This course is open to all. It is about the Shao Yin and the Jue Yin (The Kidney, Heart and Liver), through which we can connect with our deep motivations and spontaneous life energy. Connecting the Kidney and the Heart is a powerful initiator, but we also need the Liver to contain disappointment, stay focused and persist in action when difficulties occur.

Many chronic issues in our lives can simply result from not being true to our core spirit. Either we have forgotten how to listen to our deep spontaneity or we give up our truth in the face of conflict and other people's disapproval.

This workshop focuses on how to rediscover the simplicity we may have lost while growing up and how to develop the psycho-physical capacity to conquer fear, act authentically and persist in the face of difficulty.

Although these sound like emotional capacities, the workshop will show how to develop them through the body, through Shiatsu and through movement processes. These physical paths to development are linked to the Six Divisions, which Bill has shown to embody six archetypal capacities, which we develop in childhood and often forget on the way to adulthood.

Bill Palmer's work emphasises self-development as well as giving lucid and rich meaning to the concepts of oriental energetics. He believes that deep healing comes from being fully present with another person and that knowing yourself is more important than learning theory and technique, because it allows you to meet another person authentically and without defences. His workshops are profound and accessible, deep knowledge presented in a way that you can experience for yourself.

Bill says about his work: "My central belief is that we, as individuals, are not wise enough to know what is best for another person. Therefore, I don't try to understand what to do by diagnosis and theory. Instead, I focus on helping people to feel into themselves through their body sensations, and trust their natural life process to do the therapeutic work. My work is now more like education than therapy. Since I believe the meridians to be the pathways along which the mind learns to inhabit the body in childhood, they provide one of the best ways of helping a person's awareness to reach hidden and blockaded parts of the self. The meridians are the guides, teaching us about ourselves through the body."

He has written over forty articles exploring this approach, some of which are available online."

For a Bill's biography click here

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To Book Contact: The Shiatsu School Edinburgh, Email:aimeeg_tino@yahoo.co.uk