Shiatsu Bodyworks Cheltenham

12/01/2026

🌿 What has your nervous system got to do with teeth cleaning?

If you can't manage overwhelm/stress or getting ill regularly read on...

We don't brush our teeth daily because anything is wrong we do it because maintenance prevents crisis.

Your dental hygiene habit prevents cavities and gum disease but did you know that your nervous system benefits from a regular routine too?

Real nervous system change doesn’t come from intensity, it comes from consistency.

Tiny cues, repeated daily, slowly reshape the baseline your system returns to.

This may include:

🌿Regular gentle movement
🌿Honest boundaries
🌿Saying no to create more self-time
🌿Time outs between tasks
🌿Meditative activities (like hobbies)
🌿Getting to bed on time

Nothing too dramatic in one go but over time they alter yous base line and increase your resilience. 2026 is the year of Nervous System Hygiene and I'm excited and proud that I can offer this with Shiatsu and the support that I give for the month in-between-treatments.

I'm not one-hour a month practitioner I'm here to support you in life.

Check out shiatsu and all the lifestyle support that I offer:

www.shiatsucheltenham.co.uk

Here's to a happy health and less-stress 2026 - start as you mean to go on book in for your first shiatsu and feel the difference in mind and body 🌿

Shiatsu - Gentle bodywork to make your body work better ☺️

18/12/2025

🌿 Avoid getting ill this winter!

Shiatsu Winter Wellness: How to Boost Your Immunity and Protect Your Energy This Season

Using the wisdom of Chinese medicine simple tips to help you stay healthy and energised right through the winter time

ps. you can always book a shiatsu too:

https://shiatsucheltenham.co.uk/treatments

21/10/2025

🌿 Feeling the effects of long hours, old injuries, or everyday stress?

Shiatsu for Men’s Health offers a practical, no-nonsense way to get your body and mind back on track. These fully clothed, deeply relaxing treatments help ease tension, improve circulation, and restore energy — ideal for men who need to unwind and recharge.

👉 Learn more about Shiatsu for Men’s Health

https://www.shiatsucheltenham.co.uk/mens-health-and-shiatsu

21/10/2025

🌿Shiatsu - Gentle bodywork to make your body work better 🌿

You may be new here and you may not know what Shiatsu is or entails - here's what's involved in this beautiful practise:

✨ Why Shiatsu feels different (and powerful):

It doesn’t rely on force or deep pressure. The touch is gentle, considered, responsive — often so subtle you don’t initially believe anything is “happening,” yet something shifts deeply within.
It works while you remain fully clothed, using supportive holds, stretches, rhythmic pressure, and stillness to coax the body to let go.
Because it works on your energy (often called “Qi” or “Ki”) as well as physical tissues, it can encourage blocked patterns to soften and release.

💫 How shiatsu eases pain — and soothes the emotions too:

Chronic aches, stiffness, tension: by helping release muscular and connective tightness, shiatsu can restore freer movement and reduce pain.
Stress, overwhelm, emotional tension: your nervous system is invited to relax into safety. Emotions you’ve held in your body often melt or shift — not forced, but welcomed to transform.
Supporting you through life transitions: hormone changes, overwhelm in work/life, emotional transitions — shiatsu can act as a reset, a pause, a space of care.

🙏 What you might feel after a session:

Lighter, freer, less “held.”
More clarity, calm, openness to what’s next.
Sometimes mild achiness the next day (your body responding, recalibrating) — a gentle sign that change is occurring.

✨ If you have a pain or ailment and you've not had relief or a resolution this is most likely in my realm - please pop a comment below or ask a question!

​and I'm also a ​holistic menopause specialis​t

20/10/2025

🌿🩷🌿 THIS FRIDAY Cotswold Menopause Fayre🌿🩷 🌿

Join us at the Cotswolds Menopause Fayre for support, education, and empowerment as we navigate the journey of menopause together!

🌿When: Friday 24th October 2025
🌿Time: 3pm - 6pm
🌿Where: Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester GL7 6JS

Come and meet a selection of therapists and menopause supportive businesses that can help you have a great menopause transition

🩷 Book here- Free entry:

Join us at the Cotswolds Menopause Fayre for support, education, and empowerment as we navigate the journey of menopause together!

06/10/2025

🌿 Your thoughts reshape your body...

Most people think thoughts only influence habits. But they can reshape the body too, down to the fascia, your most intelligent connective network.

Every thought carries a signal. Negative thought loops (fear, shame, worry) activate the sympathetic nervous system, flooding your body with stress hormones.

Over time, this stiffens fascia, dehydrates its water-rich matrix, and locks you into the very patterns your thoughts create.

An inflexible mind leads to an inflexible body.

A person holding onto emotional pain holds a lot of physical pain.

Positive, coherent thoughts, on the other hand, soften fascial tone. They activate the parasympathetic system, restore hydration, and allow bioelectric communication to flow again.

Imaging studies even show that mindfulness can literally reduce fascial tension.

Thoughts are informational currents. They shape fascia’s bioelectric signaling, either creating “noise” that traps you in cycles of stiffness, or coherence that reawakens the body’s intelligence. This is being studied in Quantum biology but I think Chinese medicine and bodywork has always known this and just informed us in its own way.

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This is what it means to think with the body and this is why Shiatsu is so powerful!

How shiatsu helps this

Very few of us can self regulate naturally it does take a lot of dedication and for the best outcome needs to happen on a daily basis... but then life is also very busy. Shiatsu interupts the negative patterns in the body and course corrects. The more regularly you have this done the more your body learns what the right patterns are.

