CHAPTER 6 Self-development, health care and injury prevention for the Shiatsu practitioner As practitioners of ‘energy medicine’, we must care for our instrument of practice – our self. Our own…
CHAPTER 10 Traditional Chinese medicine for the Shiatsu practitioner What is TCM? TCM is now widely taken to mean the model of traditional Chinese medicine re-established by Chairman Mao during…
CHAPTER 3 The science of Qi We have seen above how the practice of Shiatsu has been influenced both by its Chinese roots and its Japanese development up to the…
CHAPTER 19 The session Making Sure Your Receiver is Comfortable Ideally you will have made sure that your receiver is completely comfortable before beginning your diagnosis. Your receiver needs to…
CHAPTER 2 The history of Shiatsu In a sense all the different forms of bodywork spring from a source as old as humanity itself, or even older. We humans, together…
CHAPTER 18 Interpreting the diagnosis The interpretation of the material gathered through the four methods of diagnosis involves a combination of intuitive sensitivity and logical deduction. Each receiver manifests a…
CHAPTER 4 How does Shiatsu work, practically? The unique flexibility of Shiatsu as a therapy includes its ability to work in different ways with the human system; it can be…
CHAPTER 7 Working with Shiatsu 1 It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it When we begin to practice Shiatsu, our intention is often wholly altruistic….
CHAPTER 5 The healing encounter As we have seen in the previous chapter, the rhythms of one person’s electromagnetic field can be registered in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of another person…
CHAPTER 1 What is Shiatsu? Since the first edition of this book came out, public awareness of the many forms of complementary therapies has increased immensely. Shiatsu has become a…
