This seminar is designed as an experiential and reflective laboratory focused on Hado Shiatsu, an approach that integrates traditional Shiatsu practice with elements of quantum field physics. This leads to a vision of contact as a phenomenon of resonance rather than a symptomatic intervention
At the heart of the meeting is the Japanese principle of “uketoru,” the practitioner’s ability to receive and recognize energy and information manifesting through connection with the receiver. From this perspective, uketoru is not just an act of perception, but a threshold that provides access to a coherent relational field. In this field, the organism’s vital responses can emerge, self-organise and orient towards spontaneous rebalancing processes.
The workshop alternates between simplified yet rigorous scientific theory, touch demonstrations, partner practice and shared spaces, encouraging participants to delve deeper.
– The modulation of pressure and contact time in relation to energetic assessment.
– The use of neutral presence and activation of integrated senses as tools to resonate with the receiver’s entire system.
– The concept of supporting life as an emergent and coherent system response rather than a targeted action limited to symptom remission.
– The quantum paradigm of Hado Shiatsu explored operatively: vibration (Hado) is not here a theoretical abstraction but a vitality parameter, a perceptible quality of the field expressed through touch, breath, and relationship. This aspect of Ki inherently carries self-healing connotations and focuses on deep self-respect. Thus, resonance naturally arises between the oscillations of our heart and the beauty of the universe.
Learning Objectives:
– Introduce the fundamentals of Hado Shiatsu as a practice that supports life through resonance.
– Offer practical tools to access deep listening (uketoru).
– Develop greater perceptual sensitivity in the bodily relationship.
– Promote understanding of touch as a clinical and relational act.
Required Materials:
Projector and screen for slide presentations, flip chart, markers, futons, and cushions.
Information about the speaker
PATRIZIA STEFANINI
Patrizia Stefanini began practicing yoga, shiatsu, and aikido in the early 1980s, shortly after graduating “cum laude” in Physics and specializing in Medical Physics. She continued her Shiatsu studies with Wataru Ohashi and for two decades with Pauline Sasaki. To deepen the scientific foundations of Shiatsu and Oriental medicine, since 2005 she has collaborated with the I.I.B. (International Institute of Biophysics) in Neuss, Germany, led by physicist Fritz A. Popp, and for over a decade with physicist Emilio Del Giudice. She is the author of numerous popular and academic articles and contributions to texts on energetic medicine.
Original aspects of her Shiatsu approach concern the reading of the human being as a quantum macrosystem. This gives rise to a reading of meridians as quantum processes and Shiatsu healing relationships as empathic resonance between fields. Currently, alongside teaching at her schools in Florence and Milan, she alternates conferences and seminars in Italy, Europe, and the USA.
