued with

other workshops. But what a relief to have opted for Bill Palmer’s workshop and then Clifford Andrews’, because finally here was teaching that was sound, practical and delivered what it promised to deliver.

• Listening to the presentation justifying the role of the ESF • Two extremely Yang workshops which used techniques that could not (ever) hear/listen to the receiver. Being part of an at least 4/5ths female audience during an all-bar-one male dominated panel discussion.

• Some very poor presentations – badly prepared, resting on the speaker’s reputation, ‘showing off’, lots of sitting around watching teacher work, basic work presented as though it is groundbreaking. Poor awareness of the energy of the room – ironic, in view of them claiming to be energy-sensitive!

• Evening sessions. I was too tired to benefit from the evening discussion sessions, which anyway had too many panel members to enable any useful

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discourse. It felt as if we couldn’t go deep.

• There were of course aspects of the Congress that didn’t work for me. I actually walked out of three workshops, for quite different reasons. In the first I found the style of Shiatsu demonstrated, although it may have been effective, was really painful for the client to receive, and I found the teaching didn’t really explain the ‘whys’, kept repeating the same essence in slightly different ways with not enough explanation or opportunity for participants to give it a go. Too much ‘Look at what I can do’ - and I don’t want to work in that way. The second I left because it was simply a really ‘nice’ way of working, but didn’t have enough depth to stimulate me. It was very ‘lovely’ bodywork but didn’t engage my intellect.

I felt there wasn’t a connection to meet the individual client’s needs. And the final workshop I left because I found the teacher arrogant and too sure of himself.

I realised I was so wound up by the way he taught Shiatsu that I wasn’t in a place where I would learn anything from him, whether

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or not it was useful stuff to learn.

So I left...

Surprises • X’s workshop was extremely challenging. His concepts and techniques are diametrically opposite to those I’m familiar with and use. Despite this, he made me take a step back from outright aversion and explore deeply what makes the Shiatsu I love so much fit into my life and philosophy. The workshops I’d chosen were either topics that evoked curiosity/interest or with teachers I’d be less likely to see again. I hadn’t planned a theme but one emerged - that of creating structures and strategies which reduce, or even remove, the practitioner from the treatment.

Even X’s work touched on this • It is also amazing to be in the company of over 500 Shiatsu practitioners, so different from the handful you see regularly at home. One of the workshop titles was ‘Shiatsu the Therapy of the Future’, and with so many folk

there that seemed possible • As our country continues to alienate itself more and more from Europe, we, the members of the UK Shiatsu Society need to work, share and unite if we want to make a difference, but also remain in close contact with our European colleagues. Thank you VIENNA • I am still really glad I went to the Congress. Seeing ways of giving Shiatsu which don’t resonate with me feels as important in confirming the way I wish to develop my work as being inspired with ways that excite me. It was also important for me to form my own impression of Shiatsu teachers I’d heard of in the international Shiatsu community, rather than go by the hearsay. And seeing what I felt to be badly taught workshops makes me really value the good workshops, and the quality of teaching I am used to in the UK • I feel more united to the whole Shiatsu world of which I am a part

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resonance in body therapy

BY WILFRIED RAPPENECKER

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ilfried Rappenecker (GP) was the founder and for 30 years the Director of the School for Shiatsu Hamburg, Germany. For many years he was also the Director of the International School of Shiatsu (ISS) Kiental, and the European Shiatsu Congresses Kiental, Switzerland. He was a co-founder of the German Shiatsu Society (GSD) and is the author, co-author or editor of seven books on Shiatsu as well as publishing numerous articles.

In bodywork we describe resonance as a phenomenon that unfolds between giver and receiver. Mindfulness for oneself and being present in one’s body, on the part of the therapist, is an important basis for resonance in a therapeutic setting. Training and experience allow the therapist to amplify that resonance. However, the practitioner alone cannot generate resonance; the receiver’s response is essential.

In this context, trust is an essential ingredient. The arising therapeutic space is more, and can facilitate more, than the space between two individuals who are not resonating with each other. In one way or another, resonance shapes our interpersonal communication and is the foundation for creating a sense of communion.

