Welcome to the Aberdeen School of Shiatsu website. We teach Shiatsu Acupressure starting with the ‘Living in Harmony’ course  to a full practitioner training and have been offering this since 1992. We also run weekend and One Day courses on a variety of health and therapy topics. We often require clients for our students to practice on, so if you would like to participate in the courses or treatments, please subscribe to our mailing list.

Shiatsu is becoming more and more popular as a safe, non-invasive form of treatment. It complements our modern society’s quest for the benefits of touch therapies. Our clients have found it useful in cases of headache, back pain, depression, insomnia, menstrual difficulties, ME, frozen shoulder and many more. We also teach Food & Lifestyle recommendations based on the individuals needs according to Chinese Medicine. Many people join the course in order to improve their own health.

Shiatsu Acupressure is a form of therapeutic bodywork which has its roots in Japan and China. It dates back over 4000 years, but the impulse to touch and heal dates from the beginnings of humankind. Eastern medicine developed along different lines from modern Western medicine. Rather than following a physical and chemical focus on health, it looks at people energetically, seeing the energy each organ needs and how that is reflected in our whole being. In other words we look at both the roots (causes) of dis-ease and the manifestations (symptoms) and treat both appropriately.

The word Shiatsu means ‘finger pressure’, and we use pressure on the Acupuncture meridians and points to relieve pain, restore energy, and help bring the recipients body back into a state of balance. If the flow of our energy is blocked, restricted or energy is lacking, our health will suffer. Shiatsu gives us a rest, a time to take a break and restore the harmony our body longs for. Each weekend of the course you will receive plenty of bodywork as part of the learning.