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Here is a summary of what is covered in each year of the course.
The work in the first year gives a good grounding for anyone interested in complementary health or growth work.
The subjects introduced in the first year are:
The second year of the course will strengthen your practical abilities by deepening your knowledge and experience of Zen Shiatsu, Chinese Medicine and the 5 Elements.
We will broaden your repertoire of techniques, helping you to feel energy and work with it more precisely. You will be diagnosing and giving advice to clients which will enhance and focus your treatments.
By the end of the year you will have learned the location and usage of all the acupuncture points required by the Shiatsu Society.
Besides consolidating and extending the knowledge gained in the first year, we add the following topics:
The Third Year course fills out your understanding of Shiatsu with Traditional Chinese Medicine theory. This will provide you with a solid core of knowledge upon which to base your treatments and recommendations to clients. It will also support your faith in your energetic diagnosis. We will study Physiology and Pathology to increase your awareness of the types of conditions that people may ask you to work on and ensure that you recognize when you may need to refer them to another specialist or doctor.
You will study some diseases at home and present your findings to the rest of the class: the emphasis will be on how conditions feel and how we can treat them with Shiatsu and other remedies. We will look at how you work with Qi and help you to develop your practice, refining the advice you give and improving the results you achieve with your treatments.
You will also prepare a short thesis to show how Shiatsu relates to another subject which you choose.
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