Lower back self massage

Watsu course, Mansfield UK

Kings Mill Hospital, Hydrotherapy Pool

Mansfield, Notts

 

WATSU BASIC TWO-DAY COURSE

3 Separate Courses

in August 2009

15^th-16^th August 2009

22^nd-23rd August 2009

29^th-30^th August 2009

 

 

With Mark Hopkins

 

Watsu Practitioner

Basic Watsu Instructor. 

 

WATSU (Water/Shiatsu) This aquatic bodywork is based on stretching, which strengthens muscles and increases flexibility. Warm water, which many associate with the body’s deepest state of waking relaxation, is the ideal medium. The support of the water takes weight of the vertebrae and allows the spine to be moved in ways impossible on land. Gentle, gradual twists and pulls relieve the pressure a rigid spine places on nerves and helps undo any disfuctioning this pressure can cause to the organs served by the nerves.

The WATSU receiver experiences this greater flexibility and freedom.

Experiencing both giving and receiving this most nurturing form of bodywork can help to heal what ever wounds of separation we carry, WATSU is rebounding therapy. WATSU is used around the world by professional body workers, physiotherapist, and psychologists, as well as the general public.

 

Maximum of 6 places available.

Course Fee

£180 includes pool fee.

 

For application form or any other enquires please contact: -

 

Mark Hopkins

10 Whatton Court

Mansfield

Notts

NG18 4NH

Tele 01623 662766

Mobile 07917605521

E-mail   marc.watsu@ntlworld.com

Shiatsu Share, Leic ester on the 5th September

Hi,

I’ve decided to commit to organise Shiatsu peer groups for the next two quarters of the year and would welcome help from other practitioners in the midlands with this.

The next Shiatsu swap for practitioners and students has been arranged for the morning of the 5th September 2009, at the Friends Meeting house, Leicester.

 For the address & directions please visit the website: http://leicester.quaker.eu.org/

 The room is booked from 9am and is located on the ground floor next to the kitchen. 

This gives people time to catch up with colleagues over a hot drink before the session if they want to do so. The centre does provide tea, coffee etc for drinks but if you have any specific requirements or would like to have milk in your drink please bring some with you.

 I propose we meet ready to start doing Shiatsu at 10am through to 1pm.

Please bring a futon, cushions etc with you to practice on if you are able to.

£5 contribution per person will cover the room hire costs.

 There are some lovely deli’s and cafes in the area if you fancy some lunch after the meeting.

 Look forward to seeing you there 

 Tracy

www.shiatsu-do.co.nr

Self sabbotage procrastination by Hypnopuncture

http://www.hypnopuncture.co.uk/self_sabotage_blog.htm

Terry Pratchett on Alzheimer’s Disease

Shiatsu & M.E.

I started reading about M.E. as a couple of friends have recently been diagnosed with it. One friend tried Shiatsu with a Shiatsu student in her area and was happy and surprised to find that it worked for her, after trying other complementary therapies.

Here’s one of the articles I found, taken from Journal of Shiatsu & Oriental Body Therapy. Issue 6. April 1997 (p.17 -18)

Overall the picture with ME is of depletion and lack of nourishment. The majority of clients I have seen had clearly been pushing themselves beyond a healthy level of energy output for years, often with high levels of stress. This resulted in deep burnout, and great depletion of Kidney Ki. A few clients didn’t have a history of over-activity or stress, but still had greatly depleted Kidney Ki. This was generally due to recognisable causes, such as many late night parties, regular recreational drug use, and poor diet. In particular a diet with many extreme Fire foods like tea, coffee, sugar, sweets, alcohol, soft drinks, and processed foods, and a lack of good quality Water and Metal foods like whole grains, breads, pastas etc., fresh vegetables especially root vegetables, beans, mildly salty soups, and

I feel the deeply deficient condition of Triple Heater

Another view of the Triple Heater is that it has the function of “letting out”, in particular letting out Defensive Ki from the Upper Burner to the skin and muscles, and Nutritive Ki from the Middle Burner outwards to nourish the whole body. Those with ME are clearly lacking in both Defensive and Nutritive Ki, due to the poor functioning of the Triple Heater. Furthermore, when the “letting out” function the Triple Heater is not working well, blockage

The lack of energy and weakness is a clear indication of weak Spleen function. The overexertion, or lack of healthy food and drink, will obviously create this kind of Spleen imbalance. In some of my clients with a history of overexertion there was an underlying lack of self-esteem

