Shonishin

Course overview

This is a workshop on the 300-year-old methods from Japan known as Shonishin. We will describe in detail the general whole body treatment and the use of this with protocols for the treatment of a range of specific symptoms including the moxa treatments of Dr. Manaka, Irie, Fukaya and Shiroda.We will also cover press spheres, shonishin and needle treatments of Hyodo. In Chinese, Erzhen is known in Japan as Shonishin - Children's Needling. The treatment of children with this style is very rewarding due to the amazing responsiveness of the children's physiology. In fact the insertion of needles is very rarely necessary as we draw on the various non- insertive tools from the Nine Classical Needles found in the Ling Shu.