Traditional Japanese Massage and Bodywork Practices | Page 4

Tao Shiatsu Therapy | Sensei Ryokyu Endo
Tao Shiatsu was created by Sensei Ryokyu Endo, a former student of Masunaga, the founder of what today is called Zen Shiatsu. Although rooted in tradi [ ... ]

Shinto | Japan’s Indigenous Religion
Shinto is considered the indigenous religion of Japan. It’s a polytheistic, nature and animistic religion, it has no founder, nor is it led by a [ ... ]

Katas in Shiatsu Massage Therapy | Form and Order
Kata is the Japanese word for “form,” a notion perhaps best known within the Japanese martial arts, where it refers to a pattern or sequence of ma [ ... ]

Seiki Shiatsu | Sei-ki Massage Therapy
Seiki Shiatsu or Sei-ki (also called Sei Ki Soho or sometimes Shinto Shiatsu) was developed by Akinobu Kishi (1949-2012). It’s a type of Shiatsu [ ... ]

Quantum Shiatsu | Balancing and Integrating Energetic Layers
Quantum Shiatsu is a style of Shiatsu Massage Therapy developed by Pauline Sasaki in the 1990s. Departing from Masunaga’s Zen Shiatsu, Pauline exten [ ... ]

Jin Shin Do® | Iona Marsaa Teeguarden
Jin Shin Do® is a therapeutic massage modality aimed at deep relaxation, developed in the 1970s by Iona Marsaa Teeguarden. It’s derived from Jin Sh [ ... ]

Movement Shiatsu | Body Development through Working with the Meridians
Bill Palmer, a co-founder of the Shiatsu Society UK, and the founder of the School for Experiential Education (SEED), is the creator of what he later [ ... ]

Shiatsu Chair Massage Explained | Seated Massage Techniques
Shiatsu Chair Massage or Seated Shiatsu Massage is typically an acupressure treatment based on Japanese Shiatsu therapy techniques, and applied to a r [ ... ]

Kyo and Jitsu in Zen Shiatsu Massage Therapy
Although the diagnostic system of Kyo and Jitsu is attributed to Sensei Masunaga — the creator of Zen Shiatsu — it’s basically an implem [ ... ]

Hara Abdominal Diagnosis in Japanese Traditional Medicine
Hara Abdominal Diagnosis (also called Fukushin or Harashin) has its roots in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Although it’s not any longer much u [ ... ]