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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…

Women who have inspired me

I am interested in Radio 4 UK Women’s hour’s quest to find the most powerful woman in Britain. They are…

New book out mentions the importance of Baby Massage

Sarah Ockwell Smith mentions the power and importance of skin to skin contact and baby massage in her new book…

Stone circle

I haven’t yet had a chance to write my pieces about the Girdle Vessel and its importance and links to…

How to use the energy of Autumn creatively to support our well being

We can all relate to Autumn as the season of gathering in and harvesting crops. We can also apply this…

30 weeks Pregnant by Hannah Mackay

I would like to share this poem written by my colleague and former student, Hannah Mackay, wonderful Shiatsu practitioner based…

Enthusiasm

Wooden sculpture of hexagram 16 of the I Ching: by Julien Signolet This hexagram represents “Thunder breaking from the earth”…

To Autumn by John Keats

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun Conspiring with him how to load and bless…