Midlife as a Transformative Season

Support your peri and post-menopause clients

Discover why menopause is more than hormones. It is a whole body transformation and a window of opportunity to support your client’s long term health. 

This dynamic workshop for shiatsu practitioners combines biopsychosocial understanding of menopause with embodiment practices and Japanese treatment strategies rarely taught in Australia.

The workshop will cover:

• Definition of peri-menopause through to post-menopause

• An introduction to menopause through a biopsychosocial and East Asian Medicine lens.

• Reframing menopause as "Second Spring" - a portal of opportunity

• When and who to refer to (including red flags)

• Japanese techniques: middle pulse, Extraordinary Vessels, sinew channels and moxa

• Therapeutic Dao Yin movement practices you can implement straight away.

• Build confidence working with midlife female clients

Date: Sunday 21 September 2025 1pm-5pm

Location: Yarrunga Community Centre, Croydon Hills

Investment: $165 early bird (until 10 September), full price $195.

Please bring a yoga mat for movement exercises and a water bottle.

About your workshop facilitators

Lidia Setaro is an accredited clinical nutritionist (B.HSc Nut Med) and shiatsu practitioner and was a senior teacher at the Australian Shiatsu College for over 12 years. 

Her clinic focus is on gut and cardiometabolic health in midlife and beyond, with a special interest in healthy ageing for women particularly during menopausal transition. She is also undertaking postgraduate training in nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics to better provide clients with targeted, personalised nutritional and lifestyle advice.

Kirsten Muzeen is an experienced Meditation, Embodiment and Qigong Teacher with 20+ years in Shiatsu and Japanese therapies, including NHS projects in the UK. 

She has extensive training in Toyohari, Manaka Protocols, Shonishin and Japanese moxa traditions with senior teachers in Japan and Europe. Her practice is rooted in the teachings of Sonia Moriceau, whose groundbreaking work in Healing Shiatsu, embodiment, and meditation continues to inspire Kirsten's holistic approach.