Sheila Chitanie

Sheila Chitanie (she/her) is a cisgender woman, who was born and raised in The Netherlands by an Afro Surinamese mother and an Indo Caribbean father. She has been working as a shiatsu therapist since 2018. Shiatsu is a therapeutic form of bodywork from Japan. 

For her shiatsu studies, she dived into embodied racism. During her journey of becoming a bodyworker the idea for a BIPOC women's health center arose. She envisioned a space in which we can work on our liberation from oppressive systems through bodywork, mental health care, and spirituality. After learning and evolving the target group was expanded to non-cis and femme people and women of color. In 2021 KABRA was founded.

At KABRA you'll find practitioners who have lived experiences when it comes to exclusion based on (e.g.) their skin color, gender identity and sexual orientation.