AOBTA®-Certified Instructor in Five Element Shiatsu
Cindy Banker began her professional practice of Asian Bodywork Therapy in 1982. Since then in addition to maintaining a busy private practice she has continued her own education in a number of areas which have helped to broaden and enlighten the work she does with individual clients. Throughout this time she has also remained extremely active in the professional development of her field serving in a variety of positions for the national professional associations.
Cindy holds a Master’s Degree in Chinese Herbal Medicine and Language which she completed through Lesley University’s Independent Research Option. There she incorporated her original training with Ted Kaptchuk, OMD; two years of the Chinese herbal medicine course at the New England School of Acupuncture and an extensive internship with a master level practitioner at a local Chinese herbal shop. Cindy has also done extensive studies in the use of diet as a means to health with her original training throughout the 1970’s from Michio Kushi and Shizuko Yamamoto. Cindy’s studies of literary Chinese at Harvard University have allowed her to continue the translation work she began while doing her Master’s Degree Thesis.
Cindy has also pursued a serious study of the physical arts that enable a practitioner to use their own Qi when practicing shiatsu. She lived in a yoga ashram for eleven months in 1973 and then went on to study Do-In; Qi Gung; Tai Chi; Aikdo and Kung Fu.
Cindy places a strong emphasis on education as she works in a collaborative manner with her clients and enables them to create their own health. With over twenty five years of experience in the field, Cindy is able to teach each client the aspects and rationale of Traditional Chinese Medicine most helpful to them.
For more information, please visit Cindy’s website at: www.CindyBanker.com
