Sei-Ki. Touching Space | London

Alice Whieldon is coming to London for a 2.5 day Sei-Ki workshop.

Sei-Ki is not a technique but an approach to life – emptiness in action. It is touch at its simplest and most profound. Clients experience a coming home to themselves, releasing old tensions, finding they can breathe again.

Sei-Ki takes us to a place beyond ‘therapy’ to where the ordinariness of simple human touch becomes a Zen discipline.

Sei-Ki is a new lineage coming out of Shiatsu. Its founder, Kishi Akinobu, a master of Shiatsu, experienced a profound awakening to truth in 1980. Out of this, Sei-Ki was born.

You do not have to be trained in Shiatsu to join us. This workshop for anyone interested in:

• Developing fine skills in manual therapy
• Listening closely to how the body wants to be touched; called tekiatsu in Shiatsu
• Exploring manual therapy as a way of life for the practitioner in addition to being a therapeutic approach for the client
• Learning to be more open and neutral in receiving the client
• Drawing from Zen to refine our understanding of what helps
• Stilling the busy mind to see how things really are

If you are a Shiatsu practitioner, we invite you to come along. You do not have to abandon Shiatsu to appreciate and be inspired by Sei-Ki. You can catch a flavour of the Japanese roots of Shiatsu through the lens of Sei-Ki.

As a student of Sei-Ki, since the Way of Touch is grounded in beginners mind, whether you are a newcomer or old hand, you will find much to enjoy and learn.

Alice Whieldon is an experienced presenter in Sei-Ki, Clearing and the Humanities. With her guidance, you will explore this skilled touch therapy in a safe environment and benefit from her wide experience.

Alice is the Director of Sei-Ki Hub, founded with two friends and dedicated to furthering Sei-Ki as a profession and community. With Kishi Akinobu, she is co-author of Sei-Ki: Life in Resonance 2011. She is also author of Clearing: the key to mindfulness mastery 2016 and teaches internationally.

Teaching approach

Demonstration is crucial to picking up the ‘feel’, qualities and basic form of Sei-Ki through active observation and, where possible, experiencing the direct touch of the instructor or assistant.

Practice is central to learning Sei-Ki. Guidance in the form of kata (exercises) will be given, as well as time to freely explore with the benefit of gentle supervision.

Discussion in the form of Q&A sessions and short talks to help students understand core principles in Sei-Ki.

For whom

This Sei-Ki workshop is open to participants with and without Sei-Ki experience. It can be an important milestone for anyone with an interest in Sei-Ki:

• for those who have found their “home” in practicing Sei-Ki and would like to continue to pursue Sei-Ki as their Way, as well as
• for Shiatsu practitioners to gain inspiration from Sei-Ki, and
• it is also a workshop for people without a professional bodywork background who are curious about Sei-Ki, who want to strengthen their own sensitivity and who are keen to experience themselves in a new way, also in a dialog of touch with others.

Sign up for the workshop

We are happy that you’d like to participate in Alice Whieldon’s ‘Sei-Ki. Touching Space’ workshop in London (29-31 January, 2027).
Please fill out the form below to sign up. Thank you!
If you have any questions, please get in touch with us.