He was one of the first members of the French Federation of Traditional Shiatsu. Rolland Boudet is a master of both martial arts and Shiatsu. In 2000, he founded the Shiatsu Academies of Marseille, Toulouse, Cannes and Bordeaux, accredited by the Japan Shiatsu...
Elaine Liechti has been a Shiatsu practitioner and teacher since 1983, and has been teaching in Scotland since 1986. Don’t be fooled by her small stature and soft hands, because her whole career is a testament to her character as a Scottish woman and one-time Aikido...
A leading Shiatsu teacher, Terésa Hadland has been criss-crossing Europe and even the world for over forty years, sometimes in the company of her partner Bill Palmer and sometimes on her own, to pass on their vision of 'Movement Shiatsu'. Sparkling, full of...
For several years now, Haruhiko Masunaga has been carrying on the legacy of his father Shizuto Masunaga and teaching Iokai Shiatsu throughout the world. In return, the world of Shiatsu has been watching closely to see how he would cope, such was the enormity of the...
Wilfried Rappenecker is one of the giants of European Shiatsu. His name is closely associated with German and Swiss Shiatsu, as well as with the enormous "Atlas of Shiatsu", now in its 4th edition. A doctor by profession, he decided to leave everything to do nothing...
Manabu Watanabe is one of those people who can speak in depth about the martial arts. For over 10 years, he was the disciple and assistant of Minoru Akuzawa, the extraordinary founder of Aunkai. Anyone who has ever seen Akuzawa Sensei perform his movements knows what...
Not « a pioneer woman » ? Maybe. Carola Beresford-Cooke was nevertheless introduced to Shiatsu in 1978 by Ohashi, was one of the founding members of the ShiatsuSociety UK, and has been known since 1996 as the author of « Shiatsu Theory and Practice » (1), a work that...
In the world of Shiatsu there are the personalities who practice Shiatsu on a daily basis and make it known, and those who highlight these same people through the media. Mihael Mamychshvili does both. For years he has been developing Shiatsu and his own method, and he...
When I met Leisa Bellmore at the European Shiatsu Science Congress in London in 2017, she was presenting her first study. For the past 6 years, she has been continuing her studies on sleep disorders using a simple self-shiatsu protocol. By changing the target...
This month we have the great pleasure to have as our guest Viktor Gulyás from Hungary. We know that there is some Shiatsu in this country, but we don't necessarily know what is going on there and as our technique is developing there Viktor is the vice-president of the...
