Shiatsu Final/MBLEX

finger pressure

Tamai Tempaku

Tokujiro Namikoshi

"pressed stroke"

A form of manipulation by thumbs, fingers, and palms, without the use of instruments, mechanical or otherwise, to apply pressure to the human skin to correct internal malfunctioning, promote and maintain health and TREAT specific disease.

A form of manipulation by thumbs, fingers, and palms, without the use of instruments, mechanical or otherwise, to apply pressure to the human skin to correct internal malfunctioning, promote and maintain health and AFFECT specific disease.

the hara

Yang

Yin aka Mother Hand: (stabilizer, provides support, and is nurturing to the recipient. It sedates the nervous system, esp when tender points are touched with the active hand.

Bring energy into balance to restore or maintain ki

• Shiatsu is a Japanese form of massage.
• It is performed with the client fully clothed.
• The client lies on a mat and the therapist works on various energy channels called meridians. No lotions or oils are used. The massage involves compression, ROM & stretches

Hara

approx 3 tsun below the umbilicus and 3 tsun deep inside the belly

Hara

• Circle: never ending
• Curve within the circle: transformation, activity to rest, the rise of one makes way for another
• Opposite colors: black = all colors, white = the absence of color, opposing but complimentary
• Small circles: the seed of one is in the other, brightness of day, but we still have shadows, not completely Yin and Yang, have elements in each

• Complementary yet opposing
• Continuous
• Not good or bad
• Together, produce all phenomena
• Yin attracts Yang; yang attracts yin
• Yin repels yin; yang repels yang
• Each is within the other; nothing is solely yin or yang
• Extreme yin transforms into yang; extreme yang transforms into yin
• One does not exist without the other

• Active
• Heaven
• Function
• Exterior
• Reavealed
• Mind
• Masculine
• Light
• Time
• Heat
• Energy of the Body
• Expansion
• Ascending Energy
• Day

• Passive
• Earth
• Substance
• Interior
• Hidden
• Body
• Feminine
• Dark
• Space
• Cold
• Blood, Body fluids, Tissues
• Contraction
• Descending Energy
• Night

When extreme yin or extreme yang reaches its limit, it transforms into its opposite

maintains and nurtures the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body

• Original or Prenatal Ki: total amount that you are born with, will deplete but can be strengthened
• Grain Ki: the food we eat (waht is the better source of ki)
• Air Ki: What we breathe, quality & quantity that we breathe

• Source of all movement: where the ability to change comes from, growth
• Protects: immune system
• Source of transformations: chemical change going on in body, anything that changes one form to another ex. digestion
• Governs the retention of Subastance and Organs: Keeps things in place like fasica
• Thermoregulator: temperature in body, very closely related to blood flow

Allow at least 5 sessions to occur before assessing the effectiveness of the treatments

• Decrease in px
• Decrease in insominia
• Improved quality of sleep
• Increase ROM
• De-stressing
• Emotional balance
• Increase in body awareness
• Improved organ function
• Strengthened immunity
• Improved mental function
• Profound relaxation
• Change in appetite and food cravings

• Thinking
• Breathing
• Movement
• Diet
• Sex
• Sleep

• Quality: Depth, Thermal Nature, Strength
• Yang: Exterior, Heat, Excess
• Yin: Interior, Cold, Deficiency

Bo-shin

Bun-shin

Mon-shin

Setsu-shin

Tsubos

Jitsu

warm or tight like a knotted muscle

Kyo

• Direct Pressure
• Clockwise rotations

• Broader Pressure
• Counterclockwise rotations & friction

• Location: Front of torso
• Px in a bo point represents: an acute imbalance
• Direct individual: to take care of these imbalances in a timely manner

• Location: Back of torso
• Coincide with: Tsubos along the Urinary Bladder (medial pathway)
• Represents: a chronic imbalance
• Rectify: these imbalances with a lifestyle change including diet, exercise, and shiatsu treatments

• Areas on torso refer to condition of different meridian/organ systems
• When assessing Hara, many people feel vulnerable - remain gentle, focused, relaxed.
• Client in zero position, this opens the hara & the abdominal muscles will be loose and flexible.
• Connect with your hara and when you're focused, begin to explore the various regions of the hara
• See page 71

• 1. Visual / bo-shin
• 2. Sensing / bun-shin
• 3. asking / mon-shin
• 4. touching / setsu-shin

• Refers to entire abdominal area & specific point
• Approx 3 tsun below umbilicus & 3 tsun deep inside the belly
• Point of balance for our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual life
• Source of health, vitality & endurance
• Acting from the Hara creates movement that are effortless

• Critical for the well-being of your body
• Has an effect on how the treatment is recieved by the client
• Relaxed body, shoulders, jaw, neck, & hips, spine erect, lengthened

YANG: warm body, dry skin, extroverted, active, masculine, linear, hyperactive mentality, aggressive, angry, impatient, loud voice, urgent, logical, quick, desire-filled, large, tense, brawny, red complexion, excess and acute conditions, exterior and superficial imbalances, prefers complexity, needs minimal rest, prefers stimulating environments, hyperactive, coarse features, tendency to dryness, upper body, posterior, lateral

YIN: cool body, moist skin, introverted, passive, feminine, creative, wandering thoughts, timid, fearful, insecure, soft voice, tardy, intuitive, slow, complacent, small, flaccid, delicate, pale complexion, deficiency & chronic conditions, interior and deep imbalances, prefers simplicity, needs adequate and regular rest, prefers relaxed environment, low energy, delicate features, tendency to dampness, lower body, anterior, medial

• Circuit 1: YIN chest to fingers: LUNG, YANG fingers to face: LARGE INTESTINE, YANG face to feet: STOMACH, YIN feet to chest SPLEEN
• Circuit 2: YIN chest to fingers: HEART, YANG fingers to face: SMALL INTESTINE, YANG face to feet URINARY BLADDER, YIN feet to chest KIDNEY
• Circuit 3: YIN chest to fingers PERICARDIUM, YANG fingers to face TRIPLE WARMER, YANG face to feet GALL BLADDER, feet to chest LIVER

• two fingers inferior to coracoid process
• proximal radial corner of the thumb nail bed

• proximal radial corner of the index finger nail bed
• to the flare of the opposite nostril

• below center of eye
• proximal lateral nail bed of the 2nd toe

• medial proximal nail bed of the great toe
• 6th intercostal space on the lateral ribs

• in axilla
• proximal radial nail bed of the 5th finger

• proximal ulnar side of the 5th finger nail bed
• anterior to the ear at the TMJ

• inner canthus of eye
• proximal side of the 5th toe nail bed

• ball of the foot
• lateral to the sternum in the space just below the clavicle

• 2 tsun lateral to the 4th intercostal space (lateral from the nipples)
• tip of the 3rd finger

• proximal ulnar side of the ring finger nail bed
• lateral to the eyebrow

• lateral to the eye
• proximal lateral side of the 4th toe nail bed

• proximal lateral nail bed of the great toe
• 6th intercostals space on the nipple line (inferior to nipples)