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HeartTouch
Mindfulness & Compassionate Touch Training for Anxiety, Emotional Pain & Trauma.
An experiential training for Experiencers of Extreme States, Psychotherapists / Clinicians, Shiatsu / Bodywork therapists & Supporting Family Members.
As well as facilitating personal transformation and self learning, this workshop explores the embodied foundations of co-regulation and care suitable for assisting people experiencing any level of emotional distress, up to and including complex trauma.
This workshop is a little tribute to my teacher Akinobu Kishi, who used to teach in this centre and inspired this work, hence his spirit will be evoked more than in general HeartTouch workshops.
Brighton Ki Centre, 12 Queen Square, BN1 3FD, October 29th 2023 10am-5.30pm

Embodied Mindfulness is a way of being in which you are fully connected with your body and you feel safe.
Your mind is quiet and present to your experience of life happening that moment and your heart feels warm and open to yourself and to those around you.
This is a state of well-being and good feeling.
We will explore together how mindfulness & touch based connection practices can help us to move closer towards this state of well-being whether as an experiencer of challenging states or as someone who cares for people in these situations.
We are not looking for 'cures' or 'fixes'. Whatever our 'role' we are learning to be with ourselves and to be ourselves. Just as important we are learning to be fully present with others.
As we transform the way we relate to ourselves, our experiences and the world, symptoms which distress us may also change.
Along the way everyone involved will enhance their capacity to hold safe space for others.
And this will touch everything we do in life from then on...
The Vision:

The HeartTouch project is about inspiring and empowering people to facilitate HeartTouch groups with those they resonate with and care about in our society.
Groups may form of diverse nature and membership, located in community spaces or in psychiatric services and serve people in distress or not.
The simple act of connecting authentically through compassionate touch with another human being nourishes something in the soul that makes life worth living.
I hope people with lived experience can play an equal role alongside specialists with bodywork or psychological training.
About Anthony:

I had my own journey first with anxiety, panic attacks and mild depression while in my final year at Cambridge University in 1991.
This continued during my work as a financial auditor, where I experienced chronic stress and then as a software programmer where I went into a meltdown of physical and mental fatigue. A serious breakdown / burnout.
Despite massive efforts to heal myself, this journey continued in 2001, with me entering non-ordinary states, we can say spiritual psychosis perhaps.
After an 8 month period in the psychiatric system, I came off anti-psychotic medications and took personal responsibility for my own well-being. This journey continued for the next 8 years with me going in an out of challenging non-ordinary states until I stabilised in 2010.
Over time I've become a qualified Mindfulness teacher, Tai Chi & Qi Gong teacher and have been teaching since 2015. I am also an experienced student of the late Akinobu Kishi , the founder of Sei Ki and teach his amazing touch therapy in my own way. I've spent twenty-five years exploring these fields with total dedication.
I found my own ways to recover and live a full life and now share what I learnt with others experiencing extreme states, trauma, broken nervous systems or simply chronic stress situations and misery.
I also help therapists to enhance their capacity to feel and work more sensitively with their clients in trauma informed ways.
Click here for more on Anthony's background and experience
Details:
The event is being hosted by Anthony Fidler.
This workshop is open to anyone experiencing anxiety, emotional pain, trauma and what may be considered psychosis by some, as well as those who care for or support people experiencing challenging emotional or mental states: psychotherapists / clinicians, shiatsu / bodywork therapists, mindfulness teachers and supporting family members.
It is also open to couples wishing to enhance their capacity to connect and support each other through times of stress and distress.
Nb. Therapists: Please leave your hats at the door! In this work we are all just human beings with our life journeys, difficulties, beauty and pain.
Nb. Experiencers: I request people experiencing serious difficulties to book a short personal appointment with me , so we can get to know each other, before you attend the workshop.
Workshop size: Maximum 25 people hopefully with a reasonably equal balance of mental health clinicians, bodywork therapists, family members and experiencers.
Covid: We request attendees to consider completing a lateral flow test before attending out of consideration to others who may feel themselves vulnerable.
Pricing: *Early bird pre September 29th
- Individual Fee: £90, Early Bird: £80
- Couple Fee: £160
- Parent with Experiencer Fee: £135
- Concession Fee: £45, limited places
Nb. There are some concessionary price places available for those in an unwaged / low waged situation. Please contact me to discuss.
