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REGISTRATION

Shiatsu Supports Life

Shiatsu Supports Life

CAROLA BERESFORD-COOKE

Shiatsu supported my own life for forty-five years. This workshop will follow the learning, mistakes, experiences and realisations of a Shiatsu practitioner and teacher throughout that time. 
This will be a practical workshop, with as much hands-on time as possible. I’ll offer practices based on my various teachers’ work as well as ones that I hope will illustrate the experiences which led me further and deeper into Shiatsu. 
There will be some theory involved in this story of a life in Shiatsu but it will absolutely not be didactic. Instead I hope, by my own questioning of the nature of theory in Shiatsu, to encourage people to explore more confidently. Inevitably my biases will show and I welcome comments and free exchange of views.
In order further to discourage an intellectual approach, I will deliver the workshop in Italian. My Italian is a little rusty, but I hope that will make it an informal and humorous occasion.

I grew up in the Far East, which was a formative period and when my interest in East Asian culture and healing began. When my family returned to England I went through an intensive formal education but abandoned it all to study beauty therapy, where I discovered massage. Shiatsu followed almost at once and I did my first workshop in 1978 with Ohashi. I then studied acupuncture but Shiatsu remained my first love and principal practice. Pauline Sasaki became my “root guru”. I joined with Cliff Andrews, Paul Lundberg and Nicola Ley to found the Shiatsu College in 1986, and our collaboration brought friendship and so much learning. I wrote “Shiatsu Theory and Practice” in 1996, now in its 3rd edition. Later I taught internationally for many years but have now retired to live quietly with my husband in beautiful West Wales
Sun 09:00 - 12:00
100 max

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