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16 A RCHETYPE S ELF-ASSESSMENT P ROFILE Check the qualities that apply to you WOOD ARCHETYPE: The Pioneer feel confident, act assertively ambitious & enjoy competition openly discuss abilities and achievements comfort with challenges, conflict, pressure enjoy being first, best, unique right, even if others disagree or disapprove can be pushy or provocative pleasure in public recognition comfortable directing or leading others follow my own hunches, take initiative comfortable with bold, decisive action tend to argue with opinions, especially of me FIRE ARCHETYPE: The Wizard enjoy the pleasure of my senses intuitive about what others think or feel seek physical contact, emotional intimacy seek excitement & stimulation easily share innermost feelings & desires tend to live in the here-and-now see the humorous side of life get involved easily, moved emotionally optimistic & hopeful no matter what identify with another s joy & pain unabashed affection, enthusiasm & excitement enjoy being attractive & magnetic EARTH ARCHETYPE: The Peacemaker agreeable and accommodating nurturing, putting other s needs first seek socializing with friends and family seek being relied upon for reassurance & help the hub of my social and family networks mediate disputes so that all are satisfied involved in other peoples lives create comfortable environment for others loyal & accessible diplomatic and tactful a consensus builder happy to rely on skills & intelligence of others like getting close & being needed comfortable & open, even with strangers METAL ARCHETYPE: The Alchemist prefer a neat & orderly lifestyle enjoy convivial but undemanding social life committed to moral principles & conduct enjoy logical, systematic problem-solving meticulous, tasteful, discriminating self-contained appreciate well defined goals and guidelines accept authority of those with more competence enjoy solving puzzles and mysteries virtue & principle before pleasure & fulfillment temperate & moderate likes things to run calmly & smoothly WATER ARCHETYPE: The Philosopher cautious, sensible, self-sufficient enjoy solitude, cherish privacy curious & imaginative keep feelings, thoughts, opinions to myself content being anonymous don't mind being unusual or eccentric excited by intellectual pursuits careful about what I reveal to others stubborn defender of the truth as I see it patient & persevering in spite of defeats objective & fair, regardless of others content figuring things out for myself 2007 Chinese Medicine Works

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19 130 The Art of Zen-Touchl" HAKA ASSESSMENT AREAS HT Hara SP Cunned,-on, LI LI BL KEY BL- Bladder HR - Heart Regulator Ll - Large intestine LV- Liver '" ! SP Spleen TH - Triple Heater GB Gallbladde' l-it- Heart LU Lung Sl - Small lnte,tin : ST - Stomach Kl - Kidney Figure 48

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21 Shiatsu Log (must be filled out completely for credit!) Practitioner Client Give a physical description of the client. What are they doing with the majority of their time? How do they get their activity and how often? Describe their pain, stiffness, or any other health issues they are experiencing. Which of the Five Elements best represents this client, and why? What will be your focus for this session? What area(s) felt most Kyo? What area(s) felt most Jitsu? What did the client specifically like about the session? What did they specifically think would have been even better?!? How did they feel hours later?

22 T subo List for Shiatsu Use treatments from The Art of Zen-Touch pages LU 1 LI 4 LI 10 ST 2 ST 36 SP 6 H 7 SI 11 BL 10 K 1 K 27 P 6 TH 5 GB 21 GB 30 LV 3 DU 4

