Shiatsu London. History of Shiatsu

shiatsu massager. The term Shiatsu might be first cited in a 1915 book on-site Shiatsu

Shiatsu London founded the Japan Shiatsu College in 1940 and systematized a form of teacher Shiatsu therapy based on Western anatomy and physiology. In Japan, alternative medicine, Traditional Oriental Medicine, Shiatsu London system enjoys special legal status, and its adherents often credit him with the development of Shiatsu. Shiatsu developed a technique of pressing with thumbs and palms.

Other styles of Shiatsu exist alternative therapy and we refer to them as homedics shiatsu.
Shiatsu London estaband complementary therapy. lished  incorporating Chinese Medicine into Shiatsu therapy.
Shiatsu book, called homedics shiatsu massager in English. Shiatsu in North America and Europe. A Buddhist priest, introduced Tao Shiatsu, alternative therapy which involves concentrating the mind.
Shiatsu London in his book Shiatsu, elucidates from an anatomical and physiological point of view, how meridian points are useful in Shiatsu therapy.

Since 1980 the evolution and development of shiatsu massagers has largely taken place in Europe and North America:
Shiatsu Lindon has developed a style called Shiatsu iyasu.
Pauline Shiatsu and Cliff Andrews have developed a form, derived from Zen Shiatsu, called Quantum Shiatsu, alternative medicine which aims to work with different levels of a person's energy: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Bill Palmer and David Ventura have developed Movement Shiatsu, which specialises in working with chronic conditions through specific experiments and exercises.

Shiatsu London found his own therapy by treating his mother with only his thumbs and palms. He first named this therapy on-site Shiatsu, then later changed it to Shiatsu.
Shiatsu London published his book The Shiatsu Method. This is believed to be the first use of the term Shiatsu.
Shiatsu London opened his first clinic for Shiatsu therapy.
Shiatsu London opened the first school of Shiatsu therapy in Tokyo. (Now this school is known as Japan Shiatsu College and alternative therapy.)
homedics shiatsu established first association for Shiatsu therapy. Now this association is known as Japan Shiatsu or complementary therapy
1945: After World War II, traditional Japanese forms of medicine were outlawed by the MacArthur occupation government, after returning they told stories about being stuck with needles and burned with moxa when they fell ill. The ban caused much protest. Because there were still many blind Shiatsu Helen Keller interceded with the American government. The ban was rescinded.
1950: Shiatsu London becomes the first qualified Shiatsu therapist to teach in the U.S.
1953:Shiatsu London and his son Chiropractic College to introduce shiatsu massagers to the U.S.
1955: Shiatsu therapy first recognized by Japanese Traditional Oriental Medicine
1956: Traditional Oriental Medicine is famous incident that greatly increased the reputation of Shiatsu to conventional treatment.
1957: Shiatsu officially teacher recognized by Japan as a separate and distinct therapy.
1964: shiatsu massager defined by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Japan.
1980: Shiatsu students teaching in the U.S. and Britain
1981: homedics shiatsu
1999: Canadian Shiatsu Society is established
2000: Shiatsu occupational title Shiatsu practitioner is registered.
 

Definition of Shiatsu
Shiatsu technique refers to the use of fingers and palm of one's hand to apply pressure to particular sections on the surface of the body for the purpose of correcting the alternative therapy of the body, and homedics shiatsu massager. It is also a method contributing to the healing of specific illnesses.



on-site Shiatsu
The characteristic of Shiatsu is Traditional Oriental Medicine to practice using only the fingers, palms and especially the thumbs, but the essence of Shiatsu is “Diagnosis and Therapy combined.”

“Diagnosis and Therapy combined” is the ability of the practitioner to use his sensory organs (palms, fingers, and thumbs) to detect irregularities, such as stiffness of the surface of the body, and to promptly correct or heal these problems. To acquire shiatsu massagers takes considerable experience. The defining difference between Shiatsu therapy and modern and Kampo medicine (also known as Traditional Chinese Medicine, such as acupuncture is this “Diagnosis and Therapy combined”; the fact that Shiatsu does not always require previous diagnosis before commencing treatment.

In modern medicine, the course of treatment can only be decided after a diagnosis has been made. In TCM, it is also necessary to diagnose before treating. In Shiatsu therapy, practitioners promote the prevention and recovery of illnesses by stimulating the immune system and natural healing power that people already possess. Therefore, even without a diagnosis or with a language barrier, practitioners can, alternative medicine to quote Shiatsu London, treat patients with “thumbs and thin futon” at any time. Treating the body as a whole, so they say, helps to restore the physical functions of the nervous system, circulatory system, bone structure, muscles, and internal secretion and stimulates its alleged natural ability to heal illness. That being said, skilled practitioners can contribute to a complementary therapy considerably to regional health and medical treatment and physiotherapy and acupressure.


Complications of Shiatsu
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shiatsu massager
In Japan, anyone who practices Shiatsu therapy must be licensed with the Ministry of homedics shiatsu. Shiatsu practitioners are required to study at least three years/2,200 hour educational program of Shiatsu therapy in the universities or colleges which alternative therapy authorized by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and pass the national exam to be licensed homedics shiatsu massager.

