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Shiatsu in a Pandemic • Setting Out On New Paths Alexandra Krause • The Lockdown That Opened the World to Me SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORGNilsa Eberhart-Diaz 1 AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL From the Editor 020 will be a year to remember, for And there are more – Karen Durham set up 2reasons many and varied. What stories we classes in her local park, Julie Weeks took on will be telling our grandchildren - or equivalent a 100-day Personal Practice challenge, Amy youngsters to whom we are not genetically Hinks Wright found that an enforced break connected... Of disease, fear, death, lockdown, from her usual practice has helped her find isolation, more fear, the provisional nature of ways to support her clients from a distance. science, stagnation, yet more fearmongering, Kumiko Kanayama in New York helped build a depression, frustration, the futility of making Global Shiatsu Community through her Virtual plans… And then hope, resilience, change, Gatherings. adaptability, community both local and global, Beth Edgell talks about matter being linked to co-operation, overcoming fear (of change, consciousness, about how ‘buying into fear is of technology, of isolation), fluidity in making probably not helpful’ and that if we stay in our plans, acceptance. centre we are more able to live with the current During lockdown I called out to our Shiatsu uncertainties. community, here and abroad, asking for Mihael Mamychshvili from Canada found that people to write about their experiences of his ability to pivot, to change his old ways of this extraordinary situation. And their heart- working and to build on his Facebook presence, warming, moving stories are here for your ‘Everything Shiatsu’, enabled him to thrive in enjoyment and inspiration. these Corona virus days. Alexandra Krause in Glasgow found that And so to the future… Elaine Liechti draws on ‘not-touching’ could be surprisingly effective her deep wisdom (some of which comes from in helping clients develop awareness her studies of the Native American Medicine of unhelpful embodied patterns, whilst Wheel) to help us understand how the Shiatsu Panayiota Giannino in Athens learned Society has grown, matured, suffered, almost- that technology was massively helpful in died, and is now reborn. And, most importantly, navigating lockdown waters, supporting her how we can all contribute to its continuing students to stay connected and to expand re-growth. their skills and understanding of the role of Finally, Richard Reoch reviews Tamsin Shiatsu practitioners in the world. Grainger’s new book, on Death and Loss in These stories are consistently echoed. Nilsa Shiatsu Practice ‘her book offers us essential Eberhart in Puerto Rico used the gift of ‘free’ resources, professional guidance and practical time firstly to transform her home, then to join examples drawn from her extensive research the global virtual community and continue to and her years of experience...’ work with Ki. She decided not to live in fear. I hope that those dark days we have all had to Basti Deans is part of the enthusiastic and endure will be illuminated by these stories. innovative New Work team in Norwich, working with Clifford Andrews (who is credited by many of our contributors for his unstinting generosity and positivity in setting up online Anne Palmer courses which opened up for many, the new world of Shiatsu-over-the-internet!). Basti FwSS reminds us that if ‘we can meet life’s changes with openness, compassion, loving surrender and even a small amount of impetus, then it all seems … normal and manageable’.

2 SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL Contents Setting Out On New Paths One Heart & One World - 4 17 The Power of TouchTM Alexandra Krause Kumiko Kanayama

The Lockdown That Opened the World Positive Perspectives on a Pandemic 6 to Me 20 Amy Hinks Wright Nilsa Eberhart-Diaz

Staying Connected - Technology at the Personal Practice 100-day Challenge 9 Service of Shiatsu 23 Julie Weeks FwSS Panayiota Polychroni-Giannino & Mara Papathanasiou Jewel in the Corona Lockdown 26 12 Karen Durham FwSS Sebastian Deans FwSS Pivoting in a Pandemic Staying in the Centre 28 15 Mihael Mamychshvili Beth Edgell 30 Shiatsu Society - the Future Elaine Liechti FwSS

Book Review 32 Working with Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice Richard Reoch Cover photo: Corona - Solar Eclipse

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ovid-19 has impacted on one of the most important elements Cof social interaction, physical and emotional wellbeing and healing i.e. touch. During this period, community workers have evidenced how reduced connection with others impinged on people’s mental health and wellbeing – highlighted in the very 1 Alexandra thorough report on the mental health emergency by . Krause is a 3rd For those who depend on touch for our income, like Shiatsu year student at the Glasgow practitioners, these have been times of uncertainty and worry. School of With the potential of infecting others as we treat them, how can Shiatsu, as well as an we ensure we are following the tenet of doing no harm? environmental It has been beautiful to see how many have responded to this educator and community crisis by immediately stepping in to provide online support and engagement learning opportunities, not only to their fellow Shiatsu practitioners worker in the but also to the wider community. charitable sector. In my school, for example, our teachers dedicated a great deal of effort in guiding us towards refining our perceptions and practices as well as building our confidence to deliver powerful energetic treatments such as Shiatsu distant healing. Some of our practice clients have also been kind enough to spend time online with us as we guided them in self-Shiatsu, stretches and other self-care practices that could help them maintain their wellbeing whilst in lockdown. I have discovered, to my surprise, that Shiatsu sessions can be very effective when done virtually, particularly when the client participates more consciously in the treatment. My colleagues and I have received consistent feedback on how people felt energy shifting during the treatment and how relaxed they felt afterwards. Personally, it has been very moving to follow how people at the other end of the screen discovered something new about their bodies and felt empowered to modify a perception or a sensation by learning a simple Do-in technique, for instance. In a way this has mirrored my own experiences. I have often had these ‘ah ha’ moments as I learned more and more about Shiatsu - observing them in my clients has accentuated my perception of my own development.

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Throughout these last three actively in these virtual As these and other years as a student of Shiatsu, treatments and discovering questions swirl in my head, I have often pondered my role energy paths that responded I am now looking closely at as a therapist. Something my to their touch seemed to have my potential role in Shiatsu as teacher said at the beginning engaged them in a more an educator in the community, of the course that has always profound learning than having and wondering how I can stayed with me was that, as someone doing it to them facilitate Shiatsu activities that a practitioner, you act as one in a normal setting. Bringing can create self-awareness of the tines of a tuning fork this kind of self-empowering and self-healing as well as and your ‘vibration’ helps to skill into the community can fostering connectivity with activate the client’s tine - the be truly transforming, as it others at a deeper level. ensuing resonance is the cascades through word of Covid-19 may have closed treatment. This makes me mouth, amongst families and some doors for a while, but think of Milton Mayeroff’s networks of friends. it has definitely opened quote in his book ‘On Caring’: However, what questions others, if we allow ourselves “To care for another person, does this raise for us as to re-evaluate our views in the most significant sense, practitioners? In my case, about our Shiatsu practice is to help him grow and I think of the times when I and how we can broaden actualise himself.” struggled with a bit of an it by setting out on a wider Covid-19 has brought to ego issue as I realised how educational path. the forefront the potential we effective my treatments Some interesting reading: have, as Shiatsu practitioners, seemed to have been for my 1 Mind (2020) The mental of empowering others clients. But how much of this health emergency: how through facilitating the was down to my touch? I now has the Coronavirus development of awareness start to wonder whether my pandemic impacted our of their embodied patterns, physical touch is as important mental health? London: without necessarily touching as the intention of my energy. Mind. Available at: them. We can mediate their Is my physical touch so www.mind.org.uk discoveries through guiding absolutely necessary, after 2 Affection deprivation: self-touch, and support them all? By supporting others What happens to our in developing the confidence to actualise themselves bodies when we go to influence their own energy through the power of without touch?2 By flow. For some clients, being self-touch, am I less of a Lenni Coffey, 8 May able to participate more practitioner? 2020. The Independent.

SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG 5 AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL The Lockdown That Opened the World to Me By Nilsa Eberhart-Diaz

n March 12th Puerto Rico went into a rigorous lockdown. OCurfew from 6pm to 5am. Only pharmacies, gas stations, supermarkets and hospitals were exempt - they could open from Monday to Friday - but everything else was ordered to close. That was the situation till the end of June, when it started to Nilsa Eberhart- loosen up. Now (in the middle of August) we still have a curfew Diaz studied from 10pm to 5am. Beaches, cinemas and bars which had been with, and graduated allowed to open have had to close again, restaurants can only from, the have 50% occupancy and no queues are allowed anywhere. European Shiatsu Everywhere the same drill - masks (mandatory), thermometers, Institute in sanitiser. Switzerland where she Looking back, I realise that during these months I have been fully lived from 1982 stretched at all levels - physically, emotionally, intellectually and to 2009. Back spiritually. in Puerto Rico since January Creative Outlets 2010, she has dedicated her I am fortunate to live in a big house, with my two cats - who life to giving and teaching incidentally have loved having me around all the time – and I Shiatsu and wasn’t too badly impacted by the lockdown. I figured I’d be able other healing practices. to do all those house repairs and improvements I’d never had With the goal time for… roof to be repaired, walls, floors, stairs and gates to be of creating a painted, yards pressure-washed, windows and screens cleaned, community of Shiatsu and of course gardening. practitioners, she founded The only problem was the that Home Depot was Shiatsu closed! So, I found a half- Caribbean Institute in full 5 gallon bucket of 2014 www. white paint and mixed up shiatsupr.com all the blues I could find - interior, exterior, acrylics, light, dark, bluish, greenish. The resulting colour was beautiful.

