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Suzanne Yates in Pavillon teaching at La Source

Shiatsu and massage– a wonderful way to support the first trimester of pregnancy

This is the first in a series of 3 blogs on pregnancy. I will write a separate blog on miscarriage,…

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Supporting Assisted fertility: part 3

This is the third part of a three part blog I wrote for a French language website. If you want…

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Shiatsu: a way to support optimal fertility and physical and emotional health – part 2

Puberty, the menstrual cycle and aging This is the second blog I wrote for the French website info-lux.com. It is…

How the Extraordinary Vessels accompany us from Conception to Death

I am presenting the journey we make from conception to death at a French speaking practitioners Summer school (UFPST )…

In celebration of my appearance at the 2025 Birth Summit from 7th April with my talk on 14th about the power of the Extraordinary Vessels of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Suzanne’s story of setting up Wellmother

How my personal experience of pregnancy and birth led me to set up Wellmother in 1990. People have been asking…

The 8 Extraordinary Vessels and the first week after conception

Whole and self contained I have been busy teaching so apologies for the delay in this next Blog on the…

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Coming into being: our development in the womb and the Extraordinary Vessels

This blog is about how the Extraordinary Vessels can be seen as being important at the beginning of life. I…

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Happy new Chinese year of the Black Rabbit 2023

A year of good fortune and charm? What do you want to let go of from last year of the…

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The Eight Extraordinary Vessels: a family of wholeness and connection

This was published in the Shiatsu Society Journal in February 2017 as a 2 part article. Here is part 1….

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Does your fire light you up or burn you out?

Written by Rosa Lia, massage therapist, yoga teacher and Wellmother associate. We will be teaching together on the June women’s…