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What is Shiatsu?

Shiatsu is a gentle and powerful Japanese healing art which literally translated means finger pressure. Originating from oriental massage it affects the same points and meridians worked on in Acupuncture; but uses a method of gentle pressure through touch, to re-establish flow of energy and well-being.

How can Shiatsu benefit you?

Shiatsu sessions bring about deep relaxation and can be experienced as profoundly calming and peaceful. This alone will stimulate your own self-healing abilities.

On a physical level Shiatsu can help with:

• easing physical pains in the back, neck, head, shoulders or joints;

• increasing suppleness in stiff muscles or joints

• improving breathing whether there are difficulties or not

• calming digestive disorders, resolving constipation

• menstrual problems

• conditions arising during pregnancy or post-natally (click for further information on  Shiatsu for pregnancy ) .

On mental level Shiatsu can help with:

• decreasing the levels of stress

• uncluttering the mind

• increasing the clarity of the mind

• increasing awareness of mental states

On emotional level Shiatsu can help with:

• decreasing the levels of anxiety 

• decreasing frequency of panic attacks

• processing grief

• finding more positivity when depressed

• generally calming any emotions that arise

What does a Shiatsu session involve?

A Shiatsu session lasts about 1 hour and is given with the person fully clothed, wearing loose fitting clothes, like a track suit. After an initial talk, the client is asked to lie on a futon on the floor. Generally the practitioner works on the whole body: gentle pressure is applied with thumbs, palms, knees or elbows; some gentle stretching of the limbs and joint rotations also takes place.

At the end of the session, you may be given simple stretching and breathing exercises to help you maintain relaxation and good health outside the sessions. See information on Makko-ho Exercises for more detail on this aspect.

How often do I need to come for Shiatsu?

Initially, regular sessions can help you assimilate and understand the Shiatsu sessions. Regular sessions could be every 2 or 3 weeks, in acute conditions every week.

Later on the sessions can be spaced out to be every 4-6 weeks and then used as maintenance and check-up sessions.

The regularity also depends on what you as a client want. Do you want regular support? A series of sessions to address a specific issue? A one off session to carry you through a difficult situation?  You may not know which is fine, you may find out as the sessions evolve.