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14.01.2022 Shiatsu Manuals - Masunaga

12.01.2022 One heart and one !

11.01.2022 In less than two weeks, we hope to kick off an outstanding ESC 2020 with an amazing programme. It’s a pity that not everyone of the shiatsu community could make... it to Amsterdam. But here is the good news : since we have to bring in costly cameras and specialists anyway, we are going to provide a livestream to allow you watching from you own home, dojo or wherever you are. Let's celebrate shiatsu. Join the European Shiatsu Congress livestream. https://www.europeanshiatsucongress.eu/livestream/ Play the video with the sound ON :)

08.01.2022 INTERNATIONAL SHIATSU CONGRESS ONLINE OCTOBER 9TH 10TH 11TH 2020 with a pretty spectacular programme. Have a look and register. https://www.internationalshiatsucongressonline.org/#

04.01.2022 The way to apply a precise pressure in Shiatsu without spending energy.

03.01.2022 Here are 3 tips for you to help keep healthy this Spring: - Using dark leafy greens in your cooking, they'll help "build blood" as well as fresh herbs - Have yo...u had an idea for a while and not birthed it yet? Now is the time to let your Creativity loose: writing a poem, sculpting, crafting, painting...or even writing your business plan or a book! - Flying a kite! We just ran a workshop with our Shiatsu Association and one of the practitioners suggested this brilliant idea. Perfect to use Wind which is the climate of Spring, move your body and practice sideways directions and fluidity. Join us next Sunday if you'd like to dive deeper into the meaning of Spring and what to do to thrive during this season. Details in comments.

01.01.2022 Walking the Talk Shiatsu has been in existence for around 100 years, give or take. It has been here in the West for around half of that time. Some feel that thi...ngs are going too slowly, and that Shiatsu has not made the breakthrough into the hearts and minds of the common man and woman that it ought to have done by now. We look at the enormous benefits we have received on our way to becoming practitioners, we observe the effects every day of the treatments we give, we revel in the multi-level transformations we regularly witness among our clientele and we wonder: why don’t more people want this? How come we are not being begged to appear on morning TV shows, radio programmes and web podcasts all over the world every day to tell people of the miracle in our hands? How can it be that Reiki is on its way to becoming a household name? Why is massage and even Thai massage the stuff of everyday conversations but not Shiatsu? How come acupuncture is routinely discussed (albeit with plenty of skepticism) but Shiatsu continues to live its life in the shadows? There are good partial answers to all of these questions and some of them lie completely beyond our power to affect in any way. We cannot alter the fact that acupuncture has been around for thousands of years and is attractive to medical personnel and naturopaths in a way that Shiatsu never will be. We cannot alter the fact that millions go on their holidays to Thailand and receive treatments an inexpensive session in the local high street massage parlour is a wonderful way to bring back holiday remembrances. This is an advantage Shiatsu will almost certainly never come close to having. How come students are falling away from Shiatsu? Shouldn’t they be thronging to our schools in droves, banging on the door and demanding to partake of our special and arcane knowledge? Well, let’s do the math very swiftly. Basic Thai massage training can be done for a fraction of the price and in a very short space of time. Ditto massage. Reiki can be mastered in a matter of months if you have the financial muscle. Shiatsu takes three years. Realistically and conservatively speaking, if you want an authentic Shiatsu diploma from a reputable school, it takes three years and then some and that is exactly the way we have decided we want it. We have striven to set up what we believe are realistically high standards for Shiatsu training in every country and even on a Europe-wide basis. One might even argue that the standards are not nearly high enough. In the European arena, efforts are fairly well on the way to formally establishing the profession of Shiatsu. The training levels we will have to agree on will almost certainly be higher than they are today. Part of the reasoning behind this is that once we have a real profession, we can insist that the level of training required truly reflects the professional status we yearn for and claim to deserve. We will be able to call the shots and schools will be full of people lining up to take their place in a profession that can stand straight-backed and tall and be counted. We are not quite there yet however, so the discussion remains an interesting and fertile one. What will it take to make Shiatsu a household name? The work going on in the National and European Shiatsu associations has been in progress for thirty years or more. It is slowly but surely showing signs of bearing fruit in the foreseeable future. In the meantime, what can be done at the other end of the spectrum the grass roots, if we might use that term? Each and every student, practitioner and teacher of Shiatsu has a valuable role to play in this regard. Some are less interested than others that’s fine. Not everyone wants Shiatsu to become a household name and that is a perfectly reasonable opinion to hold. Many prefer to stay under the radar, off-grid and out of the limelight. There are excellent reasons for this, and no arguments are needed around that topic. But for those of us who would like to see Shiatsu - finally - take its place as a profession among others, how to proceed? The answer may be as simple as it is undramatic: let's walk the talk. If you love doing Shiatsu, be Shiatsu. If you enjoy being part of Shiatsu classes, gatherings and teachings, become Shiatsu with your person as well. If you practice Shiatsu as part of your livelihood, make sure it becomes part of your lifestyle as well. If you teach Shiatsu, make sure your life becomes a lesson in the applied principles of Shiatsu. If you run a school, be sure to run your life in the same way holistically and according to the ideas that form the basis of everything we build into our lessons and course plans. A central question then becomes: What is Shiatsu? There are a million responses to this and once we’ve considered them all, a million new versions will mutate forth. We will never be able to exhaust the question because it is one that is subject to change and fluctuation just as the principles underlying it prescribe: change is the only constant. We know this from day one of our Shiatsu studies when our teacher showed us the Yin-Yang diagram, the Taiji. The moment the flow between polarities stops is the moment of death. We fervently hope that Shiatsu will not die and therefore we accept that we will never be able to capture its true essence more than fleetingly in words or concepts: the Dao that can be described in words is not - and never will be - the true Dao. How then to define this wonderful, ever-changing, multi-faceted art we love so much? If we cannot define it, then obviously we have to allow each other to describe it in different terms and to include and exclude different features. No two people will be able to agree on all aspects of what is or is not Shiatsu. For the sake of appearances, in the various political arenas and when dealing with the outside world we coin descriptions and decide on definitions. We hope that they will not appear too contradictory from one organisation to another, but differences do exist and will continue to do so. We have to learn to live with this for it will always be so. It will continue to be so simply because each individual approaching and experiencing Shiatsu does so in a unique way every single time a living miracle that we all celebrate on a daily basis. Returning therefore to the main question under consideration, how to walk the talk when we cannot agree on the language? It’s not easy to discuss this in any definitive way. Principles are all we have, and freedom is something we all - rightly - insist on. When we study Shiatsu, we allow it to seep into our skin, our movements and finally our very consciousness. When we practice Shiatsu, it gradually becomes part of our way of looking at the world. The more we live with Shiatsu, the more Shiatsu transforms our everyday actions: as we apply and teach the principles and techniques of Shiatsu, we allow them to determine the choices we make and the decisions we take. The more time we spend with Shiatsu, the more we become Shiatsu. Surely this is the only way Shiatsu will become a part of everyday life. Let’s continue to walk the talk and patiently allow Shiatsu to seep into the movements, thoughts and awareness of those around us. It may not happen quickly. It may proceed like a glacier almost imperceptibly. But the movement will persist as long as we do. Text by Chris McAlister, ESF President. (A version of this text was recently published in the UKSS Journal, summer 2020 edition)

01.01.2022 These books could belong to you. A marvellous collection. Pickup is Avalon Beach / Sydney area.