During pregnancy, many mothers-to-be need regular massage -- to maintain good health, to prevent problems and to prepare for a healthy birth. Comfortable, safe, and effective bodywork, such as Ohashiatsu, serves those purposes.

In this workshop Ohashi will show you the meridians and acupressure points that can alleviate discomfort and pain in the pregnant woman, and help overcome common problems. You will learn a basic nurturing technique to give your clients, plus exercise to practice during pregnancy. This workshop is useful for doulas, midwives, nurses, and shiatsu and bodywork therapists.

Continuous transition from tsubo to tsubo, meridian to meridian, and treatment to treatment can enrich the quality of your bodywork into the professional level.

Learning from the practices of Kendo, Aikido, tea ceremony, ballet and tango, Ohashi has developed beautiful effortless transitions for Ohashiatsu, which is famous for its elegant treatment. You will feel as if you are practicing Tai Chi and dancing with your client on the futon.

After 40 years of practicing, Ohashi has discovered that the clients who are suffering from depression do not need to be cured, rather they need to be cared for over months or years. That “care” involves: 

•  Comfortable, soothing tonification techniques, such as Muscle-Meridian tonification

•  Sessions once a month rather than once a week.  

•  Emotional and spiritual support with personal care.

With Eastern healing methods, you can provide this type of care by giving attention to the meridians.  According to Ohashi, meridians are the catalyst between the physical body and psychological life.  “Between” means that the physical body and psychological life are blended together; they do not exist separately from one another.  In other words, the physical body is the physical manifestation of psychological life, and one’s psychological life is the abstractive phenomenon of the physical body.

In this class Ohashi will explain and demonstrate the origin of life, its energy in the meridians, its source of physical and psychological life. From this point of view he will show you how to give a practical treatment for depression.

Treating structural problems that cause pain is going to be the most requested medical problem for your practice. When people have lower backache, sciatica and body pain, they may try your modality as the last hope after they’ve failed with other medical professionals.  When Ohashi started his practice in NYC he specialized only in structural problems, especially those of the lower bac.  By doing so he learned valuable lessons in how to improve his technique. His fame and success as a professional therapist came from this experience.  

Designed to help you enrich your session and achieve greater efficiency. The  sophisticated techniques in this workshop have been specifically developed by Ohashi from his long experience of practicing and teaching. He will show you how to find a person’s imbalances and how to determine the correct muscle-meridian sedation techniques to use. In addition to structural-behavioral diagnosis, he will demonstrate his most innovative and advanced sedation techniques and show what kind of exercises can help prevent specific distortions.