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SeiKi Hub was established in 2024 to promote SeiKi and support those on the Way of Touch.
It stands in service to SeiKi, students of SeiKi and a world in need of human touch. Its purpose is to build community and offer training and is open to anyone looking for the support of a skilled, experienced team and the companionship of a community dedicated to this art and to hara culture in general.
SeiKi Hub was initiated by Dr. Alice Whieldon and founded together with Alexandra Gelny and Maria Kokori.
Alice works in the lineage of the founder, Kishi Akinobu, having worked closely with him and co-authoring Sei-Ki: Life in Resonance. She has been presenting SeiKi workshops for 25+ years. Alexandra and Maria have both been dedicated to SeiKi for 15+ years and bring a wealth of experience to this work.
Sei-Ki has been defined in various ways. It is therapeutic bodywork; it is full engagement in life; a fresh take on health with roots in Zen. As such, it is ancient wisdom that stands in the present with a view to the future; it is a revolution in touch. By any definition, the world needs more of it.
From the receiver’s viewpoint, SeiKi is powerful, deep, therapeutic bodywork. Performed by a skilled practitioner it is deeply relaxing and restorative, typically resulting in the easing of emotional, mental and physical dis-ease.
From the practitioner’s point of view, it is the Way of Touch; a Zen art in the Shiatsu lineage of Kishi Akinobu. It requires commitment to self-development and service; the cultivation of calm, of wisdom and mu-shin (no mind) in addition to mastering skilled touch and safe hands.
More about Sei-Ki
Sei-Ki is a Zen art, it is the Way of Touch. As with any such art, training takes time and commitment.
Sei-Ki workshops offer a good way into exploring and practricing the Art.
All levels of experience are welcome at most Sei-Ki workshops.
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The Sei-Ki Training is an intensive immersion year with the aim of giving participants a solid foundation in the work.
Like a Sei-Ki session, it is dynamic and responsive and will evolve over time.
Read moreThe Sei-Ki Hub is a space for people who love Sei-Ki and the “container” for The Sei-Ki Training. It extends a warm invitation to students of Sei-Ki, the Way of Touch and those curious about it.
Alice began her Shiatsu training with The Shiatsu College, London, in 1991, graduating in 1994 and gaining her Shiatsu teaching qualification in 1997. She worked with Kishi from 1998 until his death in 2012 and is co-author of Sei-Ki: Life in Resonance [2011, Kishi & Whieldon, Singing Dragon]. She has been presenting Sei-Ki workshops for over 20 years’ and is an experienced teacher in other fields, including Clearing, exercise and at degree level in the Arts and Humanities. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and author of Mind Clearing [2016, Jessica Kingsley].
Alexandra has been on her Sei-Ki Path since 2011, first studying directly with Kishi Akinobu, then with Kishi Kyoko and, since 2017, studying and collaborating with Alice Whieldon. She’s committed to Sei-Ki and to sharing classical Sei-Ki in a sincere and professional manner which is adequate to the Way. She contributes to The Sei-Ki Training with her commitment Sei-Ki and her expertise as a (shiatsu) teacher, life coach, organizer and passionate communicator.
Maria began her journey to Sei-Ki attending her first workshop in 2010 with Kishi Akinobu.
Since 2016, she has attended several workshops with Kishi Kyoko and she has studied Sei-Ki and Mind Clearing with Alice Whieldon regularly. She has been practising Sei-Ki since 2018 and Mind Clearing since 2021. Since skills training and self-development are her main interest, she is also trained in ‘Person Centered Therapy and Focusing as a life skill’ approach.
Her commitment and contribution to The Sei-Ki Training is through sharing her interest and experience from her continuous journey to Sei-Ki and the adventure of self-discovering and self-development.
