Suzanne Yates
Touch for birth
I have been asking some of the people who have studied with me to write about their work. Leslie did…
Life in the womb: connecting to source, the Tao, the breath of life and the Extra-ordinary vessels
This was meant to be a weekly reflection on my work: but I have been so busy working with the…
Inspired by students
Wellmother students projects The value of support and sharing ideas I resisted this idea of sharing aspects of my life…
Research and regulation of complementary therapies
There is an interesting article which you might like to view and comment on in the Guardian at the end…
Reflections on Winter. Part 2: How to support our water energy and the energy of Kidney and Bladder and their relevance to 21/12/12
Yin, water and the solstice The featured image is a lovely one for this time of year: the light in…
Reflections on Winter: Part 1: Our annual hibernation.
The temperature has dropped, most of the leaves have fallen from the trees and the air feels crisp and cold:…
Winter Poem
While I am writing my reflections on winter, I thought I would share this poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)…
Shiatsu and Osteopathy
I asked one of my students, Avni Trivedi, an osteopath who did my “Shiatsu for midwives and birth professionals” course…
Meridians: do they represent our cellular memory of our embryological development and how can we tune into this more?
How does Shiatsu and bodywork change us? What are meridians? How do they work? More and more I feel that…