What is Shiatsu About?

Shiatsu literally means "Finger pressure"

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Living close to our own nature bring us closer to Nature

“In the house of your body the walls which have heard everything and never forgotten anything are your muscles. In the stiffness and the tension, in the pains and deficiencies of the muscles of your back, your neck, your legs, your arms, your diaphragm, your heart, and also your face and your sexual organs, your complete story is revealed, from your birth to the present day”.

Therese Berthérat on her book

“The body has its reasons”

 
 

People generally refer to all bodywork practices as "massage"

However, Zen Shiatsu works directly with the body's energy system. The goal is to balance the energy "Ki" by gentle pressure along the "energy pathways" throughout the body.

By balancing the body's energy, our immune system is able to easily respond by  preventing diseases and body disharmonies.

 

 

Touch is a language which communicates with the emotions through the body, as research has shown. 

     (Harvard Medical School) 

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"Yin" is silent and motionless, while “yang” is surface and active. The combination of the two must be taken into consideration when treating diseases. The symptoms that appear on the surface are "yang" while the root of the disease, which is deep and hidden is "yin".

Shisuto Masunaga