Your natural flow of life energy is harmonized by this subtle form of acupressure. Based on pulse listening and light touch, the Art of Jin Shin stimulates your innate self-healing capacity. Using it as self care empowers you to help yourself.
Who are
sessions for?
     You’ll benefit most from these sessions if you want to...
  • regulate your nervous system and harmonize your overall energy flow
  • restore the innate capacity of your body to relax and self-heal
  • address fatigue and regenerate your kidney-adrenal system
  • release stress and experience more ease and well being
  • live a more balanced life and commit to preventative health care

"I came with an inquisitive mind, to see if this approach was valid for me
- it passed all the tests!" ~ L.M.
The Art of
Jin shin

This subtle form of body work and self-care practice is also known as the ancient Eastern technique of Jin Shin Jyutsu. It derives from Japan and is sometimes referred to as the 'grandmother of acupuncture'. It is informed by pulse listening and based on twenty-six acupressure sites on each side of the body. These are held in different combinations or 'flows' to restore the circulation of energy along the extra-ordinary meridian lines of our body.

According to the holistic approach of Jin Shin, all our experiences have an impact on our emotional and energetic systems. These affect our physical body. Challenging experiences are stored in our energy field, nervous system and connective tissue and may manifest in all sorts of imbalances. Our bodies keep the score.

At the same time, our bodies also hold the blueprint to healing and integration.

And, energy work, such as the Art of Jin shin, can help with this by restoring the energy flow around our body and taking us into a deep spaces of relaxation. All this can activate the natural healing ability of our body and catalyze our innate recovery process.

When the natural flow of life energy comes into balance, energy blocks - physically manifesting as dis-ease, tension, fatigue, anxiety, aches and pains - can be released. Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual issues - "projects rather than problems" as master Jin Shin Jyutsu teacher Mary Burmeister insisted - can be addressed to bring us into healthier rhythms.

Self-care lies at the heart of the Art of Jin Shin. It emphasises the gentle and progressive, rather than 'quick-fix' nature of this system. Treatments can help to jump start recovery and activate a greater sense of well being.

This can be consolidated further by regular self care at home. Your personal commitment is essential and empowers you to direct your own journey of coming more and more into balance.
The TARA
Approach
"In healing from shock and  trauma, the resolution is always a restoration of Soul (Essence) and the activation of Spirit (Action) in the service of Essence."

Stephanie Mines, PhD,
​founder of the TARA Approach
The TARA Approach (acronym for Tools for Awakening Resources and Awareness) integrates the ancient Eastern technique of Jin Shin with developments in Western neuro-sciences to offer specific tools for the recovery from shock and trauma. Its primary objective is to unburden our nervous system. 

The response of our body to shock and trauma can have long-term effects and chronic conditions are frequently a way for our body to adapt.

The TARA approach offers one precious and clinically-tested resource to address these conditions by way of gentle touch (the Art of Jin Shin) and sensitive dialogue (a Rediscovery journey) to stimulate self-healing. This combination means that both our pre-frontal cortex (enabling mindfulness) and brain-stem (responding to touch) are engaged to re-calibrate our nervous system.

In essence, the TARA Approach aims to uproot causative conditions of imbalance - rather than merely focusing on symptoms - so as to regenerate and restore us to the core.

Importantly, the TARA Approach is an integrative paradigm. It is a valuable complement to bio-medicine, but not intended to substitute medical care or to replace the need for comprehensive professional assistance.

For a video introducing the TARA Approach - click here.

For Stephanie Mines' book The Secret of Resilience - which describes the origins and essence of the TARA Approach - click here.
Online offerings
Individual
 sessions & retreats
    Would you like a tailor made self-care routine to support you further?

     In an individual online Art of Jin Shin session we engage with coaching tools to
  • identify what you would most like to nourish in your life and
  • what Jin Shin points and flows might best serve you with this focus
"I felt put at ease from the start (not always easy over a video link) and was able to relax and easily connect. Practising the specific Art of Jin Shin points and sequences during the session allowed me to experience their effectiveness and this has helped me apply them since." ~ H.K.
Group
self care
sessions
You may also want to join our on-going online self-care practice group.

We look at practical applications of the Art of Jin Shin to harmonise our life energy, to boost our immune system and to address common ailments such as stress, fatigue, headaches, insomnia etc.

This drop-in group meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month from 5 - 6 pm UK time. A second class with the same focus and content happens alternate Thursdays from 11am - 12pm.

You are welcome to attend either - or both at no extra charge!
"I love coming. This is a meditation group for me
- a body-centred meditation group." ~ J. M.

"I have found these sessions to be a refuge of tranquility in this time of stress and anxiety, and an hour of peace from everyday cares." ~ L.PG.
Interested?
In Person offerings
Treatments
& retreats
I offer Jin Shin / TARA Approach sessions and retreats in Forres - Moray, Scotland.

Positive change can generally be expected within three treatments. The total number of treatments required will vary widely depending on the nature and lifetime of your symptoms (longer term symptoms usually take longer to resolve). Dependent on your condition, sessions may be recommended at anything from twice-weekly to monthly intervals.

A free consultation can be offered - either by telephone or in person - in order to establish if and how the Art of Jin Shin may help you.

The initial consultation and treatment typically last from 60 to 90 minutes - including time for a comprehensive assessment of your current condition.

Subsequent treatments last 50 minutes plus time for a brief check in at the outset and end.

During the session you rest fully clothed on the treatment table. The work is hands-on and involves gentle contact with different energy points on your body. Sessions end with a short check-in and it is valuable to allow for unstructured integration time afterwards to make the most of your treatment.

Simple self-care applications to take home allow you to further consolidate  the impact of each session.

"The jumper-cabler [practitioner] is only a spectator.
The individual is the one to heal themselves." 

~ Mary Burmeister