Your natural flow of life energy is harmonized by this subtle form of energy medicine. Based on pulse listening and light touch, the Art of Jin shin stimulates your self-healing capacity. Using it as self care empowers you to help yourself.
Who are
sessions for?
     You’ll benefit most from these sessions if you...
  • want to regulate your nervous system and balance your flow of life energy
  • wish to restore the innate capacity of your body to relax and self-heal
  • are looking to address fatigue and to regenerate your kidney-adrenal system
  • are eager to release stress and experience more ease and well being
  • are keen to strengthen your unique essence and to align more with your calling
  • are committed to on-going preventative health care

"I came with an inquisitive mind, to see if this approach was valid for me
- it passed all the tests!" ~ L.M.
The Art of
Jin shin
This subtle form of energy medicine and self-care practice is also known as the ancient Eastern technique of Jin Shin Jyutsu. It is informed by pulse listening and based on twenty-six acupressure sites on each side of the body. These are held in different combinations or 'flows' to restore the circulation of energy along the extra- ordinary meridian lines of our body and to jump-start our inherent self-healing processes.

All our experiences have an impact on our emotional and energetic systems. These affect our physical body. Challenging experiences are stored in our energy field, nervous system and connective tissue and may manifest in all kinds of afflictions. Our bodies keep the score.

In turn, energy medicine such as the Art of Jin shin can restore energy flows, which activate the natural healing ability of our body and catalyze our innate recovery process.

When the natural flow of life energy is restored, energy blocks - physically manifesting as dis-ease, tension, fatigue, anxiety, aches and pains - can be released. Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual issues - "projects rather than problems" as master Jin Shin Jyutsu teacher Mary Burmeister insisted - can be addressed to bring us into healthier rhythms and into a clearer alignment with our life.

Self-care lies at the heart of the Art of Jin Shin. It emphasises the gentle and progressive, rather than 'quick-fix' nature of this system. Treatments with me can help to activate, and hold space, for healing processes. I can then show you how these can be consolidated by regular self care at home. Your personal commitment is essential and empowers you to direct your own journey of growth and transformation.
The TARA
Approach
"In healing from shock and  trauma, the resolution is always a restoration of Soul (Essence) and the activation of Spirit (Action) in the service of Essence."

Stephanie Mines, PhD,
​founder of the TARA Approach
The TARA Approach (acronym for Tools for Awakening Resources and Awareness) integrates the ancient Eastern technique of Jin Shin with developments in Western neuro-sciences to offer specific tools for the recovery from shock and trauma. Its objective is to unburden our nervous system. 

The response of our body to shock and trauma can have long-term effects and chronic conditions are frequently a way for our body to adapt. At times, these effects may be traced all the way back to when we were in our mother's womb.

As a starting point, the TARA Approach offers a valuable distinction between trauma (which is likely to have more logical causes and responses) and the more debilitating circumstances of shock (manifesting in less logical and more tenacious and unconscious ways). The resolution of both depends on the resources available to us.

The TARA approach offers one precious resource. This clinically tested and holistic approach is characterised by two components: it uses gentle touch (the Art of Jin Shin) and sensitive dialogue to stimulate self-healing. This combination means that both our pre-frontal cortex (enabling mindfulness) and brain-stem (responding to touch) are engaged to re-calibrate our nervous system.

Importantly, the TARA Approach is an integrative paradigm. It is a valuable complement to bio-medicine, but not intended to substitute medical care or to replace the need for comprehensive professional assistance.

In essence, the TARA Approach aims to uproot causative conditions of imbalance - rather than merely focusing on symptoms - so as to regenerate and restore us to the core.

For a video introducing the TARA Approach - click here.
Online offerings
Individual
 sessions & retreats
    Would you like a tailor made self-care routine to support you further?

     In an individual online Art of Jin Shin session we engage with coaching tools to
  • identify what you would most like to nourish in your life and
  • what Jin Shin points and flows might best serve you with this focus
"I felt put at ease from the start (not always easy over a video link) and was able to relax and easily connect. Practising the specific Art of Jin Shin points and sequences during the session allowed me to experience their effectiveness and this has helped me apply them since." ~ H.K.
Group
self care
sessions
You may also want to join our on-going online self-care practice group.

We look at practical applications of the Art of Jin Shin to harmonise our life energy, to boost our immune system and to address common ailments such as stress, fatigue, headaches, insomnia etc.

This drop-in group meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month from 5 - 6 pm UK time. A second class with the same focus and content happens alternate Thursdays from 9.30 - 10.30 am.

You are welcome to attend either - or both at no extra charge!
"I love coming. This is a meditation group for me
- a body-centred meditation group." ~ J. M.

"I have found these sessions to be a refuge of tranquility in this time of stress and anxiety,
and an hour of peace from everyday cares." ~ L.PG.
Interested?
In Person offerings
Treatments
& retreats
I offer Jin Shin / TARA Approach sessions and retreats in Forres - Moray, Scotland.

Appointments start with a brief chat to look at how I might support you.

During the session you rest fully clothed on a treatment table. The work is hands-on and involves gentle contact with energy points on your body. It may also include attuned dialogue and learning self care options to apply at home.

Sessions end with a short check-in and it is valuable to allow for unstructured integration time afterwards to make the most of treatment benefits.

"The jumper-cabler [practitioner] is only a spectator.
The individual is the one to heal themselves." 

~ Mary Burmeister






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