Emma Fitzpatrick
Featured Practitioner, Emma Fitzpatrick
“There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul.
You sing like a rooster in your earth-coloured shape.
Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance”. Rumi
Shiatsu brings me into a place of presence, calms frantic emotions and allows my heart to dance and express it’s true nature!
It was while undertaking an intensive MA degree in 1994 that I first discovered the nourishment and depth of Shiatsu.
Weekly treatments helped to calm my mind, sleep better and ground me back into my body. I was hooked and was determined to train in Shiatsu! That day came while living in Edinburgh and I completed my training with TSSE in 2010. Being pregnant in my second year and having my first daughter, Lucea, in my third led to receiving a lot of treatments for pregnancy and postpartum issues and indeed to me treating a lot of expectant mothers and exhausted postpartum ones! Shiatsu accompanied me in labour too! I also took baby Shiatsu classes, worked regularly on my daughter and incorporated techniques into my practice. Once completing my diploma, I went on to assist at the school for a further three years.
Having studied and practiced in various Buddhist monasteries in Scotland, Canada, India and Nepal, for 4 years until 2001, I have an interest in settling and transforming the mind and in coming home to the wisdom of the body. Shiatsu for me helps me to settle into a meditative space. I am passionate about working to release obstacles and blockages to inner space and freedom. I have undertaken training in trauma and a workshop on SE (Somatic Experience) which has helped me to deepen my practice and understanding. With a background in Community Development and having worked in Social environments for many years, I have a knowledge and understanding of social issues that my clients come with. I have offered treatments in Women’s refuges and run Women’s well-being groups.
I originally trained in Holistic Massage in 1997, so I incorporate a lot of massage techniques into my treatments. I also have diplomas in Ear Acupuncture for detox and relaxation and for the muscular skeletal system from 2013.
I have always loved the holistic nature of Shiatsu, and I feel that it works particularly well with calming emotions and stress and in their physical manifestations in the body. Shiatsu grounds and gives perspective, so that what had bothered someone initially doesn’t seem as challenging after a treatment and equally physical pain or discomfort can more easily be dealt with when one is more relaxed and at ease. Or once the Kyo has been diagnosed and supported, the symptoms of Jitsu often ease or disappear. I also love the wisdom of the hara diagnosis, I trust the diagnosis even if it doesn’t correlate to what the client presents with. Often, the client will emerge from a session using words associated with the meridians which have been highlighted by the hara! This in turn deepens my trust in Shiatsu! I feel that treatments help to settle the client, bring them back to themselves and offer the space to express their authenticity and to dance the dance of life! As one client said to me after a treatment, “I now have a desire to say YES to life!”.
I offer individual Ear Acupuncture treatments as well as Shiatsu. In Ear Acupuncture, the whole body can be mapped in the ear, tiny needles are inserted into the ear to correspond to our emotional and physical body. They can be less painful and intrusive than body acupuncture and work well with Shiatsu. If I am giving Ear Acupuncture as a treatment, I will offer some Shiatsu to begin with. I also offer a Combo of both treatments which is very popular (half physical Shiatsu and half resting with needles in for a deeply relaxing and releasing treatment).
I work a lot with people with stress, anxiety, sleep and hormonal issues, women’s health issues, clients who are looking for ‘maintenance’, physical and emotional release and several clients who have cancer.
I aim to offer presence to my clients, a space of acceptance and ease so that they feel free to trust, deepen and release and emerge free to express their individual and authentic selves!
The recommendations I offer clients are connected to my general interests – meditation and breathing techniques, yoga stretches, nutritional suggestions and basic Shiatsu first aid techniques. I am bi-lingual and offer treatments through French. I work from a futon and a massage table.
Having lived out of Ireland for 20 years, myself and my partner and two daughters moved back to West Cork in July 2017, near Clonakilty. I offer treatments in three locations;
- Solas Clinic, 10 Sand Quay mill, Clarke street, Clonakilty, Co.Cork.
- Caring Hands Clinic, 12 Market Street, Gortnaclohy, Skibbereen, Co.Cork.
- Healing Hut, Cooscroneen, Union Hall, Co. Cork.
I do home visits and offer concessionary rates.
To book a treatment; nourishingtherapies08@gmail.com;
086 1510046.
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Often, the client will emerge from a session using words associated with the meridians which have been highlighted by the hara! This in turn deepens my trust in Shiatsu! I feel that treatments help to settle the client, bring them back to themselves and offer the space to express their authenticity and to dance the dance of life! As one client said to me after a treatment, “I now have a desire to say YES to life!”.
Call 086 1510046
I aim to offer presence to my clients, a space of acceptance and ease so that they feel free to trust, deepen and release and emerge free to express their individual and authentic selves!
Facebook: nourishingtherapieswestcork
I offer individual Ear Acupuncture treatments as well as Shiatsu. In Ear Acupuncture, the whole body can be mapped in the ear, tiny needles are inserted into the ear to correspond to our emotional and physical body.
nourishingtherapies08@gmail.com