The School and Staff
Set up in the year 2000, as a result of a desire to combine the powerful and mutually beneficial arts of Shiatsu and Yoga, the main focus of the school is a three-year professional Shiatsu training, leading to a nationally recognized qualification as a practitioner. Alongside Shiatsu, students will be taught a thorough grounding in Yoga techniques.
In order to maintain the highest standard of teaching and learning, the class size is limited to fourteen. The course covers many areas of Oriental medicine, and more traditional Western anatomy, physiology, pathology and counselling skills, all supported by comprehensive notes, continuous assessment and exams. Because of the flexible nature of the course you are able to commit to as much of the training as you are comfortable with; completing one section and taking a break, or moving straight through the three years.
The School also offers:
- private tuition in Shiatsu and Yoga
- student supervision and practice classes
- regular stress management workshops within the work environment
- post graduate workshops
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Frank Davis
- founder and senior teacher.Having studied and taught Shiatsu since 1987 and Yoga from 1984, Frank is one of the most experienced teachers in the West Country. After serving an apprenticeship with Keith Phillips, and studying with the world's leading teachers, he was a senior teacher with the Bristol School of Shiatsu. Frank now lives in Bath, where as well as teaching, he maintains a busy shiatsu practise, and runs eight Yoga classes a week.
Well known for his ability to teach with aliveness, spontaneity and enthusiasm, Frank also has a deep knowledge of bodywork allowing his students to understand their own bodies and how they can work more effectively.
Heidi Armstrong
Heidi has been working as a complementary therapist since 1993. She started studying shiatsu in 1995 and went on to do postgraduate training, including a pregnancy course with Suzanne Yates and the Well Mother organization, and training in adult education.
As well as teaching for the Bath school she also teaches for Well Mother, runs a successful private practice including specialist pregnancy work, birth preparation classes and baby shiatsu.
Heidi started teaching for the Bath school in at the begining of 2006. She teaches at all levels, from the foundation, to third year where she teaches the pregnancy module of the course.
Rebecca Davis
Rebecca has had a practice in Bath since 1998 (see www.bathshiatsu.co.uk), and began teaching with Frank in 2004. Prior to that, she held the post of Shiatsu therapist at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre.
A passionate enquiry into what it means to be human began with a degree in Philosophy and Literature, and continues through Shiatsu and Psychosynthesis.
Rebecca brings clarity and compassion to her teaching, as well as passing on her enthusiasm for Shiatsu. She also enjoys cycling, trail running and digging at the small holding she shares with her husband, cats, chickens and assorted wildlife.