Michael Cullingworth
Michael Cullingworth is a Shiatsu practitioner and teacher with over 20 years experience in bodywork and shiatsu. He is listed as a Teacher on the Register of the Shiatsu Society, MRSS (T), and teaches at the Zen school of Shiatsu near Old Street, EC1. Originally he trained in Shiatsu with Rex Lassalle at the School of Hara Shiatsu, then with Ron Kelley at the Nine Needles School of Oriental Medicine and with Nigel Dawes and Veronica Howard at the London College of Shiatsu. In recent years he has been studying Tao Shiatsu and the Buddhist approach to shiatsu with Ryokyu Endo and Tzvika Calisar in Japan and Austria. Michael is also a keen practitioner of Yoga and an assistant teacher of Okido Yoga. Throughout the summer season he runs Yoga holidays in Turkey. He is especially interested in selecting a few specific exercises for patients to be able to continue their healing process on their own. Michael is a Director of the New Cross Natural Therapy Centre.
What people have said:
"Within minutes of your first touch, I drift blissfully off somewhere that is more peaceful than sleep and more detached than meditation. You work more gently than any shiatsu practitioner I have met, and yet at times it feels as though you are reaching right into and through my body, into tissue and soul memory. It is astonishing. Personally I believe that your treatments a year ago, contributed hugely to the rebalancing of a thyroid problem, and headed it off before it began to seriously threaten my ability to work. My blood tests have come back as normal since then."Carol - osteopath.
"I came to Michael for Shiatsu having failed to untangle a
web of emotion and anxiety through therapy. Many of my early
sessions with Michael were drowned in the tears of named and
unnamed grief: he seemed to be able to locate old wounds within my
body and release the hurt they had been storing."
Roxaline - artist and lecturer.
