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Simple approach to shiatsu, including diagnosis, the role of ebergy and the benefits to both the person giving and the person receiving treatment. (For this item please quote stock ID 6122) ISBN: 9781862041622

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A healing system to help you achieve a state of enhanced well-being and total relaxation - and transform your life Shiatsu is a form of profoundly effective, healing bodywork with its roots in ancient Oriental medicine and philosophy. Whether you want to increase your energy flow, treat common ailments, boost your immune system or just relax deeply and completely, shiatsu is for you. Live Better: Shiatsu offers an introduction to the origins and history of shiatsu, tracing its development and covering all its practical aspects. Through clear, easy-to-follow exercises expert practitioner Chris Jarmey explains the basic shiatsu techniques, stretches and sequences, showing how these can be used in your everyday life to rebalance and revitalise yourself, your friends and your loved ones. (For this item please quote stock ID 8496) ISBN: 9781844832385

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This beautiful deck of 50 Oracle Cards has been lovingly created to engage Shiatsu practitioners and enthusiasts alike. As with all hands-on healing therapies, an effective Shiatsu treatment depends not only on the technical skills of the practitioner, but also his or her degree of intuitive touch. Shiatsu Oracle Cards help you develop your intuition, and offer you ways to integrate it into your Shiatsu treatments using these special cards. It complements conventional Shiatsu diagnostic techniques, and lends itself to practical use in clinic, whilst non-Shiatsu therapists can still give accurate and insightful readings for themselves and loved ones. With a focus on embracing positive and holistic lifestyle choices, Shiatsu Oracle Cards gently lead you towards the path of Harmonious Health through Eastern Traditions and Intuition. Features: > 50 beautifully designed, full-colour cards wrapped in Japanese-print kimono fabric ? perfect presentation makes Shiatsu Oracle Cards an ideal gift for the Shiatsu enthusiast! > Easy-to-use cards are based on The Five Elements, and colour-coded accordingly for at-a-glimpse readings for time-conscious practitioners. > Offers a playful, yet insightful and accurate edge to clinic treatments. > Perfect for practitioners wanting to offer something special with their Shiatsu sessions. > Fantastic for Shiatsu students who are serious about developing their sense of intuition to enhance their practice > FREE Online Guidebook (accessible through password provided with deck) includes: o An introduction to Shiatsu, its basis in Traditional Chinese Medicine and its intrinsic relationship with intuition. o Clear Instructions o Suggested Card Layouts o Card Descriptions and Clinical Relevance of each card Shiatsu Oracle Cards will prove an invaluable asset for intuitively-guided practitioners, students and enthusiasts. (For this item please quote stock ID 27817) ISBN: 9780980310306

Shiatsu works on the body through meridians, or channels of energy. Hands-on diagnosis leads to relaxing or toning massage strokes along specific channels. A complete guide for the beginner and excellent course book for students (For this item please quote stock ID 10308) ISBN: 9781856752145

Derived from an Eastern healing tradition dating back nearly 5000 years shiatsu, meaning 'finger pressure', is a relatively modern therapy that is gaining popularity in the West. It involves improving energy flow by applying pressure to, stretching, or manipulating specific parts of the body. This pocket guide explains shiatsu terminology, describes the therapeutic value of the practice, and gives step-by-step instruction on how to perform shiatsu on yourself and others. Master these complex, often subtle techniques to help treat physical complaints and bring harmony to body and mind. (For this item please quote stock ID 14954) ISBN: 9783822809792

The director of Healthsprings Clinic in Boulder, Colorado presents his innovative method of integrating the energetic concepts and techniques of shiatsu with Western osteopathic and therapeutic massage. (For this item please quote stock ID 6567) ISBN: 9780892815265

Shiatsu is a traditional method of treating illness through stimulating points and meridians with the fingers, thumbs and palms. This book is an instructive manual for pregnant women, practitioners, partners, and birthing partners caring for pregnant women. The author provides practical solutions to a host of problems experienced during and after pregnancy. From the antenatal classes to the days and hours preceding birth, non-intrusive remedies are provided. (For this item please quote stock ID 13795) ISBN: 9781875559817

This easy-to-follow manual will teach massage therapists how to give a safe and effective hot stone massage. The book covers every aspect of administering a hot stone massage including the many type of stones, equipment and accessories, room set up, precautions, physiological effects of heat and cold, stone placement, and a novel system for optimal stone management and flow. The book's centerpiece is a unique three-dimensional approach to hot stone massage, which involves working on both sides of the body at once, removing stones from beneath clients without their involvement, and transitioning seamlessly from one body part to another.