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From March to May, under My Taoist ® System the tutelage of Professor Sifu, Max Dao Shr, gave an YouTube, my handywoman online series on ancient skills blossomed! I mixed inner alchemy practices to cement, filled holes, scraped strengthen our Wei . Here and polished, and mended again the whole world came stuff. In those two months, together. His Zoom sessions I used my hammer drill, had up to 500 hundred reciprocrating saw and participants from all across the brushless drill more than the globe. I have practised these whole of the previous year. techniques for many years Between household chores and, knowing that anxiety was all these ideas started to affecting many of my friends pop up, and now I had all and clients, I also gave eight this time. Surrendering to weeks of sessions the hypnotising, inspirational via Zoom. It was deeply gratifying to have people who world of Pinterest, I had such had never done meditation fun! I made cold ceramic before express and describe feathers, wind and sun their newly found inner peace. chimes out of melted beads, These classes were mostly a set of oven clay Runes for based on the practices in my teenage niece, malas, together online. Courses, my book, ‘Rising Celestial earrings, bracelets, macramé chats, interviews. From Dragon’. planters, dreamcatchers and, Vancouver to Italy, Uruguay and… to Germany, Great Britain to With closed gyms and a loud Stay@Home campaign I am particularly proud of New York and Chicago. It was meaning outdoor sports were the gravel swirls path. I figured amazing to meet all these banned, the online realm the fairies in my garden practitioners from all over opened to a shower of , should also get something out the world. And even better, dance and fitness trainings to of it, so I added some cement this year’s European Shiatsu choose from. I prepared my Congress will include some gnomes to guard the plants! own fitness station at home live-streaming - and will be And what of Shiatsu? with elastic bands attached to followed a month later by the At the end of February, I had my desk and chair. This way International Shiatsu Congress they are impossible to ignore. started teaching a Shiatsu Online. Truly, a silver lining to level 1 course. Of course this the cloud of Coronavirus. was interrupted in March but the students agreed to Too much? continue on Zoom. So, we Not only was I online-teaching were meeting twice a week Shiatsu but also a course for one and a half hours to on Advanced Myofascial discuss theory and watch techniques, meditation and videos of techniques. a couple on fitness and Then this wonderful thing crafts. At one point it became happened - the global overwhelming and I had to Shiatsu community came slow down.

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Back to Work perfect key of the client and • What do I choose to In the second week of June, then we witness a deep, believe? I returned to the clinic. grateful sigh of release. My life’s motto has Disinfection and protection A deeply needed one always been to get the were the priorities - everything as so many are dealing best out of every situation, that made that room cosy with disturbingly strong to learn and grow. From and beautiful had to go. A emotions. day one of this pandemic table instead of the futon, no Once in a Lifetime? I chose not to live in fear and, I hope, inspired others curtains, no decorations, no This pandemic and to do the same. Since I foam floor, working with mask, lockdown have brought gloves and gown. don’t own a TV and also opportunities for learning on ignore all newspapers, Maybe a third of my clients so many levels: staying away from the - the brave ones? - have • How do I protect overwhelming amount come back. But many are myself and those of (mis)information has still in hiding and I wholly around me? been easier. This needed understand and respect them. • How much do I want a strong will, flexible mind They call me and say how to do/learn/ and an open heart. It is much they miss the Shiatsu accomplish? clear to me that the test is sessions, but the media has • How deep can I go? not finished yet, but I trust really done its job in keeping my conviction and inner them scared and frozen. • How much to resist/ self not to get caught into let go/accept? What a refined instrument the media circus but to we have. Shiatsu tunes • How flexible? keep on learning, creating vibrations back to the specific • How do I want to live? and repairing as best I can. Board Report hope the material we have shared over ‘I would like to thank all of the team I recent months via the Society’s various and directors for all of the time and channels has provided nourishing Ki and effort put into supporting the members reminded the Shiatsu community of the throughout this time. To me, it’s brought various ways we can support ourselves and the membership and Shiatsu community each other. Many of us have come together together.’ virtually or in person, and shared advice on For the rest of the year we’ll be sharing our Members’ Facebook group. The well- attended Support Group Zoom meetings content across the blogs, e-newsletters and run by my fellow Director Alan, have social channels on practitioner self-care, provided insights on what’s most pressing which feels more important than ever right on Members’ and this has helped to now, and also continuing to share guidance inform the themes for our communications. on giving Shiatsu in the new Covid-19 It has been very warming to receive your landscape. Do keep checking the Members’ positive feedback, which has confirmed to Portal for new content and interacting with us that we are providing you with helpful others in the Facebook group. content. One member commented: Sarah Allison MrSS

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Covid-19 and Lockdown - new questions arise, new answers must be found...

March 14th 2020

Panayiota practis- nationwide Covid-19 epidemic-related lockdown is Mara is an es Seiki-Shiatsu in announced. We’d already had two meetings of our ‘Shiatsu Architect Athens, Greece. A Engineer Following a Practitioners Empowered’ course (part of the Professional working for the 3-year profes- Development Support Programme for Shiatsu Practitioners) Ministry for the sional Shiatsu Environment training in Athens, and the next scheduled meeting was due in April. As facilitators in Athens, Panayiota contin- of this programme the question we faced was: What do we do Greece. Since ued her studies now? And as practitioners, these questions: How can I practise starting with Clifford Shiatsu in Andrews and Shiatsu and respond to my clients’ needs during lockdown? and 2008 she Nick Pole. In 2011 Can technology support Shiatsu Practitioners’ work? has trained she met Akinobu with several Kishi Sensei and Although initially beset by uncertainty, anxiety and fear, our teachers in Kyoko Kishi and Greece and he continues to sense of responsibility prevailed and we decided to engage with abroad. An train in Seiki with 21st century technology and invite the workshop participants to Kyoko Kishi and experienced Alice Whieldon. a Zoom meeting on March 19th, in order to get closer together Shiatsu She offers and be able to navigate the ebbs and flows of these unexpected practitioner, supervision to she offers Shiatsu practi- circumstances. Supervision tioners, organises and Mentoring Seiki – Shiatsu sessions to workshops and is colleagues. co-creator of the Together, she ‘Professional - and Panayiota velopment Sup- coordinate port Programme ‘Shiatsu for Shiatsu Practi- Practitioners tioners’. Empowered’ She was Chair workshops. of the Hellenic m.papathan Shiatsu Society, asiou@prv. its representative ypeka.gr at the European Shiatsu Federa- tion 2013-14, and Board Secretary 2016-19.

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‘Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime.’ Chinese proverb Zoom Zoom Feedback showed the 4 levels of the field At that first Zoom encounter that practising Distance as well as articles and we set the stage for four Support strengthened Shiatsu-related material in more online meetings, participants’ self-confidence international literature. as professional Shiatsu our aim being to provide Other Supports ongoing support for dealing practitioners and supported We disseminated with the new challenges we them further because information about any faced. they were able to give Distance Healing and We shared thoughts and and receive Distance Healing sessions. All of this online Shiatsu support- feelings, fears and anxieties. related material we came We discussed the role of contributed enormously to group cohesion. across, such as the work of Shiatsu practitioners and Diego Sanchez and Tamsin how they would need to Keep talking, Keep Grainger’s self-care guide adjust their daily routine to Listening on self-massage. We also the new realities of Covid-19, In our role as facilitators encouraged participants how Shiatsu practitioners we were faced with the to attend the donation- were intrinsically motivated challenge of achieving flow based webinars of the New throughout the crisis, and and connection among Energy Work group with how they might be able to participants, as well as of Cliff Andrews in which he meet the needs of both new communicating with each explored new, distant ways and old clients. The group other, on screen, in front of supporting clients and participants responded of all the participants. We practitioners themselves. warmly to our suggestion noticed the need to keep This enhanced the sense for exploring ways to talking in order to maintain of belonging to the wider implement Distance Support, conversational flow - we international Shiatsu i.e. Distance Healing and realised that silence could community during this Shiatsu treatments online. Accordingly, in between the be awkward during online period of social isolation. next four online meetings we meetings. By maintaining the initial met (virtually) in pairs. We followed the group target goals set out in At these encounters we process in both online the ‘Shiatsu Practitioners practised Distance Healing and face-to-face meetings Empowered’ workshop i.e. with each other and used, and each time designed growing the professional among other techniques, the next task depending awareness and forming Clean Language Questions on themes spontaneously the professional identity to help us explore and emerging. We used a of Shiatsu practitioners, understand our Covid-19- variety of tools such as we responded to the new Shiatsu experience. We then Clean Language and Clean conditions by effectively shared this understanding Questions, meditation, eliminating distance at the following Zoom group guided meditation, , via technology-based meetings. experiential exercises for communication. By utilising

