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One year bodywork for wellbeing course based on the principals of Shiatsu

Contact Annie – annie@stleonards.studio 07722868397

Take the first year of the Professional Shiatsu Practitioner Diploma course as a stand-alone one-year course and gain a Bodywork for Wellbeing Certificate

  • Open to complete beginners
  • 1 year Part time study – taught over 11 weekends
  • Join the Shiatsu Society’s Bodywork for Wellbeing register
  • Creative and flexible approach to assignments
  • Fund your future Shiatsu studies with this stand alone certificate

Diploma in Shiatsu

October 28, 2025
  • Open to complete beginners and existing body therapists

  • Train to become a professional Shiatsu Practitioner

  • Part-time, weekend study for 3 years

  • Creative and flexible approach to assignments

  • After three years you will graduate with our Level 4 Diploma in Shiatsu and become a professional practitioner registered with the Shiatsu Society UK

  • Direct Entry into Year 2 is possible via Accredited Prior Learning (APL)

You will receive an in-depth training in Zen Shiatsu, supported by its underlying foundations in Chinese Medicine – including the location and use of Acupressure Points. The training includes an online Holistic Anatomy course plus study of the physiology and pathology of the body/mind, from both Eastern and Western perspectives. You will be learning in a highly supportive environment with experienced teachers plus applying what you learn to support others in their healing.

Dates for 2026

14th, 15th March

11th, 12th April

16th, 17th May

11th, 12th July

Contact Annie – annie@stleonards.studio 07722868397

To find out more go to www.shiatsucollege.org.uk

Grassroots Shiatsu

August 7, 2024

 Saturdays 10am – 1.15pm monthly

Grassroots Shiatsu is a way of learning Shiatsu basics without signing up for an extensive practitioners course.  The first hour is a Qigong class

Then you will learn how to give Shiatsu for friends and family. Through Qigong, Yoga, self – shiatsu and meditation and giving and receiving Shiatsu, we explore the basics of the ideas and philosophy that are the foundations of Shiatsu.

Saturday morning session from 10am to 12pm.

Dates: 16th May, 11th July

 

£20 a session

 

OR Come for the whole day or weekend; get a deeper taste of learning Shiatsu, developing healing touch for friends and family

 £40 per day

Pre-booking necessary for both  – annie@stleonards.studio 07722868397

We want all the community to feel the benefits of this amazing touch therapy.

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Next Gong Baths Saturday 9th May

The Gong vibrations can synchronise our brain waves to bring about profound relaxation and balance, resetting and restoring the normal vibratory frequencies of our whole energy system right down to the cellular level.
Relax, Reset and Rejuvenate with a range of gongs with their amazing balancing healing vibrations. No need to do anything just relax and enjoy for a glorious hour. please bring a mat, pillow and blanket there are chairs available if you prefer

Please note, that group Gong meditations are not recommended for people with the following: One-to-one may be possible please ask

Anyone with recent metal implants or stitches

The first trimester of pregnancy.

Some epilepsy conditions

For Tinnitus ear plugs advised

Tickets can be purchased via http://www.Ticketsource.co.uk/gongvibrations

Karen’s  website  http://www.gongvibes.co.uk which also has the info and booking link.

contact Karen at khayler@stleonards.studio

Next one to be confirmed

9.30am -12.30pm

During this 3-hour workshop we will be focussing on the principles of practice during the first half, including alignment, movement, breathing and mental awareness, through standing and seated postures. This will last about 1h 20.

After a break, in the second half we will be practicing one of the Hui Chun Qi Gong sets, a balancing seated practice related to the Five Elements of the Daoist tradition.Everyone is welcome, beginners to experienced practitioners, no limits of flexibility, age or prior knowledge.

£30 (concessions available). Please email (andrea@stleonards.studio) or message Andrea (07769 675 115) to book a place

Yoga Teacher Training

May 19, 2022

British Wheel of Yoga Accredited Yoga Teacher Training

 

Teach Yoga Naturally is the yoga teacher training wing of the Shiatsu College and the in-house training of St Leonards Studio. Taught by a team of teachers with extensive backgrounds in yoga, qigong and education & training, we can support you to deepen your practice and develop your own unique teaching skills.

Click here for a Prospectus

Dates for Yoga Teacher Training 2025/6

10/11 January, 7/8 February, 7/8 March (at Pett Village Hall) 18/19 April

9/10 May, 6/7 June, 4/5 July, 5/6 September

Each day of the weekend runs from 9.45am to 5.00pm

British Wheel of Yoga Accredited School (ATO)
Learn with an Approved Training Organisation and be confident in the quality of your training. Enjoy the benefits of becoming a teacher member of the UK’s national governing body for Yoga!

Contact Annie –  info@stleonards.studio 07722868397

Also from The Shiatsu College, refresh your knowledge with our online Level 4 Holistic Anatomy and Physiology

“It has been an amazing, incredibly life-transforming time for me. I thought I was just going to learn to be a proper yoga teacher! I knew the asanas fairly well, knew of the yamas, niyamas & the other 8 limbs of yoga….but they have sunk in, embedded deep now.”