Taoist Practices for Women

Yin Healing

Shiatsu

Shiatsu and Pregnancy

Liz Butters Liz is a teacher at the Zen School of Shiatsu. She specialises in working with women with gynaecological problems, menopausal women and pregnant women. She was a member of the Management Committee of Women's Health - a national charity which provided information and support to enable women to make informed decisions about their gynaecological health. She is currently doing Suzanne Yate's Well Mother Holistic Diploma for Shiatsu Practitioners in Pregnancy, Birth and Babyhood. She offers antenatal and postnatal treatments, birth preparation and baby massage/shiatsu classes. For further information about Liz see Freeflow Therapies. Contact Liz on 07903 930 937		Liz Butters
Penny Jean Pierre I work towards supporting the balance of a woman's individual journey through the physical, emotional and energetic cycles of life. I work with menstrual problems, menopause and fertility, specialising with particular emphasis on pre and post natal care for mother and baby. To read more about Penny click here. Contact Penny on 07903 581 732		Penny Jean Pierre

Shamanic Healing

Shamanic healing may also be called energetic healing and works from the premise that the energy body of a person is just as much a part of them as the physical body. In the energy body lies the residue of traumas, accidents, out of date attachments and other issues which have had a deep impact. The clues to unresolved issues are psychological/emotional states that are related to something other than the present. But, in contrast to psychotherapy and counseling it is not necessary for a person to talk about the past or even to know why they feel as they do. The shaman works with the manifestation of the presenting issue in the now, be that an anxiety, phobia, addiction, difficulty moving on from the past, inappropriate tie to a particular person or even a physical symptom that has no medical explanation. Sometimes there is just a general feeling of spiritual disconnection, a vague chronic depression, not feeling fully engaged with life, taking a very analytical ‘in the head’ approach. A shaman might consider these conditions to be soul loss. In western terms, the condition has likely arisen as a result of some form of trauma. But, what is not well recognized is the fact that trauma affects virtually everyone from time to time. While, there may be no identifiable big trauma, the shocks and scares that happen in the course of living do have an impact and some people are more sensitive to them than others. Also, long forgotten events from childhood, like feeling lost or scared or even a fall can leave an imprint of trauma in the energy field.

The process I use is very gentle. It includes energetic diagnosis and a simple breathing technique to access the unconscious mind which produces images that are like metaphor for the presenting issue. There is no reenactment of difficult or disturbing material. The practitioner journeys with the client, working with images, to retrieve energy that is stuck, to reclaim power and cut ties where necessary. It is an up to date presentation of ancient wisdom, incorporating the insights of the modern methodology of NLP, and is very effective. Healing reconnects a person to present time and to the Source. In other words, it is a recovery of empowerment.

People on a personal development journey may wish to undertake a series of sessions but many issues can be dealt with in one.

Cathy Rowan Cathy Rowan trained in Taoist Shamanic Healing at the London Tao Centre, in Women’s Shamanic Healing with Eliana Harvey (Shamanka), as a spiritual practitioner with Psycademy and as a Master Practitioner of NLP with Paul McKenna and Richard Bandler. She has also trained with several leading teachers of Tantra and has a special interest in the healing of sexual issues, which inhibit many people from achieving their full human potential. Contact Cathy on 07753 982 264		Cathy Rowan