2009-2010 courses
All workshops confer a CPD accreditation certificate for those who require it, and are suitable for graduates of a part-time, 3-year Shiatsu course. Some courses will also be suitable for students.
fees
One-day courses: £57 (Tamsin Grainger, Lucy Trend, Martin Julich, Cynthia Shuken, Tim Mason).
First Aid: £80 (Focus Training)
Bill Palmer: £190 (£170 if booked by 5 April 2010).
how to apply
To apply, please download, print out and fill in the postgraduate application form, and send it to us along with a non-refundable deposit of £40 for each of the courses you wish to attend.
The remainder is to be paid 2 weeks in advance of the course.
Please send completed application form with cheque made
payable to 'The Shiatsu School Edinburgh' to:
The Administrator
The Shiatsu School Edinburgh
PO Box 23613
Edinburgh
EH6 8ZB
You will receive written acknowledgement of your application.
Post Graduate Day with Tamsin Grainger
18 October 2009, 10am - 5pm. £57. Bread Street.
Morning: Brush up on your meridian location and Hara diagnosis. Our memory slips doesn't it? We think we'll never forget when we graduate, but we all do. What's the relationship between HG and LV in the thigh again? Come back to class and make your treatments more effective.
We will have a shared lunch - just like old times!
Afternoon: Research: The European Shiatsu Federation has published its big study (most of us have paid towards it through our Shiatsu Society fees) and there are lots of spin-offs for our own work. So, how do the current findings affect our practice? How we can get more clients by using it?
There is also an exciting study where a Shiatsu practitioner worked alongside general practitioners and we will look at those findings and their implications for us.
Finally, how we can be involved in collating data for future research? Is there a project waiting to be realized?
Tamsin graduated from the Glasgow School of Shiatsu in 1992, and started teaching Shiatsu Introductory days and adult evening classes shortly afterwards. She is a principal teacher and the Director of The Shiatsu School Edinburgh, and is currently the Chair of The Shiatsu Society (UK).
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Post Graduate Day with Lucy Trend
29 November 2009, 10am - 5pm. £57. Bread Street
Introduction to Thai Massage: Traditional Thai massage has some similarities with Shiatsu, but is a physically deeper healing art with more intense stretching. It is suited to those who are athletic, or active and accustomed to receiving deep body work. Thai techniques can be incorporated into a Shiatsu routine.
Lucy is a registered Shiatsu and Thai Massage practitioner working in the West End and city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. She has been practicing Shiatsu since 1995. She trained as a practitioner in Montreal (Canada) at the Dragon and Phoenix Shiatsu School, and for a year at the Glasgow School of Shiatsu, where she also spent 3 years as an assistant teacher. She is now a core teacher at The Shiatsu School Edinburgh. She is committed to continuing professional development, and has completed the one year Shiatsu College Post Graduate Certificate (2000). In 2000 she travelled to Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, to train in Traditional Thai Massage. She is currently the assistant teacher at the Mettha school of Thai Massage in Glasgow.
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First Aid, with Focus Training
17 January 2010. £80. Bread Street
These training days will cover various topics - from practising CPR & dealing with unconscious persons, through to heart conditions, breathing problems and much more. You will become confident to give effective emergency treatment before professional help arrives. The course includes a certificate, which is valid for 3 years, and a First Aid Manual.
Ruth Anderson & Lynne Bates run Focus Training, delivering practical, dynamic courses giving plenty of hands-on experience.
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Post Graduate Day with Martin Julich
28 February 2010, 10am - 5pm. #£57. Bread Street.
Morning: TCM Tongue Diagnosis
Shared lunch
Afternoon: Part of the 18 Steps Healing Qigong
Martin is a Shiatsu practitioner, Principal Teacher at the Aberdeen College of Shiatsu, and a qualified Chinese herbalist./p>
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Post Graduate Day with Cynthia Shuken
25 April 2010, 10am - 5pm. £57. Bread Street
An introduction to Teacher Training
This course is for those who are considering applying for their Shiatsu Society 't' to be a trainee teacher, or who are assisting at a Shiatsu school and want to be more effective in their communication with students, or who are teaching evening classes, introductory days etc.
Cynthia is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Shiatsu, where she was an assistant teacher for four years. She taught evening classes in Shiatsu for beginners for eight years, and became a Shiatsu Society-accredited teacher in 2001. She hols a certificate in Counselling Skills from Moray House Institute of Education, a certificate in Gestalt from the Gestalt Trust and a Certificate in Adult Guidance from the University of Strathclyde . She has been a training professional for many years, delivering vocational training and assessment qualifications within voluntary sector organizations. She is a qualified assessor and internal verifier for SVQs (Scottish Vocational Qualifications), and delivers SVQs in Advice and Guidance and in Learning and Development.
