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Shiatsu, Reiki & Heart Therapy ....
Heart Connection & Heart therapy:
A better connection to your heart (the non-physical heart), a lighter (& purer) heart and a more open heart often immediately assist clients. We all have this heart waiting to become more apparent in life. Your heart is:
- the key to your health, wellbeing and general feeling of energy, lightness
- the source of unconditional love and care for others;
the direct access to healing deeply seated issues, burdens and trauma; - the place everyone has from which you experience deep and increasingly growing inner peace;
- the source of joy from within; and
- for many the deepest part within that is the connection to Divine.
Why is the heart so important or significant. We know very little about the heart and we also use our heart only rarely. And yet we often refer to it in saying, something has "touch my heart" ... or "my heart is not in it" ... or someone helping others, given time and effort to good causes is most likely describes as ... "s/he has a big heart".
over the past years my learning about the heart has been an amazing gift fulfilling a deep longing within to grow, learn, to grow spiritually and to heal. This is not about me at all, the even greater gift has been the sharing of this learning with my family, friends and a wider community.
The heart is something very deep, at its core it has the inner heart, something described by mystics for centuries as 'true self' cosmic knowing, atman, spirit, soul, etc. The name is not important. What I would like to point out to you is, that it is this part within that offers and facilitates deepest levels of learning, guidance and healing.
‘When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless ...’
Pema Chodron
Shiatsu Therapy is:
- a deeply relaxing, balancing and healing combination of:
- Acupressure
- Japanese massage; and
- Meditation (Zen influenced)
Shiatsu, meaning finger pressure, is a combination of acupressure and Japanese massage. It is a gentle, deep and effective technique for a vast range of conditions. It is applied with fingers, elbows, knees, etc. Shiatsu is often experienced as very calming, enjoyable and nurturing
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Your treatment will be fully dressed (best in comfortable clothing)
- A treatment or set of treatments can also include:
- simple exercises, stretches
- instructions for easy-to follow self-treatment
Shiatsu treatments have proven to successfully assist with:
- General health promotion & illness prevention
- Back and spinal problems
- Balancing the body’s energies, our emotions and mind
- Chronic or serious illness & together with other medical treatments
- Deep relaxation, stress reduction and achieving greater inner peace
- Emotional or other traumas or issues
- Improving our general wellbeing and health.
Excessive or continued stress is often the cause for illness. Shiatsu not only balanced energy levels for healing effects, it also deeply relaxes and stimulates the body's ability to regenerate and rejuvenate.
While Shiatsu has proven to be highly effective for a wide range of conditions, it is also very commonly used for:
- health & wellbeing maintenance; and
- for illness prevention.
During a treatment pressure is applied with either fingers, elbows, heal of hand or knees along energy lines, also known as meridian.
Shiatsu treatments combined with reiki and the heart's capacity to assist offer a very unique therapeutic method, assisting individuals at deep and causal levels of health problems, including emotional or mental health issues.
More about the treatment model and approach
‘The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.’
Rumi