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updated: 6th March 2003 London College of Shiatsu
95 Grays Inn Road
London WC1X 8TX
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| The Benefits are many | Why Study Shiatsu?
Your reasons may be just to learn a new and exciting skill to use on friends and family, which you will achieve after as little as a term or two. Or you may intend to become a qualified practitioner, and follow the course through to the end. Whichever path you choose, the benefits are many.
The learning of Shiatsu can be a challenging process, but ultimately rewarding, both to yourself and others. Practising Shiatsu at any level can increase awareness about our own bodies and thereby increase our own health. And there is a great satisfaction to be gained, from a very early stage, in making others feel good and in touch with themselves. As your skills increase there is further satisfaction in helping others overcome health problems.
Ours is a relaxed style utilising an awareness of posture and breathing. In this way, students can often discover more about their own bodies and feel a benefit to them as their practice of Shiatsu develops.
Friendships are easily formed with fellow class members, especially as we try to keep a humorous atmosphere in the class whilst emphasising a very hands-on and practical approach to studying Shiatsu. |  | | Our Method
We have structured our course in a way that we feel can best reflect the Principle of Oneness, and aim to teach our students how to feel a connection with the person they treat. Perhaps this can be described as teaching our students to listen with their hands.
In the first two terms a precise and structured form is learnt in four positions; prone, supine, laying on the side and sitting. The use of good and beneficial pressure is emphasised throughout the learning of the form. Students should be able to carry out effective and confident treatments employing the use of thumbs, palms, elbows and knees, and perform difficult stretches by the end of the second term.
From the third term the location of meridians are taught, and the form is now applied to access these whilst practising Shiatsu. By the fifth term students are encouraged to increase their sensitivity of touch and skill as the meridians are located and understood by feeling the different energetic in each.
Theory classes are taught separately from the practical Shiatsu classes and cover Western sciences (anatomy, physiology and pathology) and Oriental theory. The latter classes lay the foundation for making sense of our diagnosis. We also hold workshops that allow the students to develop associated skills, such as Qi Gong and the practical use of Moxibustion to treat diseases.
As students continue through their journey into Shiatsu, abdominal diagnosis, Suzuki Zones, detailed and professional case histories and treatment plans are taught in class. This is in preparation for entry into our Student Clinic. |  | | Our Expectations
Attendance, homework and practice are important expectations of this college.
All of these are purely to improve the students Shiatsu, and make the learning of it much more enjoyable.
Good attendance is very important as new material is introduced each week. Throughout the course there is ongoing review, which is best used for improving ones skills. Homework is assigned for each term, and progress is dependent on its successful completion. This usually takes the form of writing notes about practices at home. This is to reinforce the importance of practice at an early stage, which students are expected to do on a regular basis. |  | |
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