Shiatsu Cyprus

Happy Chinese New year.... The year of the metal Rat 🐭🎊

Happy Chinese New Year—The Year of the Metal Rat | TCM World The Year of the Metal Rat brings energy (Metal) with resourcefulness, adaptability and a bit of worry (Rat). Achievement and success are key words in 2020.

"The usefulness of shiatsu is obvious to us, both in general and specifically"

A psychiatrist's view on Shiatsu Article contributed by Dr. Tom Herregodts. The psychological benefits of Shiatsu Dr. Tom Herregodts writes: In my practice, we are a group of practitioners in m

Take your yoga practice deeper and wake up to joy, love and freedom with Christopher Gladwell & Emma Michael

Engaged Yoga retreat with Christopher Gladwell & Emma Michael Join us this May to deepen your yoga enquiry; wake up to joy, love & freedom.

Shiatsu Cyprus updated their address.

Shiatsu Cyprus updated their business hours.

uses the traditional Chinese medicine meridian system to understand and treat the pain and discomfort. We use finger, thumb and palm pressure on the body as well as gentle stretches to release tension and balance Qi 💆☯

Shiatsu can assist women hopeful of conceiving, either through IVF or without assistance, throughout the trimesters of pregnancy, during labour and whilst recovering from delivery.

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https://www.shintaiinternational.com/blog2/2017/1/3/7-traditional-principles-shiatsu

7 Principles of Shiatsu & the Soul of a Practitioner Shiatsu has evolved over the years in how it is taught and practiced. Some of the original power of this ancient healing art has been lost due to an emphasis on specialization and certification. Although more contemporary methods of treatment, technique and diagnosis are very valuable, it is

First Shiatsu treatment of the year with the windows open!

In a shiatsu treatment posture is one of the ways a diagnosis is made....

Habitual posture. Habitual emotion. Habitual thought. Observing people has always been one of my favorite pastimes. I enjoy setting myself down with a book in a local café, pretend that I’m reading and then take a look at how the bartender is st…

Shiatsu originates from Chinese Medicine. This is a great documentary in which 2 western Drs travel to China to observe and understand Traditional Chinese Medicine and ultimately...Chi. What is Chi?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYhlVXnxvCw

The Mystery of Chi (Full length with Transcript in CC) Bill Moyers travels to China to explore the curious world of Chinese medicine (Healing the Mind 1993). In this five-part series, Bill Moyers talks with physi...

Saul Goodman was the founder of the shiatsu school i graduated from. I have been very lucky to have trained with him over the years. Here's his musings about the original Shiatsu masters, the first people who brought Shiatsu to the west and what he learnt from then ❤

Experience the Spirit of Shiatsu The traditional shiatsu teachers focused on moving ki. Diagnosis was simple and treatment effective. As shiatsu became standardized in the last 25 years, man...

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A great explanation about fascia. This answers the questions I sometimes get about why my touch is light, or why I'm just holding a point

Tom Myers - Fascia like Non-Newtonian Fluid This is "Tom Myers - Fascia like Non-Newtonian Fluid" by anatomytrains on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

☀ What's on at The Centre in October ☀

Coming up at The Centre Nicosia The Centre is situated in the centre of Nicosia surrounded by trees, we offer daily yoga classes and shiatsu treatments by appointment. We provide a safe and nurturing environment for people to develop in their physical, emotional and spiritual growth, opening the door to self-transformation, health...

Latest newsletter from The Centre

Coming up at The Centre Nicosia The Centre is situated in the centre of Nicosia surrounded by trees, we offer daily yoga classes and shiatsu treatments by appointment. We provide a safe and nurturing environment for people to develop in their physical, emotional and spiritual growth, opening the door to self-transformation, health...

☀ Yoga Workshops in September ☀

Coming up in September UK leading senior teacher traininer Christopher Gladwell will be in Cyprus in September

How is Shiatsu different from other body massages?

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The Effects of Shiatsu on Lower Back Pain.
Brady LH, Henry K, Luth JF 2nd, Casper-Bruett KK. Drake University, USA. J Holist Nurs. 2001 Mar;19(1):57-70.
Shiatsu was used as an intervention in this study of 66 individuals complaining of lower back pain. Each individual was measured on state/trait anxiety and pain level before and after four Shiatsu treatments. Each subject was then called 2 days following each treatment and asked to quantify the level of pain. Both pain and anxiety decreased significantly over time. Extraneous variables such as gender, age, gender of therapist, length of history with lower back pain, and medications taken for lower back pain did not alter the significant results. These subjects would recommend Shiatsu massage for others suffering from lower back pain and indicated the treatments decreased the major inconveniences they experienced with their lower back pain. PMID: 11847714 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

The more you study the body the more you start to see things in an entirely different way....

Can I get a Shiatsu treatment while I’m Pregnant? Pregnancy is a time of huge change in a woman’s body, and massage during this time, with an experienced and knowledgeable practitioner can be highly beneficial for both mother and baby. Shiatsu – an ancient traditional form of massage based on the same principles of acupuncture – has been proven to…

☀ Summer Schedule, Pregnancy Yoga & Workshops, July at The Centre ☀

Coming up at The Centre Nicosia The Centre is situated in the centre of Nicosia surrounded by trees, we offer daily yoga classes and shiatsu treatments by appointment. We provide a safe and nurturing environment for people to develop in their physical, emotional and spiritual growth, opening the door to self-transformation, health...

Pain is complex, caused by physical, psychological and environmental factors....

People who saw The Matrix understand this one :)

Chronic (back) pain is not about mechanical problems, like a vertebra out of alignment, slipped disc etc.

Pain is a complex, multi-factoral experience.

Chronic back pain can be influenced by the following:
-Psychological factors (depression, anxiety, stress, fear avoidance, illness beliefs)

-Lifestyle factors (sedentary lifestyle, poor general health, poor sleeping patterns)

-Social factors (job dissatisfaction and unwholesome work relationships, hypervigilance and over-concern from family)

And that can create central sensitization, which is in fact a hypersensitive nervous system.
Here a better explanation:
"According to Woolf (2011), CS is ‘operationally defined as an amplification of neural signaling within the central nervous
system (CNS) that elicits pain hypersensitivity’.

CS is a broad concept reflecting not only spinal cord sensitization
but also enhanced activity of pain descending facilitation pathways (Meeus and Nijs, 2007; Staud et al., 2007), loss of descending antinociceptive mechanisms (Meeus et al., 2008), overactivity in the pain neuromatrix (Seifert and Maihöfner, 2009) and long-term potentiation of neuronal synapsis in the
anterior cingulate cortex (Zhuo, 2007).

Wind-up, activation of collateral synapses, apoptosis of gABAergic
inhibitory interneurons, sprouting of Aβ-fibres in lamina II or glial activation are also important functional changes observed in the CNS with CS (Woolf, 2011)."

Quote from:
Lluch et al. (2014) Evidence for central sensitization in patients with osteoarthritis pain: A systematic literature review

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Coming up at The Centre Nicosia The Centre is situated in the centre of Nicosia surrounded by trees, we offer daily yoga classes and shiatsu treatments by appointment. We provide a safe and nurturing environment for people to develop in their physical, emotional and spiritual growth, opening the door to self-transformation, health...

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Coming up at The Centre Nicosia The Centre is situated in the centre of Nicosia surrounded by trees, we offer daily yoga classes and shiatsu treatments by appointment. We provide a safe and nurturing environment for people to develop in their physical, emotional and spiritual growth, opening the door to self-transformation, health...