For those requiring a pre-workshop 1-1 chat I will charge £25 / half hour for this. I know from my own experience this can make a big difference anxiety wise before entering a group.
Cancellation / Refunds: 50% when notice is given at least 1 week prior to the workshop.
Registration Process:
The event is by invitation. The application process is as follows:
- We request that people apply by contacting us
- Then once we confirm there are places available, complete the application form
- We will then come back to you and may suggest a short online 1-1 session.
- We will then confirm your place on the workshop once you've paid.
Nb. The intention with the application form is to provide an opportunity for you to communicate personal needs so we can hold the space well for you. It also allows you and us to reflect whether you are in a good enough 'space' to benefit from the practices being offered with the support we will have available on the day.
Non-experiencers, please be patient. It feels appropriate to ask all attendees to complete the forms if any do, but answers may be succint as appropriate. It is an opportunity to reflect on why you wish to attend the training and communicate this with me along with any personal needs.
Pre-workshop 1-1 sessions, while adding cost to the workshop are invaluable in my experience in terms of allowing us to establish a personal resonance before you enter the group environment.
Thank you, Anthony.
So please get in touch if you would like to attend: Contact EasternPeace
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Sei Ki Private Sessions
Sessions can take several forms:
- Sei Ki Touch Therapy Session for Health & Well-being.
- One-One HeartTouch Tutorial Session.
- Couples HeartTouch Tutorial Session.
- Small Group HeartTouch Tutorial Session - contact me for pricing.
- Katsugen Undo One-One Session.
I am happy to consider sessions with anyone whatever their state of physical or mental health.
I am open to invitations to run half-day or full-day tutorial training and may be able to travel to you.
Session Fee: £80 / hour
Testimonials from previous HeartTouch workshops: Scroll Swipe right to read more..
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Anthony Fidler has remarkable qualities and much valuable experiences of creating safe spaces where we can together explore difficult things.
This happens through movement, touch, breath work and so much more.
He has a very instinctive approach that can tune in to what people need regardless of their circumstances and needs.
I can thoroughly recommend people to join his workshops especially for families who are struggling with emotional distress.
Jen, Skipton - 2023 -
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I came to HeartTouch through a posting that was shared with me online. Wasn't quite sure what to expect, but as I do a lot of work in Mindfulness and have been interested in Reiki and being a massage therapist, I thought I'd give it a go.
This work is about the individual opening up to the power of touch and flow of energy in the body.
That is it... there is nothing magical or out there about it.
The weekend we spent together was tribute to the power of this way of being.
No matter what you have going on, physical, mental, emotional... this work is so important.
Not only receiving the touch, but also offering the touch.
I am looking forward to taking this work of touch as well as mindful movement into my daily life and sharing it with whomever is open and interested in it.
Thanks Anthony!
James, Bristol - 2023 -
HeartTouch Training
Anthony is a very engaging and enthusiastic presenter, he has a deep, uncompromising love for his practice and an unstinting generosity in sharing his knowledge.
His workshop has helped me to refresh my Qi-based practice and develop my understanding of this fascinating work.
Elise, Bristol - 2023 -
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Anthony creates a welcoming and safe space, and he is very open about his own past mental heath struggles.
This enhances trust and a sense of community for participants who have faced/are facing mental health challenges.
Furthermore, it creates a sense of equity and democratises (as much as possible) the therapeutic space where participants are considered *experts* of their bodies and experience.
Dina, Bristol - 2023 -
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I would certainly recommend people give Heart Touch workshops a try.
It's simple and affective treatment almost anyone can learn. I came away feeling empowered in body, mind and soul.
Peter, Bristol - 2023 -
HeartTouch Training
This is a great workshop for all those who wish to learn how to be there for themselves!
I've always struggled to soothe myself when others aren't available and I've been implementing new things that Anthony confirmed was useful, giving me further tools to practice on.
We also learnt other ways for others to be there for us and that was very interesting too.
"I've learnt nothing" is probably right, as I've learnt so much by very simple, but often missed, things to which Anthony guide us back towards.
Anna, Norwich - 2023 -
ResourceBalance for Chronic Stress & Burnout
I recently attended a Resource Balance workshop held in the beautiful DOJO space in London.
