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500-Hour Shiatsu Certification Program

One 4-day weekend per month 

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Once you have been accepted into the One-Year Shiatsu Certification Program you must submit a $100 Registration Fee to be registered for the program. The Registration Fee will hold your place and will be deducted from your tuition. If you wish to pay by check you may send a check made out to Shiatsu School of Vermont to the amount of $100.

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Shiatsu School of Vermont

441 West River Road, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301, United States

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Words cannot describe how life changing this program is! I found the Shiatsu School of Vermont after searching for a healing modality that integrates mind and body. I decide the program was worth the monthly travel from NC to VT and it surpassed my expectations! This program is very extensive yet


- Cierra

Meet our Core and Visiting Faculty

Marjorie Pivar

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Founder, Director, & Instructor of
Zen Shiatsu at Shiatsu VT

MA Holistic Health Education, Certified AOBTA Instructor. Marjorie studied under Wataru Ohashi, Pauline Sasaki, and Michael  DeAgro, three of the master world teachers.  Marjorie has been  practicing Zen style Shiatsu for over thirty years and is certified by the American Organization of Bodywork Therapies of Asia. She holds a  masters degree in Holistic Health Education from Norwich University and  has taught both privately and in the classroom. Marjorie is the author  with Quang Van Nguyen of Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006), which is recommended reading at many schools of Asian medicine.

Carola Beresford-Cooke

Author of our Textbook, Acupuncturist,  Zen Shiatsu Master Teacher & Practitioner

In  1978 Carola attended her first Shiatsu course with Ohashi, and has continued to study ever since, not only Shiatsu but acupuncture and herbal medicine.  Different  teaching styles and approaches fascinate her, and she has studied with many well-known Shiatsu teachers, the most influential being Pauline Sasaki. She is the author of the textbook “Shiatsu Theory and Practice” and has  produced  a series of 12 DVDs on the meridians and how to treat them in different positions.

Clifford Andrews

Clifford Andrews

Clifford Andrews, Master Instructor, Founder of New Energy Works and the Shaitsu Centre, BSc FwSS PGCE PCE

Cliff has loved giving and receiving Shiatsu since he attended his very first workshop in 1981. Cliff started the Shiatsu Centre (formerly the Shiatsu Rooms) in 1983 and in 1986 he was fortunate to be  apprenticed by Pauline Sasaki in the USA. Cliff has taught in Europe, the USA and in Australia. He is also a co-founder of the Shiatsu College - and often teaches at the Norwich branch.  Cliff practises here at the Shiatsu Centre in Norwich and also in  Zurich Switzerland. He is currently working on supporting the worldwide  Shiatsu community, during the pandemic, with his online project at New Energy Work. 

Sheyna Rose

Clifford Andrews

Co-Owner, Assistant Director 

& Instructor of Zen Shiatsu at 

Shiatsu School of Vermont. 

BLA from Bennington College. NECCA Nimble Arts Teacher Training. AOBTA Board Member: Director of Membership.

In 2009 Sheyna attended Bennington College studying neuroscience, psychology and minoring in dance. Upon graduating in 2013 she began working in mental health facilities while teaching aerial acrobatics on the side. In 2016 she began her professional career as a Shiatsu Practitioner. She is now the  Assistant Director of the Shiatsu School of Vermont, and works alongside her  mother, Marjorie Pivar. Sheyna has her own private practice in Southern  Vermont and serves as Director of Membership on the board of the AOBTA. In her spare time she travels around the world connecting with other schools and practitioners.

Deborah Valentine Smith

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Instructor of Integrated Anatomy & Physiology Certified Instructor 

AOBTA Diplomat in Asian Bodywork Therapy, AOBTA, NCCAOM Jin Shin Do® Bodymind Acupressure® Teacher LMT, New York State. B.A.,  A nationally certified and an approved provider with the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB), and a Certified Instructor with the AOBTA®. She has been an Authorized Jin Shin Do® Bodymind Acupressure® Teacher since 1983  and has been teaching Integrated Anatomy & Physiology since 2000.
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Kumiko Kanayama

Guest Master Instructor,  Director and Founder of 5 Lights Center.  

Intuitive Shiatsu & 5 Element Shiatsu Practitioner

Kumiko Kanayama is a practitioner and teacher of Intuitive Shiatsu™.  Intuitive Shiatsu™ is a method she developed after many years of study  with her uncle, Ohashi, a pioneer of shiatsu in the West. Kumiko teaches  shiatsu at the school she founded called the Five Lights Center for  Shiatsu in New York, NY  https://www.fivelightscenter.com. Kumiko  also teaches in Europe, and Japan.

Winter Jade Forest

Winter Jade Forest

Winter Jade Forest

Certified Instructor, AOBTA
Approved Provider of Cont.Ed., NCBTMB

Grandmother  Winter Jade has been practicing and  teaching Shiatsu around the world since 1975. Her immense enthusiasm for this beautiful hand-healing art is still with her.  She has apprenticed  with indigenous healers of four traditions and is a recognized expert  in the field. 

