Very best wishes to all at Tay Medispa!

I've been getting so busy with my gardening work, (and really enjoying it), that I'm going to give up one of my therapy days to free up more time for the outdoor life. So I'd like to say a big cheerio to all my friends at Tay Medispa, it's been lots of fun working there with my old friend Lesley Quinn and making new friends, especially Simon and Blanche. I know our working paths will come together in some way in the future and I'm looking forward to that!

Good luck all at Tay Medispa and see you very soon!

I am available on Mondays at Gareth Magee's clinic, just round the corner from Medispa in Caledonian Road. I'm also delighted to make local house calls - I know a lot of people find it difficult to travel. Either way, please just get in touch:by text or phone: 07450 332 430
or email: ianecowatt@gmail.com

First Perth Chi Kung Plus Class

Thanks for your company everyone who came to the first class here in Perth last night, what a great bunch you are! Next class is in two weeks time, the 21st March, see you then. Inspire is a very friendly place and brilliant for teaching with its mirror wall, which makes it possible to demonstrate a move and watch people at the same time.
As well stretching and the personal and interpersonal energy work I had planned, I slipped in the Short Short Tai Chi form which I developed while I was helping Steve Jones to run and teach his Sector39 Permaculture courses back down in Shropshire.

Birth of the Short Short Form in Treflach Farmyard

Steve is really an afternoon-evening person whereas I'm more of a morning one, so it worked out well to fit in some Tai Chi before classes started, and the students found it really helpful. The courses were just two weeks long so there wasn't time to teach a full form - I learned the Cheng Man Ching Sort Form, which even though "short" still takes weeks and weeks to learn. My Short Short Form is a condensed version of it which you can pick up quite quickly but still has a lot of the basic elements and movements. You would find it a good start if you ever went on to learn a full form but will still give lots of benefits just on its own.

Movement in Stillness

One of the first things we learn in CranioSacral Therapy is Stillpoint Induction, bringing about a temporary pause in the craniosacral rhythm through light touch and focused intention.

Into the stillness,"Three Worlds", by Escher

It's a therapeutic moment for the release of restriction and readjustment, and patients find it very relaxing.

Integrated Healthcare

All of us complementary therapists working here at Tay Medispa in Perth, Scotland, have been talking a lot about integrated healthcare - how to work even better together as a team at our clinic, and about how to link up with the other complementary therapists and clinics in and around Perth. And above all, how to get better communication going with all the people working here in the NHS, (for readers outside the UK, the NHS is our wonderful welfare state national health service), so that people know much more about what health support is available, how each service can help and when the various different treatments are most appropriate.

MUTUAL SUPPORT - by working together, the individual members of the reciprocating roof enable the whole structure to cover a very wide space with no central supporting post

We seem to be in a strange situation at the moment, having a mostly over stretched NHS and mostly under utilised complementary sector. I heard recently of people waiting two years for operations in this country - I'm sure that at least some of those people could be treated successfully with complementary therapy, gentler on all systems and available immediately. I offer a free initial 30 minute consultation, a great opportunity to find out more about CranioSacral Therapy and whether it might help you, to see the clinic and to find out about all the other treatments available at Medispa.
So I guess I'm going to carry on meeting up with people, opening the channels, giving demos and talks and generally explaining what we do.
TOPICS COMING SOON: A few tales from my own experiences of giving and receiving healthcare, NHS and complementary, the best and the worst.