The Training

If you’re wondering whether this Zenthai Shiatsu thing you’ve never heard of is all made up, don’t worry, it certainly is! After thousands of hours of study, trips all over the world, sessions and courses, Zenthai was born by Gwyn Williams in 2000.
 

The main course I studied was the 9- month therapist training in the Northern Rivers NSW in 2022, with Zenthai Elder, Merryn Pennington. This consisted in a four day intensive every month, with manuals and self-directed study the rest of the time. This deep dive resulted in 500 hours of contact training. This is equivalent to a typical Zen Shiatsu training course.

But my study didn’t begin or end there, and in total I have participated in around 1000 hours of contact training including CPD courses. Exploring deeper and deeper into many aspects of Zenthai Shiatsu such as TCM 5 elements and lower back therapy.

Since then I have been a self-employed therapist, either full or part-time, treating 1000’s of people at festivals, retreats, or in my home studio.

I am fully insured with Balens PLI.

Of course, a good therapist is not created only by their study, but by their consciousness and way of being. This is where my lifelong devotion to yoga, meditation, fitness, health and connection to nature has shaped me. I walk the sacred path of the Red Road, opened to all people by the Lakota tribe, and I participate in their ceremonies of purification and inner connection such as Vision Quest, Sundance, Sweatlodge and Tipi meeting. This inner connection to the energy of creation is what creates the energetic container of healing in my sessions.