Zen School of Shiatsu - Information and photographs explaining training courses from introductory through to full practitioner qualification.
Shiatsu College - Basic information about practitioner training courses and post-graduate education.
The Devon School of Shiatsu - [Totnes] Details of introductory weekends, three year part time practitioner training and postgraduate courses at this countryside location.
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Training "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Training
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Training If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Training
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Training Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Training
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Training A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Training
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Training Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Training A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Training
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Training What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Training
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Training He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Training
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Training The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Training
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Training "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Training
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Training A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Training
