Yin Sotai - Gentle Within Gentle

Course overview

Yin Sotai is a gentle evolution of Sotai, an already gentle East Asian bodywork style that is often combined with acupuncture treatments in Japan. Its founder was Keizo Hashimoto, MD of Sendai, Japan. Both Sotai and Yin Sotai are best understood as indirect methods of bodywork, which is to say that the patient will engage in pleasant movements away from pain and restriction. Yin Sotai is best understood as a sort of neuromuscular reeducation for the patient. Often just incorporating ten minutes of this sort of bodywork with acupuncture can increase its effectiveness tremendously.