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In Shiatsu, resonance describes a phenomenon which unfolds in every therapeutic situation between therapist and patient, and which is reflected in the therapist’s perception of and the patient’s reaction to the touch.

Resonance always occurs when two people relate to each other.

In this article I describe the effects of and prerequisites for amplified and deepened resonance as it occurs and can be promoted consciously in a Shiatsu treatment.

When resonance is amplified patients describe the effect of the touch as reaching significantly deeper, both physically and emotionally, than without deepened resonance. Clients relax more easily and deeply.

The breathing becomes deeper, or lighter and shallower; there will be a perceptible decrease of both tissue and muscle tone; local tension dissolves.

In a state of amplified resonance, the therapist’s perception expands, from perceiving only the physical surface and superficially visible physical structures, to perceiving the whole ‘body-space’, when for example treating someone with a frozen shoulder, an injured knee or a psychological complaint.

Being Present in the Body and the Quality of Attention

A state of increased resonance in this sense requires the practitioner ‘being present within himself’. This phrase describes a state in which the therapist perceives himself and his body in a relaxed way while being engaged in therapeutic interaction with the patient. This state is experienced as calm and centred

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– and felt as pleasant. The client, too, enters into a similar state, among other things through the deep relaxation experienced in the treatment.

Mindfulness towards oneself, and being present in one’s body, is an indispensable basis for the therapist’s mindfulness towards the client and his/her bodyspace. This kind of mindfulness is not diffuse, but orientated and focused. The fascinating combination of relaxed expansion and clear focus facilitates specific touch with nothing but focused attention – together with manual touch; if it is considered appropriate, then actually instead of manual touch. This type of ‘touch with attention’ is possible on any part of the body, on its surface as well as within the depth of the body-space.

It is interesting that even minor changes in the therapist’s position, thinking or mental orientation can have a considerable influence on the resonant space formed together with the client. For example, if the practitioner straightens up and slightly expands himself

during the touch, joints such as the shoulder joint and the wrist become permeable and the client will experience more freedom and lightness; and he will often become even more deeply relaxed. The client will experience the touch in different ways in his body, depending on whether the practitioner is working on an area with a well-defined focus of attention, or whether he is thinking of something completely different, such as his shopping list.

Expansive and focused mindfulness can and must be learned and practised. It is a kind of Qigong practice. Body exercises, such as Hatha Yoga and meditation, can play a decisive role in such training. The treatments themselves can be utilised as an effective practice space for reaching a state of amplified resonance.

In the beginning it often requires courage to enter into a state where resonance is possible.

It requires courage because it requires the practitioner to open up; to partially surrender the control of which aspect of his/ herself emerges to the outside,

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as well as the control of what can penetrate to the inside. To be in a state of resonance means that ‘I show myself the way I am’.

Therapeutic Space

However important it is for the practitioner to be prepared and able to enter into resonance, the phenomenon can only be triggered to a limited extent by the therapist alone. The client’s response is essential. At that moment in the treatment when the client relaxes, she opens herself up to the touch and establishes a connection with the therapist. This connection is perceptible to the therapist and is a phenomenon of resonance. People who are in tune with their bodies (e.g. bodyworkers, yoga practitioners, professional dancers or actors) will perceive this much more quickly and more strongly. This makes working with such people often easier and particularly satisfying for the practitioner.

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common space. At our institute we call this resonant space the ‘therapeutic space’. Training and experience on the part of the practitioner make it easier for this space to arise.

Trust is an essential ingredient of the therapeutic space. The practitioner’s mindful touch and his relaxed presence allow the patient to relax and trust the setting and the touch. Trust increases the potential for resonance in the human system and thus its strength. Trust, therefore, facilitates an inner state in which words and touch have a deeper effect and support self-regulation and self-healing.

In my view, this is an important component of any therapeutic effect. It is well known to any G.P. in western medicine, in the context of a conventional medical intervention, and is one of the foundations of the placebo effect.

Not every client is able to open up to the emerging resonant space straight away. For example, offering this space to traumatised persons can trigger fear and a ‘closing-up’. In such cases, the

therapist’s experience is of great importance in order to continue offering openness and acceptance unilaterally, while at the same time understanding and respecting the client’s closing up as a necessary act at that moment.

