Shiatsu Don
Shiatsu Don
Opening hours
Mt Eden, Auckland Region 1024
Services
Mount Eden Auckland Clinic
Mount Maunganui Pop Up Clinic
Team
About
Shiatsu Don is a professional bodywork service primarily based in Auckland, New Zealand! However, Pop-Up clinics are frequently available in across Australasia in Sydney, Melbourne, Mount Maunganui, Wanaka and Byron Bay
The main style of bodywork is known as zenthai shiatsu, a fusion of zen shiatsu, thai massage and osteopathic technique!
Reviews
- Leilani Dubouch·
Thank you James for this great moment. It was such an experience with nice stretching from head to toes. A great time to release all tension. I love it and I highly recommend to people who want to reconnect with themselves
- Axelle Arnoult·
J’ai passé 1h30 extraordinaire avec James. Détente absolue, dans le lâcher prise.
Je ne suis pas souple du tout donc j’avais un peu d’appréhension, mais tout s’est très bien passé !
James sait s’adapter et ne force rien.
Je me sentais vraiment bien après la session, cela a bien apaisé mon mal de dos.
C’était une expérience incroyable que j’ai hâte de renouveler.
Merci James ! - Mandy Rose·
Having spent years immersed in Thai massage and Eastern bodywork including extensive training and study across Southeast Asia with lineage-based teachers, I’ve come to appreciate the kind of touch that carries not just skill but presence, intuition, and a deep respect for the body.
So when I moved to Auckland, I wasn’t sure if I’d find that again. But from my very first session with James I knew I was in the hands of someone who really understands this work.
In that first treatment I could feel multiple threads of Thai massage styles woven into his sequence, including one particular lineage I trained in under Master Pichet. To feel elements of that lineage here in Aotearoa felt like a quiet homecoming in my body.
James works with a rare combination of grounded presence and technical clarity. His transitions are smooth, his pressure attuned, and his touch feels both intentional and fluid. There’s strength without force and stretching in edges just enough to invite release.
Every session leaves me feeling more open, more grounded, and somehow more myself. I also deeply appreciate his continued devotion to the craft from ongoing training to his personal embodiment of the work.
You can feel that commitment in every touch.
