Einstein once commented that if he ever came back to earth he would be a plumber! One can understand the attraction to something so apparently logical operating on the principles of high and low pressure, gravity, suction, free flow and the release of blockages it might come to resemble aspects of shiatsu including that of being on your knees a lot of the time. Work on ki connection and development is probably the most important part of a shiatsu course. Satoro certainly does work with these principles including working with organic energy, emotional energy and chasing the winds but the Satoro practitioner also acts as an initiator and catalysor both from their own energy and that of the greater connectivity to universal energy.
It begins with 'The Draw'. The draw centers at the Hara and with breathing into the Hara and the kidneys. On the exhalation the energy is mobilized and directed out from the heart and lungs down the Yin meridians of the arms through the Lao Gong points in the center of the palms to the Client. The Draw creates a kind of suction in the palms (of either hands or feet) which is a palpable difference to that of merely placing a finger or thumb on the skin. I think of the placing of fingers in line work on a meridian as baby walking, like a toddler pitter-pattering over the surface, because it remains superficial and never connects with the energy.
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It begins with 'The Draw'. The draw centers at the Hara and with breathing into the Hara and the kidneys. On the exhalation the energy is mobilized and directed out from the heart and lungs down the Yin meridians of the arms through the Lao Gong points in the center of the palms to the Client. The Draw creates a kind of suction in the palms (of either hands or feet) which is a palpable difference to that of merely placing a finger or thumb on the skin. I think of the placing of fingers in line work on a meridian as baby walking, like a toddler pitter-pattering over the surface, because it remains superficial and never connects with the energy.
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