My name is Dominic Cleary and I am a practitioner of shiatsu, tai chi and qigong. I have been practising all three activities for over 20 years, and am also a member of the register of the Shiatsu Society, the umberella organisation of shiatsu in the UK.

Shiatsu is a superb healing modality that treats the whole person. Tai Chi and Qigong also work with a similar approach to that of shiatsu, which is to help the receiver/practitioner to achieve better health through a greater sense of balance in their life. All three understand from the oriental perspective that all living beings have a vital life force – ‘chi’ – powering everything we do.

Balance in life incorporates all levels of being; physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Our bodies are all the time trying to heal themselves and practises such as these stimulate and promote this natural process. Shiatsu, from Japan originally, incorporates the understanding of health shared by acupucture, but does not use needles and no clothes are removed.

Stimulation through pressure, through manipulation and other techniques are applied to the meridians of the body (the pathways of chi) to enable the body heal itsef.

Treatments are deeply relaxing, and many clients continue to have sessions long after initial symptoms have eased by way of this approach of keeping ourselves well and not waiting for disease to happen.