JustShiatsu Podcast

We continue our journey through the chapters of the Su Wen. 

In this episode we go over two chapters as these chapters both are on the shorter side, especially after my edits. 

This continues the journey through the Su Wen

We continue to explore my personal rewriting of the Su Wen.  This week we cover chapter 4. 

This episode continues our journey through the Su Wen. 

This is continuing our journey through the Su Wen exploring fundamental concepts in Chinese Medicine to deepen our understanding of how to use this medicine to bring about healthy changes in ourselves and others. 

This is the first Chapter of the Su Wen. This is one of  the foundational texts in the medicine and I am sharing my reimagined or rewritten version where I am trying to condense the text to its foundational principles to get a deeper understanding of the medicine and than using those to explore ways to use them in my Shiatsu practice. In the first chapter it is just setting up the idea of what it...

In this episode I cover the direction I will be going with the podcast for awhile.  This was one of my original ideas for the podcast. Exploring the classical writings for fundamental truths that can be used in bodywork. I have spent many years going over the Su Wen to understand the medicines foundations and in that process have rewritten all of the book in my words to add clarity for myself.  Th...

In this episode I explore if healing touch and pleasurable touch are one and the same.

In this episode I finish my analysis of the five elements. I go over waters functions of spirit and how one of a water disposition may be seen as moving through the world. If you missed the other podcasts on each element, I recommend you go back and listen to those as well. When you get an understanding of them all, you can understand them individually better too! 

In this episode I continue the exploration of the elements in their many facets.  

In this episode we explore the concept of earth in the medicine.  From the functions of its paired organs to the presentation of someone strong in these qualities and how it effects the way they move through life. 

In this episode we continue the elemental series of the life dynamics. I examine the function of organs, specifically through this aspect of spirit, and how it can influence the way you move through the world. 

in this episode I explore what is means when someone talks about your liver or gallbladder in Chinese medicine. It is not probably what you think! I go over general ideas of what this can mean and then explore the presentation of what it might look like if someone tends to move through the world in a wood presentation. If you don't know what that means listen to find out! 

In this episode I explore some of my personal experiences recently with being more refined in this aspect of extending Ki and the benefits I am seeing. I also explore the writings of Koichi Tohei who is the founder of an art called Kiatsu. I explore some of his theories and understands to bring light to what all this might mean and why it works so well. 

In this episode I explore an idea of what it means to access ones spirit and to bring that into a healing context. This is an idea stated a couple times in the classical texts of Chinese medicine. In those works though there isn't much in the expression of how to do this.  I was listening to someone read the book Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba. This is a book on the translated expressions of...

In this episode I explore the idea that since Shiatsu is typically done as a full body treatment there are advantages to this sort of approach. Distortions in the bodies flows can happen either at or away from the area that is being effected. I explore this concept as I have understood it from the classics of Chinese medicine.  

In this episode I spend some time reflecting on some of the specific reasons I do the things I do in my personal practice and why I think they have benefits for other people. 

In this episode I look at the idea that we have 5 base personalities or constitutions that influence our preferences in life. I also talk about how our attitude can reflect our imbalances. 

In this episode, I explore the physiological processes that happen through the eye of Chinese medicine. I explain in detail how touch is allowing those pathological factors to be released through the Zen Shiatsu model. 

In this episode I explore this often overlooked aspect of the medicine, the divergent channels. There isn't a lot of literature on these channels, but I have had the opportunity to be introduced to them by a teacher and have been exploring them ever since. I wanted to share some of the thoughts and ideas I have been exploring, as well as some others that I have run across. The one thing I hav...

In this episode I discuss how touching certain sections on the body has specific effects on how the body responds. This is a personal study on point dynamics of Chinese Medicine and how they can be used to help the ones we love.  

In this episode I look at the idea of spirit and how it relates to healing. 

In this episode, I explore some of my thoughts on what it means to heal. 

In this episode I share what is that I feel when I am working on someone. I often get this question after a session. I think most people expect me to have some great insight into their movement through life, but this in not the case. The insights are often gained through the theory established from thousands of years of Chinese medicine. What does this work look like if we remove a lot of the theo...