What will you get out of a Shiatsu Treatment
Shiatsu allows you to connect deeply into your unconscious, to activate your body’s unlimited capacity for regeneration and self healing, and ultimately to more fully understand your purpose for being. Most often your physical aches and pains are simply the external manifestation or surface ‘action’ required in meeting a deep underlying need or psychological pattern. Zen Shiatsu, whilst acknowledging and working with the manifestation, ultimately aims to work on meeting the underlying cause or need to eliminate the resultant action.
From the Western point of view, shiatsu works directly to calm the autonomic nervous system, which has the effect of calming nervous distress and increasing resistance to stress. By helping with blood and lymph circulation in the body, shiatsu helps to maintain and improve muscle tone and healthy internal organ functions. It is believed that shiatsu can also strengthen the immune system. Regular and consistent shiatsu treatments can become an important aspect of preventive health care as well as treatment for existing symptoms.
Whilst you will probably notice some changes after one treatment, a series of treatments is generally recommended to sustain the change in long term. Committing to regular treatments will allow you to generally feel much more centred and focused, able to undertake your daily tasks with greater ease and energy. You will gain a greater awareness and insight into how deeper psychological patterns manifest physically in different parts of your body and learn how to work with these to live a fuller life.
By making a commitment to your health and wellbeing the full riches of life will be much more accessible to you.
"the moment ones commits oneself, then providence moves too" - Goethe
Clients have found Shiatsu effective for the following conditions:
• general wellbeing
• headaches and migraines
• stress and tension
• neck and shoulder tension
• back problems
• digestive complaints
• muscular pains & aches
• menstrual conditions
• support during pregnancy and post birth recovery
• trauma, accidents and whiplash
• respiratory problems
• emotional or mental distress
• tiredness & lack of motivation
• weak immune system
"My first treatment with Glenn was a physical release of all the tight spots in my body. By the end of the first treatment I felt freer and more relaxed than I had felt for a long time. A shiatsu is very different from massage or other body work that I had experienced. I kept coming back for more treatments because the benefits were so amazing. I not only gained benefits on a physical level, but on an emotional and spiritual level as well. I would recommend this form of treatment to people seeking support from aching tight bodies to people who are looking towards being nurtured. It is a wonderful experience."
What happens in a Shiatsu Treatment?
Shiatsu takes place at floor level on a soft futon with the aid of a specially designed body supporter if needed (this can also be used to treat pregnant woman on their front up until pretty much they give birth). You will remain fully clothed throughout the treatment with the practitioner moving you between face down, face up and side positions. After an initial palpation diagnosis, pressure is then applied to various parts of your body that correspond to the energy channels (meridians) using mainly thumbs and fingers, but sometimes also elbows and even knees and feet to activate or disperse the energy flow as appropriate. Treatment will also include the use of flowing stretches and gentle rotations of the limbs and joints, and possibly simple structural alignments and muscle release techniques if required. Each treatment is specifically tailored to your needs at the time.
Each session lasts for around 1 and a half hours which includes an initial consultation or follow up discussion, treatment, and advice and recommendations after the treatment. Why so long? - shiatsu, unlike a lot of other therapies, aims at tonifying and meeting the underlying 'need' before dispersing the areas of accumulated tension where the body has been struggling in its attempt to meet that deep 'need'. The treatment coupled with subsequent lifestyle recommendations are focused on facilitating long lasting and sustainable changes.
About Glenn
Glenn practices Zen Shiatsu and has been training and practicing for the past 14 years. He currently teaches shiatsu at the East West College in Melbourne as well as running post graduate shiatsu workshops around Australia. He has experience in working with a wide spectrum of clients from the seriously ill through to general wellbeing and pregnancy.
"My interest in health was awakened by my own serious health crisis. This eventually led me to both shiatsu and qigong in the early 90's after spending time studying food enerergetics/macrobiotics. Part of the journey also included dance and voice work before in an enlightening moment I realised that my innate talent lay in my hands and that shiatsu was to be my path."
SERVICES
PRIVATE PRACTICE
83 Rennie Street, THORNBURY, VIC 3071
Hours - Mon to Wed 9.00am-3.00pm & 6.30pm-9.30pm; Thurs 9.00am-9.30pm
Investment - $70/$50 concessions/students
*** SPECIAL - PAY IN ADVANCE FOR 5 AND GET THE 6th TREATMENT FOR FREE ***
East West College, 475 Hawthorn Road, CAULFIELD SOUTH, VIC 3162
Hours - Fri 10.30am-7.30pm
Investment - $70/$50 concessions/students
*** Private Health Care rebates are available for Shiatsu with the number of providers steadliy growing ***
*** GIFT VOUCHERS ARE AVAILABLE AND MAKE FOR A WONDERFUL NURTURING GIFT ***
SHIATSU STUDY GROUPS
The study groups are a forum where you can come with questions or problems and collectively we can explore ways of working with that through different techniques and approaches. The broad aims of the groups are:
• to enhance clinical practice and strategies;
• to learn different/lateral ways of working with the energies;
• to refine ‘on the body’ diagnostic techniques and approaches;
• to share skills and experiences;
• to continue to grow as shiatsu practitioners.
