by Ivan Bel | Dec 5, 2020 | blog-en, Reflections
Last year I launched a survey with the help of Fernando Cabo, on the perception of Shiatsu practitioners and schools of Shiatsu on a number of topics. We conducted the survey in French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Even if the number of answers is not as...
by Ivan Bel | Nov 19, 2020 | blog-en, Reflections
When Do prevails over Jutsu I have been practicing martial arts for 33 years now and 20 years just for Shiatsu. For years I have been obsessed with studying and learning, which is still the case, but to a lesser extent. I have sought and am still seeking approaches...
by Ivan Bel | Sep 20, 2019 | blog-en, Reflections
While Mother Nature is in agony, everyone seems to be saying that something must be done and quickly. But what? No one seems to know much about what can save the environment and we continue our routine, our crazy consumption, our race against time and for money. Why...
by Ivan Bel | Jun 5, 2019 | blog-en, Reflections
Translated by Odile Fayet | June 10 Given the multitude of speeches that we hear today in the world of Shiatsu, moreover in all languages nowadays, it is not useless to recall what is not evident to everyone. Here is one: Shiatsu is a therapeutic art. Explanations....
by Ivan Bel | Aug 17, 2018 | blog-en, Reflections
There is a lot to say about rhythms in Shiatsu. Shiatsu is a therapeutic art intrinsically linked to far-east medicine. This is, in turn, entirely related to the movements and rhythms of nature that ancient Chinese have observed for millennia. It is therefore logical...
by Ivan Bel | Oct 5, 2017 | blog-en, Reflections
Recently, a conference about traditional Shiatsu vs modern Shiatsu took place at the Shiatsu European Congress [1]. The purpose of the discussion was to highlight the differences between the roots and the evolutions of Shiatsu nowadays and whether there is a tradition...
