Steve Davies Shiatsu Practitioner
Website: www.shiatsu-steve.co.uk
Tel. 01209 843721
Mob. 07970 687932

After many years running a small garden machinery business in St Agnes, I was beginning to feel that there was something missing in my life. Every year, for as long as I could remember, I had attended an adult education evening class doing the usual French, Italian, gardening etc. but I began to run out of courses I was interested in. Then my eye caught Anatomy, Physiology and massage, 36 weeks of what could be fun! My imagination was fired to study further – reflexology, reiki, but I still wanted more.

The journey so far had all been evening classes with no thought of a change in direction as far as work was concerned. Everything so far had been exciting and I was beginning to see and feel the possibilities and potential of the power of touch. New people had entered my life and then the chance of a shiatsu weekend in St Mawes. This was where my life changed for the better and for good.

The next stage of the journey was a huge one, the Shiatsu course was for three years and I wanted to do it, but how? With a business to run, fees to pay and a mortgage.

Luck – chance – or good fortune, call it what you will, an overheard conversation led me to some financial help and the decision to sell the Garden Machinery shop – spot on timing almost to the day! So no job and three years looming, I had to make it work, there was to be no going back.

Then came an incredible learning experience, full of laughter and tears, of self examination, some doubt and a great passion for the shiatsu I had chosen to devote my life to.

My client group began to grow by word of mouth. Organisations I had targeted motivated me in my study as they were all regular money and yearly contracts.

The business I have today, six years on, is booming. I see around 25 clients each week and am a director of Cornwall Complementary Health, a Community Internet company which specialises in bringing therapies and health promotions to disadvantaged groups and individuals.

An area where I work for nothing is a Cancer Charity, giving treatments to clients who are terminally ill.

To sum up, Shiatsu has been a journey of self development, not just a technique. I have taken the principles to heart, it is a way of life for me – relaxing, invigorating, dynamic and empowering – No going back!

Steve Davies