23 Zen Shiatsu BACK 1. Sitting at client s side, take a moment to get centered and begin breathing deeply. Remember: Be Reverent. Be Natural. Be Received. Flow. Use Both Hands (If not more!). 2. Slowly brush hands down the BL channel. 3. Using a crawling motion, circle the back, legs, and arms. 4. Mother-Hand / Son-Hand the back and legs. 5. Diagonal stretch the back on both sides. Use your palms or forearms. 6. Stand over the client. Instruct your client to inhale deeply. On exhale, push with both hands on the thoracic back. 7. Using a sawing motion, brush down the BL channel 3 times on each side. 8. Rock the client s hips, torso, and legs. 9. Continue rocking the client. Press fingertips into both sets of erector spinae. Keep the client rocking as you transfer to their other side and repeat. 10. Position yourself in a lunge at the clients head. Press thumbs down the first BL channel. Repeat thumb presses down the second BL channel. 11. Sitting by the clients side, bounce the first shoulder. 12. Press thumbs into SI 9, 10, 11, 12, 14. Repeat Steps 11 & 12 on second shoulder. 13. Press thumbs into sacrum. Make 5 deep compressions. 14. Press palms into sacrum as your client exhales. Use piggy-back hands with fingers pointing toward client s feet. 15. Medium knead superior glutes. 16. Close session with passive joint movement and percussion.

24 Zen Shiatsu POSTERIOR LEGS 1. Kneel beside the client s first leg. Mother-Hand / Son-Hand the posterior leg. 2. Crouch on the balls of your feet and regulate your weight with hands on the client s sacrum and ankle. Mother-Knee / Son-Knee the posterior leg. 3. Pick up the client s ankle and pull the distal BL channel into your knee. 4. Keep a hold of client s ankle. With your other hand guide their knee out laterally until proximal leg is perpendicular with their body. Gently, Mother-Knee / Son-Knee the GB channel. 5. Controlling the client s ankle and knee, guide their knee back. Keeping a hold of ankle, walk around your client and kneel across their proximal legs. Pull the distal BL channel into your knee. 6. Roll your knuckles along the bottom of your client s foot, from the heel to toes. 7. Pressing off of the bottom of their foot and sacrum, get up from the client s legs and sit with their foot in your lap. Thumb-press lines from the heel to toes. 8. Spread the client s metatarsals. 9. Pull, squeeze, and snap each toe. Repeat Steps 1 9 on second leg. 10. Pick up both of client s ankles. Cross their feet and press in toward glutes. Cross the other way and repeat. 11. Keeping a hold of client s feet, stand over their hips and sit on the plantar surfaces of their feet like a stool. Walk palms or fists up the BL channel of client s back. 12. Cobra Stretch: Remain sitting on client s feet; kneel with your knees under client s glutes; or stand over client. Have your client grab your wrists as you grab theirs and pull them up into a back bend. Alternately, you can have your client clasp their hands behind their head. Pull your client up by hooking your hands up under their proximal arms. 13. Roll your client supine. Standing on your knees, place their feet on your hara, and scoop your hands under their knees. Walking forward on your knees, bring their knees into their chest. Hugging your hands firmly around the tops of their knees, guide their legs in small circles or sway gently side-to-side.

25 Zen Shiatsu SIDE 1. Prepare to roll your client up onto their side by raising their arm closest to you over their head. Scoop one hand under their opposite elbow and grab their opposite ankle. Pull them up by their ankle. Bend their top knee and place it on a pillow. 2. Kneeling behind client with your thigh snug against their back, scoop your arm under theirs and clasp your hands around their shoulder. Rotate their shoulder by leaning your body in a circle. 3. Maintain the rotation with your arm that is scooped under theirs. With your other hand, use your thumb to press the side of your client s neck. As the rotation pulls their skin tight, let it slide under your thumb. As the rotation shortens the tissue of the neck let your thumb sink in. Repeat until you reach GB Maintain shoulder rotation. Place your other hand palm-up on your opposite thigh with rigid fingers. As you rotate their shoulder bring their scapula over your rigid fingers. 5. With your hand that was rotating the shoulder, grab their wrist and rotate their arm in big circles. With your other hand, press your thumb in SI Lunge with your foot planted above your client s head. Rest their arm over your thigh and pin it there by leaning your forearm on it. Brace your other hand on their rib cage or hip, and gently lunge forward to stretch. 7. With thumb or the heel of your hand make compressions on lateral scapula. 8. Grasp H and SI channels from your client s axilla to pinky. 9. Bring your client s arm down to their waist, and then, kneeling back in your original position, bring their arm across your lap. Grasp their LU and LI channels. 10. Bow Stretch: Bring their top knee to rest on their other knee and hold on to the ankle of the top leg. Sit on your bottom with one foot planted on their low sacrum and the other on their hamstrings. Pull back on their ankle for a stretch with the option to make compressions along the BL channel with the ball of your foot. Return your client to a side lying position. 11. While in a lunge position, brace on hand on your client s greater trochanter. With their hand outstretched or resting on their waist, guide their shoulder back as you keep the hip forward. 12. Roll your client to their other side and repeat Steps 1-10