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Zoom meeting technology we were able to • ‘Trust, self-confidence, Practitioners Empowered by continue the group process positive team and Covid-19’ was formed during and create and clarify the community mood’ lockdown. Participation Shiatsu practitioner’s role • ‘Thank you for this in this group exceeded in these unprecedented initiative’ all our expectations. times. The participants were Participants felt supported • ‘Mutual support on a heartened and acquired the and encouraged because personal and knowledge necessary to find the workshop design met professional level’ ways of continuing to support Shiatsu practitioners’ current their clients, their peers and • ‘Training, in-depth needs by developing themselves. approach’ adaptation and improvisation Back in Touch • ‘Back to Shiatsu skills in these exceptional basics’ It was with great relief that circumstances. Feedback the group was able to meet • ‘Gratitude for the from the workshop in person again on June 21st spontaneous strengthens our belief that – whilst of course observing response to the growing the professional guidance on infection team’s needs’ awareness and forming prevention! Touch and • ‘Got back to the the professional identity physical presence reinforced of Shiatsu practitioners is the strong connections we organisation and acquired more crucial if we are to increase had created and maintained Shiatsu practitioners’ online, and the event brought specific professional visibility in a breath of life and hope. competencies’ today’s society. Once again we ascertained • ‘Springboard my that the I AM NOT ALONE success and increase Training as Shiatsu feeling is essential to every my visibility at work’ practitioners has taught us human being. how to cultivate flexibility and • ‘Companionship’ Results! turn crisis into opportunity. • ‘Lively and creative In the last scheduled meeting The lockdown became an network of Shiatsu we asked participants for opportunity which has led to responses and reflections on colleagues’ an expanded perception of this question: What did I get It should be added that Shiatsu practitioners’ role in from online meetings? a new group of ‘Shiatsu this ever-changing world.

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Part 1 - Perspective Thirty spokes connect the wheel’s hub It is the centre hole that makes it useful Clay is shaped to make a vessel Basti lives and practises in It is the space within that makes it useful North Norfolk, teaches in Cut doors and windows for a room the Norwich It is the holes that makes them useful and London branches of Therefore, profit comes from what is there The Shiatsu College and Usefulness from what is not there bakes various cakes in his Te Ching, Chapter 11 parents’ delicatessen on the coast. s with all things in this life there are structures and boundaries that His nature we live and move within. These boundaries inevitably change; is gentle yet A playful. There’s subtly or radically (well, both really). probably something As part of Covid-19’s fallout we have had to find new boundaries – poignant or and this we have all done! Everyone in the world has responded in witty that could be said ways which have changed how we go about our daily lives, and though but snacking ‘the clay that shapes our vessel’ may have been reshaped it is still ‘the on chocolate, space within’ that we are using. laughing at ‘bad-dad-gags’ The empty space within us (where our rests, where Essence and loving resides and from which we are able to bring forth any ‘thing’) is similar hugs are more his style. to the spaces we find within the boundaries given us in our lives. It has a shape, and it asks something of us, but it is up to us how we use that space. When we can meet life’s changes with openness, compassion, loving surrender, and even a small amount of impetus, then it all seems far more normal and manageable. As Ram Dass said, ‘It’s all grist for the mill’. Now it’s fairly easy for me to say this, as there is so much change in my life at the moment (with marital separation, moving houses, great shifts of spiritual perspective, greater work responsibilities, and integrating my eight year old daughter in with all of this) that the pandemic just seems like another of these ongoing great changes. However, as before, when met with love and ‘allowing’ it is just part of the movement of life in an everyday sense.

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Many people have started back with hands-on treatments again. I have begun with a few home-visits, as they are few and far between in sleepy, secluded Norfolk countryside spots (PPE appropriate, of course). With all the many changes in my life, however, I have needed more time just to live simply, and I find that approaching things in this way allows space for clarity about Shiatsu College and taking community with a series of what is truly important. Term 3 online for everybody, special Webinars, followed by including our combined courses, on how to support Part 2 - Response Residential course. We were our clients online with Shiatsu In the early Pandemic days, able to provide for and in different ways, and for I nearly froze up but there support all our students and teachers to take their classes was a great movement in our we even found new ways of online too. He also started a Norwich-based Shiatsu world. teaching internal experiences weekly online Client Support We found that new boundaries of Qi… This was not just class, from our Shiatsu Centre were not necessarily confining work but fun! Our team met clinic, which has been hugely - the call was made, the on Zoom every Monday popular and empowering for sights were targeted, all and Wednesday, for up to 3 clients (and friends and family hands were on deck. Thanks hrs - to express ourselves, and international participants largely to Clifford Andrews see what needed to happen, too) – described as an for his tremendous impetus decide what and how to get ‘absolute life-saver’ by many! and the closeness within on with it and then do so. This has meant that as a the Shiatsu College Norwich Cliff released all the Shiatsu community everyone and New Energy Work team online courses at New could keep ‘in the loop’ (Cliff, Dinah John, Shakura Energy Work free (asking without going loopy and those Meddings, Cat Westwood and only for donations) and needing treatments can still myself), we set about liaising set about supporting the get something of what they with all 5 branches of the wider international Shiatsu need. Our Norwich team is pooling the donations for each month and sharing out anything left, after all the overheads have been covered, at the same hourly rate. We’re basically running as a collective at the moment and we’re surviving and keeping the lights on at the Centre as well as enjoying spreading the Shiatsu love as New Energy Work Team widely as we can!

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International Shiatsu Congress Online (ISCO) October 9th – 11th

By Dinah John FwSS n Oct ’19 the New Energy Work (NEW) throughout June and July and we all Iteam, here in Norwich, started running grappled to work out how best to bring their monthly Webinars in partnership with vision to fruition. The situation kept changing the European Shiatsu Congress (ESC) rapidly - many teachers and participants - introducing a number of their guest were unable or unsure whether they could teachers with a taste of what they were to even go to Amsterdam. offer at their Amsterdam workshops. These In the end it was agreed that the best thing turned out to be brilliant - with wonderful would be for us to run a separate online and fascinating presentations attended by congress - so presenters unable to get to hundreds - including those of us who’re the ESC could still share their work, and really hands-on kind of people not usually participants now unable to go could also join so keen on these online events! in. We had spaces for a few teachers who In May - with the pandemic raging - the still planned to go to Amsterdam – so their ESC asked for further help with their now work could also be shared more widely. increasingly uncertain live congress. Register now for the chance to work with Since the start of the crisis we’d released these great teachers from the comfort of all of NEW’s courses and webinars free - your own home: donation only - and we’d been working as a collective to create a string of webinars and www.internationalshiatsucongressonline. courses to support the worldwide Shiatsu org community moving their work online. All recordings will be available afterwards So, the lovely ESC organisers joined our if you can’t make the live sessions team meetings for an hour each Monday Hope to see you there!

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hat has become clear during this virus outbreak is the Wstaggering amount of contradictory information about the cause, the reason, how to prevent it, the outcome etc. No sooner do I read one ‘fact’ purporting to be the Truth of the situation, than its opposite appears. From ‘credible’ scientists, to ‘conspiracy’ theorists, all claim to be imparting the sole truth of this crazy Beth has situation we find ourselves in. As far as I’m concerned, it appears fifteen years’ experience that no-one actually knows anything about what is really going working with on. Most likely even the people in power. It’s all a matter of energy, the subtle realms perspective. But who knows? I certainly don’t. and the Observing the responses around and within me, it seems that body. After graduating we humans need to attach to some idea, some belief. Our sanity, from the sense of self, safety and identity depend on it. But the beliefs Shiatsu College being chosen are entirely dependent on our own self-construct Brighton in 2011, she and reality. Most of us simply go around choosing those beliefs travelled to which make sense for us, happily ignoring the fact that information to study Taoist Medicine can be found everywhere that supports EVERY single perspective at a remote one could ever possibly think of. There is little objectivity in this temple in the Wudang behaviour and no one absolute truth. In fact, when we really get mountains. down to it, no-one has a clue, it seems to me. Then, for three years, she It’s made me think of an experiment which was carried out by retreated into the early scientists of the quantum world. The outcome of the Nature, living location and whereabouts of the photon (matter) being measured without technology, was DIRECTLY related to the intention and hypothesis of the gas or elec- observer (consciousness). Matter therefore has been identified tricity. This allowed a deep as being inherently influenced by consciousness (in this case our exploration thoughts and projected outcomes). Our reality is subject to change of the body, drawing on depending on our intention. Our beliefs and thoughts do shape her our reality, so what we choose to believe and to think is of great meditation importance. practice and the elemental world. Living now in the Preseli Mountains in West Wales, she helps peo- ple to a deeper understand- ing of their bodies through movement and energy work. www.preseli healing.com

