About

I'm Bryn Davies my pronouns are he/him, I'm in my fifties and lead a double life. Not as a costumed superhero but I have a career as a Structural Technician which is far less adventurous that pretending to be a superhero but it pays the bills. It's a job that I have done for 30 years and I expect to continue for many more to come. Someone pointed out that there is an interesting connection between both side, which is that I work with the external structure of our lives ie buildings and the internal structure of our bodies through Shiatsu and Dance.

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In 2014 I retuned to the UK after 6 years in Australia and I need to do something new for me as I had stagnated in Australia from fear of being seen.
I had always liked massage and had been told I naturally good at it my numerous people so I found a 1 year part time course at the Bristol College of Massage & Bodywork.

I loved the course, learning lots of techniques and all about the body with brilliant teachers and a great group of fellow students.

When the year was up I wanted to learn more about working with the body and after trying a few different modalities I had an amazing experience with Shiatsu. During my first Shiatsu treatment I received  I had a vision of a fire and a man jumping around it singing and dancing, it was there in the room and when the smoke cleared I knew Shiatsu was my path.

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I studied Transformational Zen Shiatsu at the Bristol School of Shiatsu feeling confident in my bodywork skills however this training was different. Whilst there was much to learn in the first 2 years with all the meridians, points and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) there was an underlying questions about "Who are you?" and "What make you tick?"

The two main teacher Keith Philips and Paul McNicholls are both psychotherapist as well as Shiatsu practitioners with many years of experience, so the course had an edge to it. It was not just learning the techniques but also about learning who I am as a person and a therapist, it was this part of the journey that took longer than expected! In 2018 on my very last Shiatsu exam (the exam was to work on both my tutors and explain what I did and I was dreading it) and what I thought was the end of the course I discovered that I disassociate and that the disassociation was running my life and in the process of this discovery I failed the exam.

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Disassociation is a safety program from early childhood had taken over my unconscious systems to keep me safe from everything in life that could be a threat by pulling my consciousness out of my body, unfortunately what it considered a threat was daily life for the most part.

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It took 4 years of hard work to understand and heal to a point where the disassociation isn't in control. 

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In November 2022 I qualified as a Shiatsu Therapist.

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