Rehana Kapadia
Biography
Osteopaths are primary-care health practitioners, regulated by statute: The General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) govern the national standards of training and provision of care. We are trained to medically diagnose, make referrals if needed and use our knowledge of anatomy and hands-on skills to assess and treat any level of health issues.
Rehana joined Shine Holistic in 2004, soon after it first opened, and has established a traditional, naturopathic osteopathy practice.
Originally, a graduate of Cultural Studies and post-grad in History and Ancient Religious-Philosophy from SOAS; for ten years, she worked as an editor in book-publishing and theatre production.
Following the birth of her son, Rehana re-trained, with a four-year undergraduate degree in Osteopathic Medicine and Naturopathy from the British College of Osteopathy and Naturopathy (BCNO, now BCOM). A two-year MSc in Paediatric Osteopathy involved clinic training, at the Osteopathic Centre for Children (OCC), overseen by its founder, Stuart Korth. She gained hands-on experience in special care baby units, at the North Middlesex and Barnet Hospitals, supporting parents and treating babies presenting with feeding difficulties, through to complex developmental medical issues.
Osteopathy is a philosophy, rooted in medicine and the laws of nature. It regards the body as intelligent, with the inherent ability to self-regulate. Ill-health occurs, when our capacity to maintain this delicate balance is compromised by adverse, acute or chronic factors, such as injury, stress, inflammatory or degenerative changes.
Cranial Osteopathy requires postgraduate anatomical knowledge and refined sensing skill and perception. It holds a perspective that our bodies carry the ‘marks of life’; whereby unresolved physical and emotional patterns from our birth, childhood and life events can persist and limit our expression of health. Traditional osteopathy draws on the biodynamic forces and fluid fields, involved in our embryo development and ongoing health. The approach, in treatment, is to support this innate, dynamic, healing potential in each of us. The aim, often, is to relieve pain, but also to work preventatively and so allow us to live in our bodies with ease.
Every stage of our lives can be assisted with osteopathy, from pre- and post-natal care, seeing babies, children and teens through their developmental milestones, supporting good health in adult life, menopause, right through to older age and end of life. As were the traditional nature-cure principles of osteopathy, Rehana is able to draw on and integrate her background in science, the arts, naturopathy and ancient healing philosophies. She continues to learn and refine her practical and perceptual skills with post-graduate biodynamic osteopathy training, as well as studies in attachment-based psychotherapy, to inform her practice.
Rehana is registered with the statutory governing body, the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC), member of the Institute of Osteopathy (iO), the Sutherland Cranial College (SCC) and an Alumni member of the Foundation of Paediatric Osteopathy (FPO).
As part of her personal commitment toward social, race and health equity, Rehana has worked in NHS projects, women’s refuges and children’s centres. She has teaching experience, as Clinic Tutor in the cranial approach, for final year undergraduate osteopaths, at the British College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM). After 20 years working alongside the late, Hedwig Verdonk, at the Tufnell Park Osteopaths, she continues to practice in Stoke Newington and Dartmouth Park, N19.
Rehana Kapadia
Gosc Registered Osteopath and Naturopath. BA Hons, MA, BSc Hons Ost Med, MSc Paediatric Osteopathy, DO, ND, MSCC
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