Boost your resistance with Shiatsu

Increase your resistance

Autumn is a beautiful time of year, but it’s also the season when we are more prone to colds, flu, and fatigue. Perhaps you recognize this: the shorter days and cold temperatures take a toll on your body, and your immune system could use an extra boost. In this workshop, you’ll learn to use Shiatsu, a Japanese form of pressure point massage, to naturally increase your resistance and balance your energy.

What is Iokai Shiatsu?

Iokai Shiatsu is an Eastern medical practice that involves using your hands. At its core is the concept of ‘Ki’, or life energy. With our hands and thumbs we apply pressure to meridians and pressure points that influence our life energy. Eastern medicine views our health, our thoughts, and how we feel as a form of energy (Ki). With Shiatsu massage, you work directly on this life energy (Ki) and ensure that it can flow properly and be delivered where necessary.

Our life energy must constantly adapt to what our social and physical environment demands of us. If our life energy circulates freely and is strong, it can adapt easily. But if it is not strong enough or cannot circulate properly due to various reasons, you may develop symptoms such as:

• little energy
• reduced resistance and being sick quickly.
• excessive thinking
• headache
• excessive thinking
• not feeling comfortable in your own skin

With Shiatsu you learn to give a massage that ensures the Ki flows again and improves the symptoms.

With Shiatsu, you help improve your clients’ Ki circulation. But you also learn to improve your own Ki circulation. You gain more energy, become healthier and more stable.

Tanja van der Schaaf
Instructor of Professional Training Iokai Shiatsu + Shiatsu Basics

“Connecting through touch has been the inspiration for me since the very first moment I encountered shiatsu; it is the reason I still bike to my practice or the training dojo with great pleasure. A simple touch can bring so much to life; it brings people back to their own core. As a teacher on the training program, it is always incredibly beautiful to see students make that same connection for the first time; their wonder, excitement, joy, and pride. Being part of their further development as therapists, seeing their understanding of what health from an Eastern perspective actually is, and their passion for our beautiful craft continue to grow, is enormously valuable to me; it allows me to continue growing as a human being.”

 Our program offers:

Marcos Bravos
Nurse
Second-year student

• You learn to treat both physical and mental complaints in a deeper way
• The teachers are of high level, engaged and support you in your growth
• The combination of practice and theory helps you apply everything you learn immediately.

“After working in healthcare for many years, where the pressure is high and there is less and less time for personal attention with clients, I sought more depth in my profession. The Iokai Shiatsu training offered me that holistic approach, treating both the body and the energy flowing through it. What I particularly appreciate about the training is the combination of personal development and the practical focus on the profession. The teachers are a major strength of the training: they bring enormous experience and guide you with great attention and care, allowing you to truly grow.

Now that I’m entering my third year, I’m noticing that I’m calmer and more balanced. In two years” time, I want to start my own practice and help people in a meaningful way, with more attention and peace of mind than I ever could find in healthcare.”