Welcome to Equipoise Shiatsu & Acupuncture

Equipoise Shiatsu & Acupuncture is run by Rose Brown and operates from Colchester, Essex. Shiatsu & Acupuncture are complementary therapies available for people and/or horses. Rose trained and qualified in 2005 with the British School of Shiatsu-Do and is registered as an approved Practitioner with the Acupuncture-Acupressure Council (AcuC).  Rose has also been independently assessed by the Equine Shiatsu Association (tESA) as an approved Equine Shiatsu Practitioner. In 2018 Rose has become a fully qualified Acupuncturist, following a years intensive study including 140 practice treatments, with Bodyharmonics.  Acupuncture is only available for people (only qualified vets are allowed to do acupuncture on animals), but Rose is also able to offer ‘acumagnets’ for horses, the benefits are similar to that of acupuncture but no needles are used.

Shiatsu (prounounced shee at su) is a Japanese therapy, the translation actually means ‘finger pressure’.  It is often described as originating from acupuncture, a Chinese therapy that dates back thousands of years – stone needles have been found at Neolithic sites dating from 8,000 BC.  In modern times (within the past 100 years), this has been combined with the Japanese physiotherapy / massage therapy called Anma – this has formed the therapy system of Shiatsu. Shiatsu uses a combination of Five Element, Traditional Chinese medicine and Zen Theories. The Practitioner accesses Qi (Prana in Ayurvedic medicine) within the bodies’ meridians by using touch in the form of massage, stretching, physiotherapy techniques and pressure.

Acupuncture is a system of inserting fine disposible needles based on theory from Traditional Chinese Medicine.  There are a number of techniques used to diagnose a ‘disharmony’ and the relevant acupuncture points are used to re-harmonise the bodies energetics, Qi.