It was great to be able to connect with other people in a safe and sacred space where we learnt under the guidance of two talented and passionate individuals, practices to harness and resource our energy levels and vitality.
I will definitely be using these practices going forwards.
I found it lovely connecting in person and well worth the journey/effort getting there, rather than opting just for online classes. Screens have their limitations!
I left feeling confident and empowered in helping myself recover from chronic illness in a positive way with others.
Great for therapists wanting to learn more techniques for their practice or for people like myself recovering from illnesses or just looking for ways to live a good, authentic life.
Rebecca, UK - 2023 -
ResourceBalance for Chronic Stress & Burnout
I really loved my experience with Anthony and Snezhana.
It was a very comfortable space and they provided a good balance between practical exercises and theoretical explanations around very useful concepts and practices.
I took away many tools that I will use in my own life to increase my energy levels, connection to myself, and have better balance.
Camille, UK - 2023 -
ResourceBalance for Chronic Stress & Burnout
Anthony and Snezhana's Resource Balance Workshop was a day well spent with a nice group of interesting people in a beautiful venue (The Dojo, Kensal Green, North West London).
For me personally, it was a great introduction to Tai Chi which has inspired me to take Tai Chi classes in the future.
Throughout the course of the day, I gained some interesting insights into the way that my own mind works and how I might be able to become more 'open' and grow as a person.
The hands-on shiatsu practice at the end of the day was very soothing and I finished the day feeling very relaxed,positive, mentally and physically soothed.
Highly recommended.
Alex, UK - 2023 -
ResourceBalance for Chronic Stress & Burnout
Anthony and Snezhana's workshop on Rebalancing Energies is a great resource for anyone who has difficulty with any kind of stress or moments of distress in life.
They took us through many different ways of looking at what we have going on in our daily lives and different ways to approach working with anything that we may want to get moving through our bodies.
I came away feeling energised and deeply connected to my own energy and the field around me.
This is work that is so important in today's world when we are bombarded with outside stressors at every level.
Remembering that we have an energy body ourselves and that it needs a bit of care and protection is such valuable work.
I couldn't recommend this workshop enough for anyone who is interested in finding ways of creating more peace and prosperity in our own lives.
Many thanks for a great workshop and wonderful insights.
James, UK - 2023 -
Online One-To-One Wellness Coaching
I had a one to one online session with Anthony. It was very straightforward and easy to book a session.
Anthony brings a wealth of knowledge of different Eastern practices, presenting them in an easy to understand format.
From his own lived experiences, he also understands the practicalities and challenges of being a sensitive and empathetic human being in the modern world, offering lots of guidance in ways of finding peace and inner resilience.
Having struggled to find online teachers that can cater for specific health conditions, Anthony is able to adapt sessions, putting you at ease.
Would highly recommend Anthony for learning how to live with more peace and balance within.
Rebecca, UK - 2023 -
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Anthony has this wonderful skill to make practices powerful but simple enough so I can use them in every day life.
I very much appreciated learning a technique of safe touch to soothe and release emotions, which I will certainly use with my clients.
Silvija, Luxembourg - 2023 -
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The Heart Touch Training was completely new to me.
I hoped this might be another step in helping me deal with some childhood trauma that I am currently working on from different angles.
The training was focussed on grounding and coming back to your own breath and turning towards your inner being, finding this deeper connection with oneself in the first place and all of this in a safe place, and yes, it worked!
I felt immediately at ease and was able to feel the connection and calmness coming over me.
This training gave me some precious tools that I will surely use on my personal journey.
Annick, Luxembourg - 2023 -
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Anthony was really engaging and down to earth with this workshop.
There was plenty of practices to try out and opportunity to reflect.
I learned a great deal which will inform both my own personal growth as well as my practice as a shiatsu practitioner.
I intend bringing some of the practices into my own personal and professional practice.
Thanks to Anthony for his compassionate presence, honesty and heart opening quality to his creative heart-touch approach, may it continue to grow in our communities where it is so needed . Corrinna Bain, shiatsu practitioner.
Corrinna, UK - 2023 -
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Anthony's engaging and authentic teaching style provides a very grounded approach to this work, inspired by his own experiences and work with Akinobu Kishi
Elaine, UK - 2023 -
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The work helped me immensely.