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Be prepared to answer certification questions about shiatsu, and develop the skills you'll need to become a successful practitioner! This comprehensive, easy-to-use textbook covers foundational information and methods, followed by more complex theory and practice. You'll learn how the channels (meridians) affect clients' health, how to conduct assessments, how to maintain proper body mechanics during practice, how to address imbalances in each of the Five Elements, and much more. The accompanying DVD includes over 90 minutes of video showing specific applications described in the book. Workbook-style exercises and questions at the end of each chapter improve your understanding and retention of the material. A title in the Mosby's Massage Career Development Series. Features * Comprehensive textbook introduces you to all the essentials of shiatsu, offering a complete background on the history of shiatsu, relevant Eastern philosophies and Asian bodywork concepts, the channels (meridians), and proper body mechanics. * A separate Theory and Practice section explores various assessment methods and how to evaluate assessment information, techniques and positions to address imbalances in each of the Five Elements, and advanced techniques. * Includes all of the helpful learning features you expect from a Mosby's Massage Career Development Series title, such as a vibrant, full-color design, chapter outlines and learning objectives, key terms, workbook sections, and a companion DVD. * Authored by a leading expert and certified practitioner with a background in shiatsu education and instruction. * DVD packaged with the book contains over 90 minutes of video showing specific applications and techniques performed by the author, such as qigong, basic shiatsu techniques, jitsu and kyo, basic kata, including the hara techniques, and a standard treatment session. Each video clip on the DVD is referenced in the textbook with numbered icons that direct you to particular clips on the DVD. * Over 330 full-color illustrations visually represent concepts and techniques. * Special quote boxes interspersed throughout each chapter, contain thoughts and proverbs from Buddha, Eleanor Roosevelt, the Dalai Lama, Helen Keller, and many others. (For this item please quote stock ID 29363) ISBN: 9780323045803

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Atlas of Shiatsu presents clear, detailed descriptions of the twelve main meridians used in Shiatsu practice. The study of the meridians is a difficult aspect of Shiatsu training and this highly-illustrated atlas explains and illustrates their positions within the body. The description of each meridian is supported by 15-30 illustrations.

Clear and detailed descriptions of each of the twelve main meridians used in Shiatsu practice
Highly illustrated, with 15-30 illustrations supporting the description of each meridian
Attractively designed
The first atlas of shiatsu
(For this item please quote stock ID 31564) ISBN: 9780702029622

Do-In is an ancient traditional exercise for the cultivation of physical health, mental serenity, and spirituality. Over the last 5,000 years, it has served as the origin of such well-known modalities as shiatsu, acupuncture, moxibustion, yogic exercises, and meditation. Literally meaning to pull and stretch, Do-In originated in the Tao of Shin Sen as a way of achieving longevity and attaining the highest potential of mental and spiritual development. Do-In offers release from physical sickness, mental frustration and confusion, and intellectual and social disharmony.

Do-In techniques are a series of successive motions designed to harmonize body systems. The Do-In Way details the fundamental aspects of the exercise, which involves breathing, posture, and self-massage and manipulation to stimulate bodily systems. The gentle application of pressure on the body's meridians corresponds directly with physical processes, and allows for the conditioning and stimulation of internal organs. Do-In is a simple, gentle exercise for achieving oneness between the self and the external world, and for integrating that harmony into physical and spiritual nature.

The Do-In Way is a comprehensive handbook to this basic, primal form of exercise--the ancient system of movement designed to gently and safely enhance physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Michio Kushi is a leading world figure in the macrobiotic movement. His study of macrobiotics began more than fifty years ago under its founder, George Ohsawa. Since that time, Mr. Kushi has gone on to establish the highly respected Kushi Institute in Massachusetts, lectured extensively throughout the world, and authored over twenty books on health, nutrition, and the macrobiotic lifestyle. As a macrobiotic counselor, he has successfully guided thousands to restore their physical, psychological, and spiritual health. Michio Kushi resides in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Latest edition. Most recommended and well used Shiatsu guide now updated with new material throughout! Shiatsu: The Complete Guide is a new edition of the definitive guide and reference book for students and practitioners. Anyone with a serious interest in bodywork will find this book an indispensable textbook. Shiatsu literally means ‘finger pressure’ and is a traditional Japanese massage technique which can rebalance the body and ease both mental and physical tension by applying pressure to the body’s energy channels, or meridians. Covering a broad range of issues and information, Shiatsu: The Complete Guide includes: >The concept of Ki >Essential elements & components of shiatsu >How to use the different body parts - hands, palms, thumbs, fingers, forearms, knees & feet >Energy channels & how they are used in shiatsu >Basic treatment techniques >Shiatsu therapy & traditional Oriental medicine >Forms of Oriental diagnosis. Illustrated throughout, Shiatsu: The Complete Guide takes the reader in depth through the mental, physical and spiritual elements of shiatsu practice. (For this item please quote stock ID 8493) ISBN: 9780722539149

