Cynthia Shuken Shiatsu

What can Shiatsu Do?

Shiatsu helps to stimulate the body to use its own healing mechanisms. It works with the emotional and psychological, as well as the physical levels.

Shiatsu helps you take control of your body and your life by enabling you to increase your awareness of areas of tension so that you may relax them when they arise.

Shiatsu can support the body to deal with conditions such as:

stress and tension

muscle tension and stiffness

joint problems

headaches and migraines

backache and sciatica

low energy, tiredness

reproductive system problems
(including menstrual problems)

anxiety and depression

palpitations and circulation
system problems

sleep disorders

immune system imbalances

sinus and respiratory problems

digestive and bowel disorders

mental/emotional un-ease


The Shiatsu Society

The Shiatsu Society is the national regulatory body which maintains the standards set up to ensure that professional shiatsu therapists are fully qualified to practice and to teach.

Practitioners undergo a minimum of 3 years of training, followed by theoretical and practical assessment and certification by the Society before being awarded the qualification of M.R.S.S. (Member of the Register of the Shiatsu Society). The Society also trains and recognises fully qualified shiatsu teachers (T) and probationary teachers (t).

The Shiatsu School, Edinburgh is a Shiatsu Society-accredited school (director, Tamsin Grainger)which delivers a three-year practitioner training. Advanced students and graduates of the school practice from The Shiatsu Place. Charges are scaled to reflect the experience of the therapist.

For more information about the Shiatsu Society, contact:

The Shiatsu Society, Eastlands Court,
St. Peters Road, Rugby CV21 3QP

Tel. 01788 555051 Fax 01788 555052
email: admin@shiatsu.org
website: The Shiatsu Society (UK)