26 Zen Shiatsu BAREFOOT 1. With client lying prone, vigorously rock them with your foot on their sacrum. 2. Medium knead glutes, legs, feet, and arms. 3. Brace your hands on your client s sacrum and step one foot at a time onto their thigh just below the glutes. Your feet should be perpendicular to the thighs with your toes pointing out laterally. Alternately, you can pick up their ankles and step onto one of their distal thighs. Hook their foot around your shin from lateral to medial. Use their sacrum to regulate your weight and slowly repeat with the second leg. Instruct your client to inhale deeply. On exhale, push with both hands on the thoracic back. 4. Place a chair on the opposite side of your client to regulate your weight and give you balance. Step one foot onto their low sacrum and slowly step your second foot up to work their thoracic back. Switch your feet on the sacrum to work down onto the legs. Slowly step off your client and rock their body. (Contraindicated for osteoporosis and recent head injury.) 5. Pick up one arm and pull your client s shoulder into your foot as you press in the areas around their scapula and axilla. You can perform this while standing or sitting. 6. Stand over your client, pick up both of their arms, and have them grab your wrists. Step one foot between their scapulas and pull up on their arms. Invert and evert your foot to work the areas between the scapulas. 7. Steam Roller: Position both of the client s arms up over their head. Lie with your hara on their low back. Make one full roll down towards their feet and back. Reposition so that your hara is on their glutes. Make one half roll towards their head and back. 8. Tootsie Roll: Kneel with your knees on your client s glutes and your hands bracing on their thoracic back. Medium knead their glutes with both of your knees at once. You can work your way down the GB channel to just above their knees. 9. Crab walk: Sit above your client s head and brace both of your hands on the floor. Walk both of your feet down their BL channel. Alternately, you can sit on their thighs and walk your feet up their BL channel. 10. Pick up both of your client s ankles and stand facing their head. Place one foot on their sacrum and hook the ball of your foot so that it pulls their sacrum toward you. Pull up on both of their ankles at once. (CONTINUED ON BACK)

27 11. Scissor Squeeze: Sit on the floor facing your client s leg with one of your legs resting over their thigh. Squeeze their leg between the ball of your foot and the Achilles tendon of your top leg. 12. Shuffle: Stand over your client s hips with your toes tucked slightly under them. Work their GB channel from their hips to knees with your medial malleolus by lifting your heels one at a time. Alternately you can work their ST channel with the top of your big toe by dorsiflexing and lifting your feet one at a time.

