Who Studies Shiatsu?

People from a wide variety of backgrounds come to study shiatsu at the Devon School of Shiatsu. Some already have a career and are looking for a more fulfilling type of work, these have included nurses, midwives, shop owners, mechanics, farmers and solicitors.

Other students have not been working for a while, often raising children, and are now looking for a part-time or full-time way of working in something they really enjoy.

Increasingly we are attracting students who are already practicing a complementary medicine, and are looking for a new, in depth body orientated approach to their work.

No particular prior educational qualifications are needed to begin studying shiatsu.

Our students range in age from mid-twenties up to mid-sixties, with the majority in their thirties and forties. Life experience and skills learnt in other types of work can be of great value in practicing shiatsu.

The thing that nearly all our students come looking for is a new way of looking at health and life and a deeply held feeling of wanting to use this new knowledge to help in the healing of others.