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

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

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HAKA ASSESSMENT AREAS

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BL- Bladder HR - Heart Regulator Ll - Large intestine LV- Liver

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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 24-48 hours later?

T’subo List for Shiatsu

Use treatments from The Art of Zen-Touch pages 72-101

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 –

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 bothhands 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 theclient 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 fingerspointing toward client’s feet.

15. Medium knead superior glutes.

16. Close session with passive joint movement and percussion.

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’ssacrum 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 untilproximal leg is perpendicular with their body. Gently, Mother-Knee / Son-Knee the GBchannel.

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 channelinto 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 sitwith 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 theother way and repeat.

11. Keeping a hold of client’s feet, stand over their hips and sit on the plantar surfaces oftheir 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’sglutes; or stand over client. Have your client grab your wrists as you grab theirs and pullthem up into a back bend. Alternately, you can have your client clasp their handsbehind their head. Pull your client up by hooking your hands up under their proximalarms.

13. Roll your client supine. Standing on your knees, place their feet on your hara, and scoopyour hands under their knees. Walking forward on your knees, bring their knees intotheir chest. Hugging your hands firmly around the tops of their knees, guide their legs insmall circles or sway gently side-to-side.

Zen Shiatsu SIDE

1. Prepare to roll your client up onto their side by raising their arm closest to you overtheir 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 undertheirs and clasp your hands around their shoulder. Rotate their shoulder by leaningyour body in a circle.

3. Maintain the rotation with your arm that is scooped under theirs. With your otherhand, use your thumb to press the side of your client’s neck. As the rotation pulls theirskin tight, let it slide under your thumb. As the rotation shortens the tissue of the necklet your thumb sink in. Repeat until you reach GB 20.

4. Maintain shoulder rotation. Place your other hand palm-up on your opposite thigh withrigid 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 inbig circles. With your other hand, press your thumb in SI 11.

6. Lunge with your foot planted above your client’s head. Rest their arm over your thighand pin it there by leaning your forearm on it. Brace your other hand on their rib cageor 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 originalposition, 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 ofthe top leg. Sit on your bottom with one foot planted on their low sacrum and the otheron their hamstrings. Pull back on their ankle for a stretch with the option to makecompressions along the BL channel with the ball of your foot. Return your client to aside lying position.

11. While in a lunge position, brace on hand on your client’s greater trochanter. With theirhand outstretched or resting on their waist, guide their shoulder back as you keep thehip forward.

12. Roll your client to their other side and repeat Steps 1 - 10

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 thighjust below the glutes. Your feet should be perpendicular to the thighs with your toespointing out laterally. Alternately, you can pick up their ankles and step onto one oftheir distal thighs. Hook their foot around your shin from lateral to medial. Use theirsacrum to regulate your weight and slowly repeat with the second leg. Instruct yourclient 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 youbalance. Step one foot onto their low sacrum and slowly step your second foot up towork 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 andrecent head injury.)

5. Pick up one arm and pull your client’s shoulder into your foot as you press in the areasaround 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. Stepone foot between their scapulas and pull up on their arms. Invert and evert your foot towork the areas between the scapulas.

7. Steam Roller: Position both of the client’s arms up over their head. Lie with your haraon their low back. Make one full roll down towards their feet and back. Reposition sothat 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 ontheir thoracic back. Medium knead their glutes with both of your knees at once. Youcan 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. Walkboth of your feet down their BL channel. Alternately, you can sit on their thighs andwalk your feet up their BL channel.

10. Pick up both of your client’s ankles and stand facing their head. Place one foot on theirsacrum and hook the ball of your foot so that it pulls their sacrum toward you. Pull upon both of their ankles at once.

(CONTINUED ON BACK)

11. Scissor Squeeze: Sit on the floor facing your client’s leg with one of your legs restingover their thigh. Squeeze their leg between the ball of your foot and the Achilles tendonof your top leg.

12. Shuffle: Stand over your client’s hips with your toes tucked slightly under them. Worktheir GB channel from their hips to knees with your medial malleolus by lifting yourheels one at a time. Alternately you can work their ST channel with the top of your bigtoe by dorsiflexing and lifting your feet one at a time.

Zen Shiatsu ANTERIOR LEGS

1. Hip Traction: Kneeling perpendicular to your client, place their foot in your lap. Grabtheir heel and the arch of their foot, and hug the foot in to your hara. Lean back andthen away from their head. Release the traction as you continue the rotation back to aneutral position.

2. Leg Rotation: Bend one of your client’s knees up. Facing their head, get into a lungeposition with your outside foot planted close to your client’s hip. Brace your kneeagainst their knee or tibialis anterior. Rest your outside hand on their knee and yourother hand on their opposite thigh. Lunge forward, pressing the client’s knee to theirchest with your knee. Use your outside hand to guide their knee laterally as you bringyour lunge backwards. Then guide their knee back up so that you can lock your knee into start over.