28 Zen Shiatsu ANTERIOR LEGS 1. Hip Traction: Kneeling perpendicular to your client, place their foot in your lap. Grab their heel and the arch of their foot, and hug the foot in to your hara. Lean back and then away from their head. Release the traction as you continue the rotation back to a neutral position. 2. Leg Rotation: Bend one of your client s knees up. Facing their head, get into a lunge position with your outside foot planted close to your client s hip. Brace your knee against their knee or tibialis anterior. Rest your outside hand on their knee and your other hand on their opposite thigh. Lunge forward, pressing the client s knee to their chest with your knee. Use your outside hand to guide their knee laterally as you bring your lunge backwards. Then guide their knee back up so that you can lock your knee in to start over. 3. As you guide your client s knee laterally in the last leg rotation of Step 2, let their leg lower all the way to the mat. If needed you can support their knee with a pillow. Keep their leg bent by planting your foot or knee below their ankle. Work your client s SP, LV, and K meridians with your palms, thumbs, and/or forearms. 4. Raise your client s bent knee and slide their foot out laterally to increase stability. Squat by the side of their bent leg and pull their GB meridian into your knees. 5. Pivot so that you are facing your client s feet with your hip by their shoulder. Pull their ST channel into the knee of your leg that is closer to their body. 6. Let your client s knee down so that their foot plants back onto the mat. Pivot so that you are facing your client s head in a lunge position or on your knees. Use your upper body weight to stroke along their ST channel with your elbow or knuckles. 7. While supporting the back of your client s knee, lay their leg down straight. Rotate their leg medially and regulate your weight by placing one hand on their ankle and the other on their hip. Mother-Knee / Son-Knee the ST channel on their leg. 8. Lumbar Twist: Pick up your client s leg from the ankle and knee. Step into a lunge position where your leg, which is closer to their feet, goes under their lifted leg and onto the far side of their other leg. Slide their leg so that the back of their lifted knee is just past your knee. Pin their shoulder to the mat while you lunge forward so that their leg slides down your tibia. 9. Repeat Steps 1 8 on the client s second leg. (CONTINUED ON BACK)

29 10. Lumbar Swing: Pick up your client s legs and stand in a wide horse stance with your feet outside their hips. With their legs draped over your thighs, hold them by scooping your hands around their proximal calves and pinning their ankles to your side with your elbows. With an erect back, lift their hips off the mat by straightening your legs. Swing their hips side to side, and/or give them gentle bounces. 11. Bend both of your client s knees up to their chest. Place their feet on your hara or chest and hook your hands around the front of their knees. Firmly holding their legs against your body, move them in big circles or arcs. 12. Keeping their legs bent, get into a lunge position and drape their legs over your thigh. Scoop your hands under both sides of the hips, and lunge back and forth to rock their body. Optionally, you can make your hands into loose fists with the backs of your hands resting on the mat. Rock their body on your fists as you move your hands alongside their sacrum and low back. 13. Keeping their legs bent, press their proximal calves to the back wall until their low back lifts off the mat. Kneel with your knees deep under their back and lower them onto you. Place their feet in the crook of your shoulders or over the top of your shoulders and hook your hands around the front of their knees. Rock their body side-to-side over your knees as you slowly inch your way out from under them.

30 Zen Shiatsu HARA 1. Sit comfortably at your client s side with one hand resting on their hara. Remember: Be Reverent. Be Natural. Be Received. Flow. Use Both Hands. 2. Mother-Hand / Son-Hand the hara using the whole palm, side, heel, and/or finger tips. 3. Palm compression: Slowly let one palm sink deeply into your client s hara. Follow their breath. Sink deeper with each exhale for about 3 breaths. Hold for one breath. Over the course of 3 breaths, let each inhale push you a little further out. Moving in a clockwise direction around their hara, repeatedly perform the palm compressions. 4. Finger compressions: Following the same procedure as Step 3, use your fingertips to make compressions in a clockwise direction around your client s hara. 5. With the fingertips of both hands alternate quick pushes with a steady tempo all around the hara. 6. Grasp with both hands along the top and sides of the hara. 7. Make large palm circles in a clockwise direction. 8. With the fingertips of both hands brush from the hara, up the sternum, and out to the shoulders.

