PhD Thesis: The Ecological Body ~ extracts

Shiatsu

I trained in Shiatsu with Sonia Moriceau and qualified as a Shiatsu practitioner in 1987. 

Shiatsu is based on the Chinese medical view of human health being fundamentally connected to their relationship to their environment through an ever-shifting balance of the Five Elementsand the circulation of Ki[1] through the meridians. The working definition of health is expressed as a person’s capacity for adapting to change, rather than as a fixed state.

[1] Ki in Japanese, (known as Chi in Chinese), is ‘life-force’ energy, which is believed to flow through the meridians in Shiatsu and in Acupuncture.

Thesis pages

• Active and Passive
  
• Amerta Movement
• Being in Between
• Borders of Humility and Humiliation
• Ecological Lenses
• Ecological Movement
• Emergence
• Grotowski
• Half-Open Lips
• Move into Life
• Movement Dynamics
• Movement Psychotherapy
• Movement Studies
• Niche
• Pattern
• Point, Line and Angle
• Proportion
• Proportion in Motion
• Research Projects
• Satipatthana
• Shiatsu
• Slideshows
• Strata: Autobiographical Movement
• The Ecological Body
• Transition and Position
• Video