Tony Brown @ June 25, 2007 # 2 Comments
I have always known that my Shiatsu has been effective in a local, quick fix sort of way. I mean those first aid “my neck is sore” treatments we occasionally give. What I have not been aware of until now is the longer term effects that I might be producing in my clients.
My […]
Tony Brown @ June 22, 2007 # One Comment
Recently I wrote that I was starting to develop a feeling for the different characters of the Shiatsu meridians. What I now need to discover is what the meridians are telling me if I feel something different.
In a recent treatment I was working the stomach meridian. I usually feel very comfortable working this […]
Tony Brown @ June 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
When I give a Shiatsu treatment to a client for the first time they often comment on the heat emanating from my hands. I am not aware of this phenomena but time after time clients comment on it.
Last night I gave a treatment and was working the stomach meridian in the thigh whilst covering […]
Tony Brown @ June 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Shiatsu translates to finger pressure so when I started learning I naturally assumed I would feel responses from my receiver in my hands. That is what I did feel during my foundation course: the hollows formed by some points, a buzzing nature under my fingers and the tension in muscles.
I lost some of the […]
Tony Brown @ June 18, 2007 # One Comment
Nearly all of my treatments are conducted in the client’s home. This is usually fine but occasionally the conditions are less than ideal.
I am now trying to develop more emotional depth to my treatments. Sometimes that requires me to practise exploring more sensitive areas during the initial discussions. If the client’s partner […]
Tony Brown @ June 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
This is an interesting article on the BBC about diagnosis by computer in conventional medicine. It highlights the conflicts that exist between diagnosis by factual analysis alone and acting on a gut instinct. Themes that I have mentioned before in my review of the the book Blink.
Shiatsu is all about that instinct to […]
Tony Brown @ June 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I have always assumed that I am more sensitive to Ki in my right hand even though I naturally pick up a lot of information from my left.
Just recently I gave a quick first aid treatment. The client was experiencing a lot of pain on the right side of the neck. I don’t […]
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 […]
Tony Brown @ June 8, 2007 # 4 Comments
This weekend I really started to pick up on the different qualities of the meridians. Up to now I have had a sense of being on a meridian but not concentrating on what it felt like. I could only tell one from another anatomically, looking at where it was on the body, but […]
Tony Brown @ June 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I gave a treatment a while back that I did not understand. I responded to a very personal and difficult discussion by working in a very passive way. I worked only one meridian (Lung Jitsu) but with the quality of the Kyo meridian (Stomach) in mind. There was a lot of holding […]