I have not felt so calm and grounded for a very long time.
I feel the work gave me some valuable tools to calm and ground myself.
Really grateful for the safe and welcoming space that Anthony created and held throughout the day.
Dina, UK - 2023 -
HeartTouch Training
I would highly recommend Anthony's training to anyone needing to down-regulate their nervous system and wishing to be better able to connect with others.
Anthony's practices are unique, grounded in decades of training with Eastern masters.
Through these he has discovered what helps him in his moment to moment experience of life.
He embodies his experience with complete authenticity and this is what makes the training so powerful.
I felt really calm and revitalised by the day's workshop and look forward to attending another.
Anon, UK - 2023 -
HeartTouch Training
I attended Anthony’s HeartTouch workshop not quite knowing exactly what to expect, and to be honest I was just the slightest bit apprehensive about how it would be to be touched by or have to touch someone I did not know.
But for some time now as a parent of a son with psychosis and as an advocate for compassionate healing outside of the coercive psychiatric model, I had a hunch that this work might be important.
Anthony has also worked with my eldest son online with really positive results, another reason I wanted to see the workshop practise for myself.
Within moments of arriving the space was so welcoming as was Anthony himself.
There were flowers that filled the room with beauty, and the dojo itself was light and airy.
We had tea and by the time we started the meditative walking practise I was fully present and grateful to be doing this work.
We chanted together, which I found so enriching. The touch work happened in the afternoon when there was a sense of safety and camaraderie that Anthony had created from the morning session.
The afternoon offered me a way to connect deeply to my own sense of self and also to the partner I was working with.
I think that the profound effect of touch cannot be overestimated. I wish that I had been able to use it when my son was distressed as I think it would have deescalated some of his fear.
We all need to learn to live in our body and to come back to the breath and to remind each other to do so.
The mind and body are but one organism as this workshop reaffirmed for me.
Thanks Anthony. I will be back and will put to use what this teaching has given me.
Tanya Frank, UK - 2023 -
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I found the day really valuable.
It was structured and paced in such a way that one activity naturally moved to the next with increased intensity that always felt safe and healing.
Thank you Anthony.
Jo, UK - 2023 -
HeartTouch Training
Simple yet such incredibly powerful work.
Exploring these practices in our society which is grossly touched deprived as a means for supporting each other is necessary now more than ever.
Thank you Anthony
Andrew, UK - 2023 -
HeartTouch Training
The Heart touch training was an opportunity to develop an understanding of and participate in compassionate based bodywork.
It gave me an understanding of how therapeutic touch can soothe the nervous system and open the human heart.
Joan, UK - 2023 -
HeartTouch Training
I would recommend Anthony's workshops and approach.
His focus, exploring our self perception and how to develop and work with this in relation to supporting both ourselves and others, I feel to be very effective.
Adam, UK - 2023 -
HeartTouch Training
The HeartTouch workshop was held in a beautiful Zen healing space, and we warmed up into the bodywork practices very gently.
Thank you.
Emily, UK - 2023 -
Online Embodied Mindfulness & Qi Gong
Anthony's Tai chi, qigong and hara conditioning workshops provide a safe and welcoming space where, at their own pace, participants are able to explore and to work with the embodied felt sensations and constrictions that arise in the midst of difficult experiences of mental and emotional distress.
As I was working with my own experiences of childhood trauma - and the ensuing spiritual crisis and liminal states - Anthony's workshops became a sanctuary in which I was able to soften and to show myself kindness, to ground difficult energies, and to bring my nervous system back into a state of tranquility and calm.
James, UK - 2022 -
Zen Mindfulness Course
Thank you very much, it took me a long way in dealing with my 'anxiety'.
You and your sessions played a big role in this by bringing me closer to the concept of mindfulness and teaching me some exercices I can easily integrate in my daily life. Thank you very much for this.
I never told you how grateful I am that I had the chance to meet you, but I've been thinking it for a while!
Marc, Luxembourg - 2019 -
HeartTouch for Anxiety & Burnout
Your workshop was very useful because it gave me a lot of tools to help me relax in a more profound way, acknowledge my feelings and come back to my body.
I also loved the compassionate touch practices.
I found them very rewarding, a great way to connect with other people and to honour our basic humanity.
Monica, Luxembourg - 2018