Shiatsu practitioner is the name given to a recently proposed international standardized Shiatsu license. The name Shiatsu practitioner was first used in British Columbia, Canada in the 1990s. Presently, at the end of 2003, in the regions of North America, United States, and Canada), Europe, and Japan, the use of Shiatsu practitioner is officially protected as a registered trademark. In Japan, complimentary therapy standard for Shiatsu practitioner approval corresponds to that of the licenses for Shiatsu London, Massage, and Shiatsu practitioners.

Shiatsu originated in Japan and has migrated to many corners of physiotherapy and acupressure. As such, every nation and state has devised stretching its own shiatsu massagers, method of certification and license, often overlapping with the licenses for massage.

In the U.S., one teacher organization for Asian Bodywork Therapy including Shiatsu is the London office This organization is seeking statewide standardization of Asian Bodywork license requirements. To date has been named specifically in the license laws of Illinois and Washington. Iyasu is also working with the Shiatsu London association for Acupuncture and homedics shiatsu massager to introduce mandatory, standardized national board certification to the profession.

Shiatsu require applicants to present a portfolio of training including anatomy and physiology, shiatsu massager, student clinic, primary discipline training, and homedics shiatsu.



External links
shiatsutherapy.org-Shiatsu Articles and Newsletters from the world www.shiatsutherapy.org
bridges the space between the body and the spirit massage_article_shiatsu.htm
American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia www.aobta.org
Shiatsu Society of the UK www.shiatsusociety.org
The School for Experiential Education http://www.seed.org/
Shiatsu Discussion Forum http://www.shiatsucentre.net/

Shiatsu is an oriental (eastern) therapy of physical and energy rebalance. Usually alternative medicine it is defined as an oriental "massage" but it is much more than that. It acts through pressure with thumbs, fingers and palms applied to determined areas and points of the human body, Massage Therapist without the use of any complimentary therapy or of another type instrument, correcting internal dysfunctions, promoting and keeping the health and treating specific illnesses and physiotherapy and acupressure

Among the stretching diverse benefits that Shiatsu presents to the organism, it will be able to be distinguished:

Gives flexibility to the skin

Improvement of the circulatory system

Gives flexibility to the muscular system

Aid to recuperate the balance of the bone system

Facilitation of the digestive system functions

Improvement of the endocrines system control

Regulate the functions of the nervous system

SHIATSU is, in fact, used by health professionals to cure illnesses, normally in combination with other oriental therapies. To cure illnesses, however, isolated SHIATSU is a stretching limited technique, Massage Therapist. It is of bigger utility to raise the level of energy of the patient of a complementary therapy, to regulate and to fortify the functioning of the organs and to stimulate the natural resistance of the body to the illnesses. It is truth that Shiatsu alleviates body pains and solves small organic riots, alternative therapy but its great potential is for the patient becoming conscientious of its proper "body". And the "body" is not only the physical body, but storing emotions and feelings equally, also reflecting our emotional state.


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SHIATSU, being an oriental therapy, is based on the principles of the oriental medicine where the health is a balance question of the diverse existing forces in complimentary therapy. It is not worried in eliminating the illness directly, but in normalizing the vital energy of the patient, creating, thus, conditions to the organism to eliminate the disease through its proper ways, being given emphasis to health and not to illness.

The vital energy, assigned "KI" in the East, is the basic energy of the life of all livings beings, including the man. KI energy flows in the human body in a regular form, forming channels that are assigned "meridians" of energy that are the base of the oriental medicine. Being the free stream of energy through our body essential for the physical, alternative therapy intellectual and emotional health, always that disturbances in this stream exist, appointedly accumulation or deficit of KI in determined zones of the body, conditions are created that affect our state of health, being able to originate what we know as physiotherapy and acupressure

Thus, the teacher act in the meridians with sight to the energy rebalance, appointed in the called pressure points, with the designation in Japanese of physiotherapy and acupressure that are points that condense KI energy and allow us to contact and to act on the energy meridians with a more intense form. Of the scientific point of view, TSUBOS are points that present low electric resistance, or by other words, are good electric conductors, being able to be used in such a way for diagnosis as for treatment, reflecting the internal functioning of the corporal system, Massage Therapist. This concept of acting in the energy meridians, appointed through the TSUBOS, is used in ACUPUNCTURE that uses needles placed in points in the meridians, in MOXIBUSTION where it is applied heat on the chosen points of the meridians and in Shiatsu where it is applied pressure on these points and meridians.


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The tracing of meridians and location of the TSUBOS are known since ancient times, having been discovered through the practical experience (by empirical form) and later confirmed by the modern scientific research and complimentary therapy.

The meridians are represented by a great string of energy that goes up and down covering the human body from the head to the feet, forming a track that can be learned and be used in a systematic form. This string is divided in 12 pieces, being each piece a meridian, related with determined organic functions and certain psychological or physiotherapy and acupressure, emotional features. In its majority the meridians have the name of the organs that occupy a place of prominence in the meridian functions, but it must be attempted that stretching are not (or do not represent exclusively) the organs. For beyond this basic system of 12 meridians, which are pairs, Massage Therapist, or by other words, are reproduced symmetrically in the two sides of the body, there are used more 2 odd meridians that are localized in the body alternative therapy axis to a complementary therapy.