Monica Bianchi
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Shiatsu:
Shiatsu is an ancient Eastern art of wellness education. According to the Eastern concept, health is a state of global energetic balance, affecting not only the physical body but also the mind and spirit. An imbalance in any of these levels causes discomfort or illness. The Shiatsu practitioner works on energy channels, called meridians, which, in addition to restoring Qi, the original energetic balance, activate the body’s natural response, awakening its innate capacity for self-healing. Shiatsu treatment is therefore different from both “massage” and “treatment” as we commonly understand them. It does not address the symptoms, but rather the energetic imbalances that are the source of discomfort. It is a gentle and non-invasive discipline, free from possible side effects, based on contact (the hands are considered the energetic extension of the heart), attention, and listening; Shiatsu supports the individual’s natural rhythms and movements, providing support, trust, and well-being. Sometimes these concepts may seem strange to us Westerners. We are, in fact, more inclined to act and seek to “solve” than to “listen and understand.” In reality, the two aspects are not so clearly separated, and we are convinced that, at least in our practice, they can be integrated into a whole that is much more effective than their separate parts. Shiatsu does not consider discomfort, or even illness, as a random event in itself, but rather as the effect of a lifestyle unsuited to the individual’s profound needs, which, if prolonged over time, ends up producing a global energetic imbalance. Therefore, so-called illness is actually the final stage of a process that becomes evident to most of us only when it manifests on the physical level. It is then that we can no longer ignore it, because its effects prevent us from continuing with our habits as if nothing had happened.The effect of Shiatsu treatment, as mentioned, is to restore the individual’s energetic balance, helping them, among other things, to better accept their situation through relaxation and to induce, within the individual’s limits, self-awareness, awareness of the “message” behind the discomfort, and of their own self-healing potential. It is the combination of these factors that often triggers healing processes even where they seemed unlikely.
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Griefing and TCM:
Dealing with grief is one of the most painful and profound experiences a human being can go through.
It is a transition that disrupts internal balance, a change that brings with it a detachment that, at times, comes suddenly and overwhelmingly, leaving within us a “before” and an “after.”
Grief brings forth intense and often conflicting emotions: a sense of emptiness, loss, fear, anger, nostalgia, guilt, and a profound awareness of our fragility.
In Chinese Medicine, grief is closely linked to the Upper Warmer meridians and the Lung-Heart pair.
The Lung holds our breath, the rhythm of life, and the ability to let go. When grief is too intense, breathing can become short, held, and heavy; the chest closes, and the person may feel internally “compressed.”
The Heart, on the other hand, houses the Shen, our emotional and spiritual dimension. Deep grief can agitate the Heart, generating restlessness, insomnia, persistent sadness, a sense of disconnection, and difficulty finding inner direction.
For this reason, in bodywork and the Eastern energetic vision, accompanying a person through grief means creating a safe space where the body can slowly release what it’s holding back: the blocked breath, the stiffened diaphragm, the emotions that can’t find expression.
Grief isn’t something to be “overcome,” perhaps even quickly…
It’s a process to be undertaken, respecting one’s own pace, allowing the pain to gradually transform into memory, presence, and awareness.
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Felipe Guerra – Medicina Tradizionale Cinese
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Balance in Nutrition:
In the silence where the world has not yet taken shape, life follows an invisible law: what is forced breaks, what is harmonious is preserved. The body and the heart are two instruments tuned by the same breath; all it takes is excess, a wave out of rhythm, and the harmony is shattered.
When a person eats beyond his or her needs, it’s not just the flesh that swells: it’s the Qi that becomes heavy, like fog descending on the valleys.
The Stomach becomes a vessel filled to the brim, the Spleen loses its dance, the Diaphragm stiffens like a door that no longer wants to open.
The breath, which should flow like the wind among the pines, stops, twists, and becomes lost.
But even extreme emptiness is a wound. When nourishment is lacking, the body becomes arid land:
the bones dry up like waterless roots, the blood cools like a winter river, the Jing withdraws into the depths, protecting itself like a threatened pearl.
Chinese Medicine teaches that the Tao does not live in extremes: too full and too empty are two shadows of the same disharmony.
Between excess and lack there is a subtle place, a threshold that is not measured with numbers but with listening.
When man finds that point:
the Jing (essence) rests like a guarded seed, the Qi flows like a clear stream, the Shen (spirit) opens like a cloudless sky.In that place, the body is a fertile land and the mind a silent temple.
Emotions are not defects: they are spirits that pass through man. But when one of them grows too much, it becomes a demon that troubles the organs.
Anger inflames the Liver, complacency distorts the Heart, worry weighs down the Spleen.
The passage teaches a simple and profound path:
If you have eaten too much, move: let the Qi find its way.
If anger assails you, relax your thoughts: the Fire calms when it encounters stillness.
As man ages, Jing becomes precious like ancient gold. Every disturbance weighs more, every excess leaves a longer shadow.
If you eat too much and remain still, the breath of life does not circulate.
If anger is not released, the Fire burns what remains of the Blood. If worries are not released, worry consumes the last reserves.
Old age doesn’t ask for fear: it asks for gentleness.
It’s the season when one walks slowly so as not to disturb one’s spirit.
The song is a teaching from a wandering master:
Do not fill too much, do not empty too much, do not light up too much, do not hold back too much.
Between the extremes there is an invisible line, a thin bridge where the breath flows like light, the essence rests like a sacred animal, the mind lights up like a lantern in the night.
Whoever walks that bridge, walks a long way.
To all you seekers of the Way!
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