I've always been a passionate advocate of having shiatsu regularly as I know just how beneficial it has been for me over the last 20 years. I think I'd be in a pretty poor state if I hadn't found this or another similar therapy.

Don't put up with feeling any less than your best - Book a shiatsu:

https://www.shiatsucheltenham.co.uk/shiatsu-treatments

02/10/2025

🌿 New blog - Feeling sluggish or bloated?

We have a 5th season of late summer - and it can affect how well your gut is working!

If you feel like things aren't quite right down there or your energy is off kilter it can be that the Earth meridians of Stomach and Spleen are struggling.

Late Summer is the season of Earth and it's a time of the year when things slow down for a major transition.

Earth is a grounding central calming energy that is neither thrusting or contracting; the others whizz around all year long but always come back to this central calming transition.

Whenever the body goes through a change rather than zipping from Wood to Fire it will always contacts and passes through earthiness on its journey and transitional times can affect your gut if it's not strong.

Late summer is drawing to a close in the coming couple of weeks as we transition into Autumn - the metal element and time of letting go.

Read more in the blog or book in for a shiatsu that will help reset your gut energy and emotions ready for Autumn!

shiatsubodyworks.co.uk/blog

or Book in for a treatment:

shiatsubodyworks.co.uk/treatments

30/09/2025

🍂 Don’t Let Autumn Drain You - Book Your Shiatsu Now!🍂

Autumn is the season of change, and with it comes tiredness, stiffness, and sometimes a dip in mood or immunity. It's also a very busy time and in crowded environments there are bugs galore.

A shiatsu session now can help you boost your immunity, release tension, and re-energise you so you feel more resilient as the weather shifts and as we head into the darker colder months.


This is the ideal time to realign with your body’s natural rhythm and give yourself the care you need before the busy months ahead. A single session can leave you calmer, clearer, and more centered. It's 11 weeks until your Christmas break; is your mind and body resilient enough to get through?


🍂 Don’t wait until the stress and fatigue build up — Book your shiatsu appointment today and step into this season feeling balanced and renewed!

https://www.shiatsucheltenham.co.uk/shiatsu-treatments

09/08/2025

🌿Blog - Can shiatsu help sciatica?🔥

It absolutely can - find out how to experience lasting relief from debilitating sciatica.

I even include plantar fasciatis in the sciatica category because it's resolved from the same spot as pains that radiate down the side or back of legs and this includes knee pain too.

Got mystery pains in your bum or tension and tightness after sitting too long? I've got your covered - read on:

https://www.shiatsucheltenham.co.uk/single-post/can-shiatsu-help-sciatica

29/07/2025

🌿 The science behind how your muscles can heal your low mood...

Your muscles produce antidepressant-like molecules that can improve your mood! This is why some people feel great after working out; but that isn't always accessible for all.

A low mood mood is a state of emotional and psychological distress that is characterised by feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and lack of motivation

It is a common experience that can be triggered by a range of factors, including constant stress, life events, illness, and hormonal changes

When you’re experiencing a low mood you may find it difficult to enjoy the things you used to, have trouble sleeping, experience changes in appetite, and have trouble concentrating

You may also experience physical symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, lower back pain, foot pain, and muscle aches

The good news is that you can get out of a low mood and relieve your physical symptoms with Shiatsu (and Qi Gong)

Shiastu creates a safa space to emotionally release that cleasr out the pent up stress, stored trauma, & unprocessed anxiety out of your body

It's similar to somatic exercises but guided by an experienced practitioner with relaxing bodywork to relieve the physical symptoms of a low mood including insomnia, fatigue, lower back pain, foot pain, headaches, and muscle aches

After you release, you’ll feel significantly lighter both physically & emotionally

After you release, you’ll have much more energy and will find it much easier to get out of bed

Do you want to get out of a low mood and get your energy back?

Book a shiatsu - easy access from Gloucester Cirencester and Stroud too:

https://www.shiatsucheltenham.co.uk/shiatsu-treatments

23/07/2025

🌿🌿 New blog - Can shiatsu help my knee pain?

Are your knees feeling worse with the hot weather? This is a thing and Chinese medicine has the answer!

knees are complex - they hold the stress and strain from the imbalance of your back hips and even your ankles.

knee pain can often be caused by muscle issues in your thighs

knees can hold too much fluid and feel tight like they can't bend

knees are the crunch point of your body being out of balance!

Find out how Shiatsu resolves this and what you can do to help yourself too.

https://www.shiatsucheltenham.co.uk/single-post/can-shiatsu-help-my-knee-pain

and book a shiatsu to relieve your pain too!

07/06/2025

🔥New blog: Master your fire energy during the sizzling summer! 🔥

What just is fire energy and how may it be affecting you more than you realise?

As seasons change from dynamic Spring into the heat of the Fire what's going on inside your body that can affect the way it works and how you react emotionally?

Fire builds on the Wood energy of Spring. Wood energy is upwards and motivating and can also make you a little tetchy. Without wood (or fuel) a real fire wouldn't ignite and it's the same in the Chinese medicine of the body. Wood and Fire can effect your Heart in emotions and in health. Health patterns that were just appearing in Spring can be cemented in the Fire season and excaberated by prolonged spells of hot dry weather.

And we have a heatwave on the way...

Intrigued?

https://www.shiatsucheltenham.co.uk/single-post/shiatsu-blog-master-your-fire-energy-during-the-sizzling-summer

Shiatsu can help your body work better in the heat!