FREE: Shiatsu Techniques of the Masters - The Back
Get a taste of traditional techniques with these powerful back techniques
Watch PromoLearn several traditional shiatsu techniques to bring more energy, flexibility and strength to the spine. These materials will help you hone your skills & deepen your understanding of the body.
This mini-course is the beginning of the more extensive course Shiatsu Techniques of the Masters. It's an opportunity for you to try out our online classroom and learn a few traditional techniques for the back. This material can be used on its own, or combined with other types of bodywork that you may already use in a professional practice.
The original shiatsu masters focused on moving chi. Diagnosis was simple and treatment very effective. Many of their techniques and treatment strategies have been lost in today's standardized shiatsu education. Learning the roots of this work can bring inspiration & creativity back into your practice and your life.
Shiatsu is About Moving Chi
Shiatsu is about moving chi. The ability to perceive and balance chi is the key to creating positive and reliable results. This central element is sometimes lost in the midst of extensive accredited training programs. Practitioners may know many techniques and concepts, yet aren't able to generate chi flow within treatments. They may grow frustrated and bored with the application of complex diagnosis and rigid protocols. They struggle to give strong, effective sessions that build a thriving practice.
Although modern meridian treatment and diagnosis is of course very valuable, it is best combined with a strong foundation of more simple, whole body chi techniques. The practitioner can then evaluate chi, balance chi, and create deep change during a treatment. Exploring the original spirit of shiatsu allows practitioners (and non-professionals) to tap into the energetic roots of shiatsu for their clients and themselves.
What does this course include?
- Instructional videos that lead you step-by-step through some traditional shiatsu treatment techniques for the back.
- Detailed, close-up shots of various angles in order to see details of hand placement and proper body use.
- Illustrations to help understand the necessary anatomy and how it is affected by the treatment.
- Written descriptions & illustrations to accompany each video.
- An interactive question/comment section underneath each video so that you can find out the answers to any questions you may have about theory, technique, your practice, etc.
- Interact with a shiatsu community through a private Facebook group for all course participants. This will provide an online community for you to share questions, experiences and knowledge related to shiatsu.
Here is some feedback from course participants:
It is very special to be able to connect with you like this, and with practitioners from all over the world! I am dipping in and out of the on-line courses and I am particularly enjoying 'Techniques of the Masters'. Watching a technique for a few minutes between treatments is inspiring - there are so many great techniques that I had forgotten about, ones that I have learned useful refinements to play with, and some that are altogether new to me. One of my clients yesterday asked me to thank you!
Deb Rampton, Shiatsu/Shin Tai practitioner, England
I am finding the videos so useful and inspiring. I have just watched the kidney technique in a clinic break and can't wait to try it out this afternoon. It feels very powerful to go back to the beginnings. I can't say thank you enough for all the hard work involved in sharing this wonderful material with us.
Caroline Bozkurt, Shiatsu practitioner, England
Having done my shiatsu training during the early 90's, this is really great... to see and to hear you, and even to feel the ambiance of quiet and focused attention. This is so helpful, even though I am a "novice" in online learning and not much into computers. I work at home, for 20 years now, with a steady and stable clientele, and your lessons are being put to use already with good feedback!
Dorothee Berends, Shiatsu practitioner, Switzerland
Course Curriculum
Your Instructor
Saul Goodman is the founder and former director of the International School of Shiatsu that has schools in 15 countries. He has taught shiatsu and light body activation throughout the US and Europe for almost 40 years, and thousands of students all over the world have studied with him. His books include "The Book of Shiatsu", an advanced instructional manual called "Shiatsu Shin Tai" and "Light Body Activation."
Saul is the developer of Shiatsu Shin Tai (also called Life Force Recovery), which is an evolving form of shiatsu bodywork. Shiatsu Shin Tai offers a unique set of diagnosis and technique to reestablish the proper spatial relationship of the body by activating the client’s own inner healing power. Saul brings a synthesis of Eastern healing practices and Western physiology to this material. He communicates complex, unique information with clarity. His classes are full of the rich history of shiatsu, stimulating theory, and practical ways to move chi and free trapped life force in the body.
Another aspect of Saul's work is the light body activation materials. This is a unique, comprehensive system to activate and synthesize the outerbody membranes, chakras, kundalini channels, cranial rhythm, meridians and other developing components. It offers awakening people a safe, reliable, and empowering method of working with their evolving energy system to enrich their daily lives and bring them into deeper alignment with their soul path.
Shiatsu puts health back in our own hands
Shiatsu is an opportunity to help others increase health and emotional well-being in a natural way. Rather than acting as a 'healer' who fixes things that are 'wrong', a shiatsu practitioner facilitates the flow of a receiver's own energy to do the work of healing. Anyone can learn some shiatsu to help friends & family, while others practice it professionally. Giving shiatsu balances chi and promotes health for everyone involved. It puts good health back in our own hands.