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The Solstice Space Shiatsu & Acutonics

Shiatsu is a beautiful style of massage that uses the energetic system of meridians and acupoints fr

Chinese medicine is a hugely diverse and practical resource of knowledge and wisdom gathered and constantly evolving over the last 4000 years. The key elements of Oriental medicine and well being revolve around the notion that 'Prevention is the Cure'. The role of a Shiatsu (or Acutonics) practitioner is to discern the health of not just your Physical body (Organs, muscles, sinews, structures and

transportation systems), but also your Emotional body (mental well being, trauma, response and reaction), and your Spiritual body (Core Beliefs, Values and Connection). It is all of the systems working together beneficially that create a strong and abundant person who is able to traverse life with courage, strength, flexibility and compassion.

17/07/2026

Love isn't what we think it is.

It's not high romance, princes and princesses, rom coms or fantasy.

Love has many forms.
I personally, would say it's all forms.
Every molecule and photon.
The glue of the universe.

It shows up in the tears you shed at your grief and loss.
At the guilt and shame still yet to be transformed. In the anger, frustration and rage, just as much as it comes with laughter, heart flutters and kisses on the forehead.

It gazes at you in wonder as you begin to face your pain.
It's. Right. There.

Always.

The pain, whatever colour it takes is just a compass bearing that points towards where the Love is.
The sheer fact that you can cry, scream or crumble is the sign of its presence.
The marker that says: This way.

So in the darkest of moments I hope you can see the light, just there, waiting for you to notice it.
I hope you will look at it in the same way it looks at you. And I hope it makes you weep until those tears are ones of joy, of the bittersweetness of life.

Know you are Love(d).

16/07/2026

Islands and archipelagos.

Living things don't grow in isolation.

We learn from mistakes we make in relationship to the world around us.
We grow when we are held, fostered and supported by others (plant, animal, mineral) who are akin to us, this includes accountability, responsibility and communication.
We reciprocally help each other as we amble along in this crazy life on this one crazy rock hurtling through space.

When we are creating act in the circus it is not just the performer on the stage, there is a whole crew of people collaborating to create the show. And then, a show is nothing without the audience.
Every member is an intricate and inseperable part of the performance.
It takes time, practice and comradery for an act to be polished.

In life, we absolutely need to know ourselves and love ourselves without a doubt.
And when we come together, we can make beautiful things together and hopefully have a wonderful time doing it.

The internal work is done so we have an external experience.

We connect and disconnect.
The tide comes in and goes out.
We Yin and we Yang.

All dynamics are needed in order to make this an amazing experience and create a world for everyone to enjoy.
Especially working towards the future.

Ben Lee sung it well: We're all in this together.

So shall we be awesome and collaborate to make an excellent show of it?

You can count me in.

🎶 Jack Johnson - Better Together

14/07/2026

The questions are often found outside of ourselves, but the answers are always inside.
The external world reflects our internal world, if you're brave enough to see.
And it's true that we might not always like what we see, but we have all the power to change.

The world is filled with Eyes that look outward, gauging the external for what it can offer, without ever offering something first.
Without observing the observer and understanding who that is and why.

Life isn't about gaining.
It's about connecting.

Life isn't about abundance.
You have exactly what you need to show you who you are.

Life isn't about doing.
It's about Being.

If you don't know where your centre is, you can forever be pushed off course.
If you don't w**d out the dark, you may never see the light you hold.
If you don't celebrate your virtues and your values, how do you even know where centre is?

03/07/2026

Did you know that one of the best cafes in Newy is in the ?
is a mixture between the warmth of Nonna's house, the anarchy of a musicians garage and the earthiness of a grass roots community all with the smell of the best cinnamon scrolls you've ever tasted. Just like Nonna used to make.

Come and visit on Thursday and Friday for a coffee, some baked goods and the best sourdough bread ever!

You might even find me in the kitchen on a Thursday morning rolling those delicious scrolls.
Made with these well worn and loving hands.

17/06/2026

I grew up in an ever-changing household, raised on egg shells, drowning in cask wine and amnesia with parents who desperately tried to escape their childhoods of displacement, abstract poverty and racism.

There was grief that turned to rage and violence that no child should witness.

And through it all, I loved them all despite.

My dad and I had some strange soul bond that didn't even become clear to me until he died.
When I became so numb and at a loss for direction as I learned that I had been living for him.

When he died one of the main pillars of my system crumbled, It took years to work out who I was and realise that in its crumbling, a part of me was revealed that now held up my structure.

I tried to forget him. Trying to deal with his death, whilst dating someone who was just like him, whilst losing the show I was working on, ending my performance career in its peak and relocating back to Australia was too much at once.
Having to come to terms with the trauma and how it shaped me didn't have a place in the crumbling of my current existence. So I, like my family taught me, erased him.

A number of years later I came to realise that it wasn't working, pretending he didn't have a stake in my life was tomfoolery and more detrimental than I could understand.

I never committed to memory the date of his death, but he came to me in a dream the other night to remind me so harshly it has wrecked me for days.
It showed me he had not left and was stuck.

