Dawn Oei MA, Dip BSS, SrSS (T)
Shiatsu Shin Tai Practitioner and Shiatsu Teacher

Winter evening. 🍵 Aubergine tortelloni in a vegetable stock. Served with grated parmigiana. Keep your Kidneys and Adrenals warm with...

Beetroot (Beta vulgaris) is also known as red beet, table beet, garden beet, or just beet. The red 😍 of Beet. When you wake up thinking...

Autumn 🍂 is the season of shedding, clearing, releasing and letting go. It is also a time of slowing down, pausing, accepting, and...

Working with moxa. What is moxa? Moxa is the dried, powdered leaf of artemisia or mugwort. It comes in two forms: loose powder and the...

Thinking about the Yu points: meridian pathways that lie on either side of the spine that make up the Bladder meridian. These...

A quiet moment with a Chai Latte. I am giving my bones a massage, working slowly and gently on the bone fascia and around the joints in...

Some thoughts about bones 🦴. BONES Hold memory, trauma and shock. Bone deep, our Essence (associated with the Kidney and Bladder...

When treating clients, I am often drawn to Small Intestine 9, 10, 11 and 12 meridian points near the shoulders and shoulder blades...

I love Shiatsu. A client said to me: "Relaxation, ease and harmony dictate how my health is. These Shiatsu sessions reset my system."...

🌟 STOP PRESS 🌟 ONLINE SHIATSU LEARNING WITH MOVEMENT AND BREATH 💫 My course on The Five Lights Center online learning platform is...

We can learn so much from our clients when they share how they experience their treatments: it raises the resonance of how we as...

Covid times have brought family and friends across the world closer. It has made me realise what my priorities are. Living each day in...

Event: 18th Global Shiatsu Virtual Gathering (8th August 2020) organised by The Five Lights Center I led the group through a...

Our mother, Julie, 85, is still working behind the scenes. Her unconditional love for me and my older sisters is immense. She has...

INTRODUCTION TO PROPRIOCEPTION Proprioception is the body’s ability to perceive its own position in space. The Proprioceptive System is...

I live a stone’s throw from Edinburgh’s Portobello Beach and Promenade. The beach is crowded every day: people in flip flops eating...

Earlier this week, a situation made me feel sad and I became slightly ungrounded. My mind state or monkey mind very quickly spread a...

24 March 2020: What a strange time we are all living in and experiencing right now. Who could have foreseen that our lives would alter in...

4 April: I left my flat at 5.45pm and walked to nearby Brighton Park in Portobello, Edinburgh. The street is quiet. I take a few photos...

There is a Tao practice that works with the energy of trees. The past year has been challenging on the emotional front. I have had to let...