Each group will have four people and we will meet for 2 hours once a month for 6 months. The purpose of having short sessions over a long period of time is to be able to work through issues as they arise in your private practice. If you would like to join a group please contact me so I can help get you part of a group
Investment - $125 for the six 2 hour sessions.
SHIATSU TUTORIALS
Are you interested in refining and improving your touch?
Do you wish refine the location and treatment options for the classical and zen meridians?
Do you want to learn how to bring more movement into your treatments?
Do you wish to develop more confidence with yourself and your treatments?
If you do, then I offer personalised tutorial sessions to help you gain confidence in your clinical practice and in the application of the principles to the practice. You may choose a one to one session, or to come in a small group of two to three people. Often in the classroom environment or in one’s clinical practice there is little time to go into fine tuning as we are bound by moving on. Yet the power of shiatsu lies in the subtle elements of the practice.
Investment - $50 per hour.
POST GRADUATE SHIATSU WORKSHOPS
The workshops are for advanced students and practitioners. They are practical workshops about building on, and refining ones practice of shiatsu. We will look at how to move around and provide positive support, at movement of the receiver’s body and how to use its natural range of movement to facilitate effortless and flowing transitions into ones shiatsu treatments, and how that all comes from moving from one’s hara. The aim is to create confidence in the ‘basics’ of movement and treatment position. They are a forum to explore the artistic nature of shiatsu, how flow and movement in a shiatsu treatment are like a beautiful dance between two deeply connected beings.
2008 Melbourne Program
Stretching and Movement - Sunday 5 October 2008
Learn how to move the body easily and effortlessly by harnessing the body’s natural range of movement. Learn how to move around the body in a smooth manner without losing connection with your receiver, and explore new ways of effective stretching.
Time: 10.30am until 4.30pm each day.
Investment: $125/$95 for students & graduates of East West.
Venue: East West College, 475 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield South VIC 3162.
Zen Channels - Sunday 16 November 2008
We will review and clarify the location of the Zen extensions whilst exploring treatment positions and options. Again the focus will be on good body position, as well as reviewing basic movement principles of and around the body.
Time: 10.30am until 4.30pm each day.
Investment: $85 per workshop.
Venue: Australian Shiatsu College, 103 Evans Street, Brunswick, VIC 3056.
2008 Sydney Program
Zen Channels - Sunday 12 October 2008
We will review and clarify the location of the Zen extensions whilst exploring treatment positions and options. Again the focus will be on good body position, as well as reviewing basic movement principles of and around the body.
Time: 10.30am until 4.30pm each day.
Investment: $95
Venue: The Intuitive Well, Level 1, 70 Bronte Road, Bondi Junction, NSW 2022
2008 Brisbane Program
Stretching & Movement / Zen Channels - Sat/Sun 20/21 September 2008
details of the course and pricing will be posted at a later date
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Diploma of Shiatsu - British School of Shiatsu-Do (London) - 1994-1998
Post Graduate Diploma - Mi Zai Shiatsu Institute (Italy) - 1998-2000
In addtion to my formal studies, I have been fortunate enough to attend very regular workshops with some of the leading shiatsu teachers in the UK which has been profoundly helpful in 'finding' my style and way of working. From 1997 to 2000 I repeated the entire diploma with the British School of Shiatsu-Do as a teaching assistant which really helped consolidate my learning. Alongside my shiatsu training and practice I studied and practiced Qigong with one of the UK's leading exponents - Zhixing Wang. I aspire to integrate qigong into my daily practice and in living a full life. I have also spent time involved in cancer support from running support groups to being a telephone helpline worker for the Lymphoma Association in the UK. I moved to Australia in 2005 with my family to set up life and practice. I am a current member of the National Council of the Shiatsu Therapy Association of Australia with a passion and vision to raise the public profile of this amazing therapy as well as to build a strong and healthy shiatsu community that fosters the growth and development of its practitioners.
Service Categories
Mobile Service Massage, Pregnancy Massage, Qigong, Shiatsu
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