Zen Shiatsu

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Start your own Holistic Healing Practice with Zen Shiatsu Massage Training

Utilizing this technique will enhance the longevity of a licensed massage therapist's career by avoiding overuse of the hands, wrists, & thumbs by incorporating other core parts of the therapist's body.

Students who attend the program full-time can complete it in as little as eleven months, or can earn up to 38.25 credits. This program will prepare graduates for stimulating careers in various settings, including day spas, salons, and physician offices. We have found the majority of the graduates from 600-hour Advanced Bodywork Practitioner program choose to start their own holistic health healing practice. This program is eligible for Federal Financial Aid for those who qualify.

What is Zen Shiatsu?

This mode of energy healing bodywork, under the direction of Master Practitioner, Lyn Matthews, is a form of holistic massage therapy administered by thumbs, fingers, palms, elbows, feet and knees. Pressure is applied to all parts of the body along specific pathways known as meridians. It is understood this technique stimulates the natural healing powers of the body, wherefore symptoms of disease lessen and vitality is regained.

The Zen Shiatsu therapist is trained to feel the body's condition, particularly the circulation, to discover imbalances in the body. By helping with blood and lymph circulation in the body, shiatsu helps to maintain and improve muscle tone and healthy internal organ functions. Shiatsu works directly to calm the autonomic nervous system, which has the effect of calming nervous distress and increasing resistance to stress. It is believed that shiatsu can also strengthen the immune system.

The shiatsu recipient is fully clothed during the treatment. No massage oils or lotions are used or needed because the practitioner does not slide along the body surface, but gives a series of gentle specific presses along the meridian pathways.

What We Teach

SWIHA invites you to take part in the specialty courses offered in Zen Shiatsu. You will learn a healing system that balances the flow of life force through the channels and internal organs of the body to promote physical, structural, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

We invite you to contact us today to assist you on your destined path.

• Courses included in this program are:
• OS 200 Asian Theory I
• OS 300 Zen Shiatsu – Form*
• OS 310 Zen Shiatsu – Meridian Therapy*
• OS 320 Zen Shiatsu – Clinical Assessment*
• OS 740 Chi Gung – Meridian Exercises
• OS 920 Asian Therapy Clinic

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