Coming back to self is intrinsic to finding your way in the labyrinth of health, beit physical or mental. It is only when we can inhabit our true nature that things come together and make sense enough to make the life that is meant for us. Xing and Ming, as it were.
How and where we touch in Shiatsu transmits an immense range of subtleties. There is technique and Hara of course. A central issue is when your Ki resonates with others´, how it is so heavily influenced by your belief system. When we truly have faith in the other person´s innate capacity to self regulate and to come back to their embodied self, the dialogue in our Shiatsu touch will transmit support to do just that.
Coming to our practice with a sound level of acceptance and a detachment from specific outcomes can offer an opportunity for the people we accompany to feel seen and connect to life from the safe place that is a fully embodied self, a self that is part of a complex matrix of life experiences and in turn with all other embodied selves.
In this workshop I will invite you all to explore how you approach a session with a proposal to replace any intentions you might have with awareness and attention. Through the use of some basic embodied mindfulness exercises and simple Clean Language, we will practice a very specific consciousness in the quality of touch. And this should give us a springboard to do some Sei-Ki together, undoubtably with a fair bit of Katsugen, which might be considered to be the very manifestation of our innate ability to self regulate.
Information about the speaker
GILL HALL
Gill is passionate about most things she gets involved with, yet somehow Shiatsu and Sei-Ki took the top spot. She has been practicing for over 25 years now, teaching as well as accompanying individuals in her practice. She began her Shiatsu studies in Madrid, going onto study with the Shiatsu College and from there to working with Akinobu Kishi Sensei. Currently she is director of Ameba Shiatsu School in Madrid as well as leading workshops around Spain and in more recent years, in Germany.
She has used her formal translation skills to support her local Shiatsu community by translating a whole host of trainers in Spain. So many Shiatsu ideas have passed through her head and resonance through her whole self, creating a rich prism through which she has gained a determination to be herself and find her own way, and this is what most informs her work.