3. As you guide your client’s knee laterally in the last leg rotation of Step 2, let their leglower all the way to the mat. If needed you can support their knee with a pillow. Keeptheir 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. Squatby 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 theirST 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 thatyou are facing your client’s head in a lunge position or on your knees. Use your upperbody 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 theirleg medially and regulate your weight by placing one hand on their ankle and the otheron 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 lungeposition where your leg, which is closer to their feet, goes under their lifted leg and ontothe far side of their other leg. Slide their leg so that the back of their lifted knee is justpast your knee. Pin their shoulder to the mat while you lunge forward so that their legslides down your tibia.

9. Repeat Steps 1 – 8 on the client’s second leg.

(CONTINUED ON BACK)

10. Lumbar Swing: Pick up your client’s legs and stand in a wide horse stance with your feetoutside their hips. With their legs draped over your thighs, hold them by scooping yourhands around their proximal calves and pinning their ankles to your side with yourelbows. With an erect back, lift their hips off the mat by straightening your legs. Swingtheir 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 chestand hook your hands around the front of their knees. Firmly holding their legs againstyour 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 theirbody. Optionally, you can make your hands into loose fists with the backs of your handsresting on the mat. Rock their body on your fists as you move your hands alongsidetheir sacrum and low back.

13. Keeping their legs bent, press their proximal calves to the back wall until their low backlifts 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 andhook your hands around the front of their knees. Rock their body side-to-side over yourknees as you slowly inch your way out from under them.

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 theirbreath. Sink deeper with each exhale for about 3 breaths. Hold for one breath. Overthe course of 3 breaths, let each inhale push you a little further out. Moving in aclockwise direction around their hara, repeatedly perform the palm compressions.

4. Finger compressions: Following the same procedure as Step 3, use your fingertips tomake 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 aroundthe 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 theshoulders.

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, rotatetheir 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 theirshoulder. 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 yourother 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 theirhand and slowly flex and extend their wrist.

9. Hold your client’s hand with their posterior wrist split between your index fingers andmiddle 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 middlefinger. 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 4.

12. 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.

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 torsowith your feet.

3. Cervical Rock: Place your fingers at your client’s occipital crease and push toward theceiling. Pull toward you and then release back to where you started. Your fingers neverleave the occipital crease.

4. Roll your client’s occiput along your forearm. Finish with a gentle stretch and repeatfrom the other side.

5. Crazy Eight: With your fingers at your client’s occipital crease, rotate their head so thatthe weight of their head is on one of your hands. Press your fingers up toward theceiling and pass their head to the other fingers. Repeat passing their head back-and-forth.

6. Pick up your client’s head and traction their neck while bringing their chin toward theirchest. Ask your client to take some deep breaths. On the inhales you hold your handssteady as they press their head backward into your hands. On the exhale they releaseand you increase the stretch by taking up any slack that was created. Repeat for about3 breaths. Maintain the traction as you lower their head back to the mat.

Zen Shiatsu FACE AND HEAD

1. Stroke your thumbs out along your client’s forehead from medial to lateral.

2. Press TH 23.

3. Press GB1.

4. Stroke your fingers along their eyebrow ridge.

5. Press BL 2.

6. Stroke your fingers along their lower eye socket ridge.

7. Press ST 2.

8. Stroke your fingers along their cheek bone.

9. Press SI 18.

10. 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.

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 betweentheir 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 yourpalms slide off the neck.

5. Standing by the client’s side, hang their arm off the table. Scoop one hand under theirshoulder and bounce the shoulder while medium kneading their scapula with your otherpalm.

6. Staying on the same side of the client, pick up their leg from the ankle. Bend your legwhich 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 glutecrease.

7. Switch your knees so that it is underneath the client’s ankle. Squeeze their distal legbetween the heel of one hand and the hooked fingers of the other hand. Alternate yourhands 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 whilepushing 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 yourother hand to press into the mastoid process.

11. Continuing the shoulder rotation, hook the fingers of both hands and work the top ofthe shoulder from GB 21 to LI 16.

12. Stand and face the client’s feet. Hook one hand around the front of their bent knee andwith the other hand press their sacrum toward the foot of the table to lengthen theirlow back.

13. Repeat Steps 10 – 12 with the client on their second side.(CONTINUED ON BACK)

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 footunder 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 pointingaway from you. Interdigitate your fingers around their middle finger, with two of yourfingers 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 GBchannel from hip to ankle.

17. Bring the client’s bent leg out laterally and lean your waist against their distal leg. Lungeforward 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 thefar side of their other knee. Brace one hand over their hands as you press the knee oftheir 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 14 – 19 on the client’s second side.

21. Standing above the client’s head, scoop one hand underneath their occiput and bracethe other hand on their shoulder. Hook your middle and ring fingers into GB 12 and pulltheir 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 yourfingers 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 indexfinger side of your hands, lift up and slightly traction their neck. Repeat while workingyour 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 sternumbetween the nipples. Hold both points for a couple breaths.

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 theirside).

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 pulltoward 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 kneeinto 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, andsupporting 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, whiledorsiflexing 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)