Therapies offered:
- Reiki
- Relaxation & Correct Breathing
- Personal Fitness Training
- Shiatsu, including Barefoot Shiatsu
- EFT
- Indian Head Massage
- One to one Yoga
Janette’s journey into self improvement began when she discovered Yoga at the age of 10 – watching Lynn Marshall’s yoga on TV during school holidays. She was hooked and continued her yoga training during her time at Edinburgh University when she trained at the Edinburgh Iyengar Yoga Centre and completed their two year teacher training course in 1986. She has continued as a yoga practitioner since then, moving to Ashtanga Yoga and completing teacher training with David Swenson in 2008.
She moved into the area of fitness in the mid 1980s, initially training with the Scottish Keep Fit Association and then the RSA, first as a teacher, then as a teacher trainer. She graduated M.Ed in Sports Science at Glasgow University in 1993 whilst working for London Central YMCA as a course leader in Exercise to Music and Gym Instructor training. She also validated courses across the UK and worked as an external examiner for the RSA. Throughout this time she continued teaching her own yoga and exercise classes – specializing in Pre and Post Natal, 50+ exercise and Aquarobics. She also ran special fitness and activity classes for a range of socially excluded adults from Adult Training Centres across Edinburgh. She particularly enjoyed working with groups and individuals who weren’t the usual “aerobic animals” but rather “real” people who were looking for help to change their lives for the better. Alongside this she worked as a personal trainer and was cited in the 1992 “Women of the Year” book for this work.
From the mid 1990s Janette worked in the field of health promotion – first with NHS Forth Valley, supporting the delivery of the new Scotland’s Health at Work (SHAW) awards and latterly in industry, focusing on manual handling and back care (completing a certificate in Biomechanics).
Feeling dissatisfied with the constraints of working purely in industry, Janette began Reiki training in 1997. She became a Reiki Master in 2000 aiming to better help others by working as a therapist and teacher. She completed Karuna Reiki training with William Lee Rand in 2001 and did further training with Frank Arjava Petter the following year. Since then she has also trained in EFT and Indian Head Massage and completed three years of Shiatsu training, including Barefoot and Table Shiatsu. She is working to complete her MRSS in 2010/11.
Janette has done extensive work with substance misusers and their families – mainly in NHS Forth Valley area. As well as offering specific therapy sessions for substance misusers within the community, she has trained family members, ex-users and drugs workers in Reiki and relaxation techniques, promoting empowerment and self care. In 2002 Janette completed a systematic review of the evidence base supporting the use of complementary therapies in substance misuse and in 2003 she was guest lecturer in the first University of Dundee CARES Conference – giving a lecture on this subject. In 2004 she led a series of workshops/seminars on complementary therapies at the NHS Tayside International Conference on Spirituality in Healthcare in Dundee.
Janette practices from a beautiful treatment and training space at her home in the Perthshire hills. Reiki is her first love and foremost therapy, influencing and colouring all the other therapies she offers. As well as working with humans, Janette has extensive experience of using Reiki with animals, especially dogs.
A musician from a young age, Janette has recently added another approach to her range of therapies – Voicework – based on her years of experience from workshops and training, under Chris James and Peter Govan amongst others. Janette offers a tailored mix of therapies using a truly holistic approach allowing the client to work on improving their physical, mental or emotional wellbeing.
Contact details
Tel: 01577 865796