An overview of our posts about traditional Japanese massage and bodywork practices.
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 traditional approaches to Oriental medicine and Shiatsu, Ryokyo Endo goes [ Read more … ]
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 an authority or religious leader. The Shinto religion and practices are [ Read more … ]
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 martial arts movements. They typically serve as a practice [ Read more … ]
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 therapy that departs from the Shiatsu implementations of Sensei Namikoshi and [ Read more … ]
Quantum Shiatsu is a style of Shiatsu Massage Therapy developed by Pauline Sasaki in the 1990s. Departing from Masunaga’s Zen Shiatsu, Pauline extended her Shiatsu style with quantum physics principles, the theory of relativity, quantum [ Read more … ]
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 Shin Jyutsu (a gentle touch and acupressure technique) and combines elements [ Read more … ]
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 called Movement Shiatsu. Movement Shiatsu is a therapeutic type [ Read more … ]
Shiatsu Chair Massage or Seated Shiatsu Massage is typically an acupressure treatment based on Japanese Shiatsu therapy techniques, and applied to a receiver who is placed in a special mobile i.e. portable massage chair. In [ Read more … ]
Although the diagnostic system of Kyo and Jitsu is attributed to Sensei Masunaga — the creator of Zen Shiatsu — it’s basically an implementation of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) concepts of Xu and Shi, [ Read more … ]
Hara Abdominal Diagnosis (also called Fukushin or Harashin) has its roots in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Although it’s not any longer much used in TCM, it’s still a very important palpation assessment tool in Japanese [ Read more … ]