Wendy Bolognesi

Winter Jade Forest

Winter Jade Forest

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Guest Instructor, Shiatsu Practitioner, LMT & Reiki II & Thai Massage Therapist

Wendy is a Certified Shiatsu Practitioner and graduated from the  Ohashi Institute in Manhattan in 1990 and continued to become a  Certified Ohashiatsu Instructor in 1992.

In 1980, Wendy received her BFA from Pratt Institute with a major in  photography. She is a certified instructor for the American Red Cross and graduated from Bancroft in 2009. Among the numerous post graduate courses she has completed, Shiatsu in Pregnancy, Thai Massage and  Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Massage have been some of her favorites and are areas  of emphasis in her private practice. Wendy is a Reiki II practitioner,  holds a certification in Herbalism and Herbal Therapeutics and has  practiced yoga and meditation for 36 years. 

Eben Dodd

Winter Jade Forest

Cindy Pascoe

Guest Instructor, 

Thai Massage Therapist & LMT 

Eben  Dodd has been a Licensed Massage Therapist since 1993. After graduating  from the Swedish Institute for Massage Therapy in New York, he  practiced massage for six years in Manhattan. He then moved to  California and worked at Kabuki Springs and Spa in San Francisco’s  Japantown from 1999 to 2018. He now has a private massage practice  serving Southeast Vermont/Southwest New Hampshire.

Cindy Pascoe

Lital Yardeni Bernstein

Cindy Pascoe

Guest Zen Shiatsu Instructor & Pioneer in Standardizing Shiatsu Treatments for Cancer Patients

Cindy has provided Shiatsu/Asian bodywork for patients at the Munson Healthcare Cowell Family Cancer Center since its inception in  2016. Cindy has been instrumental in developing processes and  procedures for patients and clients receiving bodywork at the cancer center.

Cindy's training includes Zen Shiatsu and Chinese Medicine from the Blue Lotus  School of Shiatsu of Traverse City and post graduate studies from the Zen Shiatsu School of Chicago. Cindy continues to learn from her Master Teacher Michael DeAgro and incorporates his teachings into her work at  the hospital and her private practice.  

In addition, Cindy brings  her wealth of knowledge from several years of teaching nutrition and  health, and counseling, in the public school setting to the healing arts  of Asian medicine. She has a Bachelor of Science in Education and  Master of Arts in Education Administration from Michigan State  University as well as a Master of Science in Counseling from Western  Michigan University.

Michael DeAgro

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Lital Yardeni Bernstein

Instructor of Zen Shiatsu, Chinese Medical Theory M.S., LPC, AOBTA CI 

Michael practices psychotherapy, Asian bodywork therapy, and Chinese herbal  medicine in his clinic in Traverse City, Michigan. He received his masters degree in counseling psychology from Loyola University in Baltimore and is a graduate of the Baltimore School of Shiatsu. He  studied shiatsu privately with Pauline Sasaki over a 14 year period. He began his herbal training with the Chinese Institute of Herbology and later completed a two-year mentorship with Gonzalez Flores. He continues  his study of classical Chinese herbal medicine with Sharon Weizenbaum  through the Graduate Mentorship program of White Pine Institue. He is also the founder of the Blue Lotus School of Shiatsu and the former Director of Education for the AOBTA.

Lital Yardeni Bernstein

Lital Yardeni Bernstein

Lital Yardeni Bernstein

Guest Instructor of Shiatsu, Zen and Five Element Shiatsu , Body-Mind Balancing
Dance Movement Therapy, Kabbalah Scholar 

Lital was born and raised in Israel. She graduated her Shiatsu  studies in 2002 and continued studying Body Mind Balancing at Reidman  College and Dance and Movement Therapy at Seminar Hakibutzim, both in  Tel Aviv. Lital is certified as a Pilates instructor. Lital became a  Shiatsu Master and a healer applying her knowledge and experience and  worked in hospitals and public clinics, private practice and teaching  Shiatsu for kids and adults. Lital is also a senior student of Kabbalah  at the Kabbalah Centre, she moved to the states in 2008 and lives in NYC  with her family.

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Dr Quang Van Nguyen

Guest Instructor of Chinese Medical Theory and Meditation, Master of Pulse Diagnosis, Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture

Dr. Quang Van Nguyen was orphaned as an infant during the Vietnam war and was adopted  and trained by an enlightened monk/doctor, Thau Van Nguyen. Dr. Nguyen  is a master in pulse diagnosis and herbal medicine. The story of Dr. Nguyen’s spiritual and medical training has been published in an award winning book called “Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy  of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam,” and is required reading in  many Schools of Asian Medicine. The Shiatsu School of Vermont is blessed to have Dr. Nguyen as a guest instructor.

Meet our director Marjorie

The Stomach and Spleen Meridians

with Marjorie

Fourth Uncle in the Mountain Interview

with Wendy O'Connell

Book List

Required books for this course

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Shiatsu Theory and Practice

$50

3rd Edition

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Atlas of Shiatsu, Meridians of Zen Shiatsu

$200

2nd edition

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The Educated Heart

$50

Professional Boundaries for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers 

Suggested Book List

Not required but highly recommended

Suggested Book List

Not required but highly recommended

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AOBTA Accreditation

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