The Year Three Course

The main emphasis in the final year of training is on integrating and applying all the subjects studied, to develop deep and very effective shiatsu. The benefits of shiatsu for a wide range of health conditions is studied in detail. Students are also given the information and skills necessary for settin gup their own professinal shiatsu practices. There is approximately 6 hours of homework per week including shiatsu treatments, preparing case histories and other written work.

Aims - students will become highly effective, confident shiatsu practitioners, able to give deep healing in their treatments, and to give help with a wide range of physical and emotional health problems.

Format - 10 weekends of tuition, including some of 3 days, plus 2 Clinic Days chosen from a number over the year. A total of 29 days or 200 hours of tuition.

Syllabus

• Further study of the location, functions and use of the Zen Shiatsu meridian system.
• Further development of intuitive diagnostic methods.
• Specific treatments and recommendations for reproductive, sketetal and muscular, nervous, immune, respiratory, circulatory and digestive problems.
• Shiatsu for emotional release and healing.
• Deeper study of giving dietary, exercise and life style recommendations to clients.
• Refinement of touch as the central skill and art in giving shiatsu.
• The client-practitioner relationship, including professional responsibilities and ethics, contra-indications, and communication skills.
• Chakra Breathing as a tool for self-transformation and to use with clients.
• Guidelines for setting up your own practice.
• Western pathology of a range of common health problems.

Year Three Course Details 2007-08 -