It was Kinesiology that led me to Acupuncture. That and the fact that Hugh MacPherson was talking about starting a college in York in 1988. So, I signed up and began my studies in 1989, as a single parent with two small children while living on state benefits. But I was determined…
I set up my practice in York (1991), alongside Madeleine Evans after graduating from the Northern College of Acupuncture, and with the support and help of many other colleagues and friends. Before that, I borrowed some spare time in Christine Skinner’s treatment room in central York, and worked from home doing Touch for Health balances and acupressure treatments.
I currently work from The Healing Clinic Community Interest Company (which I set up as the plain Healing Clinic) with a colleague – Chris Vicary in 1992 in the business wing of the York Steiner School). We moved to central York in 2007, with 20 practitioners and I now offer acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, acupressure, food energetics (working with balancing your energy with the right foods for your individual needs – Hot, Cold, Damp, etc,), facial revitalisation acupuncture / acupressure massage, treatments for children (usually without needles), tapping and Japanese Shonishin techniques learned from Stephen Birch, crystals, Egyptian Alkhemi Sekhem healing learned from Jacqui Taliesin el Masry, Thermoauricular therapy (ear candling) learned from Linda ……….., and massage techniques to move Blood and Chi and balance general energies.
I specifically like to help with digestive ailments (they are the root of many many other problems), respiratory problems (if we can’t breathe well, the whole rhythm of the body is out of balance), hormonal imbalances (thrown off by our modern lives and the influences all around us), circulatory problems (if Blood does not flow well, many things do not work at their optimum levels – everything relies on Blood), just as some examples.
Over the last 25 years, I have helped women regain their natural fertility so they could become pregnant, treated them throughout pregnancy, assisted at births, alongside the midwives, to keep things moving when they slow down, help reduce the panic and worry, and to keep the pain levels down (we don’t do complete pain blocking, as we are not anaesthetists) and to help reduce blood loss, I have treated babies of all ages, from the very earliest minutes of life, toddlers and children, through young adults to older age. I have been present at the last minutes of peoples’ lives, and have helped make people with terminal illnesses more comfortable.
I have been teaching other acupuncturists how to use the techniques I use, particularly with their child patients. I started teaching Touch for Health in 1986 (I trained with Brian Butler in 1986) and Oriental Medicine for Children in 1996 (I trained with Julian Scott in 1993 – 94), as well as The Treatment of Children’s Ailments at home for parents and carers. I am now teaching online through Google Hangouts, which helps people be in touch without having to travel. I had a lovely friend, Jenny Hutchinson, who has allowed me to have her memories of life with her parents who were healers. We planned a book together of home remedies, and it is my promise to her that I will get it done in her memory. She sadly passed away in 2012.
I love my work, in fact it is not work to me, it is a privilege and a vocation that I will be lucky if I can continue to be involved in until my very old age.
June Tranmer
I set up my practice in York (1991), alongside Madeleine Evans after graduating from the Northern College of Acupuncture, and with the support and help of many other colleagues and friends. Before that, I borrowed some spare time in Christine Skinner’s treatment room in central York, and worked from home doing Touch for Health balances and acupressure treatments.
I currently work from The Healing Clinic Community Interest Company (which I set up as the plain Healing Clinic) with a colleague – Chris Vicary in 1992 in the business wing of the York Steiner School). We moved to central York in 2007, with 20 practitioners and I now offer acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, acupressure, food energetics (working with balancing your energy with the right foods for your individual needs – Hot, Cold, Damp, etc,), facial revitalisation acupuncture / acupressure massage, treatments for children (usually without needles), tapping and Japanese Shonishin techniques learned from Stephen Birch, crystals, Egyptian Alkhemi Sekhem healing learned from Jacqui Taliesin el Masry, Thermoauricular therapy (ear candling) learned from Linda ……….., and massage techniques to move Blood and Chi and balance general energies.
I specifically like to help with digestive ailments (they are the root of many many other problems), respiratory problems (if we can’t breathe well, the whole rhythm of the body is out of balance), hormonal imbalances (thrown off by our modern lives and the influences all around us), circulatory problems (if Blood does not flow well, many things do not work at their optimum levels – everything relies on Blood), just as some examples.
Over the last 25 years, I have helped women regain their natural fertility so they could become pregnant, treated them throughout pregnancy, assisted at births, alongside the midwives, to keep things moving when they slow down, help reduce the panic and worry, and to keep the pain levels down (we don’t do complete pain blocking, as we are not anaesthetists) and to help reduce blood loss, I have treated babies of all ages, from the very earliest minutes of life, toddlers and children, through young adults to older age. I have been present at the last minutes of peoples’ lives, and have helped make people with terminal illnesses more comfortable.
I have been teaching other acupuncturists how to use the techniques I use, particularly with their child patients. I started teaching Touch for Health in 1986 (I trained with Brian Butler in 1986) and Oriental Medicine for Children in 1996 (I trained with Julian Scott in 1993 – 94), as well as The Treatment of Children’s Ailments at home for parents and carers. I am now teaching online through Google Hangouts, which helps people be in touch without having to travel. I had a lovely friend, Jenny Hutchinson, who has allowed me to have her memories of life with her parents who were healers. We planned a book together of home remedies, and it is my promise to her that I will get it done in her memory. She sadly passed away in 2012.
I love my work, in fact it is not work to me, it is a privilege and a vocation that I will be lucky if I can continue to be involved in until my very old age.
June Tranmer