In the therapeutic space, therapist and patient communicate with each other. Verbal and especially non-verbal information becomes accessible; information which goes beyond merely physical impressions and encompasses emotional aspects as well as aspects of the client’s life history.

Generally, based on training and professional experience, the therapist can consciously use this information for working with the client. Due to the nature of resonance, clients equally receive information about the therapist but are usually unaware of this.

Both transference and countertransference are phenomena of the therapeutic space.

In a safe treatment setting, the therapeutic resonant space develops spontaneously and without any conscious action of the persons involved. However,

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it can also be induced by the practitioner - based on her training and experience. Of particular importance are skilful perception, a mindful approach and respect for the patient’s integrity. Only then a therapeutic setting will develop that differs fundamentally from a non-resonating one.

Resonance in Everyday Life

What I refer to as the resonant space, in my view and experience, actually exists in every interpersonal communication.

Language is only one of the essential tools for communication.

It works together with gestures, facial expression and body language as well as the many ways of communicating, and together these all influence and shape the communal space formed by human beings when they consciously or unconsciously relate to each other.

I presume that mutually experiencing and relating to each other in the resonant space also plays a great, if not central, role in people’s everyday life; that it forms the basis for all important decisions; and that it brings the colour to our lives which we experience in our togetherness with others.

Resonance is the foundation for a sense of deep connection.

Attempting an Explanation

In attempting to find an explanation for the phenomena observed in bodywork as described above, the term ‘resonance’, borrowed from quantum/particle physics, appears very useful to me. Resonance arises when two vibratory bodies

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or spaces relate to and influence each other. In this concept, the human being as a whole (i.e. the human body, possibly including its surrounding space, as well as feelings and thoughts) is seen as a space capable of resonance.

In bodywork, a relaxed, released and aligned body, which ‘shows itself’ and can openly enter into resonance, is therefore of great importance. Marked tension in the practitioner’s body (e.g. in the shoulders, the neck or the wrists) will cause a constraint of the resonant space.

The less the vibrational capacity is impaired, the easier it will be for vibrational spaces to resonate with each other. Typical dampening factors in the human body are tension as a result of

stress, anxiety, ambition etc. If the body suppresses certain painful experiences and if this suppression is permanently stored, there will be blockages on both an emotional and physical level. These can severely restrict the system’s vibrational capacity.

This applies to almost all people, but in particular to those with e.g. a neurotic or post-traumatic stress disorder or with borderline personality disorders.

Bodywork such as Shiatsu, but also psychotherapy, pursues the goal of dissolving such blockages and increasing the vibrational capacity of a person’s entire system. If the vibrational capacity of a client’s system increases during treatment, it is easier to find solutions to any current problem.

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book review

‘Words that Touch: How to Ask Questions Your Body Can Answer, 12 Essential Clean Questions for Mind/Body therapists’ by Nick Pole

BY ADAM HELLINGER MRSS(T)

NICK POLE 2017, Singing Dragon Publishing London. ISBN: 184819336X

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first met Nick Pole in the late 1990s when he gave a Shiatsu weekend workshop on how to support Carers. I was immediately intrigued and fascinated by how he used words to present and frame this workshop.

In the subsequent years it’s been very interesting to keep in touch with Nick - at different events and workshops and to observe how his work has been refined and further developed.

‘Clean Language’ is a very particular approach to communicating, both with ourselves and with our clients, of fering the opportunity for the ‘verbal mind’ to connect with the ‘bodymind’ – where we actually find our somatic sense of self. This can create a space for extraordinary insight and the opportunity for change and development.

Now Nick has produced this excellent book presenting his approach. It provides not only a clear and concise introduction to the world of Clean Language - and how it links with bodywork - but it

also provides clear references to the theory behind this way of working. His own definition (admittedly with caveats) is: ‘Clean Language is a set of questions that help the client to explore and transform their own subjective reality with

minimum interference from the questioner’.

Gestures and metaphors are also ver y valuable aspects of the communication which can develop in this kind of ‘clean’ exchange with your client - and can

help to open up new worlds of self-awareness and possibilities for change.