This book provides an in-depth guide to how shiatsu can form part of modern maternity care. The authors help the midwife gain an understanding of shiatsu and discuss the actions necessary to establish its use in a maternity unit, including training and professional issues. This book presents the theory relevant to the use of shiatsu in maternity care in terms easily understood by the midwife with the practical applications of shiatsu in maternity care explained through the presentation of some specific techniques, backed up with case study examples drawn from midwives using shiatsu as part of their practice, in the UK and world-wide. The authors also discuss the safe use of many of the techniques by parents detailing some along with case study examples. Shiatsu for personal health is also briefly discussed. Yates & Anderson bring the knowledge and skill of a midwife lecturer and supervisor, and a past editor of The Practising Midwife to ensure the content is appropriate to midwives' Code of Practice and to ensure that this is a key text for anyone wishing to explore this new area. Features: >Teaches midwives how to incorporate the use of Shiatsu into safe practice & relates the practice of Shiatsu to professional midwifery issues such as Code of Conduct, Employer issues, etc. >Clear line drawings & photographs illustrate techniques & are backed up by discussions of actual case studies >Information on how to teach parents shiatsu skills for future use makes this an extremely useful tool for midwives >An additional section provides self-help techniques for midwives to enable them to combat personal stress Contents: >Foreword by Tricia Anderson >Preface >Introduction >Section 1: Professional Issues >Section 2: Yin & Yang - applying eastern theory to midwifery >Section 3: Hands on shiatsu - practical applications >Section 4: How can shiatsu help midwives? >Appendices >Glossary of Japanese terms >Research references >Contact lists for training. (For this item please quote stock ID 20182) ISBN: 9780750655231

*acupAfter 12 years in print and acclaimed use by Shiatsu professionals and students worldwide author Veet Allan has revisited, remastered and expanded the original Ocean book for this new and second edition.

Using modern digital illustration techniques Veet has completely redrawn and extended the original Zen Shiatsu based meridian system alongside theoretical material from Classical Chinese medicine to finally reflect his original vision for the book and subsequent practical and teaching experience.

All illustrations are designed for self-colouring. On completion by the student or practitioner they provide an accurate pictorial study of the meridians, tsubos or points of Oriental medicine alongside the organ, skeletal and muscular systems of Western medicine.

This new edition contains: >Double the volume of the original book (ISBN 0952397609) >Over 150 illustrations throughout in greyscale and black line art >Completely new and redesigned layout including new digital illustrations of the expanded Zen Shiatsu based meridian system, and two of the Primary (extra-ordinary vessels), namely the Du and Ren mai or Supervisor and Controller vessels respectively >Revised and expanded to now include 123 Point or residential Tsubo studies with their respective names in Chinese characters in addition to pinyin name and Western identification >New chapter illustrates the skeletal, muscular and organ systems of Western medicine in addition to the Oriental measurement system >New chapter on Diagnostics illustrates the basics of the Classical Chinese and Zen Shiatsu medical systems >New chapter illustrates all the Zen meridians complimented by fully annotated and detailed Anatomical cross sections in key areas >New Appendix illustrates the author’s alternative Zen based diagnostic zones or schema for the head, back, chest and hara >New Point/Tsubo indications index and glossaries of Chinese characters for the points, meridians and general terminology. (For this item please quote stock ID 4058) ISBN: 9780952397625

A growing number of Westerners are discovering the pleasurable and therapeutic uses of shiatsu, a Japanese method of acupressure. In Do-It-Yourself Shiatsu, Ohashi, one of the most knowledgeable and well-known U.S.-based shiatsu experts, offers step-by-step instruction on how to perform shiatsu at home. Ohashi, who has taught and practiced shiatsu for more than thirty years, focuses on common ailments faced here in the West. He provides clear explanations of all technical terms and helpful photographs throughout to illustrate shiatsu techniques and locations of pressure points. Also included are explanations of special shiatsu exercises, designed to keep energy flowing through the body, and a new preface by the author. 'Ohashi ... continues to spread the healing spirit he has discovered by his own professional example' —Massage Magazine. (For this item please quote stock ID 11516) ISBN: 9780140196320

