20260919-1730 – European Shiatsu Congress

What constitutes a ‘good touch’ in shiatsu?

pcab_adm_tb — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:22:37 +0000

Good touch in shiatsu is not just physical. The touch within the shared resonance field between therapist and client is at least as important as physical touch, and many of the effects of shiatsu are generated here. Professional shiatsu therapists offer their clients this resonance field through open, relaxed body language.

This presence is enhanced when the therapist feels connected to the ground beneath them, rises gently, aligns themselves internally, and expands slightly in the shoulders, arms, and hands during physical contact. They avoid constricting their space, especially in the shoulders and arms. With this open space, they can resonate with and understand the recipient. For the recipient, such touch is dramatically different from purely physical touch.

Kiyindo Shiatsu® for Deep Pain Relief and Postural Balance Restoration

pcab_adm_tb — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:21:01 +0000

Kiyindo Shiatsu®, literally meaning “The Way (Do) of Energy (Ki) in Depth (Yin),” is an original well-being technique, both curative and preventive, featuring an analgesic touch that deeply releases muscular and joint tensions, boosts the body’s self-healing capacities, and redefines our body image.
This practice is the result of years of research following my studies with Takeuchi Sensei and my investigations into pain identification at the University of Strasbourg. I aimed to find a way to channel pain and bypass it.
Based on Takeuchi Sensei’s theory of anatomical crossed relations, I developed an original form of alternative touch on two acupuncture points either in parallel or diagonal, which allows pain analgesia since the brain cannot register two painful stimuli simultaneously.
This principle of communicating vessels (Kyo/Jitsu) in crossed relation between two tsubo points enables painless access to deep spasms, frees joints, and relieves musculoskeletal pain.
This therapeutic practice has both preventive and curative aims, does not just suppress pain or symptoms… It allows a return to essentials: our posture and how we place ourselves on this earth to be more conscious with ourselves.
In Kiyindo Shiatsu®, postural analysis teaches us to listen to and decode the messages of our body and determines the treatment strategy. The goal is to lead each person to actively participate in the healing process and become the actor of their own well-being.
Kiyindo Shiatsu® is one of the most effective natural analgesic methods, enabling rapid pain relief. A true bubble of oxygen, literally and figuratively, the treatment offers a moment of escape, release, and serenity.
After tonifying deficient organs and relieving joint restrictions, Kiyindo Shiatsu®, combined with postural advice, helps the jusha (receiver) integrate a new awareness of their body, reclaim it, and thus become active in their healing process.

The Rainbow within – Shiatsu in Trauma Therapy

pcab_adm_tb — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:19:27 +0000

Bringing Hope and Change to human life with Shiatsu
We experience a deeply traumatized society, people in pain, in lack of grounding, aggressive, disembodied in an overactive sympathetic nervous system.
The human body is a multidimensional generator producing various dynamics of ‘fear’ or ‘safety’ blended in a very fine net accessing and linked to all human senses inside and outside. As therapists we have many talents and we can apply a gentle and meaningful practice. Our intention and thesis to give care is essential and becoming a resilient therapist is a crucial point.
This course aims to give effective skills to accompany the client in a safe travel within the body.
You will enrich your trauma toolbox,empower yourself with trust and self-agency, and support your Shiatsu self along the trauma healing process!
Learning plans below give a sight of what we will develop and explore together :
– Listening to the whispers of Body Mind with Focusing skills
– Building a deeper, stronger and safer relationship within
– Body-based techniques to support client at his homework
– Reset and regulate the ANS
– Chakras and Meridians in neurophysiology
– Building resilience with Shiatsu and Focusing process

Shiatsu touch is like waking up the receiver from a dream of a huge split. We lovingly train the human being to create a better state of Being.
We allow the Rainbow to reveal within, to process and transport the multi-level human system to the next plane of ascension. And this exploration has 2 directions.
I cannot say Become Light, if I do not become Light!

Sacred Geometry

pcab_adm_tb — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:18:01 +0000

Sacred Geometry is the blueprint of Creation and the genesis of all forms. It is an ancient science that explores and explains the energy patterns that create and unify all things and reveals the precise way that the energy of Creation organizes itself.

It represents the creation of life itself, the manifestation of the harmony of all forms both in the microcosm and in the

Sacred Geometry us shows that everything comes from a matrix, the one and only source. Human beings included.

On every scale, every natural pattern of growth or movement conforms inevitably to one or more geometric shapes.

By studying the nature of these forms and their relationship to each other, one can seek insight into the scientific, philosophical, psychological, aesthetic and mystical laws of the universe.
The ancients believed that the experience of Sacred Geometry was essential to the education of the soul.

The designs of exalted holy places from the prehistoric monuments at Stonehenge and the Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, to the world’s great cathedrals, mosques, and temples are based on these same principles of Sacred Geometry.

The symbols of Sacred Geometry are:

The Flower of Life
The Fruit of Life
The Tree of Life
The Cube of Metatron
The Platonic Solids
The Torus
The Merkaba

Nicola will present how to use the Star Tetrahedron or the Merkaba. This easy technique helps align yin and yang or Heaven and Earth and can easily be added to any treatment! This technique can lead to more abundant energy and will certainly let the receiver feel more balanced!

Gabriella will present how to open the Fruit of Life in a Shiatsu session, and how to integrate its high frequency energy in the touch to support receivers in experiencing their connection to the “Oneness”

Shiatsu in Life, for Life, with Life

pcab_adm_tb — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:57:56 +0000

The Extraordinary Vessels are an exceptionally powerful and valuable tool in Shiatsu work.
They are particularly precious during life transitions (such as puberty or life crises) whenever we feel lost and wish to return to ourselves, to our inner identity and what truly defines us.

The Extraordinary Vessels provide strong support in these processes.
Take the Governing Vessel, for example, a vessel of sincerity and authenticity, of nurturing and connection.
Already within it resonate questions that touch us all: how do I relate to myself? And how do I form meaningful connections with myself?

In this three-hour workshop, I will offer insights into the history, theory, and practice of the Extraordinary Vessels.
I will introduce one vessel in depth, and we will conclude with a Heavenly Circuit Meditation.

-Overview of the history, theory, and practical applications of the Extraordinary Vessels
-Focus on the Governing Vessel, with tools ready to apply in your practice
-Heavenly Circuit Meditation for personal use and regular practice

Katrin Schröder, Berlin
www.esi-shiatsu.de