Using many practical examples and case studies, Nick explores and demonstrates how to use Clean questions to build a framework which the Shiatsu practitioner and body worker can begin to adopt for themselves. The open, clear, focused space which arises between giver and receiver – and the energetic shif t s prompted by making connections between mind and body – can lead into the practical Shiatsu session supporting the full engagement of the receiver in their own healing process.

I particularly liked the presentation of summaries of key sections of the text as I personally find this a really helpful aid to learning.

All in all, I felt the book to be an excellent introduction and guide to both the practical use and the theory of Clean Language and ‘How to ask questions your body can answer’.

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supplementing mainstream healthcare

BY MARGARET COATS

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argaret Coats has been CNHC’s Chief Executive & Registrar since September 2011. Prior to this she was Chief Executive & Registrar at the General Chiropractic Council. Previous roles included Chief Executive of the Occupational Standards Council for Health & Social Care, Head of the NHS Open Learning Unit and Regional Director of a computer training organisation.

This article was published in The New Statesman’s Healthcare Spotlight Oct 13th 2017. Spotlight is the NS series of highly focused policy reports, hard copies of which are included as a supplement in their printed magazine and published on their website.

Later this month the Royal Society for Public Health will report on ways to include the UK’s growing ranks of complementary therapists in the wider public health workforce. It’s the outcome of a joint project with the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA), which is looking not only at how complementary practitioners can help to meet the country’s public health priorities, but also how their work can relieve some of the pressure on an overstretched NHS. Complementary health therapies – distinctly different from alternative and traditional medicines – have wide acceptance in the UK. An estimated one in four of the population use these to supplement conventional medicine. Fifteen of these disciplines make up the register run by CNHC.

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Government policy has focused on the need to protect the public while taking the view that, due to the low potential risk from treatment, there is no logical case for statutory regulation.

From the late 1990s through the early 2000s, a lot of government funding was put toward developing standards to define what safe and competent practice looked like.

A second step toward integration included setting up the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council in 2008 – with the support of government as well as the initial funding – as the voluntary regulator of these practitioners, with the single objective of protecting the public.

The voluntary nature of the regulator was emphasised by two Department of Health statements; in 2010 GPs were advised to recommend patients seeking complementary therapies to consult practitioners who were CNHC registered - followed by the 2011 recommendation ‘that where people are looking

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for complementary healthcare practitioners, they use someone who is CNHC registered.'

A further step came with the Health and Social Care Act 2012, which provided for a tier of accredited registers to run in parallel with statutory regulators of mainstream healthcare.

Implementation was made the responsibility of the PSA, and CNHC welcomed the opportunity for external scrutiny; it has held an accredited register since 2013. In 2015, the government recommended that people seeking a health practitioner who is not regulated by law should only consult one on an accredited register.

In April 2016 the Scottish government updated its guidance making clear accredited registers ‘have a number of benefits for practitioners, patients, contracting organisations and employers; providing reassurance that professionals are subject to appropriate scrutiny.’

It’s a measure of the growing integration of complementary and conventional healthcare that guidance published by the

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence increasingly includes reference to professions regulated by CNHC. Current NICE guidance includes: • Complementary therapy to support palliative care for adults with cancer • Massage for pain management in end of life care for infants, children and young people • Massage therapy for low back pain and sciatica • Hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome in adults • Alexander technique teaching for Parkinson’s disease in adults In 2015, the General Medical Council also amended its guidance to doctors to confirm they are able to refer patients to practitioners on accredited registers.

The CNHC is committed to further integration of complementary and conventional healthcare – not only to benefit public health, but to enhance the NHS mainstream workforce.

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letters Some of you may have heard the question asked at the last AGM about what had happened to the Journal’s Letters page. It was I who answered (Ed), saying that we simply hadn’t received any letters to the SSJ for some time and that of course we’d be happy to

publish them - as always.

Long-standing and engaged Society member Paul Bridle was the originator of that question and has set the ball rolling by writing us a letter. As you’ll see, he points out that in the past this was a regular place for exchange

Dear Members, In the past – but not for some years now - the Journal had a Letters page, where the membership could air their views and ask questions regarding their shiatsu practice and the Shiatsu Society.

