Dawn Oei - Shiatsu Shin Tai - Edinburgh, UK

27/07/2025

I love Shiatsu because.....

17/07/2025

Sometimes we are rushed off our feet with little or no time to truly rest down. Holding and palming down the leg and heel of the foot with a quiet listening can help your receiver to reach a more calm and restful state.

17/07/2025

Shiatsu connections. ❤️🙌💫

30/06/2025

Grateful for the Shiatsu weekend that we have shared together with Mihael Mamychshvili.

Shiatsu is truly the best therapy for working sensitively to unlock the protective patterns of trauma. This work comes from listening with our hearts: being kind to ourselves and working with our clients with kindness, presence and compassion.

Thank you, Elaine Liechti for gathering us.❤️🙏

30/06/2025

Reset.

24/06/2025

One job that AI could never replace is Shiatsu and that's just my felt sense.

The Future of Healing Isn’t AI - It’s You! The future of healing isn’t AI - it’s you. There’s a lot of buzz right now about AI tools diagnosing imbalances, recommending & stimulating acupressure points, or even guiding “energy work.” But here’s our bold prediction: 👉 The more ...

24/06/2025

🔥 Bold Prediction: The Future of Healing Isn’t AI—It’s You.

There’s a lot of buzz right now about AI tools diagnosing imbalances, recommending acupressure points, or even guiding “energy work.” But here’s our bold prediction:

👉 The more AI invades healing spaces, the more people will crave the human intelligence of skilled bodywork.

Because healing is not a protocol. It’s not a template. And it sure isn’t something you can fully understand through data alone.

Let me tell you a quick story.

A woman once came to me with debilitating neck pain. A standard protocol would’ve said, “Focus on C2 and the shoulder girdle.” But the moment I laid hands on her, I could feel something deeper—her whole system was holding unresolved grief, especially around the chest and diaphragm. I shifted focus. As I worked through the central channel and adjusted the rhythm of the craniosacral flow, tears began to surface. She later told me, “That was the first time I felt like someone actually heard what my body was trying to say.”
No massage chair could have done that.
Another client—same complaint, same neck pain—but different priority. But I could feel his nervous system and musculature compressed and exhausted from a lifetime of managing only being able to see through one eye. The priority was to begin unwinding some of the restrictions in his upper spine, cervical musculature, and cranial bones/membranes.

Two people. One diagnosis. Totally different stories written into their bodies.

This is the difference between artificial intelligence and biological intelligence. Between data and intuition. Between “doing a treatment” and truly listening.

So yes, AI might get smarter. But the body? The body already is wise. And the practitioners who learn to trust that wisdom, refine their perception, and work with it directly will always be ahead of any machine.

What do you think—can AI ever match the intuition and presence of a skilled bodyworker? What’s a specific thing you did recently during a treatment that could not be replicated from an automated tool?

18/06/2025

12/06/2025

Lovely to support MECOPP's Carers' Week with Shiatsu. Meeting clients from Hong Kong, Iraq, Vietnam and Sudan. ❤️🙌💫

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12/06/2025

Great to see my Shiatsu colleagues, Gabi, Onintza and Cynthia offering Seated Shiatsu at The Meadows Festival in Edinburgh at the weekend. ❤️🙌💫

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05/06/2025

Shiatsu connections. ❤️🙌💫

Wearing a Shiatsu t-shirt from Slovenia, meeting my client who is from Romania and I am a Singaporean living in Edinburgh and London.


Shiatsu Society (UK) ESF - European Shiatsu Federation