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Shiatsu uses therapeutic touch to help people feel safe and at ease. It can improve body awareness, posture, breathing and concentration span. It helps alleviate stress, anxiety, and depression.

Because it encourages physical contact in a supportive and
non-intrusive way it can help people to develop trust and confidence in themselves and others.

The aim or a session is to create a safe environment where a person (who may be feeling vulnerable) may be able to let go and release emotional and physical blocks which are often stress related. In time this healing can be experienced as increased well-being on a mental, emotional and physical level.

Shiatsu sessions are relaxing and enjoyable, and a warm working relationship develops between the client and practitioner over a period of time. For some people it is a big step, in that it is not often that they sit or lay down for more than a few minutes and experience the
well-being created by healing, therapeutic touch.

During and after a session people become more present, relating more directly to those around them and their surroundings, and verbal and non-verbal communication is increased. People may feel more able to “come out of themselves”. A session can last from a few minutes to 45 minutes, depending on the person’s needs and ability to stay with the session. Afterwards people usually feel deeply relaxed with an overall feeling of well-being.