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Anyone who has worked But the thing is, currently it possible to accept the with the body and its we do live our lives in uncomfortable idea that, relationship to space will the third dimension and, perhaps, no-one knows? understand this. When in some way, matter is Can we rest in the space beginning work with the non- inextricably linked to between the myriad ideas local energetic spaces of the consciousness. Thoughts and ‘facts’ that are being body, for example the dantian are there, we can’t stop presented to us? In the or , without focused them, so then the cultivation spaces of our reality, in the awareness, consciousness of beliefs that support our space between the breath, will pretty much always attach highest outcomes begin to in the spaces of our body, itself to matter, for example look wise. Buying into fear is in the suspension of our the inner wall of the belly. probably not helpful. beliefs lie the potential of Consciousness looks for the So what might happen if nothing and everything. nearest available ‘solid ground’ we were able to suspend As the says, on which to attach itself. It those beliefs altogether, ‘What matter good or bad, naturally seeks to anchor itself, to deliberately not attach what matter right or wrong. to establish its identity in the ourselves to one thing Stay in the centre of the physical realm. In the body or another? Especially in circle and let all things go this is the physical structure, the current situation, is their way’. in the realm of the mind, it is our thoughts and beliefs. Ordinarily we need our beliefs References: in order to anchor us within Capra, Fritjof (1985) Tao of Physics, Flamingo the construct of our lives and relationships. Without them we Mitchell, Damo (2018) A Comprehensive Guide risk swimming in a lost world to Daoist Neigong, Singing Dragon of non-identity and possible Lao Tzu, trans. Stephen Mitchell (2000) annihilation. Tao Te Ching, Macmillan, London

16 SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL One Heart & One World - The Power of Touch™ By Kumiko Kanayama

have always had a vision of a unified Shiatsu community. In I2018 Simone Carbonel, Wendy Bolognesi, Nini Melvin and I launched ‘The Global Shiatsu Community for All’. I travelled widely, organising Shiatsu reunions and camps for students, teachers and practitioners. The events were a time to meet, practise, review, discuss, learn, plan and renew friendships - a special time for Kumiko Kanay- all. Social media also played a role in keeping our community ama, founder of The Five connected, allowing practitioners and students throughout the Lights Center world to share their experiences and inspire others. of Shiatsu, is a practitioner Then, in 2020, the pandemic arrived. Everything stopped: stay and teacher of at home; don’t touch. Keeping two metres apart was especially Intuitive Shiat- su™, a method disruptive for those of us practising and teaching bodywork. she developed It was time to regroup, rethink and find ways to move forward after many years of study while observing the new Covid-19 health guidelines. Many of with her uncle, the courses offered at The Five Lights Center were converted to Ohashi, a pio- neer of Shiatsu webinar and online platforms, and I added a weekly Zoom class in the West. focused on Makko-Ho stretching. I also built on the two things I Her philosophy do best i.e. sharing my passion for Shiatsu and bringing people is deeply en- trenched in her together. The result: ‘The Global Shiatsu Virtual Gatherings’. commitment to spiritual What are The Global Shiatsu Virtual Gatherings? serenity and human touch Every Saturday, using video communication meeting technology, we ‘meet’ as a means to harmony, not Shiatsu people all over the world. only in her own life but in the Our indefatigable Zoom team of lives of those Ewa Solonia, Gail Flanagan, Sara she touches. Vanin and Virginia Miller created a Kumiko was born in platform where experienced Shiatsu where, as a teachers and practitioners of the child, she was introduced to Eastern Healing Arts can share their Shiatsu by her knowledge with the Global Shiatsu family. She cur- Community. rently resides in New York City, USA.

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We begin by offering The “Always a wonderful and changes perspectives. Three Bows for everyone to experience at these Vocalisation is also an join: meetings, I am so happy to important component of In modern Shiatsu be here with you all!’ many types of meditation. We teachings, Go Shiki refers to Silvia (Italy) learned about secret sounds the heat and energy in our Mindful Movement and of Qigong, healing sounds hands. When we bring our two Meditation: Different types of Yin style Bagua, and were hands together in a gesture of of mindful movements and introduced to Kotomai misogi. reverence (Gassho), the right meditative stretches are External sound also becomes hand represents the Buddha always a welcome part of meditation when we are and the left hand represents the weekly presentations. immersed in the soothing harmonic waves of the gong our own physical being. Together we practise. The bath. Through our touch, we pray physical benefits to the soft for healing energy and light to tissues are well-documented, “A nice inner moment balance, focus and unite our and coordination with the with myself.” energy channels in mind and breath brings calm. We have Cristian (Argentina) body. shared classic Do-In methods, At each session there are various Qigong forms, Zen Inner Peace: hearing a story, at least two presentations. Stretching®, Ruler, listening to a calming voice, Many of them focus on self- meridian stretches and a enjoying a quiet moment. care techniques to help cope practice of Yin Yoga which Gatherers were treated with the sudden changes focused on the Masunaga to a Guided Journey that occurring throughout the extensions. transported us to beautiful world, and others include art, places in our minds; we “RELAX, LEARN, HAVE dance, music, meditation time learned something of FUN! Just laugh, even if you and inspirational readings Vietnamese culture in the story have to force it at first. Just that direct our five senses to of the ‘Fourth Uncle under the strengthen body, mind and like visualization, which is Mountain’, and we practised spirit. We are offered new used by many athletes, your how to improve our listening perspectives on familiar self- brain thinks you’re actually through a transcendental care and guided movement doing it, even if you are process in ‘The Power of techniques, and fresh pretending.” Silence’. The importance of approaches to meditation and Sooyong (USA) pausing and holding space has the Eastern Healing Arts. In Sounds of Zen: We were always been a part of Shiatsu the early days of Covid-19, we transformed by a wonderful treatment and here it provided all needed to be reminded and much needed experience a valuable counterbalance to of the importance of physical - laughing. We started soft and the activity of our lives. and emotional self-care to slowly, maybe a little chuckle “A truly captivating gathering keep strong and help us move from the throat and a shrug of sages with outstanding forward into the uncharted of the shoulders, but by the alternative holistic health pandemic. end of the presentation, the guidance…” These gatherings are truly Zoom room was filled with Zack (United Kingdom) global - we have introduced rich resonant laughter coming over 50 teachers and from deep within. Laughter Self-Care and Eastern Healing gathered more than 1000 - the power of a smile Practices: self-care and participants in four months. magnified - releases emotions maintaining overall health

18 SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL are prime objectives of the right away. Other topics from . Nutrition and food group. We can only take care such as ‘Using Shiatsu skills became art when cucumbers of others if we take care of when working with death and and kale were prepared for ourselves and during this loss’ and ‘A bridge between pickling and fermentation, time of Covid-19, self-care Shiatsu and western science’ creating healthy food to help is our best protection. Many may take time to marinate us through the pandemic. presentations emphasised but will ultimately help us Beyond the Pandemic physical movement, but we better understand the needs also learned treatments to of our clients and deepen our The Global Virtual Shiatsu take care of our bodies and practice. Community plans to continue boost our immune systems. its weekly programmes “The teaching is really We located neurolymphatic throughout the year, going interesting, each one with points to strengthen the beyond the pandemic (we big knowledge and a strong immune system. We boosted hope!). The gatherings are free heart! Thank you for this our immunity by tapping and open to anyone interested beautiful organisation FLC along our meridians. We in the Eastern healing arts. (Five Lights Center). I hope to The need for a unified discovered the benefits of be with you every Saturday.” Ka Do , and an community is well understood Veronique (France) ear self-care by all participants and new members are always welcome. protocol developed by the Creative Arts: beauty and the Join the community! NADA (National creative arts intertwined with Our practices are all unique, Detoxification Association). Zen. So many practitioners but our goal is the same: combine their practice of to share our knowledge, “Enjoy my friends. I’ll make Shiatsu and understanding experience and passion with one of our Zooms soon. I of the meridians with their others. think this should continue on training in the creative as it’s a perfect way to bring arts. A demonstration of Join us to create a strong our international community Japanese calligraphy (Sho Shiatsu movement, to create together” do) impressed the group as a peaceful world and a place Ange (USA) beautiful images appeared to take care of our body, our then faded to nothingness. family, our community and Professional Guidance: Calligraphy combined with a our world. One world and one naturally, most of us are modern dance performance planet! desperate to return to our based on Qigong. Shiatsu All gatherings are recorded studios and clinics to practise was the inspiration for a and available on The Five once again. But until then, dance alchemy combining Lights Center’s website these gatherings provide visualization and energy fivelightscenter.com & YouTube a place for deepening our awareness while moving Channel. knowledge and skill. Practical demonstrations such as how to position a Shiatsu client Acknowledgements: using restorative yoga props, I would like to thank everyone who made the how to clear your mind with Global Shiatsu Virtual Gatherings a fun and successful Ki-Hygiene before, during endeavour. It has been a joy. I also want to thank and after a session, an Sara Vanin, Ewa Solonia and Laurie Russell for their introduction to the Tsubook contributions and encouraging discussions in writing this app – these can all be used article.

SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG 19 AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL Positive Perspectives on a Pandemic By Amy Hinks Wright

Welcome Back didn’t expect my first Shiatsu back after the lockdown to have such Ian impact on me. Often having a break from Shiatsu can have an effect on my practice - deepening it in some way - but this time it was a physical and joyful realisation that Shiatsu reminds my body of how Amy studied it feels in its best state, that giving Shiatsu creates fluidity and motion at the Devon School of in my own body. Shiatsu and for With all the Qigong and stretching, all the Do-In and meditation I over a decade she has been had time to do during the lockdown, I was sure my body and mind using Shiatsu were in a healthy and positive place. Then boom! It was all nothing to support the emotional compared to the flow and relief I felt in my body after giving my first and mental Shiatsu. My body said ‘This is it. This is how you are supposed to feel. well-being of Do more!’ her clients. Previous jobs have included What No Hands? mentoring, coaching, Not being able to provide hands-on Shiatsu for such a long period of training and time was tough and difficult. For the whole of lockdown I had clients advising and contacting me in distress and pain, asking how they could support this experience helps her hold themselves. In response, I created videos of self-care Shiatsu. I had a supportive already run a few self-care Shiatsu courses, which attracted other space in her treatments. complementary practitioners, massage therapists and yoga teachers. She works in I used the basis of my course work, plus experience and research to Exeter and pull together individual exercise videos. These videos included Do- Exmouth and attends In, Qigong, stretching exercises, suggested tsubos and lifestyle and local events dietary advice. promoting Shiatsu. Otherwise All Too Much she can be One very distressed client contacted me, exhausted by supporting found in the allotment all those around her. She was still working, as a care giver - in fact or garden she was busier than ever. Her partner had been ill, she had missed or chasing her two an important family event, her daughter had moved away and she sons across couldn’t visit. She had no time to rest and no sign of a holiday. the Devon countryside. www.amyshi atsuexeter.com

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I sent her a short and basic isolated, nervous and anxious, clients as we go along, I ask video - a 5 minute Do-In lacking support and contact. how a shoulder or hip feels exercise routine for morning She appreciated having daily once I’ve worked it, sometimes and evening, focusing on exercise routines, especially they ask me to do a little more Kidney and Bladder and those that focused on anxiety work. If an emotion arises, Governing and Conception and distress. She felt calmer we work together to help Vessels. I also advised her to and more confident and understand and release that meditate for 5 minutes after secure when she eventually emotion. the Do-In. I suggested she was allowed to leave her During lockdown these lie down for a minute or two, house. relationships became more ideally on the floor, when and personal and a little more Introducing Shiatsu without where possible, when she informal. I would check in with Touch began to feel overwhelmed, clients, hearing about how to allow her body to rest and Whilst I wasn’t offering they and their family were reset. I also suggested she treatments, I took the managing and many of them hold HP 7 and 8 when things opportunity to create would ask about me and my became too much. Facebook posts and website family. These small changes blogs about the principles of Over the last few months created a little more energy Shiatsu. I find that introducing I have also begun to build and resource, allowing her clients to the ideas behind our strong ties with other to continue her demanding work allows them to explore Shiatsu practitioners and schedule. Then we began to further and helps them to complementary therapists, build up her routine length support themselves. giving and receiving peer and started to include some One post introduced the support. Working together Qigong and a little cardio. I concept of the Hara and with others to support all of sent her videos of each new the central role it holds in a our clients, share videos and exercise and checked in treatment. How sitting and communicate new guidance regularly. being in Hara, and making has built my confidence. decisions from this place, Support for All taking a moment to ask ‘what Well Actually, Thank Goodness for Hands-On In addition to individual is your gut saying?’ is a useful videos, I produced general skill for anyone. Many clients As I have begun to offer hands- ones: to support the Lung found this particularly helpful on sessions again, these closer and Large Intestine, to boost as we came out of lockdown, relationships and connections the general flow of energy giving them confidence to have really paid off – clients through the Meridians and trust themselves and their are returning in droves! to help manage anxiety and decisions. How has it been for them? stress. These were shared ‘Comforting’; ‘Maternal’; ‘It by friends and family and OK, Who Needs Hands On? was good to make contact internationally, via social I found that the break from with my body and remember media, reaching people with seeing my clients face-to -face how it feels when it is working underlying health conditions motivated me to strengthen smoothly’; ‘It is such a relief!’ or high levels of anxiety. my connection with them Most clients arrive holding Another client with a serious in other ways. I aim for my a lot of emotion and tension health condition picked up on Shiatsu to be as collaborative - their own and that of those these videos. She was feeling as possible. I check in with around them.

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I begin by staying still and other practitioners was really What Happens Now? present, waiting for them helpful. I plan to maintain the to be ready for movement Along with government- strong relationships I of energy to begin. specified adaptations, I now have with my clients and Remembering this basic idea always treat clients in prone or fellow professionals. I will and taking this time has made on their side, working hardly continue to use videos to my job easier, the body is at all in supine. I also use the offer personal exercise speaking and letting me know seated position more - at the and lifestyle plans for my what touch and treatment it end of a treatment to work the clients. I am going to polish needs, I can then follow. neck and shoulders. These up on my digital skills and I have been working a lot positions keep me away from offer some courses online, with Kidney, Bladder and the face as much as possible. independently and with other therapists. Lockdown Small Intestine, I guess due I have also avoided skin-on- showed we need to adapt to the constant amounts skin contact, using a cotton from just offering hands-on of impact, assimilation and cloth to cover any exposed treatments to offering other integration the last few skin. months have demanded. ways to support people from Commonly there has been Asking clients to move a distance. tightness in the rib cage, position during, and to sit up I’ll also remember that shoulders and neck - that for the end of, their treatment a break is a good thing, a I recognise as a result of has created more dynamic chance to reflect and be pushing through, regardless sessions. Although still deeply introspective for a while. of energy levels. relaxing, nourishing and But when you come back nurturing there seems to be that’s when things really Hands-on - But Not as We more opportunity for those change, a deepening of Know it ‘magic moments’ - just being self-understanding and of There have been new taken by the treatment, doing practice. For the most part and complex measures to something you didn’t plan or I’ll look back at Lockdown understand, implement and anticipate, the energy can fondly, I loved the peace, integrate into a relaxed and shift dramatically and take the the quiet, the space and the supportive Shiatsu treatment. treatment to a deeper and spare time… but I am so glad This is where the support of more healing place. to be back giving Shiatsu.

22 SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL Personal Practice 100-day Challenge By Julie Weeks FwSS

hat better time than the beginning of a global lockdown to Wtry the personal practice 100-day challenge and what better people to do it with than your Tai Chi students?! For six years I have been running Tai Chi classes alongside my Shiatsu practice on Hayling Island. I had heard about the personal practice 100-day challenge (i.e. a commitment to do one’s practice on Julie Weeks gained her 100 consecutive days) from previous Tai Chi and Shiatsu teachers but Diploma in until lockdown had never considered doing it myself. 1997 and is a recognised I was surprised how hard I found the first week or two of lockdown teacher. She - no ‘real people’ contact other than our own household and no qualified as a Tai Chi Shiatsu to give or receive. I knew I needed something positive to for Health give me a sense of direction and achievement and I reckoned if I felt Instructor like this, surely others might feel the same? in 2014. Her main area of Like so many colleagues, I had cancelled all Shiatsu appointments clinical interest has always and moved my Tai Chi classes online so I could offer some continuity been patient- to those students willing and able to access live-streamed classes. I empowered recorded some short reminder videos to help people maintain some health improvement personal practice, I set up a WhatsApp group, wrote short weekly and she runs emails to keep people connected, and offered the opportunity to a private practice participate in the 100-day challenge with me. I produced a table for on Hayling anyone who wanted to tick off their daily practice and devised a short Island to questionnaire to help us reflect back after the 100 days. One of my facilitate this. She recently students, Barbara, kindly agreed to share her experience with us, for gained an MSc which I am extremely grateful (Barbara’s responses are in italics). in Health and Rehabilitation Notes: TCA is Tai Chi for Arthritis, TCR is Tai Chi for Rehabilitation - from the both forms are from Dr Paul Lam’s Tai Chi for Health Institute: https:// University of Southampton, taichiforhealthinstitute.org/. Dr Lam allowed free access to TCR as researching a way of offering global support during the Covid pandemic and upper limb change after this link continues to be free for anyone wishing to learn a short but 6 weeks of nourishing routine: Tai Chi. She is keen to explore www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nCaiM9yd9w&list=PLMypbNPFK- the connection GgSxHqI65G6UrDl1blf493ih&index=2 between Tai Chi and The Shibashi 18 Stances is the routine I learned during my Shiatsu. European Shiatsu School teacher training, reference Chris Jarmey’s book ‘ Qigong’ (2001).

