Shiatsu Courses, The Shiatsu Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

New The Shiatsu Centre website launched

Tues 6th July, 2010: We took down the holding page last night and the new site is now live:

theshiatsucentre.com

New Courses coming to The Shiatsu Centre

Watch out for:

Pilates on Mondays 6–7pm
Introductory Evening - Holistic Life Coaching with Jay Lincoln
Your chance to find out how Life Coaching works, what it could do for you, how people benefit, how to use the tools gained from the training and more!
8th July 2010 7pm–8.30pm
£2.00 entry fee
Living in the Present – One Day Workshop

Way to Freedom evening workshops
Price £160.00 Deposit is £50.00, balance required 2 weeks before workshop starts.

£300.00 for 2 people booking. Deposit is £100.00, balance required 2 weeks before workshop commences.

Workshop dates

Week 1 4th August

Week 2 18th August

Week 3 1st September

Week 4 15th September

Individual coaching sessions

Week 5 29th September

Week 6 13th October

Week 7 27th October

Week 8 10th November

Approved facilitator and supplier to Life Coach Associates

Special Edinburgh Festival Fringe OPEN DAY

Sunday 1st August 2010, 8am–6pm
0131 229 0724

Early Bird Chi Gung 8am
Baby Shiatsu 9.45-11.15am
more talks and classes to be announced

All day:

Find out about courses – advance booking for the Autumn Term, 2010
Try out Seated Shiatsu acupressure massage £18 (£8 concession)
Buy Gift Vouchers at the special Open Day saving of 10%
Look round our exhibition
Buy our hand-made bags and other goodies – discounts abound!
Come and see our beautiful new rooms and book space for your classes/therapy

To book a treatment/class phone 0131 229 0724

Look out for our other Open Days at The Shiatsu Centre. Your chance to try out tasters of classes and therapies for free.

Sunday 19th September 2010. Put this date in your diary so you don't forget!

Information for journalists, members of the Press and media

We welcome journalists, members of the Press and media to The Shiatsu Centre for free tasters and talks, so please do contact us if you are interested. If you would like to go on our Mailing List so that you are notified of Special Press/Media days, then please e-mail us.

For further details and press release contact the.shiatsu.centre@googlemail.com

Learn Shiatsu evening classes

Starting again:4 week course 6th–27th August and 4 week course 10th September–1st October 2010. Fridays 6.30–8.45 pm. Cost: £30 for 4 classes. £48 for 8 classes.

The course will cover an introduction to the Shiatsu meridians with each class starting with some self-Shiatsu, meridian stretches or chi gung; followed by learning the meridian and finishing with a meditation.

Please fill in the application form and send with your payment to the address on the form. If you want to pay by BACS, please contact TSSED by e-mail admin@tssed.org and we will send you the bank details and a Word version of the application form to fill in and return on-line. If you have any further questions please contact the School at The Shiatsu Centre on either (0131) 229 0724 or 07821 264 882.

Conferences and Room Hire

As well as housing The Shiatsu School Edinburgh, The Shiatsu Centre can be hired in whole or in part to cater for your requirements or those of your organisation.

As well as the main teaching room, which is a calm space ideally suited to group classes such as yoga, Chi Gung / T'ai Chi, Pilates, holistic health training and meetings, we have a Treatment Room for one-to-one therapy and small groups (co-counselling or group supervision for example) and a Community Room which is bright, comfortable and suitable for a variety of occasions, whether for a business meeting, a birthday party, or whatever event you wish to hold.

Room hire is available from £12 per hour (large rooms), and £8 per hour for the Treatment Room, and block bookings for either a one-off or regular event can be negotiated. We can also arrange for a finger buffet or tea/coffee/bakes, and there is an on-going light meal menu available from the Tea Tree Tea Cafe.

Download Conference and Room Hire (PDF, 41KB) to find out more.

Sivananda Yoga for beginners

We are sorry to say that Vas is no longer teaching with us, however our classes are being reinstated a little at a time.

Isabel will be teaching on Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 9am and on Wednesday at 5.30pm. Starting 18th May 2010.

Cost: £7 (£5 concessions) for one class; £60 (£40 concessions) for a card of 10 class tickets.

Sivananda is a branch of Hatha Yoga and Isabel has been professionally trained in India.

If you are interested in more classes please follow us on Twitter and you can also e-mail so we know what times and days suit you.

