Nicola Ley 
​​Nicola is one of the founders of the Shiatsu College. Currently she is passionate about teaching people who want to teach Shiatsu and Qigong - ways to make that really effective.

She is also an artist and makes work about the energy of Shiatsu and Qigong. She loves to make ‘energy portraits’, which are often a watercolour of a person’s energy on an etching of the central channels. Since completing an MA in art she has worked on this theme in her studio and is also returning to her old love of botanical work. www.artofshiatsu.wordpress.com

Profile: Alice Whieldon, MA PhD SFHEA MRSS(T)
​Alice has spent her life researching the keys to what helps in finding fulfilment and acting less from old traumas and patterns.  In 1985 she came across Shiatsu and it was this work, along with the Enlightenment Intensives, that struck particularly strong chords for her.  She has remained a student of both disciplines ever since.

In 1997, she also met Kishi Akinobu, internationally renowned Shiatsu master, however, in 1980, Kishi began to develop his work in a new direction called Seiki  which is within the Shiatsu tradition and a development of that work. When Alice met Kishi she recognised the key she was looking for.  When in 2008 Alice suggested they write a book together, Kishi was keen on the idea and Sei-ki: Life in Resonance, The Secret Art of Shiatsu was published in 2011. Kishi died in 2012 but Alice continues to work with Seiki. 

​She has also spent time training in and practicing Mind Clearing.  Mind Clearing is based, like Seiki, on the principle that there is an essential person that is not the mind and not the body.  In 2016 her book, Mind Clearing: the key to mindfulness mastery was published by Singing Dragon, London and Philadelphia.

Profile: Dinah John BA MRSS(T), Shiatsu Practitioner and Principal of The Shiatsu College Norwich
Originally an English graduate who taught English at Language schools in Cambridge and for a year in Sudan, Dinah was introduced to Shiatsu by Clifford Andrews in 1985 and has studied with and worked alongside him since then. Dinah is a popular teacher, invited regularly to schools on the Continent as well as in the UK, where her clarity of presentation, breadth of experience and her enthusiasm are widely appreciated. Dinah is the principal of the Shiatsu College Norwich.  Dinah has taught along with the founder teachers on Shiatsu College Post-Graduate CPD courses for many years and is also a long-standing editor of the Shiatsu Society Newsletter.