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Barbara’s Questionnaire Responses July ‘20 • How long have you • What were the best bits pain. Julie (Weeks) been practising Tai Chi? about doing the gradually introduced us Approximately four challenge? to Do-In, 18 Stances of years At the end of each Shibashi Tai Chi Qigong session I always felt a and various other • Do you usually practise sense of achievement standalone short forms. in between classes and if and calm, ready to face • What reason do you have so, how often? the day of confinement. for changing the forms? Sometimes I did practise Also, my husband between classes but respected my hour each During Covid-19 lockdown not regularly. I was day and did not disturb I was able to learn Tai always intending to do me during this time of Chi for Rehabilitation more but other things practice. (TCR) with Dr Paul would get in the way Lam from his free • What were the worst bits and I wouldn’t get round Youtube link. about doing the to it challenge? • Do you feel different • What made you decide to I can’t think of any when you do the different do the 100-day challenge? negatives! forms? When I heard about this TCA was the first form I • What problems did learned, though it didn’t challenge, I thought this you have completing the was doable, especially in come easily as my challenge and how did memory and recall lockdown with time to fill. you overcome them? I felt the challenge would were slipping. Since I soon got into a daily put this time to good practising this over the routine – Tai Chi became past couple of years I use and give me a focus. the priority over have noticed that my neck I hoped that by the end housework. I liked to especially is less painful, of 100 days my Tai chi start my day with the with fewer spasms and would be improved and practice, though I did better range of I would be more secure find that I struggled when movement. and confident in my I tried to do the form TCR leaves me feeling movement through the before breakfast as I was in some way that I have form. too weak and wobbly! been protecting myself • How did you find doing • Which Tai Chi form(s) did from Covid-19, so after the challenge? you do? Can you say a each session I would Doing the challenge gave little bit about the feel revived and me a focus and very soon different forms please? calm. became the ‘must do’ I started with Tai Chi for The 18 Stances of routine. As the days Arthritis (TCA) as I wanted Shibashi Tai Chi Qigong - passed, I found that something to help me live arouse the flow of I liked doing the Tai Chi with my body as it was electricity through my daily because of how I felt being strangled and body especially through afterwards. distorted with arthritis my fingers.

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How have you changed whereas I used a colour- can do less but with greater since doing the challenge: coded system for the focus. An added bonus 1) Physically? I now rarely different forms of practice. was the wonderful weather have headaches and have Reflecting on this process, which allowed me to a better range of movement I realised that I needed practise in the garden and in my neck. to ensure my practice did connect more closely not become just a ‘tick- to nature. 2) Psychologically? Pain box exercise’ and that is very hard to live with - it This commitment has also it was, more than ever, makes you feel so given me more confidence essential to be present in miserable, it interrupts in my physical body and the moment as I practised. sleep, and arthritis prevents all aspects of my health as I also needed to keep a full movement of the joints. well as demonstrating the good balance between the I don’t want to live on pain benefits of regular practice sedating and stimulating relief medication for the rest in a way which I know will forms of practice in relation of my life so when I found enhance my teaching. to other commitments I had out about TCA I wanted to I am convinced I would during that day. give it a try. have struggled in so many The ‘Meridian Clock Do- 3) Emotionally? Since more ways with the whole In’, with specific focus on practising the form daily, I episode of lockdown had key points, helped me keep find that I am much calmer it not been for the 100-day connected to my Shiatsu challenge. I am so grateful and accepting, more laid and the 100-day challenge back. to those who suggested this encouraged me to find a to me, and to Barbara for What are your future new normal routine during sharing this journey with me, plans regarding your Tai lockdown. The commitment thank you! Chi practice? I’d made encouraged me to find time, where previously To keep practising for as I might not have, and now I long as I’m able. Have you ever tried Shiatsu or Acupuncture? CPD Questions A couple of years ago Have you ever done a 100-day challenge? I had regular Acupuncture If not, reflect on whether you might consider a challenge for over a year for recurring one day, perhaps a 21 day to start or a 50 day - before pain in my hip. I didn’t like you know it you might build up to 100 days. the needles but found that I If yes, what personal practice did you do and why? responded to the treatment and did get considerable pain Reflect on what benefits did you found from doing your relief. practice, list the benefits to your physical, psychological (Barbara has now been and emotional wellbeing. given a session to try Shiatsu If you do not feel you benefitted, reflect on why this might once all Covid-19 restrictions have been. are lifted). Why is it important for us as Shiatsu practitioners to: Rather than the table layout, A) Do some regular practice? Barbara preferred to keep her B) Receive regular Shiatsu treatments? practice record in her diary,

SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG 25 AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL Jewel in the Corona By Karen Durham FwSS

ike others, when Corona first hit the UK, the shock threw me into Lpanic and survival-tactic overdrive. I felt anxious about finances, the future of my work and my connection with others; I felt alone. My incredible discomfort propelled me to sit with myself, listen with kindness and be in nature. But when that wasn’t quite enough, I asked Karen’s Qigong a friend for help. She listened, I cried, I felt heard and connected, I and Gung found my ground and was able to move forward with integrity and Fu training 15 years ago strength. evoked a deep That initial 11 days insight into strengthening of struggle inspired and balancing me to write a poem mind, body and soul. entitled ‘The Perfect Shiatsu Storm’. To quote a line: sparked the ‘Remember that it is key to sharing this powerful your Hard-Ships that wisdom. She set the very sails to graduated with the ESS your steadfast growth’. in 2005 and It felt like a new became a registered break of dawn. Shiatsu teacher Allowing me to meet my own needs rather than falsely expecting in 2016. She feels honoured others to meet them for me – whether friends, family, material things, to teach in distractions or even hoping the government will provide. Shiatsu schools in England, Finding a safe space, listening with kindness, allowing things to Ireland, France emerge, asking for help, brought an incredible sense of connection and Poland as well as her with myself and others beyond physical contact: qualities at the very own ‘Shiatsu core of Shiatsu. inspired’ classes and This ‘Jewel in the Corona’ sparked a new approach to Shiatsu and workshops to other fresh ways of working to guide people to ‘Thrive Inside & Tap into all generations. “This precious your Unique Potential in a Challenging World’, the book I have begun gift; my writing. passion impels me to inspire So many fresh and abundant ideas have been given life… I created others to completely new content on my YouTube channel. It attracts a diverse thrive inside and tap into audience interested not just in Shiatsu but in personal growth and it their unique now has increased viewer interaction. I started one-to-one sessions potential” outside in nature and online, the latter enabling me to reach anywhere in the world. Crucially, all these methods collaborate with the individual’s inner wisdom to heal, feel strong and be happy - taking charge and creating their own solutions to enhance all aspects of their life.