Wednesdays 'Toe to Fingertip' Stretching, postural and breathing improvement exercise session

Ideal classes for office workers - come along and move your body - you will work so much better after lunch if you have a good stretch and focus on being centred and grounded! 12.30 pm -1 pm (lunchtimes). Cost £3.50

Wednesdays Chi Gung

with Peter Browne 6-7.30pm 20th January - 24th March 2010. £7 for a sample class and £70 for the term.

Full day course at Heriot Watt University 24th July 2010. For more details and to book, please phone 0131 553 5660.

Wednesdays 'Moving Zen' - Learn the postural and breathing improvement forms of traditional Karate-Do.

'Moving Zen'

The Basics, Kata and Bunkai (application of kata techniques) of Traditional Okinawan Karate-Do

Classes conducted by Sensei Frank Sargent 5th Dan (I.O.G.K.F.)
Class times 7.45 to 9.00pm.

Baby Shiatsu Classes

Fun and easy to learn in a group: baby shiatsu classes, Fridays 10.45am–12 noon. Cost £45 (£30 concessions–2 places available) for a block of 5 classes. 21st May–18th June 2010. Age: birth to crawling.

application form for baby shiatsu classes (PDF doc, 36KB)

Please see the 'One-Day Introductory Course and Short Courses' page for details.

Shiatsu touch for parents and children

Workshops for adults and children to give and receive Shiatsu massage to each other. Shiatsu techniques can be taught for specific conditions/difficulties/illnesses that the child may be experiencing.

Mondays:
10.30-11.30 am Toddlers (3-5 years)
2-3 pm Early school age (5-7 years)
4-5 pm Older Primary age children (7-10 years)

All classes:
£7 for one child and one adult attending together.

Come along and join us!

The aim of these workshops is for adults to be confident about their natural skills in giving acupressure massage to children; and to show how children can instinctively give effective massage themselves.

New Premises for the School at The Shiatsu Centre, Bread Street, Edinburgh, UK

We are proud to announce that The Shiatsu School Edinburgh now has its own premises at The Shiatsu Centre, 35-37 Bread Street, Edinburgh EH3 9AL, UK.

Years 1, 2 and 3 will meet there at weekends; Introductory Days and follow-on Introductory Days will be held there; as will teacher training days; graduate workshops; First Aid workshops; Shiatsu evening classes (for beginners); practice classes (all levels); a new Monday evening Oriental Relaxation class; Seated Shiatsu courses for massage therapists, hairdressers and others; drop-in Seated Shiatsu lunch-time and evening sessions; and even more!

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Located centrally off Lothian Road, we are handy for Edinburgh's Haymarket and Waverley Stations as well as the bus station. Many buses serve Lothian Road, and numbers 24 and 2 stop outside on Bread Street. There are three big car parks and meters nearby, with free parking on Sundays.

Recent Shiatsu Research Findings

'An important piece of professional research has been carried out by Professor Andrew F Long at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, in conjunction with The European Shiatsu Federation.

As a result of this study, carried out over 3 countries (Britain, Spain and Austria), we can now state that Shiatsu is good for stress, back and neck pain, and for sports injuries.'

This rigorous longitudinal study indicates the value of this powerful therapy for the benefit of our long-term health.

Introductory Shiatsu Courses

The Shiatsu School Edinburgh (TSSEd) will be running a series of Introductory Shiatsu courses on Saturday 8th May, 10th July, 7th August, 14th August and 21st August 2010.

They will be held in our new premises on Bread Street, central Edinburgh, from 10 am-5.30 pm. The cost is £55 per day; and £100 for 2 people booking together for the same day. These courses are an excellent way of finding out what Shiatsu is, and taking home new skills that will benefit yourself, your friends and family. You will also get the chance to see where the School's courses run, meet TSSEd teachers and ask any questions you may have on the different training courses available.

These monthly days will introduce you to, or remind you of, what Shiatsu is, how you can use acupressure points, techniques for a full-body Shiatsu massage for family and friends, and some fascinating theory to put it all into context.

Shiatsu Courses for Baby Massage Practitioners

If you are interested in this course please contact Tamsin on 0131 229 0724

"Thank you for a wonderful course" Anne

"Thank you so much again for a wonderful course. I feel very inspired and have been trying out the techniques" Onie

download 'new trainers course' (PDF, 45KB)

Thinking of training in Shiatsu?

A new way of life and a new career at the same time!
Book now for September 2010.

You can read about our One-Year Course and view the syllabus and costs involved.

You can also find out everything you need to know about the full Three-Year Professional Training.

And you are welcome to phone Tamsin Grainger on 0131 229 0724 or 07821 264 882 to ask any questions that you have about The Shiatsu School Edinburgh or The Shiatsu Centre.

last updated: July 2010