Tony Brown @ November 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I am going through a strange time that is both very exciting and stagnant.
I am really enjoying my third year studies. Getting the clinic running with its thoughts of advertising and marketing. At the same time thinking about how I want to run my own practise. Even the thought of losing my […]
Tony Brown @ November 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I wish Tracey all the best as she takes some time out from blogging. I completely sympathise with her reasons as I have been thinking about the future of ShiatsuBlogger recently. This is not my last post or a notice of my retirement but it is an admission that I feel that this […]
Tony Brown @ November 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I once described myself as a guide and that is a useful analogy if my practise is about allowing clients to discover what they need from shiatsu. A guide needs to be engaging and be able to describe his subject in a way that is accessible to all. That means being adaptable, translating […]
Tony Brown @ November 15, 2007 # One Comment
There is a lot of rubbish used against health practises that have an Eastern origin. When I first starting looking for shiatsu on the internet I pulled up some interesting Christian polemics that certainly got me thinking! And even this year my local paper reported on a local Church insisting that Yoga has […]
Tony Brown @ November 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I remember feeling that I had no right to be learning shiatsu as I sat in the circle on my first weekend of the shiatsu practitioner. I had no background in meditation, yoga, eastern philosophy, or just about anything that I felt this shiatsu was really about. I nearly quit because I believed […]
Tony Brown @ November 13, 2007 # No Comment Yet
It has been a very long time since I have suffered such a bad run of ill health. Not big illnesses but several niggling things over a period of a week. A red and swollen eye, bad cramping in one calf muscle, pains in the top of my foot, poor sleep, and a […]
Tony Brown @ November 7, 2007 # 2 Comments
There is so much to do in this final year of Shiatsu College. Points to learn, Chinese medicine syndromes, Western pathology, and the rest. Plus we are starting to think about how our individual practises will look. I have spent a lot of time over the past couple of weeks working on […]
Tony Brown @ November 6, 2007 # 2 Comments
Many people come to shiatsu expecting a cure. Many of them become involved in the process and are willing to follow advice outside of the treatment room. Some forget or don’t have time and that is fine. But there are a few that you can see just listen to recommendations out of […]
Tony Brown @ October 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet
We shared a College weekend with the first year students recently and as part of that us third years conducted a practise clinic with those first years as our clients. It was an opportunity to see how we might use the new space to layout our treatment areas and to get used to being […]
Tony Brown @ October 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I gave a treatment this week to a client who had never received shiatsu before. I knew her slightly; more of an acquaintance than friend and it is still a novelty to be invited into a person’s home to practise shiatsu. I should have been nervous but I was not. The space […]