Shiatsu/Shin Tai includes >Synthesis of Eastern & Western techniques & philosophy >Introduction to the priority & sequence of treatment >The key role of bodywork in evolution >Postural evaluation >Passive spinal & hip correction >Unwinding of the Atlas >Reorganising the body/mind information system. Shiatsu has been derived from traditional forms of bodywork. It has developed greatly in the last 25 years as a natural therapy, through its synthesis with Western theory and technique. Shiatsu helps to relieve physical symptoms and restore emotional and mental balance. Shin Tai is a term used to define an evolved and further synthesised form of shiatsu. Shin Tai identifies areas of the technique that have until now functioned as unconscious elements within the treatment and brings them to more specific use. Shin Tai takes the basic principles of shiatsu and applies them to the multidimensional human energy system. It also employs the use of mechanical, energetic and abstract diagnosis to determine the priority of treatment. (For this item please quote stock ID 14313) ISBN: 9780940843011

The therapeutic art of shiatsu is now widely practised in the West, yet practitioners find it difficult to acquire the training that will take them beyond the mechanistic level.

For many years Akinobu Kishi has been visiting the West to teach, but never before has his approach been recorded in book form. Regarded as one of the leading exponents of shiatsu, Kishi trained with and assisted Shizuto Masunaga, and is widely regarded as the heir to his work, developed to the higher level of Seiki Soho, which takes the practice beyond technique. With the assistance of his long-term student Alice Whieldon, Kishi's theory and practice of Seiki Soho are described and explained for the first time in this important book. Setting his work within the historical context of shiatsu, the long central section of the book consists of a dialogue about the fundamental principles and practice of Masunaga's Zen Shiatsu and Seiki Soho as taught by Kishi. The final section consists of case studies of practice, including the experiences of people treated by Kishi.

This groundbreaking and generous book is illustrated with Kishi's calligraphy and other artwork, and will be essential reading for all shiatsu practitioners and students who want to deepen their practice, and a rich and rewarding read for anyone interested in Eastern approaches to life and healing.

About the Authors
Akinobu Kishi is an internationally-renowned teacher and master of Zen Shiatsu. He developed his own method of bodywork, Seiki Soho, after studying extensively in the fields of Shiatsu, Haruchika Noguchi's Seitai and bio-energetics until, coming up against the limits of shiatsu, he experienced a profound change in consciousness out of which Seiki Soho emerged. Born in 1949 in the Gunma region of Japan, Kishi was originally taught by his father, an accomplished judo master, who introduced him to manual therapy when he was just 9 years old. His formal training took place at Tokujiro Namikoshi's Japan Shiatsu College and at the Iokai Centre in Tokyo with Shizuto Masunaga, the father of Zen Shiatsu. Kishi assisted Masunaga for 10 years, and is now widely regarded as the heir to his work.

Alice Whieldon is a shiatsu practitioner and teacher as well as a tutor and senior manager with the Open University in London. She began her training in 1991, meeting Akinobu Kishi in 1998, and has worked closely with him ever since. (For this item please quote stock ID 35619) ISBN: 9781848190429

This new text follows and extends Ohashi's bodywork teaching beyond his popular texts Do-It-Yourself Shiatsu and Reading the Body - Ohashi's Book of Oriental Diagnosis. (For this item please quote stock ID 11518) ISBN: 9781568363516

Shiatsu works by stimulating the body's vital energy flow in order to promote good health. The practitioner uses palms, thumbs and fingers, elbows, and even knees and feet to apply pressure and stretching to the energy lines or “meridians.” This text written by a renowned practitioner, has been designed as a comprehensive guide to the basic principles and methods of this practical healing art. The book provides a description of how and why shiatsu works and the ways in which to apply it. A straightforward explanation of the basics underlying shiatsu forms the starting point, followed by detailed advice on how the practitioner or student can prepare both body and mind for giving shiatsu. A discussion of the principles of applying techniques leads into practical, step-by-step instruction on a wide range of technique sequences, all accompanied by clear, explanatory line drawings and color photographs. These help beginners maximize their understanding of how to relieve stress and promote well-being through shiatsu. (For this item please quote stock ID 29020) ISBN: 9781556436390