Comprehensive Review Of Graduates in Shiatsu Massage

For years, graduates have been asking for a class that does an in-depth review of the main program. It’s finally here!!

In this seven-class series, Christina and Steve will review and refine every major technique from the entry-level training, including Hara assessment.

Course goals:

• Really “get” all the techniques at a deeper level
• Understand and utilize the potential for the techniques to create meaningful structural change
• Review meridian locations and refine your ability to find them by feel
• Improve your ability to do effective pain relief with shiatsu. Good technique = good results!
• Master the tricky range-of-motion techniques that are the centerpiece of good shiatsu
• Master the stabilization role of the mother hand, to help avoid injury to your clients
• Solidify Hara assessment: remove any remaining doubts or fogginess about the basic kyo/jitsu reaction
• Review the emergent healthy function: how to harmonize kyo/jitsu into one unified healing vibration

Course Outline:

Class 1: Prone Treatment

• Back meridians
• how to achieve true spinal elongation
• sacrum and SI joint treatment
• refining hip ROM and combining hip ROM with treatment

Class 2: Supine Legs

• How to do the kind of hip ROM that provided meaningful pain relief
• Yin leg stabilization – let’s “get it” once and for all, to help avoid hip and groin injury for our clients
• Yang leg treatment – how to create space for the low back and hip

Class 3: Torso Day

• Meridians of the abdomen and applications for digestion/elimination issues
• Chest/Ribcage treatment, demystifying the process in supine
• Working shoulders from overhead: how to facilitate free and easy scapula movement

Class 4: Hara Assessment

• Solidifying angles and mechanics
• Finding the kyo/jitsu resonance every time!
• Harmonizing the kyo/jitsu resonance into a unified healthy vibration
• Sharing out your findings with the client to deepen goal-setting

Sharing out your findings with the client to deepen goal-setting

• Shoulder ROM in supine and sidelying – this is perhaps the most difficult technique in shiatsu but one of the most rewarding when done correctly
• Using specific yang meridians in the shoulder to mobilize the scapula and get true freedom
• Sidelying approaches to torso and hips. Shoulder relief requires working shoulders, ribs and hips!

Class 6: Arm Day

• Yin arms sidelying and supine – how to open the shoulders and neck while treating the arms
• Yang arms sidelying and supine – again, truly find how this treatment can engage the shoulders and neck

Class 7: Neck/Face/Head

• This class will help you provide the best possible neck pain relief…one of the most necessary skills for client retention!
• Review the big 3: Wave, Scoop, Figure 8. These seem simple but take a lot of refinement to do well.
• Learn ideal mechanics for front, side and back of neck, to actually create space in the vertebrae
• Review protocols and meridian locations for face and head

Schedule:

Fridays 9:00-5:30 (lunch from 12:30-2:00) – July 17, Aug 14, Sep 11, Oct 2, Oct 23, Nov 20, Dec 18

All classes can be attended in-person or by Zoom. The review course must be purchased as one whole commitment. If you can’t attend a given day, that’s ok! Recordings will be made of all classes and distributed to all participants.

Payable in one payment of $1395 or 6 payments of $232.50, July-December.