About Me

Lucy Trend (she/her) holds a lifelong interest in somatic practices, with a deep curiosity about embodied experience both through stillness and touch, and through movement within the environment. Lucy teaches meditation and somatic practises both online and in person. She is registered with Bamba to deliver the Mindfulness Association's 8 week Mindfulness Based Living Course which she trained to teach in 2020. She is a researcher and holds an MSc Studies in Mindfulness from University of Aberdeen. She holds Mindfulness based workplace team building and self-development training for private and public sector organisations across Scotland including Diageo, NHS Glasgow, Carers Link and 3D Drumchapel. Lucy works with a broad and inclusive spectrum of clients including carers, musicians, dancers, and fellow LGBTIQ people with neuro-divergence. She offers training and support for beginners level through to more experienced practitioners and aims to be aware and sensitive to issues surrounding social exclusion, trauma, and racism. She has an interest in Mindfulness for bodyworkers. She founded Shiatsu and Thai Massage Training Scotland in Glasgow in 1998, offering training in Shiatsu, Traditional Thai Therapies and Mindfulness. Her past background is in dance performance and movement therapy. Lucy Trend is a teacher level Fellow of the Shiatsu Society (FwSS), a member of the Mindfulness Association, the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC – the Department of Health recommended regulatory body), and the Federation of Holistic Therapists. She qualified as a Shiatsu therapist in Montreal, Canada in 1996 and has been practicing and teaching Shiatsu in Glasgow since 1997. In the years 2000 & 2009 she travelled to Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand to study traditional Thai massage and herbal medicine with Surin Janpanet, a retired monk who trained in the temple, sadly now deceased. She continues her professional development including study of derivative therapies such as Myofascial Release, Cranio-sacral therapy, Dynamic Thai Massage, and Osteo-Thai but firmly believes the wisdom of the ancient therapies that developed over thousands of years runs deep, and she honours that basis in her treatments and teaching.