Dr Rose Fuhrmann PhD, MA, 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

Rose is an academic teacher and researcher with a PhD in religious history and Church law, who has worked at universities in Germany and Switzerland, where she first came into contact with Chinese Medicine and Shiatsu.

Weekend workshops were followed by a foundation training in Luzern (Switzerland) and, after having moved to England, by a three-year professional training course at 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. She consequently gave up her academic career to become a professional practitioner of Chinese Medicine and Shiatsu.

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). She has been a member of the Society's Subcommittee for Education since 2006.

After a two year post-graduate training with the Shiatsu College UK Rose assisted with at the Shiatsu College's branches in Hasting, Brighton and London, and, in 2007, became a registered Shiatsu teacher with the Shiatsu Society UK.

Meditation and TaiChi 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 as well as Kum Nye and TaiChi 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 TaiChi QiGong classes and works with individuals using a specific style of Healing QiGong.

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 Qi Gong) 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.

Listening Therapy and Body, Breath and Voice Work

"Listening Therapy" is a sensori-neural integration training based on over 50 years of research and experience of the French Ear, Nose and Throat consultant, Alfred Tomatis, MD.
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.
A deepening of this understanding was achieved through training with First Nature, which teaches Body, Breath and Voice Work. She became a certified coach in 2001.
In her work with chidlren with Special Educational Needs she has used both approaches with great success.

Rose also runs very successful workshops for people who use their singing or speaking voice professionally (singers, teachers, lecturers, actors, speakers etc.)as well as people who wish to liberate or explore their voice or are interested in self development. Health workers, health practitioners and carers have also benefitted greatly from this work.

Chutzpah Choir and Synergy

Rose joined the Brighton and Hove Yiddish Choir, now the Chutzpah Choir in 2006. She worked as a researcher with Polina Shephard and Rosaria Gracia from Synergy on a project for self development involving Condomblé (afro-brasilian dance) and yiddish niggunim (songs without words.
For more information click on the link for the choir and follow the links on Polina's website.