In this workshop, Steven will share insights from his experiences with the topic of self-regulation. The aim is to develop strategies together to recognize and resolve limiting patterns that may arise in contact with clients or through external stress factors.

The workshop provides space for professional exchange on the conscious handling of inner stability in challenging situations.

How can we succeed in remaining focused and capable of action, even under stress?

Experience has shown me that the deepest encounters in Shiatsu do not come through targeted searching, but through open and non-judgmental perception.
Listening to life as it comes alive means creating space, in conscious presence, for the inner flow of the other person.
We focus our attention on what is already there and wants to reveal itself, without actively forcing it.

To clarify and make this attitude more tangible, I will explain its significance through systemic theory.
This theory views the human being as a living system, whose self-regulation can unfold through value-free observation and mindful accompaniment.
We discover that life is always present in the other, waiting to be seen and accepted.

The practical part of the workshop will offer concrete exercises where participants can experience how mindful listening enables new kinds of encounters and qualities of touch.
The exercises aim to refine the ability to perceive subtle impulses of life and to support them without manipulative interference.

The goal of the workshop is to provide new inspiration to Shiatsu practitioners, strengthen their trust in their perception, and allow them to dive more deeply into the therapeutic relationship with clients.
Because the true art does not lie in finding what is missing, but in listening to and acknowledging what is alive and already present.
“Come on, let’s go find a treasure.” (Janosch)

Theory:
Shiatsu takes an integral view of the reality it relates to. Uke is a receiving unit and Tori is a practicing unit.
The symptom is an invitation to change. Personal stories are always implicit, can be unconscious but never separated from symptoms.
Energy at every moment is present in limited, optimal, or excessive amounts.
Life is always present. It can only be limited by lifestyle, behaviors, thoughts, and beliefs.
Life is like grass, fragile when the wind blows strongly, powerful when it seeks the light breaking through asphalt, exciting when observed closely, sacred when lived from within, infinite when you rest in it. R.V.L.
Shiatsu and awareness can ally with life and integrate into the treatment by grounding in the present, with power, respect, and sacredness the energy that can support, give strength to Uke on the path toward oneself. A Uke capable of sustaining a more harmonious, more authentic vision of their existence and on the other hand capable of recovering the useless effort toward a dispersive elsewhere.

Practice:
Walking the void, practicing respect, practicing trust, listening, observation, allying with the process. Feeling, thinking, acting. Living mandalas. The Five Elements are actually the constitutive elements of the human system.
Looking beyond the stage, beyond the lights, at the heart of life itself they can be translated into energetic qualities, expressions of nature, archetypes, principles, qualities or essences, forces or mirrors in which one can deeply observe one’s own and others’ existence.
The human being has not changed in their intimate essence, in their fundamental structures.
The human being is the greatest champion of their existence when they realize the immensity within them recognizing themselves beyond themselves, find their place in the world, will find the meaning of their existence. They will feel on their path, understand the Way to follow and will have the strength to do so.
Once the field is built, Shiatsu treatment will ally with the process and support Life.

The Extraordinary Vessels are present from the moment we decide to incarnate. They draw universal energy into our future physical body, weaving it together with the ancestral lines of our parents, in a particular time and place. They hold the memory of our cosmic origin and potential in this lifetime.
They also carry the memory of our first week after conception, when we are whole and self-contained. This original power and coherence can be accessed through working with the Vessels.
When we implant in the womb, we become fully dependent on our mother and are bathed in her life, emotions, and physiology. This symbiotic relationship deeply influences all of our future relationships, especially our most intimate ones.
In this workshop, we will explore these three key phases through movement and embodied practice to feel how their energy lives in our bodies today:
– Conception and original intention
– The first week: wholeness and self-containment
– The second week: relationship and dependency

We will then explore with two shiatsu sessions:
Conception and Wholeness
Working with the shared, unified and self-contained nature of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels
Relationship and Nourishment
Working with the Chong Mai (Nourishing / Penetrating Vessel) as the vessel of embodiment, relationship, and deep connection

Participants will gain:
– A clearer understanding of early embryological development from a TCM perspective
– Practical ways to work with the Extraordinary Vessels
– Tools to support clients to connect more deeply to their potential”

Pauline used the chakras in every aspect of the energetic anatomy.
Pauline’s favourite quote from the Dao De Ching is verse 42. This explains how the chakras work- though we have to look hard.

“From the Dao, the one comes Heaven and Earth, the two. 
Together they create the ‘Chong’, the three. From the three comes the creation of all life and from that comes all things, the ten thousand things.”

As we know, chakras are great wheels of energy. It is where the Heaven and Earth qi creates aspects of life.
On the physical plane- Touch and gesture can activate the chakras and help the physical body move towards harmony.
In the Ether body or the emotional body- the chakras keep the energy body bright and lively and moving.
In the Astral body- the chakras are wheels which help move towards our Divine connection.

And all these aspects are necessary for health.
We can work on them ourselves as part of a yoga or qigong practice.
Having the chakras in alignment is the key to balancing the energy of different meridians and energies in the body.
Finding harmony with the chakras lets all the emotions find their balance and then the whole energy will be enlivened!
Finally when the chakras are all activated and in harmony they can merge as the Astral body becomes part of the ‘oneness’.

Awareness of how the chakras have different aspects which present at different frequencies helps understand their different roles within a healthy person. 
And this workshop should enable you to understand and “see”.