what is shiatsu?
Shiatsu is a traditional Japanese healing treatment that encourages the flow of energy. Using a system of pressure points, stretches and rotations it works through the whole body. Shiatsu includes a diagnostic element and follow-up recommendations.
It developed from the Traditional Chinese Medicine approach to health and follows the same pathways and points that you find in acupuncture. Instead of needles shiatsu involves a leaning in to the body using palm and finger pressure.
Shiatsu has a holistic approach to how a person is feeling and views any physical or emotional conditions, illness or pain as symptoms of an imbalance. In this way tiredness, stiffness or specific ailments are seen as signals of a need in the body to redress the balance of vital energy (or Qi).
If you have shiatsu you may discover links between seemingly unconnected symptoms you have been experiencing. So for example you may come for digestive problems and find that over time as these improve you also feel less forgetful, less anxious and problems in your knees get better. This is because of the holistic nature of energy work - the cornerstone of Traditional Chinese Medicine and therefore shiatsu.
what is shiatsu?
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