Workshops
Summer Season Workshops with Claire Gilliver - August 2026
‘Learn Shiatsu, practice Qigong - good for your body, good for your soul’
The Unity Centre, 35 Friars Walk, Lewes BN7 2LG
Cost £25 per person, per 2 hr workshop
Start time / Finish time: 2.30 - 4.30 pm
Contact Claire, to book your place on any of the above three workshops:
shiatsu.clairegilliver@gmail.com
07951 170637
Shiatsu Workshop : Saturday 1st August
‘Summer Heart Connection’
Qigong & Meditation Workshop : Saturday 15th August
‘Summer Heart Fire & Cooling’
Shiatsu Workshop : Saturday 29th August
‘Late Summer Earth Balance’
The perfect time of year to work with the ‘Fire Phase’ of summer-time. Connect to your Heart spirit,creating calmness and inner peace.
Saturday 1st August
Feel the support of harvest-time ‘Earth Phase’. Build that feeling of ‘safety and contentment’ within yourbalanced self.
Saturday 29th August
Sharing the Principles of Shiatsu Technique & Approach, experiencing & learning to give simple safe Shiatsu to friends and family. Working with presence, posture and breath and aiming to develop body and emotional awareness for connectedness in practicing & receiving Shiatsu. Also touching on an introduction to the Classical Meridian System and use of some major acupressure points. The workshop starts with warm-up exercises: ‘Do-in’ Japanese exercises & Qi-Gong. We will be working on futons on the floor. Translated, Shiatsu means ‘Finger Pressure’ – based in ancient Chinese medicine, Shiatsu is a Japanese refined complementary body work therapy, connecting with Ki (Qi) on multi vibrational levels. All Shiatsu is given & received fully clothed – please wear loose, comfortable, well covering clothes suitable for movement & bring clean socks to wear. All levels of experience are welcome from beginners to well practiced. Join us for these peaceful, mind calming, soul lifting and tension releasing workshops. We will break briefly for refreshments.
Summer workshop of Qigong with Meditation.
Saturday 15th August
Qigong is an Ancient Eastern Art form. It promotes healing through mind & body development. Using gentle rhythmical movement ‘forms’ to encourage your Qi and imagination to flow. Entwining yourself within nature. This workshop also explores breath work, vibrational chanting & meditation; whilst building core strength, flexibility, balance, endurance & auto-immunity.
Spend time getting lost in movement, inviting your body to centre and expand, inviting your mind to get lost in a Qigong ‘bubble’ of ‘meditative magic’ and ending with a 20 – minute ‘led’ meditation. Lying down for some peaceful presence & re-balancing of your mind & soul.
This summer workshop, through the movement of qigong forms, embraces our more Yang ‘Summer Heart Fire’ Energy, where we then gently change ‘tack’ into the more Yin ‘Water Phase’ Energy to bring us to a flowing state of cool calmness, ready for a deeply relaxing and ‘emptying’ water-based meditation. We will break briefly for refreshments.
‘Learn Shiatsu, practice Qigong - good for your body, good for your soul’.
Connect with the Fire Phase of summer-time. Build your Heart spirit. Feel the
support of harvest-time Earth Phase. Be held in a Shiatsu&Qigong 'bubble' for
a couple of hours this August.
Original artwork by Claire Gilliver
Original artwork by Claire Gilliver
Previous Workshops
Dancing Qi
Currents in the air - March 2026
A Movement Medicine dance and Qigong collaborative workshop with Claire Gilliver and Kate Abolins.
Landing for a day of embodied presence, mystery and play.
We invite you to dive in for the day to explore and attune to our inner landscape and the space between us. Gathering energetic awareness through ancient qigong forms and letting it flow into our natural instinct to dance - supported by incredible music from around the world. As a Qigong and a Movement Medicine teacher we are interested in transitions; we will be offering sessions in our distinct modalities and inviting exploration and play in the spaces between.
Original artwork by Claire Gilliver
The Shiatsu College Retreat - April 2026
Puffer Fish & Beyond
An invite to enliven your Shiatsu routines with varied flow, expansion and pace. All your favourite moves. Explore your inner Puffer Fish. Bring ample padding to support your ‘partner receiver’ to get comfy in all positions. We will warm up with a little qigong first.
Puffer Fish Star Burst
Crocodile Baguette Toothpaste
Dragon Smooth Butter
Forest Bathing
Forest Bathing translates as ‘Shinrin Yoku’ in Japan. An experience of total relaxation: a time to breath deeply, be still, stop talking, smell nature, touch the textures and listen to the sounds of the forest. Join me for an hour of therapeutic, stress reducing, immunity boosting and mood improving calmness. Engage all your senses.
