About Nigel Dawes

Nigel Dawes has been practicing and teaching Oriental Medicine for over 25 years.

 

He lived and studied in Japan for 5 years followed by hospital internships in China before returning to the UK where he opened a practice and founded his own Shiatsu school in 1987. He moved to the US in 1993 and has been involved variously in undergraduate and graduate OM education, higher education administration and political work in the field,

 

Clinical practice and publications including numerous articles, 2 books on Shiatsu and a recent translation of a Japanese text: Kampo: A Clinical Guide to Theory and Practice, Otsuka, K., Churchill Livingstone, 2010. He currently has a practice in New York incorporating Acupuncture, Shiatsu and Kanpo and is on faculty at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and Tristate College of Acupuncture. He also runs a one-year post-graduate Kanpo Internship and has been teaching regular Fukushin workshops throughout the US and in Europe for the last 10 years.

 

Nigel and Israel

 

Nigel has a very long relationship with Israel.  He has been teaching in Israel since 1987. when formal schools of Chinese Medicine were not yet established and for several years he taught workshops twice a year in collaboration with his close friend and colleague, Yorai Sella.

Yorai went on to found "Maga" school of Shiatsu, initially based in Tel Aviv and for many years now in Jerusalem, where Nigel was the principal visiting teacher. He has trained several generations of students over a 20 year period who now practice and also teach at the school as well as many other practitioners throughout Israel.

In recent years, Nigel has turned his attention to Kampo education and has offered some introductory seminars and workshops during the last few years to practitioners, mainly Japanese Acupuncture style, who have shown an interest in the practical, hands-on clinical methodology of the Kampo system of herbal medicine.

His main interest at this point in visiting Israel is to train clinicians in the field of Oriental medicine in the subtle but practical art of classical formula prescribing and diagnosis which characterizes the Kampo system.

Such training will involve a series of modular workshops with both a theory and clinical component that will combine to form a post-graduate "program" in kampo. The intended outcome of such a program will be to train practitioners to a level of confidence and skill to be able to accurately diagnose and prescribe about 75 classical formulas according to their unique clinical presentations.