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Thriving in the Park For years I had thought about running outdoor classes but hadn’t figured out how. One day, just as I was just completing one of my self- training sessions in my local park, a lady gazed over with curiosity. I smiled, walked over and we chatted for ages about much that we are passionate about. She ended up asking if she could pay for a lesson with me, and then gathered other people too. Voilà, our group - ‘Thrive in the Park’ - was intent and the universe rippled • Connection and created. back and presented me this collaboration have These weekly group classes precious opportunity with infinite wonder. We are combine: virtually no effort. much stronger together. • Movements (Qigong) These last months have • What is intrinsically • Hands-on techniques shown me some treasured important is that it (Self-Shiatsu) gems: must come from a place • Discussion • Shine and show the of grounding, trusting light of your passion. • Stillness and honouring your Honour what you say own integrity • and Fun of course and do and you will Feedback from participants attract others who My personal struggles accords directly with my own value you to form allowed me to see that great experiences: symbiotic relationships things spring from the dirt. In “Enquiry rather than fixing, that nurture truth, ‘Commit and Begin it experiencing rather than doing • Relish everything you Now’ (wise words attributed to gives me more acceptance; I do and experience, Goethe). I hope that reading find it really helpful for self- with intention, diligence this will inspire you to follow care to share the movement and patience - because your own sweet line. Discover and other activities with the each grain sends how it feels to follow your others in a small group; Self- ripples that mirror back glory, passion, purpose and care and looking for the inner in extraordinary ways creativity! healing; It is a really interesting angle for me… the group was really useful for me and is I am happy to talk with you so please feel free to get in turning things round, I hope” touch - it feels so right and wonderful to share. I feel my commitment to T: +44 (0)7986 088 900 E: [email protected] years spent on my own self- W: www.afinebalance.co.uk practice in a particular spot in Google Page: https://g.co/kgs/Fb8eB9 my local park set a vibration of YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/Afinebalance88

SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG 27 AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL Pivoting in a Pandemic By Mihael Mamychshvili

always wondered about living in ‘safe’ Canada. What will we do Iduring a disaster? How will we fare if there is a war? How will we react when the chips are down? And of course, how might I personally respond/react during a crisis? Well I finally received some answers, although I could never have Mihael is the imagined it would be a pandemic that would reveal these answers. Founder & Lead Therapist Last summer a busy chapter in my life closed - that of being a of Angel Hands Founder and a lead therapist of an Integrative team of practitioners Integrative Programs. His working specifically with people suffering from trauma and complex speciality is re- chronic pain. It had been an arduous period with many growing pains connecting the communica- and much personal and professional development. There were many tion between sacrifices and many rewards and as I stepped off the ‘Bullet Train’, I the mind and honestly felt a little wobbly. My legs were shaky, I felt disorientated and body. His innovative somewhat insecure but also relieved. Some of us live so fast we don’t approach realise how fast until we step off. to the body and broad I transitioned to a solo practice, sharing an office with one of my knowledge co-workers, a Doctor of Naturopathic medicine. This new schedule and experience have led to his almost felt like semi-retirement compared to my previous life. So much reputation as a free time that I’d not previously had - and it felt great to have this, therapist who can initiate apparently unproductive, time. The old me was saying, “Now you can transformative create more with this time” and the new me was saying, “We can wait change. Since on that, let’s enjoy this time!” becoming a Shiatsu Thera- As the winter approached, I was enjoying some great vacation pist in 2001, he has developed time with the family in Mexico and California when the winds of the his own style pandemic started to spread into Canada. By early March we were in a of therapy and panic state and very soon after that came shutdown, ‘All non-essential methodology that focuses businesses must close!’ on the body- mind connec- I am entrepreneurial by nature, with a core need to be free and in tion. Through control of my own narrative and reality. Along with a close group of this complete other, like-minded business owners, we started to explore how we person ap- proach he has might be able to ‘pivot’ our businesses, this pivoting concept being to help clients very close to my heart. So, instead of relying on government financial to change and transform. aid, I conjured up a plan I had already envisioned whilst moving into my new chapter, i.e. to create an online presence for my business. I found a business coach and joined her group in which she helped many of us with the nuts and bolts of transitioning to an online platform and generating income that way. I also took an online course with Clifford Andrews of New Energy Work, where he demonstrated distance healing.

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I immediately felt I could do followed the discourse in a of times. I still receive personal this too and was astounded Facebook group ‘Everything messages from therapists at how effective it proved to Shiatsu’, that I had created around the world grateful be for some patients. I started years ago. I felt for us to have something to look contacting patients to offer collectively and decided to forward to every Friday. Now, this new service/therapy set up a weekly podcast for however, I am taking a break and slowly but surely, after mutual support. from everything as I realise seeing the initial benefits, they I reached out for great I have not rested since the started to book appointments guests like Tamsin Grainger, pandemic began - but I do and before long I had half a Nick Pole, Wataru Ohashi, look forward to riding this caseload back up and running. Tzvika Calisar, Diego creative surge and wave on I also offered group sessions, Sanchez, Suzanne Yates and into the fall. free video tutorials and many more. The feedback coaching sessions to groups Pivoting has meant so has been tremendous, and and businesses. The feedback much to me personally, we had 1000s of views for was extremely encouraging. professionally, financially and every podcast. Last but not least I thought emotionally. Incorporating about my Shiatsu brothers and It has brought me great joy the principles of Shiatsu has sisters around the world, all to initiate and harness this helped many of us find ways of whom had, initially at least, enormous collective effort in around the perceived blocks been prevented from working, bringing our global Shiatsu we face and to come through teaching and facilitating. community closer together to the other side, where there I read the many comments and during this most challenging is so much more waiting for us. Board Report embership support and political member’, is on my radar. We need to be Mnetworking have been the focus of making more noise about the benefits of my work as Co-Chair with Annie over the Shiatsu on multiple levels. The Integrated last three months. Annie, Ruth and I put Healthcare Collaborative has had several together your Back-to-Work pack which has Zoom calls which I attend for the Society, comprehensive guidance on returning to and I have also made useful contacts with hands-on practice for those of you willing other therapy organisations with a view to and able to do so. Ruth keeps the website mutual support. It feels expansive. Annie up to date with all the latest changes to and I had hoped to participate in the government advice for all four nations of European Shiatsu Congress, networking the UK. I have enjoyed the personal contact with our counterparts in other countries. with you during our political campaigns Unfortunately, neither of us has been able to contact MPs and regional government to go to Amsterdam due to Covid and family representatives. It really felt like we pulled constraints, but we will look at international together as a Society to pressurise on a networking this autumn. ‘return to work’ date. I am looking forward to connecting with Political campaigning in the future, with a you virtually for our AGM on 3rd October. regular ‘contact your MP / MSP / Assembly Board report - Elaine Liechti FwSS

SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG 29 AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL Shiatsu Society - the Future By Elaine Liechti FwSS

nnie Cryar and I, spontaneously and independently, began thinking Aabout strategic forward planning back in June. I took as my model Native American Medicine Wheel teachings which I studied intensively in 2006. In this wisdom, life follows a 27-year cycle divided into nine ‘lodges’ representing different attitudes or ways of Elaine Liechti being, placed at the compass points with a central Fire place. We spend began training in Shiatsu 3 years in each lodge as we walk round the Wheel, learning a new skill in 1980. She or attitude. The system is traditionally used for arbitration between and is Principal within tribes and is also used by individuals for personal problems or teacher of the Glasgow decisions on possible courses of action. It is essentially a way to pray, School of to receive answers to questions and to understand ourselves. Too rich Shiatsu. Elaine helped found, and complex to go into detail here, it has parallels with our East Asian and was philosophy (mind, body, emotions and spirit-focused) but has time- Secretary of, related aspects and pointers for harmonious community action. the Shiatsu Society for its Could mapping the Shiatsu Society’s ‘life’ onto the Wheel make sense first 10 years and helped out of what brought us to near bankruptcy two years ago? Would it to organise aid us in forward planning? Pauline Sasaki’s A Shamanic colleague’s insight was that the ‘old’ Society (which started first four workshops in in October 1981) went to war with itself and died. What emerged in the UK. She the autumn of 2018 is a ‘new’ Shiatsu Society which is currently being has served for nurtured in the central Childrens’ Fire, where life force, unique creativity many years on the Society’s and self-reliance develop. Those of us who are long term members, Education Sub- ‘Elders’, are helping to birth the new Society. From the ‘old’ Society committee and she was one perspective, this autumn we move into the Singers and Storytellers of the heroic Lodge where we can choose which verses of our past history to sing ‘Gang of Four’ so that the new child knows the stories and does not make the same volunteers who helped rescue mistakes. the Society from the brink This insight that we are now developing a ‘new’ Society has enabled of dissolution Annie, Ruth Wilbur (in the Office) and me to look creatively at current in 2018. As a patterns and structures with a view to moving the Society to a more member of the current Board modern business structure with sustainability, resilience and continuity of Directors, all built in. In our weekly meetings we have initiated some ‘blue skies’ she continues to bring her thinking whilst acknowledging that piloting the Society in the way that enormous we, the members, require and deserve takes more time and energy experience and per week than a part-time paid worker and two unpaid co-chairs (with wisdom to the Society. Shiatsu Schools to run) can reasonably do, even with the support of the membership team and the Board.

