ZENTHAI SHIATSU >> BODYWORK
Zenthai shiatsu is a form of movement based therapy.
It is restorative, supportive, touch based.
Zenthai shiatsu works to move energy in the direction it already wants to go.
It is practised on the floor, fully clothed, and each session is between 1 and 1.5 hours.
Zenthai addresses:
· discomfort, pain and chronic injuries
· restricted joint mobility
· low energy levels, ongoing fatigue
· digestive trouble
· low immunity
· stress, anxiety and feelings of disconnection
· assists in detoxification
Training
Paea trained in Zenthai Shiatsu at the Mt Ninderry Healing Centre in Yandina (Sunshine Coast, Queensland), with founder and teacher Gwyn Williams, throughout 2017. One aspect of the training involved a two week intensive in Bali incorporating Ayurvedic study (traditional Indian medicine) in addition to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) taught by Gwyn. A life long interest in medicine - Western and Eastern - and a series of serious injuries have lent Paea to pursue a healing modality that allows integration of her various acquired knowledges, via utilising movement as a form of medicine.
Sessions
Each session is a completely different experience. The aim of a session is to offer rest through movement, relief from pain - acute or chronic, and to unblock muscle and bone. Zenthai shiatsu is deeply healing, restorative and surprising. One tends to feel awakened, enlivened and more like an integrated ‘whole human’, following a session.
Paea’s professional career as a contemporary dancer and teacher of technique, improvisation and movement for every-body, coupled with her being a devoted student of Iyengar yoga and anatomy for more than 15 years, supports and informs her practice as a Zenthai shiatsu therapist. She believes the intelligence of the body is frequently interrupted or undervalued. Through focused touch, and advice on functional movement, she knows the body can be encouraged to allow self-healing to flow.
Allowing the whole earth to hold us up can be a good and rich experience.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Arts - Dance from The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA @ ECU) 1999 & with Honours 2000
- Diploma in Anatomy and Physiology (Open Universities Australia, OUA) 2010
- Zenthai shiatsu therapist (QLD) 2017
- Masters of Fine Arts by Research @ VCA/University of Melbourne (VIC) 2020
- Bachelor of Health Science/ Bachelor of Applied science - Osteopathy (RMIT, VIC) 2021-2025 (completion)
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO BOOK A SESSION:
E: paea.shiatsu@gmail.com
M: 0424 200 280 (text or call)
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Blood, Ki, lymph and nerves form the foundations of our bodies internal pathways. For reasons emotional, psychological, physiological and habitual, the pathways become stuck, stagnant, dried up. The natural healing mechanisms of our body are challenged and the ‘free flowing river’ of Ki, or energy, stagnates. Drawing from Chinese medicine, Thai massage techniques, some Osteopathic concepts and the stillness of traditional Shiatsu, the body is encouraged - through focused intention - to allow descent into the parasympathetic zone so that it might heal, rest and restore Ki.
