Suzanne Yates
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…
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…
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…