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Post Graduate Day with Tim Mason
9 May 2010, times to be confirmed. £57. Bread Street.
"The intellect is very powerful and can help you to go somewhere new. Intuition on its own can easily get stuck in the present. But if you start off with the intellect, the process has no ground in present reality - it is governed by thoughts about the past and future." (Bill Palmer, Shiatsu Society News, Autumn 2008, p 8).
Mindfulness has been defined as 'intentionally bringing awareness to the present moment in a non-judgmental way' or, more dramatically, as "paying attention to your life as if it really mattered" (Kabat- Zinn, 'Coming to our senses' Piatkus, p 11).
When we are learning Shiatsu we are introduced to lots of theory and plenty of techniques. But once we have some familiarity with them we are encouraged to put them to one side and just attend to what is happening in the moment - when we greet our client, when we listen to them and when we touch. 'Attending to this moment' is fundamental to Shiatsu.
We are engaged in a therapeutic application of the ancient Eastern wisdom practice of 'mindfulness'. Kabat-Zinn and others have provided us with a pragmatic and effective way of applying this 'internal technique' both for ourselves and for our clients.
This teaching day aims to:
- reinforce the centrality of mindfulness in shiatsu therapy
- support Shiatsu practitioners* in their personal experience of mindfulness
- investigate the application of mindfulness to individual shiatsu treatments
*This development day will be suitable for qualified Shiatsu practitioners (MRSS or graduates) and for third year students.
It will introduce participants to formal and informal, sitting and more active meditation practices. Experiential learning will be supported by group discussion, scenario setting and personal reflection.
Tim took up Shiatsu after an early retirement. He qualified with the Glasgow School of Shiatsu and went on to the post-graduate course at the Shiatsu College. He has a Shiatsu practice in Stirling. He is now following a post-graduate course at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at the University of Bangor, North Wales - one of the leading establishments for mindfulness-based clinical interventions.
www.tim.mason.shiatsusociety.org
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Post Graduate Weekend with Bill Palmer
5 - 6 June 2010, times to be confirmed. £190 (£170 if booked by 5 April 2010) Bread Street
'Spontaneity and Persistence'. Many chronic issues in our lives can simply result from not being true to our core spirit. Either we have forgotten how to listen to our deep spontaneity or we give up our truth in the face of conflict and other people's disapproval. This workshop focuses on how to rediscover the simplicity we may have lost while growing up and how to develop the psycho-physical capacity to conquer fear, act authentically and persist in the face of difficulty. Although these sound like emotional capacities, the workshop will show how to develop them through the body, through Shiatsu and through movement processes. These physical paths to development are linked to the Six Divisions, which Bill has shown to embody six archetypal capacities, which we develop in childhood and often forgot on the way to adulthood.
Bill's work emphasizes self-development as well as giving lucid and rich meaning to the concepts of oriental energetics. He believes that deep healing comes from being fully present with another person and that knowing yourself is more important than learning theory and technique, because it allows you to meet another person authentically and without defences. His workshops are profound and accessible, deep knowledge presented in a way that you can experience for yourself.
Bill was one of the first Shiatsu Teachers in the UK and was a founder of the Shiatsu Society.
He originated a style of work for helping people to become aware of their stuck patterns through exercise and movement experiments, combined with Shiatsu based bodywork to help them form functional connections in their body, recalling the developmental process of infancy. This developed into a complete body-mind therapy system called Movement Shiatsu, which has become one of the major styles of Shiatsu taught in Europe.
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You are welcome to join our Year Three programme for the following, at Bread Street, at a fee of £40 per day and £20 for a half day:
- 4 October 2009 - Techniques to work muscles, bones and joints including APP muscles with Lucy Trend
- 31 October 2009 - Looking at Death and dying; skin APP and Working with the breath with Tamsin Grainger
- 22 November 2009 - Whole Body Scan and Girdle meridian (half day) with Tamsin Grainger
- 14 February 2010 - Pregnancy including the Heart-Uterus meridian, side and sitting positions, and use of body cushions with Lucy Trend
- 14 March 2010 - Shiatsu for prostate and other male reproductive system issues
Weekly:
- Tuesday evening yoga with Greig Stark. Beginners from 6.30-7.30pm and a one hour talk through from 7.30-8.30pm. £10 (£5 concessions)
Shiatsu Practice Classes
- Thursday morning 11am - 1pm. £6
- Friday evening. 6.30pm - 9pm
- Classes start on 8th and 9th October until 10th and 11th December 2009 - excluding 22nd/23rd October half-term.
- £6 per class. Buy card for 5 sessions and get 6th session free (can be used with the extra weekly classes too, see above). All classes to be booked and paid for one week in advance please.
Last updated: 01/10/09
