Tamsin Grainger

Tamsin Grainger trained as a dancer at the Laban Centre in London and worked as a Dance Animateur and Dance Artist in Residence in the Forest of Dean, Bristol, Cardiff and Edinburgh (UK). She qualified as a Shiatsu practitioner in 1992 and has had a thriving practice for over 25 years. Establishing The Shiatsu School Edinburgh in 2000, she is now known internationally as a Shiatsu activist and teacher, presenting her work on Shiatsu with babies and children, for cancer/ME/IBS/MS, and in the area of death and loss. Her first book, ‘Working with Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice, a holistic guide to bodywork in palliative care’ was published by Singing Dragon (Hachette) in the UK and the US in August 2020, and contains her accumulated years of experience in this field. She has just returned from presenting her work on grief at the European Shiatsu Congress in Amsterdam, Netherlands.