Zen Mindfulness - Sei Ki HeartTouch - Tai Chi Qi Gong

Kiental: Sei Ki HeartTouch Intensive Workshop

Sep 29th - Oct 1st 2023 @ Kientaler Hof, Switzerland

An Intensive Sei Ki HeartTouch Training. Beginners and experienced therapists welcome!

Piemonte: Sei Ki HeartTouch Workshop

April 15th - 16th 2023 @ Colla di Netro, Piemonte, Italy

An intensive Sei Ki HeartTouch Training for enhancing ones capacity to support others experiencing trauma and distress.

We had a nice mix of participants on this workshop ranging from a couple of shiatsu practitioners, a physiotherapist, an experienced masseur, a jungian psychotherapist, a newly retired senior nurse from A&E, a nursery teacher and an airplane mechanic! And I was assisted by my two shiatsu teacher friends again.

It was really interesting to see the development through the 2 day event. The first day was really nice, but difficult for one person in particular to connect with, but he stayed and by the second day he was really enthusing over the work. This is great, as it showed that he arrived with quite a stress burden, emotional resistance came up as it wasn't a small matter, and then it cleared through the practices within the depths we can reach over a longer event.

I am working hard to meet people where they are at in life with all of its busyness, with compact 1 day, or 4 hour, 3 hour even 1 1/4 hr events and this is amazing that we can share a deep connected experience together as a group in such a short time, but at the same time, when it is possible to spend longer together and have two or three days of work, it goes so much deeper! The first day is the hard one, the rest just flows with its own aliveness. I love it...

I had great feedback from the experienced psychotherapist, that even though he had never worked with touch before with clients, he was completely happy with this way of working, declaring empathic resonance and compassionate touch the foundation of the therapeutic relationship. From this point, any talking therapy will work naturally and easily. Trust will already be there to safely engage with difficult topics without having to spend extensive time trying to approach the core difficulties.

As one of the shiatsu practitioners said, everyone was giving amazing treatments by the second day, including the airplane engineer!

Piedmont: HeartTouch for Couples

December 17th 2022 9.30am to 1.30pm @ Associazione Il Punto, Burolo, Piedmont, Italy

A mindfulness & compassionate touch based workshop for couples wishing to deepen the empathic quality of the touch they share.

This was such a warm and friendly day.

In the end we we're 10 people as 3 couples sadly had to cancel and we started a little late due to the icy weather but the workshop soon settled down into a comfortable feeling.

I really enjoyed the diverse mix of people in the room, especially one older couple who we believe had no previous experience of touch work.

They enthusiastically embraced the freedom offered in the spontaneous qi gong practices and reflected that the life in wider society is often robot like and lived in auto-pilot.

We also had an 82 year old lady present and a family with their late teenage daughter who all enjoyed the work.

There were several experienced shiatsu practitioners and teachers present and one of them brought their partner who was able to share in her world for the first time.

We finished with a lunch out together at a local health food restaurant.

A great day! I want to do it again.

Milan: Sei Ki HeartTouch Workshop: Hara Conditioning & Compassionate Touch

November 11th 2022 2.30am to 6.30pm @ Shiatsu Milano Editore, Milan, Italy

A Sei Ki HeartTouch Training.