Since 1996, Shiatsu has been integrated into the rehabilitation pathway provided by the “Child Neuropsychiatry Unit and Regional Center for Eating Disorders (DNA) in developmental age” at Bellaria IRCCS Hospital in Bologna, currently directed by Professor Antonia Parmeggiani.
The activity has developed and been shaped according to the needs of the young patients. Currently, it is offered as group work for the Day Hospital and the Ward, carried out in a midweek session lasting one hour and thirty minutes for each service.
The exercises proposed during the activity, shiatsu and the drawings produced by participants are all practices aimed at expanding perception and awareness of the body, mind and spirit.
Their purposes are to:
– contain and reduce discomfort caused by eating disorders
– modify, through the reciprocal exchange of Shiatsu, the passive and self-centered attitude of the involved subjects
– develop relational capacities through contact
– induce a deep and beneficial state of relaxation in the individual
– enhance individual physical and psychic resources
– improve psychomotor processes, cognitive and intuitive abilities
– stimulate interoception
– promote a new body image
– activate and develop individual bodily and energetic knowledge-awareness
– encourage respect and care of one’s own body in the suffering subject
– develop greater self-awareness and a better relationship with the external world
The aspiration of this pathway is to integrate and make synergistic medical-psychological therapies and Shiatsu techniques, with the primary goal of supporting the person in their rehabilitation and transformation process; to make them the protagonist of their life project, according to a holistic vision.
Stefania Ferri
Shiatsu Teacher/Practitioner, responsible for activities in the Ward and Day Hospital of the “Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, Regional Center for Eating Disorders in developmental age”
stefania.shiatsu@gmail.com
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STEFANIA FERRI
Stefania Ferri, certified Shiatsu teacher and practitioner by FISieo, began her training in Shiatsu and Eastern disciplines at the end of the 1970s in Paris. She continued and refined her studies in Europe, Thailand, Japan, China, Korea, and Hawaii, deepening her knowledge of traditional manual practices, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and meditative practices.
From 1986 to 2011 she taught and coordinated the activities of “Lotus Shiatsu School,” a professional school she founded and directed. In 1990 she was a founder of FIS (Italian Shiatsu Federation) and from 2004 to 2006 she was president of ASSI (Association of Italian Shiatsu Schools).
Since the 1990s she has developed projects for the practice of Shiatsu in public and private institutional and healthcare facilities, in the field of drug addiction, psychiatry, Eating Disorders (DNA), and the Female Section of the Bologna Prison.
Since 1996 she has been responsible for Shiatsu activities for the ward and day hospital of the “Child Neuropsychiatry Unit and Center for Eating Disorders” at Bellaria Hospital in Bologna. From 2015 to 2018 she collaborated with the “Residenza Gruber” in Bologna for the treatment of Eating Disorders.
Alongside promoting training activities nationwide, she develops individual treatment paths dedicated to developmental age, adults, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
