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Shiatsu and Bodywork

Hands-on bodywork is a life-giving exercise. After only one session, we learn that our functionality in life – physically, mentally, and emotionally – improves and we feel lighter, perform better, with more fluidity.

The work I do is highly intuitive while remaining direct and sensible. Most important are common sense and sensitivity to what is beneath my hands– you! I love bodywork because it offers me the widest spectrum of the human being one can work with.  For example, all body systems, simultaneously, respond to physical touch: musculo-skeletal, nervous, lymphatic, endocrine, cerebro-spinal, repiratory, vascular, etc.  

As well, the traumas from the past emerge to be released through the tissue and organs.  It is very dynamic work.

Shiatsu and Myofacial Release, are the central styles I work with in bodywork, and many other "tools" are brought in as needed.  Depth of pressure is not static, but dynamic, and is applied according to what enables your system to release its holding in your body in the moment. So, pressure ranges from very subtle to very deep.

Warning: if you are used to massage therapy, you will have some new experiences and sensations on my table.  I do not do traditional western massage any more.  Below is my piece about Shiatsu:

Shiatsu is the Japanese interpretation of Traditional Chinese Medicine into a form of bodywork.  I joke that it is perhaps the only area that the Chinese and Japanese agree.  So that, in itself, is very healing.  The system of knowledge has Toaist philosophy as its root.  Yin and Yang, masculine and feminine, the rise and fall of energies, harmony and disharmony, Heaven to Earth and Earth to Heaven.  The energies and physicality of nature (body, world, universe) express themselves so obviously in this duality that it is easy for someone like me who has a very "Christiany" heart to admire it and accept it whole hog.  The knowledge behind Shiatsu has been used consistently and effectively for thousands of years.

 

My specialty is in encouraging the tendency toward wholeness and connectivity in the body.  Where is the block?  Let's help it to flow. The artist Michelangelo, when sculpting ‘David,’ was said to remove everything that was not ‘David’ from the stone he chiseled upon. This is how I feel about working on human beings' bodies.

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