Healing Shiatsu
Supporting the innate power within each person for health, wellbeing and happy living
With Christopher Sheehan. (Dip.HSEC).Qualified and experienced Practitioner of Healing-Shiatsu
Chris Practices Shiatsu at Clinics in Hereford, North Wales and mid-wales.
If you would like to know more about Healing-Shiatsu or would like to have a session with a unique and gifted Healer please phone Chris on 01981 241 200
E chris@eryritai-ji.co.uk
Healing-shiatsu
“Person to person” sessions. With Christopher Sheehan (Dip.HSEC).
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What is Shiatsu?
Shiatsu is a traditional Japanese healing art, dating back thousands of years to the beginning of Acupuncture.
In Shiatsu the practitioner uses touch and finger pressure to work on meridian lines or vital energy lines in the body. By drawing energy to places most in need and dispersing energy from where it is most congested, Shiatsu re-balances and brings health, vitality and stamina to the whole being on the physical, emotional and mental levels. An imbalance in a person’s vital energy may manifest itself as a back problem, a headache, and a mental depression or in many other ways.
What is Healing-Shiatsu?
Healing-Shiatsu is a powerful and unique form of healing that supports and prepares the person in returning to and maintaining a state of full health and happiness.
The practitioner applies the practice of Zen and Mindfulness meditation to the Shiatsu form. Through the qualities of “just being”, loving kindness and supportive touch the client can be truly met; congestions and restrictions in the body and mind soften and open and energy flows to where needed; pains and discomfort lesson or disappear and attitudes change.
The spacious and non-forcing quality of a Healing-Shiatsu session allows for a deep sense of relaxation and letting go.
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What to expect?
A session lasts an hour. The client remains fully dressed, preferably in loose fitting clothing and usually lies on a comfortable mat on the floor. Generally I work on the whole of the body usually beginning with hara diagnosis and finishing with the neck.
After a session, where appropriate, I often suggest a simple and practical exercise for the client to do at home to help bring ease and positivity.
Healing-Shiatsu encourages the client to little by little take full responsibility for their health and wellbeing.
Healing-Shiatsu encourages self-awareness and the realisation that we have the full power within ourselves to be well and happy.
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Christopher Sheehan.
I have studied and trained in Zen, Mindfulness Meditation and Tai-Ji since 1984. I have been a practitioner of Healing-Shiatsu since graduating in 1993.
I regularly run my own classes and workshops in Tai-Ji, Meditation and self-healing.
I also work as a facilitator to various groups and organisations.
I am married with three children. They were all supported with Healing-Shiatsu throughout pregnancy and in beautiful and effortless childbirth.
What Clients have said?
“To receive Healing-Shiatsu from Chris is a wonderful experience. I usually feel very well and relaxed for a long time afterwards”.
“Chris is very professional, yet he is compassionate, caring and gentle”.
“I have been coming to Chris for Healing-Shiatsu for many years. It has been an immense help and support in my life”.
Make an appointment now. Tel: 01981 241200
chris@eryritai-ji.co.uk www.eryritai-ji.co.uk
HEALING-SHIATSU FOR PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
I am experienced in working with Shiatsu for expectant Mothers and during Childbirth. Healing-Shiatsu can be very supportive and beneficial during all stages from preparing for conception, morning sickness,Labour and after. Shiatsu helps to create a happy and at ease pregnancy which are so important for the baby. I can also give wonderfull exercises of stretches and breathing that prepare the body to be open and flexible. I have often worked with partners so they can practice Shiatsu and give support during pregnancy and during Labour. I am also available in being present at birth. There are many Shiatsu points that help with pain relief, the ease and quickness of birth and the expelling of the placenta.
SHIATSU HELPED GREATLY IN THE BIRTH OF OUR SON!
BORN IN LOVE
A few years ago our son, Shunryu was born. He was born in a wonderful, almost effortless way. Consciously. Naturally. Without interference or drugs. Arriving at home in a little over an hour. Supported throughout pregnancy and in labour with Healing-Shiatsu and gentle, skilful breathing, postural adjustment and stretching.
The essence of Healing-Shiatsu is that with the quality of just being and meeting the other person healing and recovery will take place. With my hands I hold and meet the ki or energy within the various meridians and parts of the body. With touch and intention I invite the energy to go where needed. Pains and discomfort lessen or disappear and, most importantly in healing, attitudes change.
The process is of support and guidance rather than treatment or cure. This way of healing encourages responsibility and self-reliance; within each person is the power to be well and happy.
Healing-Shiatsu is an ideal way of providing support through the many bodily and mental changes, and empowering a woman in taking responsibility for their pregnancy and in achieving a conscious and natural childbirth. It encourages self-awareness and trust in ones direct experience over that of any health authority.
A woman can become more in tune with the needs of her body and unborn child.
For many women pregnancy is a period of great change and growth. New depths and sensitivities are experienced. The developing foetus is also highly sensitive and dependent on the wellbeing and happiness of the mother. The focus is naturally drawn to the quality of “being” rather than too much business and “doing”.
I know an experienced midwife who said she could tell whether a pregnant woman will have a good and trouble free labour by the quality of ease she expresses.
Through my work in mindfulness meditation, Tai-Ji and Shiatsu I have developed a comprehensive range of body skills. Out of which there are some simple breathing, relaxation and stretching exercises that I have found to be particularly appropriate to a happy and healthy pregnancy and childbirth. These exercises are given in addition to the Shiatsu session. There emphasis is on relaxation, opening and letting-go.
There essence is the out breath.
To learn to let go on the out breath and to trust the body are perhaps the most important skills to take into labour. There are also some very effective shiatsu points, especially around the sacrum and lower leg that give pain relief and help with the processes of opening and expelling.
Chris Sheehan. For more information: www.eryritai-ji.co.uk Email: chris@eryritai-ji.co.uk Tel: 01981 241200