Creative Changes

Gill Porter Dip H.S.E.C.

Extend Exercise Teacher.
Shiatsu Practitioner.

In Bristol
and the South West.

Telephone: 0117 923 7439

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or email to gillporter@btinternet.com

For the last sixteen years I have been practicing Shiatsu in Hospitals, Community Homes for Social Services and Care Trusts, in Colleges and Centres, also privately, including Neal’s Yard Therapy Centre.

I continued with post graduate Shiatsu work and qualified as a Feng Shui Practitioner. I also obtained an Adult Teaching Certificate, a basic Counselling Skills Certificate, and trained and worked as an Advocate, facilitating groups and working with individuals.

Since graduating in Shiatsu I have run groups for shiatsu/relaxation/chill out sessions with People with Learning Disabilities and Mental Health issues, and the Elderly.

I have run Women’s creative mid-life workshops (with three women friends – an artist, an aromatherapist and a shiatsu practitioner).

I also helped in an Organic walled garden in Dorset with Therapeutic Horticulture: working with people with learning disabilities and mental health needs, to grow vegetables and sell them via a veg box scheme and an organic local bakery.

More recently I took a course with Extend to learn to teach exercises to older people and people with disabilities and health issues. Now teaching classes in Bristol in Day Centres (Henbury and Whitehall) and open classes for active older people in and around Redland, Clifton and Henleaze.

My interests and what is important to me include – my family and being with my two grandchildren! Being outdoors gardening/walking/finding and making things with driftwood and stones; foraging for hedgerow produce, wild food and medicinal plants. Keeping mind, body and spirit fit with Yoga/Tibetan Exercises/Meditation/singing/chanting and Sudoku!

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about Shiatsu sessions or coming to my Extend classes.

Tel: 0117 9237439 or email to gillporter@btinternet.com