So I crafted a ceremony to call on my ascended ancestors to help him across.

And, I feel so much clearer.
I haven't cried the whole time I've been writing this, so that's a win!

I felt the shift.
We all laughed and celebrated as I gave them wine and sipped some too.

May we all forgive.
May we all know Peace.

🎼Weaving Our Lives - Alexa Sunshine Rose and friends

22/05/2026

This months newsletter unpacks the Two Dragon Energy Cleanse.
And I used one of my favourite movies The Matrix, to describe external phenomena.
It was a weird and difficult stretch, but I think I made it work lol

Link is in the bio 💜

02/05/2026

Roughly 1500 years ago Japan closed its borders to the world and grew itself not only into a nation but a unique culture.

And as the echelons of time shift, changes made before, turbulate across eons and here we are as modern day people showing signs of sensitivity to our modern lives and environment.

We are a product of everything that we do.
The wars, the economy, the disturbance the affluence and effluence.

It all started somewhere and continues as we continually perpetuate the paradigm.

Sometimes it is necessary to close the doors and get to know ourselves without outside influence. To know thyself so well that we know how and what is needed to keep us so in tune that neither stress or illness touches us.

Shiatsu was developed in Japan.
And like one of the grand daddies of Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, many blind practitioners, whose other senses were sharpened, contributed to the modality that helps to balance and activate healing within the body.

We are not looking for massive swings and round abouts. But long term, persistent and regular shifting. Like a wheel balance in your car so that you always drive straight and don't scrub your tyres placing more strain on the engine.

If the most that occurs on the futon is relaxation that is a catalyst to self healing. Then job well done!!

But prevention is maintenance.
Regularity is attenuation.
Is attunement.
Is healthy and healing.

My goal is keeping everyone healthy and well-thy!

When I serve you, it serves me, because it's all connected.

🎻 Water from the Same Source
Rachel's

06/04/2026

The Sun’s rays permeate all things.
Photons of light feed into the cells of every living thing on this beautiful Earth.

Thoughts are much the same.

Thoughts seep from the Mind and pe*****te their way into the cells throughout the body.

We must take true care with our thoughts.

It has been difficult to say “open your heart and come from a place of love”.
The simplicity of doing so is often marred by the day by day conveyor belt of disheartening monologues that many people feel.
These conveyor belt‘s, on full speed, carrying load after load of negative and toxic thoughts find their way throughout the body.

Our Hearts are like the rays of the Sun.
Our positive feelings, living as they are, will travel the body also, feeding light and positive energy to the body.

It is only through Will that one can sit to clear the Mind of the noise and static of wayward thoughts.

The task is long, but to shine with the full light of the Sun, to keep the warmth of Love in the Heart, it is important to try.
Is it important to w**d out all thoughts that poison the mind and body.
The best way in which to do this? Well, that is an adventure for each unique individual, the only simile is deep focus, with a dash of time and space.

- oh so may years ago I stood here and wrote this.
Standing on the edge of this unfunctioning waterfall, deep, cold emotions rose without my awareness, I stood here throwing rocks with all my might hoping to break something long gone, that lived only in the recesses of my mind and body.
The rocks broke, but the thing living inside me, did not.

It took years of dedicated healing to shift my energy, my thoughts and frequency.
I am not afraid of the darkness, my shadow, or yours.
I am afraid of stagnation.
Of not living to the absolute fullest, whatever that means. I’ve learned that that idea changes with me.
Every time I have been met with my shadow, I take a deep breath and dive.
And every time I have resurfaced with a pearl.

I know how intertwined my story is with yours.
If I can’t be brave to see myself, how can I sit on that futon and look into you?
So I stare into my abyss, everyday.
For myself, but also for my path and yours.

27/03/2026

There are a couple of spaces left this Sunday.
Let’s relax, shift, balance, heal (or whatever you require), and feel amazing.

The clinic is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday's.

And we have group meditation on Wednesdays at 6pm.

I look forward to treating you.

26/03/2026

I made a desk.
not just any desk, a Z frame table, from my mind, through intuition to reality from recycled hardwood palings.
it has obvious signs of intuitive processes and old jiggity pieces but it's now in a symbiotic relationship between the wall and itself. one stabilising the other, quite like a Yin Yang (Taiji) symbol.
☯️
It's a new start, again. As are the cycles of my life.
Like a seed sprouting into a tree, dropping seeds that sprout into a tree.
A little different everytime.
A little better.
Always an adventure with the whole gauntlet of emotions, cause what else would a healer do, but know what it feels like to be human.
I've signed up to learn Qi Gong and crystal entity removal...
So here's a desk to acknowledge my commitment to life. To a new era and hopefully more love.
The world needs the real stuff now.
Not later
Now.

Anyways, here's my desk I built with my two hands and heart.

Address

2/398 Maitland Road
Newcastle, NSW
2304

Opening Hours

Saturday	9am - 5:30pm
Sunday	10am - 6:30pm

Website

https://shiatsunewcastle.net/

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