Rose Fuhrmann PhD, MA Sport Science, CertEd, MRSS (T)

Chinese Medicine - Shiatsu - TaiJi QiGong - Voice, Breath and Energy Work

Healing from within

"...since we have come to understand that science is not a description of 'reality', but a metaphorical ordering of experience, the new science does not impugn the old. It is not a question of which view is "true" in some ultimate sense. Rather, it is a matter of which picture is more useful in guiding human affairs."

Willis Harman, Symposium on Consciousness, 1977

Healing from within happens when we listen. The practitioner needs to listen to the patient so that the patient can begin to listen to his or her own truth. While not always comfortable, it is essential that the patient engages in the process of his or her own healing.
In Shiatsu, practitioner and patient listen to the flow of energy, not just the flow of words. They both listen with body and mind. Where discomfort, disease or illness has arisen, the practitioner will have to support or direct the flow of energy and re-activate or enforce the processes of self-healing. Over a course of treatments the patient can develop a deeper understanding of these processes and how they may be supported or become distorted.

Rose Fuhrmann - a Profile

With an MA in history and sport science, a Certificate of Education and a PhD in the field of religious movements and church law, Rose came to Shiatsu with a profound academic training, longstanding teaching experience and an interest in religious and philosophical study. However, it was through Kiatsu workshops and her own health issues that she first came in contact with Chinese Medicine and Shiatsu.

Weekend Shiatsu workshops were followed by a foundation training in TCM and Shiatsu in Luzern (Switzerland) and, after having moved to England, by a three-year professional training course with the Shiatsu College in Brighton. By then she had become totally fascinated with Chinese Medicine, realising that it provides us with the most profound understanding of how physical, mental and emotional well-being can be maintained or regained and how a spiritual path can support this process. Consequently, she gave up her academic career to become a professional practitioner in the field of complementary medicine and energy work.

She worked in the Lewes Clinic for a number of years before moving her practice to her own rooms in Cooksbridge. The Garden Clinic is a relaxing place in a peaceful, lovely setting - with no parking problems.

Shiatsu Society and Shiatsu College

Rose joined the Shiatsu Society UK in 1996 and is a member of the Society's Register of professional practitioners (MRSS) and an accredited teacher with the Society (T). She was a member of the Society's Education Subcommittee between 2006 and 2009.

Once a student at the Shiatsu College, Brighton branch, she is now a member of the teaching team of the college, teaching mostly at its Hastings branch.

Meditation and TaiJi QiGong

Rose joined the Tibetan Buddhist Sangha in the 1980ties. She has studied with a number of teachers from the Nyingma and Kagyü tradition. She practises meditation and TaiJi QiGong (healing movement exercises).
She considers both practices as important tools in the Oriental traditions of healing and uses them in her teaching and her client work.

She runs QiGong classes and also works with individuals in one:one sessions using a specific style of Healing QiGong.

Listening Therapy

"Listening Therapy" is a sensori-neural integration training developed by the French ENT consultant, Alfred Tomatis, MD, based on over 50 years of research and experience.
Rose trained at the Listening Centre in Lewes gaining an understanding of how hearing and sound perception affect and are affected by posture, body awareness, emotional, physical and intellectual awareness and wellbeing.
In her work with children with Special Educational Needs she has has benefited greatly from the insights gained through this approach.

Breath , Voice and Qi Work

Having lost her singing voice through emotional trauma, Rose had the good fortune to be introduced to First Nature, a system of voice work developed by Corinne Shirman Sarti. After having worked with Corinne successfully in individual sessions, she embarked on a training course in First Nature's Body, Breath and Voice Work. In 2001 she was awarded her certificate as a First Nature voice coach.

Since Rose has been involved in running First Nature training courses and run her own workshops. Her background in Shiatsu and ever growing involvement with QiGong have since broadened her approach allowing her to teach voicework and run singing workshop from a uniquely holistic perspective.

The voice is a powerful instrument of self expression as well as a parameter for how we inhabit our body and the world. As such it reflects the state of our emotional and physical health and potential and can be used in diagnosis as well as healing intervention. Practitioners in all fields of education and health care, including the NHS and medical schools and universities, have recently become very interested in the voice, and the benefits of singing on health and learning are being broadly researched.

Singing and voice workshops are offered for people who use their singing or speaking voice professionally as well as for those who want to ease or improve their breathing and posture. Others simply wish to have fun and find that they have been given a great tool to explore, along the way, how important voice, breath and posture are in the big picture of self-development and self-healing. Allowing for such a holistic approach, the work is extremely satisfying and rewarding and health benefits are often clearly observable.

Chutzpah Choir and Synergy

Rose joined the Brighton and Hove Yiddish Choir, now the Chutzpah Choir, in 2006. The beautiful and extra-ordinarily gifted Polina Shepherd leads this choir very much along the lines of the old Eastern European Yiddish tradition, where songs without words are learned without notes and improvisations arise out of nowhere offered without fear. In other words, singing just for the joy of it. Rose has learned a great deal from Polina artistically and in terms of teaching singing.

In 2007 Polina was invited to partake in a research project led by Rosaria Gracia, founder of Synergy, and funded by the British Arts Council. The aim was to run a pilot study, which was to record if and in which way dancing (Condomblé) and singing (Niggunim) could be beneficial for the health and self-development of three different groups of participants (substance users,the elderly, and a womens group). Rose participated in the study as researcher and wrote the project summary for the BAC.

Singing at the MS Treatment Centre Southwick, West sussex

At the invitation of the Ms Centre in Soutwick (West Sussex), Rose runs "SSASS" (Singing Sad and Silly Songs). This is an ongoing workshop for centre users and associates.

Pathways to Health

Rose is a member of the board of Pathways to Health (Charity 108215), a Community Health Project providing affordable health services within the framework of Chinese medicine (Acupuncture, Ear-acupuncture, Shiatsu and QiGong) for people suffering from stress, anxiety and depression, drug and alcohol dependency, mental health issues and Hepatitis C/HIV infection.
As a board member she is engaged in improving communication and flow of information between the voluntary and the statutory sector in health care.