Shiatsu & Thai Massage Training Scotland

Lucy Trend offers specialist pregancy massage, Shiatsu, and doula birth support services in Glasgow. She is a doula and a trained Well Mother teacher, also offering post graduate training courses for Shiatsu & Massage therapists, Midwives, Doulas, and OBGs in Massage, Shiatsu and Moxibustion.

Fertility & Pregnancy – Shiatsu is a form of Japanese Acupressure which has been used to support women’s reproductive health for thousands of years. At conception and during pregnancy a woman’s deeper  reservoirs of energy are drawn upon to prepare her body  to support her growing baby. Shiatsu enhances the flow of this energy, promoting fertility, benefiting all  stages of pregnancy, contributing to a positive birth experience and on through to post natal and baby treatment. 

Treatments are safe, and valuable throughout the childbearing year from conception through to the postnatal period. Shiatsu can help support women with management of common difficulties such as:

•  Pelvic girdle pain & instability (SPD)
•  Sacral, Pelvic & uterine asymmetry
•  Back Pain
•  Breech position 
•  Nausea & acid reflux
•  morning sickness
•  oedema
•  restless legs & fatigue
•  Past due dates – “Overdue”
•  Problems conceiving
•  Problems carrying to term
•  Recovery after miscarriage
•  Post-natal recovery including scar healing after c-section

Lucy offers a combination of treatments as required in each individual circumstance. Drawing from her skills in Shiatsu, Massage, Myofascial Release, Moxibustion, Yoga, Mindfulness, and Visualisation. She is very aware that as well as physical relaxation and an optimum position for the baby, mental relaxation and confidence in ourselves are very important factors for promoting a positive and enjoyable pregnancy. She aims to promote a sense of being supported, grounded and embodied in yourself, which can contribute to a more self-determined labour, birth and postnatal bonding experience. During sessions she may, with your permission, use mindfulness and visualisation, with women (and their partners) where appropriate. She is also specialised in post natal recovery, c section scar work, and birth trauma recovery techniques.

Scar healing after C-section – my massage style is very much about working to reconnect the energy meridians across the scar, and also working with the fascia to facilitate functional healing of the tissues beneath the skin and within the pelvis, as well as around the scar itself. I have also worked during infection, before full healing, working off the body and energy work.

Treatments are 1 hour £52

“After treatment with Lucy my son turned from breach position and I was  able to have a beautiful, natural birth” Thea & Ranolf  (pictured below)

Shiatsu Birth Preparation Workshop for mothers and their birth partners (individual couples or as a group workshop).

This workshop introduces the pregnant woman  and her birth partner/s to skills for creating a positive and  supported birth experience. Labour positions and basic  shiatsu techniques are simple to learn and easy to use  both in hospital and at home. Please enquire about details as these classes are scheduled according to demand. (Individual sessions are 2 hours £65, or group sessions are 3 hours, £52 per mother (inc. supporter/s.)

Doula services:
Lucy is available as a doula birth partner. She studied Shiatsu for pregnancy and childbirth with Susanne Yates in Bristol and has experience of supporting women in labour as a doula and as a Shiatsu practitioner both in hospital and in their own environment. She has also attended doula training with Michel Odent & Liliana Lamers (of Paramana Doula).