Shiatsu Massage
The definition of massage on Wikipedia is
…the practice of applying structured or unstructured pressure, tension, motion, or vibration…to the soft tissues of the body…to achieve a beneficial response.
Shiatsu by this definition is a massage technique since it employs pressure to promote a healing response. A Shiatsu practitioner will also stretch the body and rotate joints and is sometimes called a Japanese physiotherapy.
Apart from this physical aspect there is more to Shiatsu that makes it more than a massage technique. The focus of a Shiatsu practitioner is on the body/mind of the client. I sensed this last year when I felt that my work was too physical and not up to the standard of the practitioners who have given Shiatsu to me.
At the start of a treatment the practitioner will spend some time talking to a client and understanding the movement of physical, emotional and spiritual energies in the body. The physical part of the Shiatsu session is simply a way of allowing those aspects of a person to work together as one unit. It is aim of Shiatsu to let clients feel themselves as a whole person and not a collection of aching body parts.
If one is talking to a potential client then massage is a term that I would use. Physiotherapy is too medical a word and some people can find talk of Ki energy flow too mystical until they experience it. Historically the word massage has suffered an image problem too but it is increasingly seen as a mainstream relaxation therapy. Promoting Shiatsu as stress busting is fine since healing cannot take place until the client is relaxed.
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Tony Brown is currently studying with the Shiatsu College in Brighton. He writes on http://www.ShiatsuBlogger.co.uk about Shiatsu theory and practise.
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