The treatment of the tree of life
MAURIZIO PARINI
The practice of shiatsu, thanks to the knowledge of Far Eastern medicine, allows vitality to be sustained through treatments that use the free flow of Ki in a longitudinal direction, high/low or Heaven-Earth in the Taoist vision, together with the body’s ability to connect transversally.
This also results in a reference between the relationship, or axis, between Water and Fire and the transverse relationship between Wood and Metal. With Earth, the Spleen, my body, in a central position.
A treatment will be illustrated and practiced that follows the ascending and descending directions of both the two extraordinary central channels and the main or regular meridians, combined with lateral pressures that cross these energy structures. In fact, a sequence can be performed on the back, which will logically follow more Yang channels, and one on the front, which will use more Yin meridians. This is combined with the treatment of three front lines (the support line, the deep nourishment line, and the opening of the Breaths) and two back lines (the strength line and the breath line).
Just as in a tree, we have the ascent and descent of the sap that sustains it and the opening to life thanks to the branches and leaves that nourish it.