31 Zen Shiatsu ARMS 1. With palms on both LU 1, apply pressure toward the mat. 2. With one hand on your client s shoulder and the other hand holding their wrist, rotate their arm in big arm circles. Feel for the edge of their range of motion and ride along it. 3. Lay your client s arm down at their side. Work LI and TH meridians. 4. Bring your client s arm out perpendicular to their body. Press one thumb into LU 1, while your other hand thumb-presses along their LU channel. 5. Regulate your weight with one hand on your client s wrist and the other on their shoulder. Use your knee to medium kneed their distal P channel. 6. Bring your client s arm up above their head and stroke from their axilla to their hand. Mother-Hand / Son-Hand their H channel. 7. With one hand pin your client s wrist to the mat. With the thenar eminence of your other hand press the lateral edge of their scapula to the mat. 8. Bring their arm back to their side. Keeping your client s elbow on the mat, pick up their hand and slowly flex and extend their wrist. 9. Hold your client s hand with their posterior wrist split between your index fingers and middle fingers and your thumbs on the heel of their hand. Using just your fingers, quickly flip their wrist back and forth. 10. Turn your client s hand supine and interdigitate your two hands around their middle finger. Lay their hand down on the mat and use your thumbs to press into their palm. 11. Turn your client s hand prone and press LI Squeeze, rotate, and snap each finger. 13. Repeat Steps 1 11 on the other arm. 14. Stand over your client s waist, pick up both of their wrists, and swing their arms loosely.

32 Zen Shiatsu NECK 1. Comb back of your client s neck, clearing away any hair that might be in your way. 2. Pick up your client s head. Walk your feet down their upper back and rock their torso with your feet. 3. Cervical Rock: Place your fingers at your client s occipital crease and push toward the ceiling. Pull toward you and then release back to where you started. Your fingers never leave the occipital crease. 4. Roll your client s occiput along your forearm. Finish with a gentle stretch and repeat from the other side. 5. Crazy Eight: With your fingers at your client s occipital crease, rotate their head so that the weight of their head is on one of your hands. Press your fingers up toward the ceiling and pass their head to the other fingers. Repeat passing their head back-andforth. 6. Pick up your client s head and traction their neck while bringing their chin toward their chest. Ask your client to take some deep breaths. On the inhales you hold your hands steady as they press their head backward into your hands. On the exhale they release and you increase the stretch by taking up any slack that was created. Repeat for about 3 breaths. Maintain the traction as you lower their head back to the mat.

33 Zen Shiatsu FACE AND HEAD 1. Stroke your thumbs out along your client s forehead from medial to lateral. 2. Press TH Press GB1. 4. Stroke your fingers along their eyebrow ridge. 5. Press BL Stroke your fingers along their lower eye socket ridge. 7. Press ST Stroke your fingers along their cheek bone. 9. Press SI Stroke your fingers along their chin and mandible out to their ears. 11. Press GB 7 12 around their ears. 12. Make presses along their Governing channel. 13. Rub their scalp vigorously. 14. Scratch their scalp. 15. Close with PJM, gentle rocking, slow stretching, and/or percussion (chopping, slapping, cupping, pounding, tapping, or brushing). Take a moment to be grateful.

34 Zen Shiatsu TABLE PRONE 1. Rock the client s hips, torso, and legs. Swing their arms. 2. Mother-Forearm / Son-Forearm the client s posterior body. 3. Standing above the client s head, clasp your hands and rest your forearms between their scapulae. Bend your wrists to walk your elbows down their BL channel. 4. Keeping your hands clasped, squeeze the back of the client s neck and lift up. Let your palms slide off the neck. 5. Standing by the client s side, hang their arm off the table. Scoop one hand under their shoulder and bounce the shoulder while medium kneading their scapula with your other palm. 6. Staying on the same side of the client, pick up their leg from the ankle. Bend your leg which is closer to their head and place your knee on the table underneath their thigh. Use your elbow to make presses starting at BL 36 and moving laterally along the glute crease. 7. Switch your knees so that it is underneath the client s ankle. Squeeze their distal leg between the heel of one hand and the hooked fingers of the other hand. Alternate your hands and work your way down to the foot. 8. Grasp both feet from heels to toes. Repeat Steps 5 8 on the second side. 9. Kneel on your client s thighs. Pull toward you with your forearm on their sacrum while pushing away on their back with your other forearm. SIDE 10. Kneel along the client s back with one leg on the table. Rotate their shoulder. Keeping the rotation going with your arm which is scooping under their arm, use the heel of your other hand to press into the mastoid process. 11. Continuing the shoulder rotation, hook the fingers of both hands and work the top of the shoulder from GB 21 to LI Stand and face the client s feet. Hook one hand around the front of their bent knee and with the other hand press their sacrum toward the foot of the table to lengthen their low back. 13. Repeat Steps with the client on their second side. (CONTINUED ON BACK)

