Zen Shiatsu Tucson

Kris Schaefer, CMT has practiced Zen Shiatsu since graduating from the Chicago School of Massage Therapy in 1987, ; having pieced together private, semi-private mentoral practical and theoretical training, through the current day, with practitioner-teachers Geoffrey Beach, Mathew Sweigart, Rosa Schnyer, Leslie McGee, Lindy Ferringno, Ping Lee, Patricia Singer and Yoshi Nakano. For the first few years of her practice, Kris lived and taught simple yogic breath awareness and whole foods cooking at the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Glenview. Illinois.  In 1994 she was asked to lead teach Zen Shiatsu Technique and coordinate the then 500 hour Shiatsu Training Program for The Desert Institute of the Healing Arts in Tucson, helping bring it to a 750 hour program by 1999.  When Providence Institute opened its doors in Jan/February 2000, Kris was hired to teach shiatsu technique for its 1200 hour combined Shiatsu and Massage Body Therapy Training Program and carried the lead instructor role through the programs final class in 2008.  Kris has always maintained some form of private practice, for which giving treatment sessions in a serene environment, teaching and developing Zen Shiatsu curriculum has become a richer life practice. Her vision for life as a practitioner is shaped by natural rhythms of self-care, working, playing, resting, reflecting, and nourishing, along with an ever-deepening tai-ji and vigorous martial arts practice.  To her delight, Kris has discovered through clinical practice and the study of classical Chinese medical theory, that her life's expression of inner truth reveals and proves itself over and over again. She is currently offering treatment at zen shiatsu TUCSON craniosacral, along with Jeff Rogers.

 

   Patrick Heacock has been studying Zen Shiatsu since 2005, graduating from the Providence Institute's 650 hour program in Tucson, Arizona.  Immediately after graduation, he began assisting in the classroom for Shiatsu intro classes in both the full-time day, and part-time evening massage programs offered at the institute.  He has remained an avid student of the practice, assisting and teaching in two other Zen Shiatsu programs through Providence, and lead instructing the first session Meridian Theory class of the pilot Shiatsu program at the Asian Institute of Medical Studies.  Also following his graduation, Patrick was hired as a private therapist at the Providence Institute, working there for four years.  The summer of 2008 saw the opening of Patrick's private practice, Shen Bodyworks, at the Southwest Therapeutic Bodywork center.  His practice has since moved to Kimon Wellness, joining Don Lightner LAc, Heather Walker LMT, and Jennifer Fordney LMT in promoting health and wellness at their appointment only clinic.   He also holds a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts, from the University of Arizona, with emphases in Classics, Asian Humanities, and Religious Studies.