As a practitioner, how do I know that I am truly ‘present’? How can I perhaps strengthen this, become more aware of it?
How do I notice to what extent my client is ‘present’ – able to connect with themselves so that a connection, a contact between us, becomes possible in the first place for the treatment?

I look forward to exploring this with interested participants at the ESC workshop, offering my ideas and approaches, and creating a tangible path for all of our Shiatsu treatments.

Life is relationships, movement, complexity, intelligence, mystery, contact and the coexistence of different rhythms and qualities, all of which are closely connected. Shiatsu can bring all these components into being to become the extraordinary technique/path that it is. All these characteristics of life can be present in the shiatsu we practise.

We will see how, during a treatment, we are supported by all of these elements simply by remaining open and listening.
We will work with understanding, relationships and intelligence, and bring into being the basic principle of yin and yang, for example. The yin/yang triad gives shiatsu an unparalleled power.

Many years ago, we defined shiatsu as ‘the art of touch’. This is another fundamental, vital principle that nourishes and strengthens shiatsu, providing it remains a guiding principle for every touch.

Many Shiatsu styles base their theory and practice on the ancient principles inherited from Oriental medicine and Ayurveda. Quantum Shiatsu goes one step further and incorporates concepts from Quantum Physics, which explain how the body functions as a field of energetic vibrations contracting and expanding. When we access this aspect of our body, we open ourselves to the full energetic spectrum available to humans.

Opening up and having access to our entire energetic spectrum means being fully present in our physical reality (the predominantly contracted manifestation of our energy) and, at the same time, being fully in contact with our spiritual reality, the predominantly expanded manifestation of our energy.

This new approach to health implies the activation of the Energetic Body. When we speak of the Energetic Body, we refer to the Human Being considered in its inseparable unity of Body, Mind, and Spirit.

When this activation occurs, the qualities that define our spiritual reality (love, compassion, forgiveness, harmony, beauty, etc.) can manifest in our physical reality, thus promoting a process of spiritual healing and evolution.

“Our spiritual reality has no meaning until it manifests in our physical reality. And our physical reality cannot change and evolve until it is organized within the context of our spiritual reality.”

In Quantum Shiatsu, moreover, the old healing paradigm focused on “correcting what is wrong” becomes obsolete and is replaced by a new paradigm requiring “alignment of our physical energy with what is right.”

An approach that takes into account the body’s natural tendency to find in its healthy energetic aspects the way to “correct itself as a whole.” In short, we contact that vital aspect of the body capable of healing itself, thus interacting with the strengths and potential of our receivers rather than with their weaknesses.

Together we will be exploring how to:
• Access the positive movement of Ki – using the ‘Outcome Question’
• Develop our Somatic Empathy – using Mindfulness
• Connect Kyo and Jitsu with the receiver’s whole Ki Field
• Integrate practical techniques and assess the effects of Tsubos