More style than substance
There is so much to do in this final year of Shiatsu College. Points to learn, Chinese medicine syndromes, Western pathology, and the rest. Plus we are starting to think about how our individual practises will look. I have spent a lot of time over the past couple of weeks working on promotional materials:
- My practise leaflet
- Posters and flyers for the third year clinic
- Websites to support my practise and the student clinic
- A client questionnaire
These projects have been great to work on but even after two years I still find it hard to really pin down what it is I bring to shiatsu. I tried to define my shiatsu? recently and Linda’s comment was correct: Where is Tony?
Even after a year of blogging on the subject I have yet to really distil the essence of how I want my shiatsu to be seen. I have this idea in my mind and scattered around the posts on this site but as I build my promotional materials I cannot reduce those ideas into something succinct. I do tend to waffle which is why that idea is so diffused amongst the articles I write.
My project for the coming weeks is to think hard about the “Tony in my shiatsu”.
Tony Brown @ November 7, 2007
Tony,
You have written so much and so well about shiatsu, I think once you determine your focus, you will be fine. Question - do you receive shiatsu yourself for a particular problem/issue? If you have or do, maybe you can think about your experiences receiving shiatsu and imagine what you as a receiver would like to know about shiatsu. I think that it is hard to say something that hasn’t already been said about shiatsu, and yet there is still so much that can’t be captured in words. You have a wonderful analytical thought process that you bring to bear on shiatsu which I find helpful in sorting out my own thoughts. At the same time, you also describe well the more elusive things about shiatsu, the things that have to be experienced to be understood. I liked your guide analogy - perhaps you can develop this further in your promotional materials.
Linda,
Thank you for the encouragement - it means a lot to me.
I do receive regular shiatsu but not for a specific problem. We are receive as a course requirement but that makes it sound like a chore! I have shiatsu because I enjoy it and like how I feel afterwards. I guess that is what I should emphasise.