Deep Massage Therapy

12/01/2026

Excellent massage, head to toe. Deeply relaxing pain relief

02/01/2026

02/01/2026

01/01/2026

01/01/2026

🐴 HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🐎🔥 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse (火马年) or Red Horse Year (赤马年 ) in the Chinese Zodiac, a rare occurrence that happens only once every 60 years.

Double Fire: In Chinese metaphysics, the Horse belongs to the Fire (火) group, so 2026 adds double strength to the year’s governing element, leading to a "Yang Fire" year (丙午) with massive transformative momentum.

What seems like chaos shifts into greater coherence, as old cultural patterns, habits and limited thinking breaks apart and new creative forces gain power.

Key Symbolism:
The combination of the Horse sign and the Fire element creates an exceptionally high-energy year of dynamic change. The Horse naturally symbolizes vitality and independence, while the Fire element adds intensity and drive.

People and events in previous Fire Horse years such as 1906 and 1966 helped launch lasting periods of cultural transformation and technological innovation, greater freedom, new perspectives, collaboration and independent thinking. It was during these time periods that the world changed in meaningful and revolutionary ways.

Duration: The Year of the Fire Horse officially begins on February 17, 2026, and ends on February 5, 2027.

Zodiac Symbol: The Chinese character for Horse is 马 (Simplified) or 馬 (Traditional).

The Fire Horse signifies a time for creative ambition, adventure, growth, and taking synchronized action, encouraging us to move quickly in unison with others, to be enthusiastic, adaptable, and pursue new opportunities with strength and determination, breaking free from limitations. 🙏💕

Painting by Kristin Darnell-Kreger

30/12/2025

James Hollis in an interview on the Keep Talking Podcast- on being a recovering nice person, and stepping into new roles for oneself..

He says: "many of us were raised to be nice all the time, and nice means accommodating whatever is demanded in your environment. If you are nice in all directions and its a reflexive niceness - sooner or later it will violate your own personhood, and sooner or later is will violate the expectations of your own soul.

Just the capacity to say no to someone "no I do not want that", or "no I am not going to allow you to do that to me" - are moments where one is not being nice, but one is being very real, one is being authentic.

The opposite of a reflexive niceness is not evil - its called authenticity. Reflexive niceness is a protection, an old protection, its what we actually call co-dependence. There is a power differential, and the power is always in the hands of the other, never within me, and therefore I don't have the right to say no I don't want to do that. I have to co-operate with you.

As Jung said: "Neurosis is the flight from authentic suffering", so suffering either way - if you have inauthentic suffering, you will be hit with a depression that comes from the unlived life. If you risk and step into life more fully, you will have a lot of anxiety, but thats preferable to depression, because depression ultimately steals from us our capacity to engage life, and to grow and develop. We can stay stuck in all our patterns, our avoidances, but sooner or later something shows up and pathologises."

“Each morning the twin gremlins of fear and lethargy sit at the foot of our bed and smirk. Fear of further departure, fear of the unknown, fear of the challenge of largeness intimidates us back into our convenient rituals, conventional thinking, and familiar surroundings. To be recurrently intimidated by the task of life is a form of spiritual annihilation. On the other front, lethargy seduces us with sibilant whispers: kick back, chill out, numb out, take it easy for a while . . . sometimes for a long while, sometimes a lifetime, sometimes a spiritual oblivion. (As a friend advised me in Zurich, “When in doubt, administer chocolate.”) Yet the way forward threatens death—at the very least, the death of what has been familiar, the death of whomever we have been.”

The daily confrontation with these gremlins of fear and lethargy obliges us to choose between anxiety and depression, for each is aroused by the dilemma of daily choice. Anxiety will be our companion if we risk the next stage of our journey, and depression our companion if we do not. Anxiety is an elixir, and depression a sedative. The former keeps us on the edge of our life, and the latter in the sleep of childhood.

James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life.

Art: Johann Heinrich Füssli

09/10/2025

14/07/2025

Lovely article about Kishi and Shinto Shiatsu

Where did I end up there? All around me howls and screams, people rolled like carpets across the floor, thrashing, shaking, plus a hell of a racket - in other words: pure chaos, mayhem! Was I perhaps too naive when I registered for a Sei-Ki workshop with Kishi in the spring of 1983, still a

14/07/2025

'Kishi does not dance any longer, cannot dance either
He does not meet and does not teach
He presents Seiki-Soho never again
He merely continues: innocence carried in a pleasant wind.
He will become a wind himself; gently, silently, caressing your cheek.
Welcome the wind; carry on anyhow and do not stay.
That is the alive way, this is nature.'

Kishi san, we miss you!

27/06/2025

You can be born with the magic touch or you can develop it.

20/06/2025

You can be born with a magic touch or you can develop one.

Shinto Shiatsu Massage is a deeply relaxing therapeutic massage that I've practiced for 35 years.