 

Along with the depletion of Kidney Ki is a depletion of Essence, which is stored in the Kidneys, and in Original Ki which is derived from Essence. One view of the Triple Heater is as an avenue for Original Ki to move to all the organs and meridians of the body. With insufficient Original Ki, the Triple Heater function is weakened, and the whole body is starved of Ki. This results in the fatigue, muscle weakness, inability to think clearly, and many of the other symptoms of ME.in the flow of Ki around the body occurs, which I found to be characteristic of the those with ME. and self-value, and consequently they found it difficult to

accept or give themselves the nourishment in life that they 

needed. In those clients where diet seemed an important contributing factor to illness, there was an abundance of processed foods, lacking in “life force”, and often with a lack of warming well cooked dishes and an abundance of cold drinks, both factors which weaken the Spleen.

ME is frequently accompanied by digestive problems, and a poor condition of the intestines. Such dysfunction of the small and large intestine may well be a contributory factor to ME in some people, as it is liable to create fatigue, weakness, and a negative or depressed outlook.”

 

 

 

 

Shiatsu tasters at The Centre of Balance Leicester

 

A chance to try a 30 minute Shiatsu taster for £15 in Leicester on the 16th May between 10.30 – 2.30.

At the Centre of Balance , Montague Road, Leicester. Pop in to the centre or give me a call to book a slot.

Look forward to meeting you.

Tracy

Shiatsu Peer to Peer meeting, Leicester

Hi, I would like to invite you to a Shiatsu CPD group meeting in Leicester on Saturday the 25th April between the hours of 10am-1pm. The venue is the friends meeting house (http://leicester.quaker.eu.org/find.htm)

The group will be using the library space which I have been advised will be free from table and chairs and ready for futons.

I’ve put together a rough plan : 10-10.45: meet & Do-In

 10.45-11.45: Caroline Salzedo -tasters on working with the bones, shoulder work, and working with the breath. Caroline has kindly agreed to gift her teaching to the group for no fee. Visit Carolines website at: http://www.carolinesalzedo.co.uk/

11.45-12.00 break 12-13.45 treatments swaps

There are limited spaces so if you would like to join us on the day please respond to let me know either by email or phone: 07747058864 (If I am not able to answer please leave a message and I will call you back).

 £5 contributions to cover costs. Please bring a futon etc with you if you are able to and refreshments for yourself

If you would like to take the Do-In on the day, I’d really appreciate it and would like to hear from you.

 I’d also love your feedback on the group, if there is anything that you would like to focus on, work towards or any workshops that you would like to attend / organise in the midlands. 

 I’m looking forward to talking and practicing Shiatsu with you:-)

Free Tao Shiatsu download

I discovered this download whilst on Twitter this morning, as recommended by ‘London Shiatsu’.

Here’s a brief overview from the author:

“Modern Western medicine, with its reliance on surgery, strong drugs, and advanced technology, can be dramatically effective. Emerging technologies, like genomics and proteomics, offer the possibility of effective treatment for major diseases in narrowly specific circumstances.

But high-tech medicine has failed to solve the greatest problem confronting it: the growing late twentieth-century plague of chronic, debilitating diseases. These diseases are not immediately life threatening, but they destroy quality of life and cause great suffering. I believe Tao Shiatsu, the medicine of ki, is responding and adapting to these changes in illness. The dawn of its spiritual culture can already be glimpsed. I believe the sunrise of the human heart is on the horizon.

This book is an attempt to explain what the ki world is like, how it works and what kind of heart makes it possible to see ki and enter into this world. Much has been written about ki, but usually from an occult angle, or based on analyses of ancient Oriental medical classics. This book is the story of my personal and clinical experience with ki over the last quarter century.

Ryokyu Endo “

If you would like to read more and down load the book for free, heres where you need to go:

http://na.taosangha.com/tao-shiatsu/tao-shiatsu-revolution-oriental-medicine

Martial Arts Festival 4-5th April, Leicester

I’m going to be at the Martial Arts festival in Leicester this weekend http://www.maf-uk.co.uk/Festival.html, if anyone fancies having a Shiatsu treatment and enjoying the event. All proceeds from Shiatsu will go to kidscape the childrens charity, http://www.kidscape.org.uk/childrenteens/defence.shtml.

There will be lots to do, Martial Arts demonstrations and workshops, thousands of stalls, fun fair, Vikings and Shiatsu!

I will be there on Saturday, it would be great to see you.