Shiatsu
Shiatsu is a Japanese style of body work with roots in Traditional Chinese Medicine that works along the meridian system. It helps each body to find it’s own balance and harmony of life force through the entire being for health and deeper connection to life and purpose.
Receiving Shiatsu
Receiving a shiatsu treatment is a wonderful harmony of healing touch, presence and energetic alignment. It is done fully clothed and on a floor mat. I work to listen and embody the wisdom of the five elements (water, wood, fire, earth, metal). There is a special way to notice, feel and help move these different manifestations of life through the body for greater health and awareness of all
I always check alignment and posture, to see how energy is flowing through the whole system. I love to read the body, it’s story of how someone has lived, where one may be tight, and where one may be tired. I honor every body that comes to me and the gift to be able to offer loving touch
Shiatsu can help with a variety of issues via the meridian system and understanding energy in order to find the root cause of an imbalance
Physical injuries, inflammation, digestive issues, general stress, insomnia, emotional distress, menstrual irregularities, depression, nerve pain and more
World of Energy
There is now both a spiritual and scientific understanding that all that exists is made up of energy. This is a life force, a consciousness, a unified universal energy that flows through and is ALL life. The physical realm is not an object. Matter is not solid, and many of us have learned through experience how our thoughts and feelings have a direct effect on the physical body.
Shiatsu is a way to open the senses of oneself to the world of energy balance and flow within through touch.
Shiatsu works along the meridian system which is an energetic map of pathways and currents of flow through the body/mind. Many of us have an understanding of energy but not an embodied experience of living with this truth. Without awareness, much can get stuck along the meridian pathways and can cause distress and a lack of feeling one’s true self.
Alignment
Many of us are accustom to aligning our attention primarily to our mental process. It is so habituated that many do not even realize we can become more aware and go deeper into the self than our thoughts. Our attention and focus is powerful because whatever we are paying attention to, we are feeding. There is a saying in Chinese Medicine that where the attention goes, the qi (energy) follows. In the oneness of the mind-body system that our souls exist within to be here as an individual on earth, whatever we are aligning with in our consciousness has an effect on our bodies and visa-versa. Mental and emotional patterns can be seen and felt in the body. And for this, to touch and work with the body, especially along the meridian pathways can effect how we are feeling, thinking and perceiving.
We are part of a living and breathing universe, and we are both being affected by it and also affecting it. Take a deep breath. Relax you shoulders. Feel life in you.