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How to break out of this long- clarity, focus and strategic supporting and horizontal term, historical pattern? vision. The CEO idea was impetus to the rest of the The 2014 Structure Group’s well considered and nods Society, with the possibility recommendation that a CEO towards modern business of regional hubs to allow be appointed came when the practice - but we don’t more of us to be involved ‘old’ Society was moving from currently have the funds. with the Society without the Mens’ lodge (questioning Could we implement a the responsibility of Board ‘What should we do?’, ‘How modified CEO idea using our membership. can we do this?’) to the Peace current team skills? Already Using this traditional Chiefs’ (make peace but in progress! wisdom, so well rooted in don’t lose ourselves). Before Ruth, whose work you are Nature, has enabled us to this recommendation could familiar with, has produced initiate necessary change with be implemented the Society some very solid forward- a map in our hands. For further entered a period of crisis looking ideas. With some information please contact me: in which its Ki moved into extended hours, we see [email protected] the War Chiefs’ lodge (‘fight Ruth being able to take honourably for survival’). some of the intermediate Thanks to Morning Star, Grandmother Rosalyn Now, with the ‘new’ Society workload from Annie and and Ellie Douglas. Thanks in its last year in the warmth of me, whilst collaborating also to Alexandra Krause the Childrens’ Fire, we need to closely with us in planning for mind-map, Bill Palmer start looking out to the Mens’ our future. Annie’s paradigm for the idea of Stomach Lodge (what do we want to shift to more collaborative grasping what is in reach, action within the educational achieve? How - what skills do and to Ruth and Annie sphere of the Society has we already have within our for their support and community to aid this?) and been successful and we inspiration. set our future direction with want to extend this mutual Board Report Covid Support Resource (CSR) landscape. o support members in these challenging Shiatsu is one of the seventeen professions Ttimes, I collated information on self-care registered by the Complementary & practices for the CSR section of the website. Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) which I contribute to the bi-monthly e-newsletters also holds the Professional Standards and respond to members’ queries about Authority’s Accredited Register for Health various matters, including concerns and Social Care. The CNHC defines CPD as about marketing and the general public’s ‘a range of learning activities through which professionals grow and develop throughout understanding (and misunderstanding!) of their careers to ensure they retain capacity Shiatsu. to practise safely, effectively and legally Continuing Professional Development (CPD) within their evolving scope of practice’. Elaine Liechti, Cliff Andrews, Karen Leech We are keen that our updated CPD policy and I are reviewing the Society’s current will be both simple to understand and a policy and mapping how this policy can be positive experience for members. aligned with the wider Complementary & Monica Konrad MrSS

SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG 31 AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL Book Review Working with Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice Publisher - Singing Dragon, London and Philadelphia, ISBN: 978 1 78775 269 6. By Richard Reoch Shiatsu is coming to maturity hiatsu is coming to maturity at exactly the time when health ‘Sservices around the world are starting to need what we offer as part of their palliative care policy,’ says Tamsin Grainger in her new book, Working with Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice. Richard Reoch (graduate of ‘Increasingly, their reports contain language which is familiar to The Shiatsu us – that death is a natural College, former MRSS, author of part of life and that care for Dying Well – a the dying must be holistic,’ Holistic Guide she says. Examining the role for the Dying and their Carers) of Shiatsu in a wide range worked with of settings, from hospitals to Master Lam Kam Chuen on the homes, clinics and prisons, ground-breaking her findings show that Shiatsu trilogy The Way of Energy, The is increasingly being used Way of Healing as a profound and skilful and The Way accompaniment to the many of Power that brought Zhan phases of end of life care. Zhuang Chi Kung – Standing Resources for Shiatsu Like a Tree – to the West. Rich- practitioners ard has devoted This book is full of resources his working life to human rights, drawn from Tamsin’s 30+ peace and the years of experience in Shiatsu. environment. Part of a recent In addition to hands-on interfaith delega- descriptions of her work, it tion to Rohingya includes helpful charts, tables refugee camps on the Myan- and explanations of the movements of Ki in the different states mar border, he associated with death and loss, TCM in the lifecycle, and the Five helped launch the Buddhist Elements and Zen Shiatsu in relation to the stages of grief. Humanitarian There is specialised information on support for practitioners, Project featured in ‘Meditating including legal requirements, insurance, record keeping, on the Buddha confidentiality rules, boundary issues, working with disabilities, in the midst of Buddhist Terror’ mental health, extreme events, breakdowns in client-practitioner www.lionsroar. relationships and much more – all offering a range of perspectives, com/221362-2/. real-life examples and the applicable professional standards. www.richard reoch.info Find out more about Tamsin’s work, and order the book, via her website: [email protected]

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Front-line working energetic listening of Shiatsu. Tamsin’s experience has ‘The skilled practitioner’, enabled her to see, at writes Tamsin, ‘is able first hand, how the way to sink into a place we deal with death where knowledge and affects society at experience are trusted large, including key and fully integrated. staff in our front-line When we practise that emergency services. rigorous observation, She describes working we are developing the with a firefighter who ability to touch in just reported daily rescuing the right places without people and animals from denying any of the client’s death. He had been unable experience.’ to sleep at night unless he Doing this is what she calls drank heavily and would not ‘the courage to be, to co-exist seek counselling ‘in case the Cycle of Life with the client.’ chief finds out’. He was still suffering ten years on from ‘I do find that those who are his retirement. Shiatsu finally close to dying make passing helped his adrenal system reference to the fact with to calm down, enabling comments like, ‘In the time him to get in touch with his I have left…’ and ‘...because underlying exhaustion. I do not have much time’. Unnamed but felt, death Deeply personal and the fear of it ‘is always ‘Of course, I cried while I hanging in the air.’ wrote this book,’ says Tamsin, It is precisely then, in that who is well known and loved deeply personal encounter, for her open heart and her that whatever is unspoken, ‘tendency to name things hidden and feared can so that they are not hidden.’ be touched by the silent, I am listening This, like all Shiatsu, is deeply personal work. We often hear it said that E.D. was lying in a very stiff, uncomfortable-looking way ‘We avoid talking about on the massage table. She was breathing extra heavily death’ and her research from the exertion of walking to the treatment room, as well shows how true this is, but as from her lung cancer. She just shook her head when I not as we might expect. asked her how she was. I started with a Hara diagnosis Nowadays there are (Large Intestine Kyo, Stomach Jitsu) and asked her whether countless, wonderful books, she would like me to touch her legs or not. Thumbs up! blogs and articles on death, With one hand on her Hara, I worked LI in her leg. She grief and loss, but in the winced. I slowed down, waiting longer than usual at each clinic, person-to-person, it is point and she started to relax. By the time I got to her foot often a very different matter. she had shut her eyes: we had started to harmonise. It was after working the St meridian in a similar way that she ‘Clients do not often broach started to tell me her story… the subject,’ she points out.

SHIATSUSOCIETY.ORG 33 AUTUMN 2020 SHIATSU SOCIETY JOURNAL Board Report rganising and hosting Although preoccupied procedure, which has aided Othe Support Group Zoom with the pandemic I have my introduction into the Ethics meetings has been the main continued to update committee. area of my focus throughout information for the Support Looking ahead, I will be the spring and summer Group page of the website working with other Board months. I feel fortunate to and upload minutes of members to deliver a new have connected with some the Zoom meetings onto CPD programme, with further of you lovely people within the ‘New Blog’ page for developments planned for the Shiatsu community, by members to access. I have the resources section of doing so I have been able to regularly attended and the website, specifically for contributed to the virtual feedback directly to the Board students and newly graduated Board meetings and have and to Ruth in the Office, the practitioners. Thank you to developed a good working wide range of concerns and everyone who has encouraged relationship with Ruth, who challenges you have been me and supported the Shiatsu has guided me around the Society this year. facing. Organising Floriane office and supported my bi- Alan Hatton-Perkins MrSS Malot’s ‘Risk Assessment’ monthly email introductions. document proved successful Earlier in the year, I rescued in helping us all to navigate the Society’s gazebo along a safe return to work. It also with some banner stands, demonstrated that by sharing which, fingers crossed, will our knowledge we could be available for members produce the right resources to use next year. Together in response to the Covid-19 with Elaine Liechti, we pandemic. (Many thanks to have finished revising Floriane!) the Society’s complaints Shiatsu Society Annual General Meeting The date for the Shiatsu Society AGM is Saturday October 3rd. At present we are uncertain whether this meeting will be purely virtual or if there will be a physical venue. Details to be announced, but please save the date.

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Management Structure 2020

Directors Clifford Andrews Sarah Allison Alan Hatton-Perkins Karen Leech Monica Konrad Annie Cryar Elaine Liechti Elaine West

Committees

AUDIT & FINANCE EDUCATION ETHICS JOURNAL Elaine West Andy Jancewicz Alan Hatton-Perkins Elaine West Laura Davison Annie Cryar Alice Whieldon Laura Davison Hannah Mackay Laura Davison Adam Hellinger Dinah John Anne Palmer Elaine Liechti Shruti Gordon Anne Palmer Bill Palmer Veronica Howard Tamsin Grainger Andrew Parfitt Sara Ross Kate Burford Terésa Hadland

OFFICE Ruth Wilbur