How Shiatsu Massage Works

• Shiatsu therapy gently & effectively helps to realign your bone structure, joints, tendons & muscles, in order to optimise & maintain your health. A shiatsu therapist may use thumbs (thumbing), fingers, palms (palming), elbows and even feet to apply pressure to specific points along meridians – invisible channels beneath the skin. Stretches and rotations are used to help loosen the joints and limbs and open-up the energy channels.
• Shiatsu massage stimulates blood circulation and lymphatic flow around the body. It releases stagnant blood in the skin and muscles.
• Shiatsu therapy works by removing blockages in the energy channels (meridian lines through which our “chi” energy flows) which correspond to the organ systems of the lungs, heart, spleen, liver, gall bladder, kidney and bladder, small intestine and large intestine, so the body, the body is bought back into internal harmony.
• Bringing about a deep state of relaxation, Shiatsu massage helps maintain our internal stability & equilibrium (homoeostasis), working with the body’s own self-healing mechanisms by balancing your vital energy systems.
• Shiatsu massage stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system response. In this way shiatsu therapy helps our digestive system, breathing, skin, sexual & reproductive system to function more effectively. Our “fight or flight” system is less in reaction. This is why we tend to feel so relaxed after a shiatsu treatment. Some people also report that their digestion is soothed & breathing enhanced.
• In summary shiatsu massage is about re-balancing our vital energy which determines our day-to-day energy levels, our vitality and our resistance to disease. Shiatsu massage treats holistically and embraces the oriental tradition of wholeness and interconnectedness and living in harmony with nature’s cycles and rhythms. The aim of internal harmony matches the philosophy of fitting into nature’s cycles.