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SHIATSU and OSTEOPATHY:
My training for a diploma in Osteopathy, through my profession as a Shiatsu practitioner, has allowed me to glimpse the numerous possibilities for integration that can exist and develop between two seemingly distant, but actually synergistic, disciplines: Shiatsu and Osteopathy. Both represent therapeutic approaches based exclusively on manipulative techniques and the manual skill and sensitivity of the practitioner who applies them, and both aim to treat the person in their entirety and complexity.
Shiatsu is a floor treatment performed on a traditional Japanese futon, utilizing acupressure techniques (thumb, palm, elbow, and knee) and joint mobilization, both on the recipient’s body and on the Acupuncture energy meridian network. This is precisely what characterizes and differentiates it from common Western therapies, but at the same time represents a conceptual bridge, making it perfectly compatible with them. According to ancient Chinese and Japanese medical traditions, our body is composed of all the bones and muscles that make up our musculoskeletal system, but also a dense network of energy meridians, structures that are not anatomically specific, but exist at a more subtle level, influencing our musculoskeletal system (and the body in general) by interacting with all our anatomical structures.
For example, the urinary bladder meridian, traditionally considered a fundamental structure of the entire body, is often treated for musculoskeletal problems related to the back, as it runs alongside the spine. Other examples include the gallbladder meridian, which connects to the lateral parts of the body and therefore plays a crucial role in controlling posture and maintaining optimal joint mobility.
Osteopathy, also defined as a natural discipline with an exclusively manual approach, aims to stimulate the body’s self-regulation and self-correction, in addition to eliminating symptoms.
In Osteopathy, as in Shiatsu, symptoms are considered a warning sign, indicating that something in the body is struggling to function or express itself to its full potential, thus disrupting joint physiology, posture, and overall health.
Osteopathy represents a manual diagnostic and therapeutic approach, to mobility dysfunctions affecting all body systems: joints, bones, muscles, tissues, viscera, venous and lymphatic circulation, and the peripheral nervous system. After applying specific corrective maneuvers, the joint and tissue in the affected area are released, restoring the physiological mobility that each part of our body should always be able to express to its fullest.
The true essence of these two therapeutic approaches lies precisely in helping the patient regain a sense of wholeness, thus developing greater body awareness and, consequently, a new sense of well-being. Everything that is stagnant flows again, everything that does not flow returns to flow, what is blocked can move again, and this means health.
Studio Simone Palazzo
Shiatsu Operator
Osteopathy Specialist, D.O.
WHAT IS SHIATSU?
Shiatsu is a treatment performed on the patient’s entire body, using various techniques, including:
– Pressure (the patient’s palm, thumb, elbow, and knee);
– Muscle stretching;
– Joint mobilization.
The goal of Shiatsu treatment is to restore the patient’s psychophysical well-being. It can be received periodically, both to treat specific physical ailments (neck pain, lower back pain, muscle stiffness, etc.), and for many other disorders often caused by stress or, especially in the absence of specific conditions, simply to restore or maintain the body’s natural balance.
Shiatsu treatment is performed in a calm and relaxing environment, with the patient dressed in comfortable clothing and lying on a futon on the floor.
WHAT ARE ITS BENEFITS?
– Acupressure has a relaxing and muscle-relieving effect on the entire muscular system;
– Various manipulation techniques (stretching, lengthening, and mobilization) promote and improve blood, lymphatic, and hormonal circulation;
– Manual stimulation acts on the body’s energy network (energy meridians) and stimulates the central and peripheral nervous system, improving mood, psychophysical well-being, and pain management.
Dr. Simone Palazzo
OSTEOPATHY | POSTUROLOGY | SHIATSU
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Bamboo and Meridians:
Did you know? There is an analogy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with bamboo. Bamboo is hollow, flexible, and yet strong, just like meridians, designed to allow Vital Energy (Qi) and Blood (Xue) to flow unobstructed. In Shiatsu, as in Traditional Chinese Medicine, a healthy meridian is flexible and vital, like a young bamboo stalk.
When a meridian is blocked, it becomes stiff, contracted, or empty, like dried or cracked bamboo.
Bamboo grows in segments, separated by nodes, reminiscent of Acupuncture points: places where Qi intersects, regulates, or transforms.
In other Taoist-inspired schools, the dorsal Shu points are compared to the nodes of bamboo, where the energy of the organs connects directly with the outside world.
Bamboo represents resilience, the ability to bend without breaking, which evokes:
Jing (Essence), which grants inner strength; Defensive Qi (Wei Qi), which flows on the surface like the wind in a bamboo forest.
In some Taoist texts, the practitioner is compared to bamboo: hollow to accommodate, solid to resist, flexible to adapt. This fits with the ideal of the Shiatsu practitioner: centered, but not rigid; stable, but not closed.
“Studying without thinking makes you stupid. Thinking without studying is dangerous.” – Confucius –
Good practice!
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