World of Shiatsu

Shiatsu and Physical and Mental Disability

Experience has shown that people suffering from disabilities get a clear benefit from Shiatsu. The individual sessions help them to attain a specific balance between mind and body. The treatment aims to achieve the following:

- encourage relaxation, well-being and self-control,
- learn to feel the body,
- show that touch can be non-threatening (neither aggressive nor erotic),
- identify the difference between “what I like and what I don’t like”
- reinforce feelings of modesty, intimacy and self-esteem,
- access physical well being through non-erotic touch (sexual impulses are often a problem for these individuals and those close to them)
- awaken a sense of awe at the wonders of one’s own body and nurture the desire to develop greater love and respect towards it.