Shiatsu is a type
of treatment which was established
in the last 15 years in the
alternative medicine. The impact of
the finger pressure technic from
Japan leaves impressions in the
sense of the word. Already by
treatment the body can be returned
into its original energetic form. A
Shiatsu treatment is always
individually aligned. In the
beginning of each treatment a Hara (belly)
diagnosis is provided. The
respective zones which are scanned
in the abdominal cavity are assigned
to different meridian systems.
This way of
treatment was devoleped from Anma, a
tradional Japanese massage, and
western physiotherapeutic methods.
In recent time close legal
regulations were imposed upon to the
old welfare art Anma, in order to
allow it to be implementen.. Thus
interested therapists which engaged
themselves for a continuation of the
Anma tradition developed the new
form "Shiatsu". The term sits down
together from "Shi" = finger and "atsu"
= pessure. Two fundamental
directions crystallized which were
general for the development of
Shiatsu from crucial influence and
are further important: The "Namikoshi"
style and Zen Shiatsu or "Masunaga"
style.
Tokujiro Namikoshi
connected Shiatsu realizations with
the western medicine and he was the
one who implemented acknowledgment of
Shiatsu in Japan. His style is
mainly aligned to certain points of
reflex which connected with the
central and autonomous nervous
system.
Shitsuto Masunaga
brought however the knowlegde of the
tradional philosophical and medical
principles to the eastern medicine
with the western physiology in
agreement. He accommodated
the meridian systems in Shiatsu, the
extended system of 12 meridians in
the arms and 12 meridians in the
legs. Normally the traditional
Chinese medicine (TCM) relies mainly
on 6 meridians in each case in arms
and legs.
Meridians are
energy lines which are connected
with all organs. Therefor also the
names of the meridians for example:
large intestine meridian or stomach
meridian. Also the Hara diagnosis as
substantial element and
characteristic of Shiatsu brought in
Shitsuto Masunaga. This
sophisiticated system is for everyone,
in particular however for therapists
who are very intrested, since it brings
with the comprehensive and in
thousands of years worked
satisfactorily action spectrum of
the eastern medicine in direct
contact.
By working on teh
meridian with the finger pressure can open and manufacture a
reconciliation between interior and
external bodies. That is the energy we are always connected
with and it
can circulate then with high
oscillation quality in us. If this
is the case after a Shiatsu
treatment no illness will develop.
Therefore Shiatsu has primarily
preventive function and finds not only in the
medical case application. In both
cases however the same principle
works: The finger pressure on the
meridians mobilizes our own welfare
forces.
The treatment
takes place on a Futon. This gives
the possibility to treat someone in
different ways. So you can included
streches of the meridians into the
treatment which looks like passive
Yoga. This spectrum of reasssuring
and dynamic Shiatsu is integrated
into the treatment in order to
adjust as basis our health the
energy emptiness and the energy
abundance in the body.
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