Shiatsu by Shelley

Shiatsu by Shelley Trained in London in Zen Shiatsu in 1998, almost 30 years bodywork experience. Mobile treatments too

Find glimmers in the regular, in your routines and in the mundane 🙏🙏
22/02/2026

Find glimmers in the regular, in your routines and in the mundane 🙏🙏

28/01/2026

Happy New Year to everyone 🎉
I hope Christmas has been relaxing and you’ve had some peace 🙏
Just a quick post to let everyone know I am taking bookings for Shiatsu treatments.
Please make contact if you wish to book 😊

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23/01/2026

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Love this 🩷
19/01/2026

Love this 🩷

Disrespect feels personal.
It stings.
It triggers the ego.
And the mind immediately asks: “Why did they treat me like this?”

But the old monk saw something deeper.

In Buddhist wisdom, what disturbs us is never the event itself, but our attachment to how we think things should be. Respect, approval, recognition—these are subtle cravings. When they’re denied, suffering arises.

The monk didn’t deny the feeling of anger.
He simply didn’t feed it.

He understood this truth:

Disrespect is not an insult.
It is information.

It tells you:

how conscious the other person is

how much fear or insecurity they carry

how limited their understanding may be

It tells you nothing about your worth.

When someone disrespects you, they are not handing you a wound—
they are handing you a direction sign.

🧭 “Do not linger here.”

In Buddhism, this is non-attachment in action.
You don’t cling to praise.
And you don’t cling to disrespect either.

Both are impermanent.
Both pass.

The lion does not pause its journey to argue with sheep.
Not out of arrogance—
but out of clarity.

Likewise, the practice is not to become cold or superior,
but to remain unentangled.

Observe.
Learn.
Let go.
Move on.

✨ When you stop demanding respect from those who cannot offer wisdom,
you reclaim your peace.

Treat disrespect not as a scar,
but as a compass—
quietly guiding you away from the wrong people
and back to yourself. 🌿

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19/01/2026

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Much of the world’s suffering begins with confusion of values.

When people are treated as tools, they lose dignity.
When objects are treated as sources of meaning, we lose ourselves.

Love was meant to be shared between hearts,
not projected onto possessions.
Things were meant to support life,
not replace connection.

When we use people for gain and love things for identity,
relationships break and emptiness grows.

Peace returns when we reverse this mistake..
when people are met with care, presence, and respect,
and things are simply used, then let go.

Clarity of what deserves love
is the beginning of healing.🌿

16/01/2026

When we truly understand that each day is not one more day added, but one day less remaining, something quietly shifts inside us.

⏳ Time stops feeling endless.
🌱 Life stops being postponed.
❤️ What matters becomes clear.

We stop wasting our energy on ego battles, old grudges, and things that don’t feed the soul. We become more patient, more forgiving, more present. We listen better. We love deeper. We say what needs to be said now, not “someday.”

🌄 A sunrise becomes a gift, not a routine.
🫂 People become precious, not replaceable.
🧘 Silence becomes meaningful, not empty.

In Buddhist wisdom, this is called awareness of impermanence (Anicca). Everything is changing. Nothing is guaranteed. And that’s not meant to scare us — it’s meant to wake us up.

When you realize time is limited, you stop living on autopilot. You start choosing peace over pride, presence over pressure, and meaning over noise.

✨ Value health over hustle.
✨ Value connection over convenience.
✨ Value now over later.

Because one day, later becomes never.

Live gently. Love honestly. And give your attention to what truly matters — while you still can.

15/01/2026
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18/09/2024

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When life breaks you, it is because you are ready to be put back together differently.
Every piece of you that feels shattered is a piece that will find a new place, a new purpose, a new meaning. Trust that the cracks are where the light gets in.
And sometimes, in our brokenness, we find our greatest wholeness.
We find the courage to rebuild, to reimagine, to redefine what it means to be strong.
You are not broken; you are breaking through ..

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Artist Credit : Kat Fedora

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