Shiatsu Pigeon holed

 I’ve recently read an article which looked at Asian Bodywork Therapies in ‘Massage’ (http://www.massagemag.com/Magazine/2007/issue137/toc.php), it broke Asian Bodywork therapies down into a number of different groups. It got me thinking about what my Shiatsu style was and how it related to the categories given, a significant number of which related to Shiatsu.  The more I read the article, the more I didn’t agree with the way it pigeon holed therapies and believe that if I  hadn’t understand what Shiatsu was before reading it, that I would have been completely confused and put off it by the over zealous categorisation.   

The main thing that came out of it for me is, can we really pigeon hole Shiatsu into neat boxes and is it healthy to do so, wouldn’t that just block our own ki, development and restrict the treatments that we deliver to clients?

The Shiatsu training that I undertook provided me with a number of skills to utilise and use with clients as appropriate, after all we are all individuals and have different needs at any given time. This is part of the beauty of Shiatsu for me it is able to respond to and adapt to meet the requirements of the client at that particular moment in time and also be flexible enough to work with long term issues, in an appropriate supportive way, to enable the client to make the changes that they need. 

I think that this is something that I need to give more thought to and continue in a further post.

I’m ‘@ the source’, Leicester this Saturday (http://www.atthesource.co.uk/), it would be great to see you there.

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