Lucy Trend founded Shiatsu and Thai Massage Training Scotland in Glasgow in 1998, offering training in Shiatsu, Traditional Thai Therapies and Mindfulness. She holds a lifelong interest in somatic practices, with a deep curiosity about embodied experience both through stillness and touch, and through movement within the environment. Her past background is in dance performance and movement therapy. Lucy Trend is a teacher level Fellow of the Shiatsu Society (FwSS), a member of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC – the Department of Health recommended regulatory body), and the Mindfulness Association. She holds a Masters degree in Studies in Mindfulness from Aberdeen University.
Lucy offers one to one treatments to a broad spectrum of clients including musicians, dancers, athletes, people with special needs, and she provides well-being services in the workplace. She offers training courses from beginners level through to qualification level, and on to advanced level studies. Students who attend courses range from those curious to learn a few techniques to share with friends and family, to professional therapists and yoga teachers wishing to deepen their skills, and also people coming in from other disciplines and wishing to change career.
Lucy trained to teach mindfulness meditation with the Mindfulness Association (UK). She offers mindfulness based self-development training and workplace team building for private and public sector organisations across Scotland including Diageo, NHS Glasgow and 3D Drumchapel.
She qualified as a Shiatsu therapist in Montreal, Canada in 1996 and has been practicing and teaching Shiatsu in Glasgow since 1997. In the years 2000 & 2009 she travelled to Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand to study traditional Thai massage and herbal medicine with Surin Janpanet, a retired monk who trained in the temple, sadly now deceased. She continues her professional development including study of derivative therapies such as Myofascial Release, Cranio-sacral therapy, Dynamic Thai Massage, and Osteo-Thai but firmly believes the wisdom of the ancient therapies that developed over thousands of years runs deep, and she honours that basis in her treatments and teaching.
Lucy is a specialist in pregnancy, fertility, post natal and baby. She is a doula (trained with Michel Odent and Liliana Lammers) and a trained Well Mother teacher, also offering post graduate training courses for Complementary Therapists, Midwives, Doulas & OBGs, in Massage, Shiatsu and Moxibustion. From 2012-2020 she was active in the Positive Birth movement.
Enquiries: info@stmts.co.uk
TESTIMONIALS:
“Lucy is a great practitioner and teacher and I highly recommend her” Edinburgh Shiatsu Centre
“The best massage I have ever had!” Evening Times
“After treatment with Lucy my son turned from breach position and I was able to have a beautiful, natural birth” Thea & Ranolf
“A fantastically comprehensive treatment, it was great” Tim Booth (lead singer of James)
“Thank you so much for your guidance at the lunchtime Be at One mindfulness sessions which I have joined regularly. This week I felt so settled and calm after the meditation you skillfully guided. It really was nourishing and exactly what I needed. I had a training assessment afterwards and I was able to stay settled and grounded and completed it with ease. Thank you for the sharing.” Sharon McCafferty, Family Support Worker
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