Movement Shiatsu & the Six Forms of Touch

This workshop will show how the Qi is influenced by the WAY in which you communicate, the quality of touch you use and how to involve the client more actively in the therapy through guided movement. The quality of touch is as important, or even more important, than the meridians with which you choose to work.

Each Form of Touch is related to one of the combined meridians, often called the Six Divisions, which traditionally connect the physical and mental aspects of energy. Bill has shown how these combinations of meridians are related to developmental movement and thus how to work with meridians through movement exploration as well as through touch. This transforms the therapy into an interactive voyage of discovery, where the client is the leader and the therapist is assisting their self-exploration.

This approach is particularly relevant and effective for people with early trauma and chronic conditions that resist treatment. This is because the client is in charge of their process, so feels safe to enter more challenging areas of themselves. The techniques and processes of Movement Shiatsu can be easily used within other forms of Shiatsu when working with this type of issue.

Bill and Teresa always teach together because this allows them to demonstrate the techniques from both the point of view of the practitioner and of the client.