HealthTouch1.co.uk
Title
Health Touch - Therapeutic Massage
Description
eirdre brings to her work a broad range of experience and knowledge gained from more than thirty years in the fields of health, nutrition and exercise. In 1990 she returned to the U.K., after spending seventeen years in the U.S.A., where she received formal training in Therapeutic Massage and related disciplines. Currently she is in private practice in Southwest London.
In the early 70's, Deirdre studied Yoga in the U.S.A., Canada, and the Bahamas with Swami Vishnudevananda at the Sivananda Ashrams. After achieving her Teacher Training qualification, she returned to London to start a Yoga studio, teaching Hatha Yoga and Meditation.
Deirdre subsequently moved to the U.S.A. to open "Sunshine Herbs", in Ashland, Oregon, a shop specialising in medicinal herbs and natural health products. For seven years she acted as an adviser on alternative health care and nutrition, in close collaboration with local physicians. She studied anatomy and physiology at Southern Oregon State College, gained an Oregon State License in Massage Therapy from the Oregon School of Massage. She trained under Jack Schwarz, a world-renowned authority of voluntary controls and human energy systems, at the Aletheia Institute of Massage & Psycho-physical Studies where she completed the following courses: 'The dynamic relationship between the immune system, intuition and human energy', 'Energy in motion with light, colour and sound', 'The psychological dimensions of massage' and 'Exploring the paraconscious'. She was invited to join the staff at the Institute's Massage School, teaching Sports, and Therapeutic Massage. For three years she gave hydrotherapy and massage treatments, as part of a team running the Institute's three day Personal Health Training courses.