35 SUPINE 14. Standing at the client s waist and facing their head, take a hold of their wrists in each of your hands. Lift your leg which is closer to their hip and brace the ball of your foot under their arm. Pull both of their arms, lifting their opposite shoulder off the table. 15. Keeping the client s elbow on the table, turn their palm face up with fingers pointing away from you. Interdigitate your fingers around their middle finger, with two of your fingers in between their thumb and index finger. Thumb-press their palm deeply. 16. Bend the client s leg up and step your foot on top of their foot. Medium knead the GB channel from hip to ankle. 17. Bring the client s bent leg out laterally and lean your waist against their distal leg. Lunge forward to stretch their hip, while bracing one hand on their opposite thigh. 18. Lay both of the client s hands over their lower sternum, and cross their foot over to the far side of their other knee. Brace one hand over their hands as you press the knee of their bent leg further across the table. 19. Standing at their feet, interlace your fingers in between their toes and stretch them up. Continue PJM of the ankle as you thumb-press along the anterior ankle crease (SP 5, LV 4, ST 41, and GB 40). 20. Repeat Steps on the client s second side. 21. Standing above the client s head, scoop one hand underneath their occiput and brace the other hand on their shoulder. Hook your middle and ring fingers into GB 12 and pull their head toward their opposite shoulder. Repeat on the other side. 22. With the back of your hand resting on the table, hold the client s head by hooking your fingers in GB 20. With the other hand rub the opposite side of their scalp. 23. With your palms facing up, scoop your fingers under your client s neck. With the index finger side of your hands, lift up and slightly traction their neck. Repeat while working your way up and down their neck. 24. With you thumbs, press the intercostal spaces along the sternum. 25. Press your thumb into Yintang, which is an extra point between the client s eyebrows, and with the middle finger of your other hand press Ren 17, which is on the sternum between the nipples. Hold both points for a couple breaths.

36 Zen Shiatsu PREGNANCY 1. With client in the side-lying position, sit at their side, center and breathe. 2. Brush hands down the client s lateral body. 3. Crawl the client s body (One medial leg, one lateral, and the top arm placed along their side). 4. Mother-Hand / Son-Hand the client s body. 5. Using your forearms, side-stretch the client s shoulder and hip. 6. With one hand bracing the top of the hip, thumb-press the BL points along the sacrum. 7. Saw the hip and leg. 8. Sit facing the front of the client. Hook fingers around their top set of erectors and pull toward you to rock their body and work the erectors. 9. Sit facing their back and press both BL channels along the top side of their back. 10. Press SI 9, 10, 11, 12, and 14 around upper scapula. 11. With one knee bracing the client s top glutes, lift their top leg and press your other knee into their top BL channel. 12. Rest client s leg on your knee and palm-press lower leg. 13. With one knee behind the client s sacrum, bring foot of their top leg into your hip, and supporting their knee, make circles. 14. Put client s ankle over your thigh, and press GB channel from hip to ankle. 15. Supporting the client s knee, lift the leg up as high as possible to stretch, while dorsiflexing the foot. 16. Put client s leg back on the pillow. Make thumb compressions from the heel to the toes. Spread the metatarsals. Pull, squeeze, and snap the toes. (REPEAT EVERYTHING ON THE SECOND SIDE)