About Shiatsu
Shiatsu is a form of bodywork from Japan, with its roots in the systems and worldviews of Zen and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
A session of shiatsu happens clothed, lying on a futon/mat on the floor. It opens a quiet space for dropping into deeper awareness of the body and what the body needs. It is a space of non-verbal listening and encounter, where the practitioner can reflect the body/heart/mind back to itself through presence and mindful physical touch.
The physical touch can include stretches, rotations and leaning on the body with palms, thumbs, elbows and knees, giving the gentle, relaxed weight of the practitioner’s body into the receiver’s body. It works on different levels: on the physical level (muscular, fascial), as well as the emotional and the energetic. Through making space for what is present and allowing the practitioner to resonate with that, the receiver can experience release, relaxation, as well as the invitation towards harmony and rebalance in the body.
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The Details
Sessions are 90 minutes long, including a short pre-conversation followed by a 60-minute treatment and some digestion and reflection time afterwards.
I offer payment options on a sliding scale basis so you can give what is possible for you. While I complete my apprenticeship, I’m offering a 90-minute session for 50-80€. For full-time students I offer sessions on a Pay-What-You-Can basis. You can pay by cash, Paypal or bank transfer.
The studio is a shared space on Kopenhagener Strasse, 10437 Berlin, dedicated to Shiatsu on Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 17:30-21:00 and on Saturday mornings 11:00-14:30. Full details of the address given on booking.
Please bring comfortable clothes to wear - jogging trousers/leggings and a light, long-sleeved top, as well as socks.
If you have questions or you’d like to book a session, please contact me:
About Me
I arrived to Shiatsu after years of working as a performer, dramaturg and facilitator. In my work as a facilitator – teaching both aspiring performing artists as well as interested lay people – I have been constantly circling around practices of coming home to the connected body-breath-voice-imagination, what the Daoist philosophy might call our “true nature”.
Increasingly, I’ve found myself leaning into tools and principles in my teaching from the world of martial arts (Tai Ji and Qi Gong), which I’ve been practising since 2017. The inner martial arts and the Daoist and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) philosophy from which they come and connect offer many insights and practices that address the biggest struggles and questions I see again and again in the space – as well as in myself. Questions around: regulating the nervous system, harmonising the mind and balancing “doing” and “being” in an ever-quickening world; holding paradox and allowing for not-knowing in an ever-polarising world; finding awareness, discipline and depth through the practices we have, where every week a new fix-all method vies for our attention; slowly rebuilding the less good habits we have into more nourishing ones to allow the body to regain balance again and again and again.
Over the years I’ve placed embodied practice ever more firmly and insistently at the centre of my teaching. I’ve been called more and more not just to offer moments of touch in classes as feedback during body/breath/voice exercises – although this remains important – but to create a more dedicated space to offer touch: shiatsu.
In 2025 I began my shiatsu apprenticeship at ESI Berlin, where I am now studying at Intermediate level. Alongside this I am a regular practitioner of Tai Ji (now following the Xuan Wu Pei lineage, after a number of years of studying Yang style Tai Ji) and Nei Gong (Quiet/Meditation practices, drawing from the Daoist and Tibetan Buddhist traditions). I also continue to explore the deeply related field of clown with my teacher Robert McNeer and his approach of Lunar Clowning at La Luna Nel Pozzo in Puglia, Italy. I am an avid student of Zen, Daoism, Goethian observation, metaphor and myth. I spend as much time as I can in wilder nature, with the birds and the water and the wind.