I felt this was a useful way of hearing from the grassroots of the Society, the individual members. It was also a good place to offer or to gain support.

Questions ranged from the complexities of an individual treatment to what might have been thought of by some as the stunningly obvious. We all gain an insight through the thinking processes of others regarding the subject of shiatsu. This is perhaps especially true when just starting out on the journey of becoming a shiatsu practitioner. It was also the place where one could read more of the ‘mood’ of the Society membership toward any changes planning to be introduced through the work of the Board.

More recently this page has been absent, possibly because members are using other means of keeping in touch, such as social media. Social media can be a great place for swapping ideas about shiatsu in general but may not be the ideal forum for talking about the workings of the Shiatsu Society itself.

Currently, if I wish to sound out my colleagues’ opinions, I find that I am emailing a small clique of people with whom I am already familiar.

I realise that the Journal, with the time lag between editions, may no longer be the best

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between members but for several years now writers have fallen silent. If you have something you'd like to share in the Journal please feel free to send us your letters at any time!

medium available to us. Perhaps members would prefer that it become something accomplished through the Members’ Enews or the Society website?

My personal opinion is that the Letters page would be better served in the Members Enews rather than the Journal. It would present the letters / questions to you, rather than depending on you going to look on the website, allow a quicker response from others and should also be considerably cheaper to manage than a printed version.

Hopefully you can see my point here though, unless I can ask the question somewhere, like now through the Journal, then the question never gets asked!

If you are interested in a Letters page being introduced in the Members Enews or being re-instated in the Journal or somewhere else such as the website, then I would urge you to email or write in to the Journal and perhaps send a copy to the Society office.

I would also like to know if you have any other ideas regarding greater written participation from the membership between AGMs or indeed if you are quite happy with the status quo. Though I am not sure how you would communicate the latter?

Best wishes to all.

Yours faithfully Paul Bridle MRSS

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Dear Readers, I have taken the decision to resign as Editor of the Summer issue of your Journal and thought I would write a ‘reflective thank you’ to be included in the revived Letters page.

When I applied for the editor’s job, I did so because I wanted to support the Shiatsu Society as well as challenge myself to achieve some Continuing Professional Development points in a new way. I’ve been teaching less in recent years, as some of the school branches I worked for have closed, and I wanted a way to keep in touch with the wider Shiatsu community. I thought editing the Journal would be an amazing way to do this.

It has been useful to reflect on what I have gained in the time I have been an editor. I have read articles, which, if I am truly honest, I probably would have only skimmed over before. I have read the news from the Board and become much more aware of all the hard work which goes on behind the scenes on our behalf. I have contacted various people to commission articles and worked with various authors to ensure articles are compliant with our Journal protocols. I have had the opportunity to work with some fantastic people - some remotely and some in person - and I have had wonderful support from the rest of the editorial team - a big Thank You to all of them! I have felt a huge sense of responsibility in looking

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after an author’s work and nurturing it through to the print stage – and great relief when the printed Journal arrives on time. I write up my reflections on the process of editing each Journal, which can give me some sense of achievement even though I have not written any of the articles. These reflections will count towards my essential CPD log should I get selected for audit in the future. I would definitely say that editing the journal has broadened my Shiatsu horizons and kept me in touch with the world of Shiatsu.

I now leave a vacancy for the Summer Journal editor role - so if you are thinking of a new challenge this is a great opportunity to work with Shiatsu in a different capacity. We do get paid but I don’t recommend you apply just for the money! Not only would that not be in the spirit of Shiatsu but really I have gained far more than money from my time working on the Journal. You will be enriched by close study of the texts of all the articles you include; you get to work with a lovely team who provide lots of support and encouragement and you can bring your fresh energy in to help our Society develop through the current transition period which, as you saw in October, is also a transition period for the Journal.

My thanks again to all who have supported me as an editor.

Julie Weeks MRSS(T)

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peer support and shiatsu practice groups New Director Ralph Taylor has been busy with that part of his remit aimed at developing Shiatsu at the grass roots level. One of his first initiatives has been to contact Peer Support and Practice Groups, looking to update their contact details and find out a bit more about the groups – who they are and what they’ve been up to - and to share that more widely, in the spirit of community support.

