Kiyindo Shiatsu®, literally meaning “The Way (Do) of Energy (Ki) in Depth (Yin),” is an original well-being technique, both curative and preventive, featuring an analgesic touch that deeply releases muscular and joint tensions, boosts the body’s self-healing capacities, and redefines our body image.
This practice is the result of years of research following my studies with Takeuchi Sensei and my investigations into pain identification at the University of Strasbourg. I aimed to find a way to channel pain and bypass it.
Based on Takeuchi Sensei’s theory of anatomical crossed relations, I developed an original form of alternative touch on two acupuncture points either in parallel or diagonal, which allows pain analgesia since the brain cannot register two painful stimuli simultaneously.
This principle of communicating vessels (Kyo/Jitsu) in crossed relation between two tsubo points enables painless access to deep spasms, frees joints, and relieves musculoskeletal pain.
This therapeutic practice has both preventive and curative aims, does not just suppress pain or symptoms… It allows a return to essentials: our posture and how we place ourselves on this earth to be more conscious with ourselves.
In Kiyindo Shiatsu®, postural analysis teaches us to listen to and decode the messages of our body and determines the treatment strategy. The goal is to lead each person to actively participate in the healing process and become the actor of their own well-being.
Kiyindo Shiatsu® is one of the most effective natural analgesic methods, enabling rapid pain relief. A true bubble of oxygen, literally and figuratively, the treatment offers a moment of escape, release, and serenity.
After tonifying deficient organs and relieving joint restrictions, Kiyindo Shiatsu®, combined with postural advice, helps the jusha (receiver) integrate a new awareness of their body, reclaim it, and thus become active in their healing process.
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PIERRE CLAVREAUX
After working as a music therapist with disabled children for about ten years in Strasbourg, I trained as a percussionist with the Japanese group Kodo, which preserves the ancient art of taiko on Sadogashima Island in Japan, where I was invited to the “One Earth Tour 84” world tour and the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
After sharing the spirit and life of the Kodo group for two years, I continued my musical journey in Tokyo, where six months later a friend introduced me to a great master of oriental medicine, Takeuchi Sensei, director of the Akahigedo Clinic and School of Oriental Medicine in Tokyo and founder of Yin Shiatsu.
This encounter was the second great revelation of my life. The Akahigedo Clinic, very renowned in Japan, welcomes patients and students from all over the world. It is a place of study where various eastern therapeutic approaches such as acupuncture, Yin Shiatsu, Chinese herbal medicine, five-element dietetics, and therapeutic Kiko (Qi Gong) are taught and practiced.
Holding my Yin Shiatsu diploma obtained in 1989, I returned to France to open my practitioner’s office. Since then, I have continuously expanded my knowledge in other eastern touch practices between 1994 and 1996 (training in Yoga, Kalari Massage and Ayurvedic medicine in India, Thai massage in Thailand, and plantar, palmar, and craniofacial reflexology in Indonesia).
In 1996, I obtained a DEA (Master 2) at the University of Human Sciences of Strasbourg with a thesis titled “The Meaning of Pain.” In 1997, I created Kiyindo Shiatsu®, a personal technique based on analgesia by touch and postural correction.
In 2007, I founded the European Center of Kiyindo Shiatsu® and offer professional training aimed at advanced practitioners, ensuring the dissemination of Kiyindo Shiatsu® throughout Europe for over forty years.
