Tashina K. Yoshii, OT, CMT, Tashina is an instructor
of Shiatsu massage with over 25 years experience practicing and teaching
Shiatsu in
Core Program, Floor Shiatsu, Table Shiatsu, Spa & Medical Shiatsu, and Chair Shiatsu Massage Instructor
24 Continuing Education hours
Shiatsu is a contemporary therapy with its roots in Oriental traditional medicine, a 5000 year old tradition of healing arts. It is sometimes described as a Japanese physiotherapy. The actual treatment approach and philosophy is based in its usage of the meridians (energy channels) and tusdo (pressure points). Shiatsu is based on an energy flow that circulates through our bodies in specific energy channels or meridians. The "life force" or "life energy" assists our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual ability. The life force is call Qi or Qui in Chinese and Ki in Japanese.
Ashi means foot in Japanese. Shiatsu translates as finger pressure. So this is a course of study offering a healing arts technique that uses your feet as well as hands for applying acupressure to a client resting on the floor. Shiatsu will be applied on the entire back of the body as well as the front. This technique can also be adapted for work in health spas where you stand on the massage table and use your feet to apply pressure.
