Governing Vessel Part I: The Spine

Who is this course for?

This course is for bodywork practitioners who want to take their treatments to a deeper level of healing and effectiveness. Whether you do massage, shiatsu, craniosacral, chiropractic, physical therapy, or another modality of hands-on healing, this course can increase the effectiveness of techniques that you already use, and also add new ones to your repertoire. Thousands of bodyworkers all over the world have studied with Saul Goodman in order to learn this powerful way of evaluating and treating the body. Beginners can also use this course to get started in bodywork and/or increase the health of their family and friends.

What are the unique things about this course?

This type of bodywork identifies precise mechanisms to access and work with the energy system of the human body. It is specific, unique, and effective. You will gain the ability to identify, activate, and restore life force. You can use these skills to increase the health and development of your clients to new levels of possibility.

Shiatsu Shin Tai, also called Life Force Recovery, offers practitioners an expanded perception of the body and how to increase the healing power of a person's system. They are trained to detect where energy is trapped and how to release and reintegrate it back into circulation. Practitioners find that it makes their work easier. They achieve better results with less effort.

It is not the techniques alone which make this work so powerful; it is the comprehensive system of theory and evaluation that lie behind the techniques. This style of bodywork focuses on the flow of the central meridian, or energy flow, of the body: the Governing Vessel. In Chinese medicine, this meridian is the primary director of the human information system.

The Governing Vessel is the first energy current which develops after conception. It serves to govern the development of the other meridians, chakras, organs and the rest of the body's physiology. The spine itself is the material manifestation of this governing vessel energy. By working with the spine through a certain perceptual awareness, you will learn new ways to diagnosis and treat that touch the core potential of a person. This work activates the ability to not only heal, but develop and evolve.

Motion: An Evaluation Tool

One of the main evaluation tools you will study is motion. Shizuto Masunaga, a prominent shiatsu visionary, said that motion is synonymous with the basic life impetus. He also said that the Governing Vessel serves the basic life functions of the body. Shin Tai takes that a step further and explains that Motion = Life. The more motion we can introduce back into the body, the more life force becomes available for engagement in the present.

Motion in the body becomes your primary guiding tool to evaluate life force flow in the body. The motions we are looking for are subtle, specific, and act as to keys to reading the priority of the treatment. This work can literally make your work so much easier. You will be able to achieve more results with your clients in a shorter amount of time, because you learn where, when and how to work during a treatment.

What can this course offer you?

* You will expand your bodywork skills and thus your practice.

* You will understand the underlying physiology of what you are doing and why it liberates the flow of life force.

* You will expand into a new range of perception that will give you the capacity to give deeply transformative treatments and assist in your own self-development.

If you are not satisfied in any way with this course, just let us know within 30 days and we will send you a full refund.

What does this course include?

1. An introduction to Life Force Recovery and overview of its theory
2. Almost 2 hours of video instructions for a set of techniques to increase the flow of life force along the spine.
3. A video demonstration of how to integrate the techniques into a comprehensive treatment.
4. Close-up shots to see details of hand placement and proper body use.
5. Illustrations to help understand the necessary anatomy and how it is affected by the treatment.
6. Written materials to accompany each video. This will help you understand the applications more fully.
7. You may download the videos for use on all your devices. Watch at home, listen when you are driving, take them with you when you travel.... it will be easy for you to access the materials from wherever you are.
8. A private Facebook group for all course participants. This will provide an online community for you to share questions, experiences and knowledge related to Life Force Recovery bodywork. Consider it an extended 'classroom' for you to delve into the material more deeply than if you were just using it on your own.
9. Bonus Opportunity: A recording of a live online demonstration and Q&A session that was recorded when this course first opened.