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Tempation to keep giving shiatsu treatment

Tony Brown @ November 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet

As a shiatsu student I am under pressure to complete 100 treatments before I can graduate from the course. When I start to practise full time I will be under pressure to give as much shiatsu as I can to support myself.
There are always personal and financial reasons why we want to continue giving […]

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Shiatsu is amazing

Tony Brown @ August 8, 2007 # 3 Comments

I am glad that my post Can shiatsu heal anything? prompted some reaction. It was interesting reading your views on how shiatsu should be presented.
Gary’s response to the examples on the Shiatsu Society may be typical of a lot of people reading them:
OMG, shiatsu like TOTALLY CUrED MEEEE!…
Very MySpace.
In recognising there is good research […]

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Irresponsible Shiatsu

Tony Brown @ June 11, 2007 # One Comment

Tracy writing on her Shiatsu blog asks the question is Shiatsu under threat? and links to several articles discussing the repression of alternative therapies in France. I recommend that you read her post if you are interested in the future of alternative medicine.
In the UK we have already seen reports of the NHS limiting […]

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The limits of alternative medicine

Tony Brown @ May 17, 2007 # One Comment

I read with interest this definition of alternative medicine on the Alternative medicine zone blog and have been toying for a while on writing my own piece on the subject. However, my original ideas were changed this weekend when we had a discussion of cancer treatments in physiology class.
We read this week that by […]

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