Ralph himself has joined Liz Kendall to take over from Pat Leeson in running the Surrey group. A few other changes have happened and below you’ll find the usual list of contacts now updated and more current.

News Surrey - the Surrey Network Group meets bi-monthly, usually from 10am – 4pm. ‘We share swap sessions, exchange practice techniques, look at video and book reviews and exchange ideas for marketing support’ Edinburgh - Tamsin Grainger is the contact for the group in Edinburgh but, as she is now out of the country for up to half the year, would love someone else to take over as the official contact for their group – any volunteers up there?

Devon - a monthly Seiki-Shiatsu group now meets at the Totnes Natural Health Centre, on the last Thursday of the month from 4.30pm to 6.30pm. Practitioners who are interested in finding out and/or developing the Seiki-Shiatsu method are welcome to join.

For more information please contact Daniela Coronelli. Email: lifehealingarts@ yahoo.co.uk Tel: 07941841555 North Somerset - Amy Taylor kindly shared lots of detail about each member of her local group of 6 practitioners – here is a brief summary: • The Somerset Support Group meets quarterly, in Cheddar. ‘Together we bring a really varied set of skills and, between us, we have over 75 years worth of experience! We enjoy staying in touch and meeting for a good catch up, swapping tips and techniques, discussing challenging cases and keeping up with the latest research in the world of health and wellbeing’

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• Lynn Southam has experience of working with adults with severe learning disabilities and recovering addicts. She is also a Hula Hoop coach with a passion for encouraging co-ordination skills and improving balance • Mark Pogson’s focus is on health maintenance and personal development.

He also teaches Qigong and runs an alternative training and conference venue • Matt Goatcher enjoys working with all aspects of physical and energetic alignment as well as supporting people with long-term conditions. He uses the ‘Scenar Pain Genie’ for treating injuries and for post-operative recovery • Andrea Ham combines Shiatsu with Reiki and is particularly interested in working with horses

• Mary Bancroft, as well as practising Shiatsu and Reiki, also runs 'Mindful Movement for Wellbeing' classes, incorporating Meditation, Do-in, Tai Chi and Qigong, plus teaches relaxation skills that can be used outside of Shiatsu sessions • Amy Taylor specialises in relaxation and pain management using Shiatsu, massage, dry needling and advanced soft tissue techniques to provide pain relief for musculo-skeletal and myofascial conditions. She is passionate about preventing illness and encouraging self-development The group learn a lot from each other and appreciate the connection and support from one another.

Contacts List ENGLAND

Bedfordshire Sarah Wale Stanford 01462 811933 Birmingham Catherine Sullivan 07796 017041 Bristol Kalandar Warren 0117 300 9777 Cornwall Kate Burford Penzance 01736 350517 Cumbria Marie Buttler Carlisle 01228 546523 Derby David Home 07773 384905 Derby/Staffs/ Mids Isabel Wilson 01889 569411

Devon Frances Rayner 07940 865994 East Sussex Rose Fuhrmann 01273 400914 Hampshire Christina Wellbeloved 01243 373473 Hertfordshire Maria Serrano St Albans 01727 842495 Kent Rose Fuhrmann 01273 400914 Leeds Talia Lyon 07551 935022 London Andrew Parfitt 07870 631412 Manchester Hannah Mackay 0161 881 6184 Northants Carol Chantler 07934 702438

North Somerset Amy Chandler 07787 765795 Notts Caroline Salzedo 0115 970 3456 Surrey Liz Kendall/ Ralph Taylor 07944872332/ 07718050564 Tyne & Wear Jimmy Hunter 07793 539693

Edinburgh Tamsin Grainger 07821 264 882 Glasgow Elaine Liechti Dalry 01505 682889 Highlands Chris Pamphilon 01349 861822 WALES

Carmarthen Becky Seale 01267 275249

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Scotland/North of England Jane Groombridge 01382 810526 Aberdeen Laura Davison 01224 662878 Fife Marie Lamont 07979 922011

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