A shiatsu session is an invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the innate intelligence that flows through your body. As you settle onto the treatment table, fully clothed and ready to receive, we’ll begin to shape our relationship and client and practitioner and find ways to bring balance to your body.
The heart of our work together lies in pressure—not force, but rather a thoughtful, listening touch that seeks to engage with your body's energetic landscape. Through palpation, I explore one of four distinct channel systems that run like rivers through the body: the primary channels that govern your organ systems, the sinew channels that support your structural integrity, the divergent channels that protect and nourish your deeper essence, or the extraordinary channels that serve as reservoirs of your constitutional energy. Each system tells its own story, and each session becomes a unique conversation between practitioner and recipient.
This practice is firmly rooted in the rich soil of Chinese medicine, where diagnosis begins not with symptoms alone, but with understanding the whole person. The hara—your energetic center located in the abdomen—serves as my compass in this exploration, revealing through gentle assessment where your life force may be abundant, deficient, or seeking balance. Like reading the surface of a still pond to understand the currents beneath, the hara offers insights into your body's needs and guides the direction of our therapeutic journey.
Each session becomes not just a treatment, but a meditation on connection—a reminder that healing often happens not through doing more, but through creating the space for your body's natural wisdom to unfold.
