Annette Lucas Integrated Body Based Therapist

04/10/2026

Alaine's offering a free online session TODAY!

5pm for 1.5 hours. On the Self.Protective Response and The Five Elements of Chinese Medicine.

Well worth diarising if you can.

When Peter Levine, founder of Somatic Experiencing, described the five steps of the Self-Protective Response he found in animal predator-prey relationships, he had no idea that these same steps were reflected in the movement of the Five Elements described by Taoists thousands of years ago. In this l...

08/08/2026

Learn something new this September. See details below.

For me, Shiatsu has been and still is, transformational.

Hae you ever wanted to learn more about Shiatsu?
We have a three-weekend Foundation Course starting in September. This is a great opportunity to dip your toes into the wonderful world of Shiatsu. You will learn basic Shiatsu routines for treating the whole body. This will include an introduction to core skills for giving shiatsu, treatment routines for clients in prone, supine, side and sitting positions, You will be introduced to the basic skills of observation and diagnosis using the principles of Traditional Eastern Medicine. The course will also support you with self-care exercises.
This course provides you with an opportunity to gain experience and it can help you decide if you would like to carry on to complete the one-year stand-alone Holistic Acupressure Certificate.
If you are interested, please go to the website northernschoolofshiatsu.uk for further information. You can also contact me on [email protected] if you would like me to send you an application form.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries.

08/08/2026

If you're an Acupuncturist and/or Shiatsu Practitioner in or around Liverpool could you DM me please, so I can pass on to someone seeking these. Thank you.

13/07/2026

Practiced Auriculotherapy for years. Great to see them being integrated by Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon...

When playing against Jannik Sinner, Serbian World No. 1 Novak Djokovic was spotted with the tiny seeds in his ears, used as part of the acupressure technique.

11/07/2026

There's quite a buzz....preparing for the big match....the calm before....😬⚽️

12/06/2026

Definitely some insightful words to ponder with today..

I am smitten by a relentlessly exacting idea: that 'the body' - yours, mine, material bodies of all kinds - is undecided, unfinished, and ultimately speculative. It is not that the body is not yet fully known or that it is merely awaiting the intrepid and totalizing sweep of the morphological glance to finally map out its strange geography. It is that the body is not simply mysterious, progressively mappable, or subject to the logics of discovery.

When Spinoza asked the question, "what can a body do?", he was not begging for more data about the body. He was disrupting the disciplinary gestures that firmly locate the body as already known. He was releasing the body from its fixity. From the passivity of being the inert recipient of visual commitments to clarity.

Over the years, I have come to think of clarity as no less burdened by the political than other forms of engagement with the world. Clarity does not bring us closer to the world. Clarity makes worlds. And every making is an obscuration and obviation of other worlds. My autistic son, Kyah, teaches me to perform something I call "looking-away-at", which is a vital poetics of thinking bodies as lines instead of dots. As speculative instead of as clear and final.

As such, I think that - in these moments of pandemics and surveillance technologies and wellness tracking and identitarian shibboleths and health crises and traumas and genocides that vex and maim and taint and mark and name bodies everywhere - we must take material bodies seriously. But to take the body seriously, we cannot afford to look squarely at it. We must look beside it. Not merely at the morphological but at the paramorphological.

I name "paramorphology" as the practice of tracing the somatic choreography of bodies as material speculation. Something about seeing the body as a dance, as movement, as speculation, as lines not dots, allows the most beautiful field of art forms and responsibilities to blossom at the end of the world.

Báyò Akomolafe

04/06/2026

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12/05/2026

Did you know I offer blended sessions of Counselling/Psychotherapy with Acupuncture/Shiatsu, either in person or online?

Largely based on years of experience where body therapies have provided a portal.

As someone recently said "where words find you".

More information available on my website below.

I am an Acupuncturist, Shiatsu and Massage Practitioner in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. I offer Acupuncture, Shiatsu and Massage on a private or lower cost Multibed basis. I also offer online body based therapy support including Tension and trauma release exercises, Do-In, Self Shiatsu and Acup

04/05/2026

This course is so poignant. Facilitated by Alaine Duncan who I've trained with and comes highly recommended.

It's online this Saturday at 5pm, so all the more accessible.

Details below;

Explore the neurobiology of conflict in this 4-hour masterclass. Bridge Polyvagal Theory and Epigenetics with Traditional Chinese Medicine to heal ancestral trauma, regulate the "Shen" of nations, and cultivate the 5 Element capacities for global community and lasting peace.