This is the complete 366
page text that was used in my Shiatsu/Acupressure school in the early
1980s. It is divided into six different parts and fully illustrated with
158 of my original
drawings. The Table of Contents is listed below:
Part I: Basic Shiatsu
Therapy
Lesson One
Reading List
Requirements
Introduction to Daoist Thought in Relation to Healing Principles
Three Main Principles of
Shiatsu/Acupressure
Creation of
Shiatsu/Acupressure Principles
Breath Meditation
Practice Two Hand Shiatsu
on Back
Lesson Two: Tools
Techniques, and Modifications―Approach from
Yin and Yang
Tools
Techniques—What to Do with
tools
Modifications
Body/Tool Combinations
Practice
Shiatsu Technique
Variations
Lesson Three: Backside with
Feet
Lesson Four: Yin/Yang
Embryology; Meridian Origin; Six Division Concept
Embryology and Meridian Origin
Diurnal Energy Flow with
Composite Polarity
Practice
Lesson Five: Lower Leg, Foot, and Yin Meridian of Leg (External to Internal)
Buttock (Three Lines)
Foot
Yin Meridians of Calf (Spleen/Liver/Kidney)
Lesson Six: Ampuku
Importance
Meditation
Diagnosis
Treatment Procedure: Roll
Belly, Press, Roll Belly
Formative Process: Spleen/Stomach (Soil)
Lesson Seven: Chest and Arms
Principles
Procedure
Advanced Neck
Characteristics of Arm and
Leg, Yin and Yang Meridians
Practical Principles of
Energy Polarity
Practice
Lesson Eight: Head and Shoulders
Twelve Points
Point Locations
Procedure
Lesson Nine: Physiognomy
General
Constitution—Feature Placement, Head Shape
Specific Constitution—Organ
Areas and Lines
Tactic
Treatment
Principles-Technique
Lesson Ten: Full Body Shiatsu Exercises for Relaxing
Procedure (External to
Internal for Relaxing)
Lesson Eleven: Full Body Shiatsu for Invigoration
Procedure (Internal to
External for Invigoration)
Lesson Twelve: Full Body Shiatsu Using Intuition
Full Body Shiatsu Procedure: Freestyle, Intuitional Approach
Principles of Strategy
Part II: Acupressure Polarity
Lesson One
Introduction to Yin-Yang
Polarity and the Octave
32 Main Points
Yin/Yang of Numerology in the Octave
Acupressure Style
General Practice
Lesson Two
Six Divisions of Polarity,
the Binomial Cube, and the Octave
Points of the Arm Yang
Suggested Sequence
Lesson Three
Back
Suggested Sequence
Meditation
Lesson Four: Principle of
Positioning and Leg
Leg (Yang)
Principles and Positioning
Suggested Sequence
Lesson Five
Leg (Yin)
Suggested Sequence
Exercise
Lesson Six
Arm Yin
Suggested Sequence
Lesson Seven: Chest and
Abdomen
Suggested Sequence
Lesson Eight: Head and Neck
Suggested Sequence
Additional Suggestions
Polarity Structure of the
Main Meridians
Lesson Nine: Sixty-Four Main Points of Acupressure
Acupressure Uses
Main Mother Points
Suggested Sequence
Composite Treatment: Octave
Patterns
Lesson Ten: Constellations
of the 32 Main Mother Points
A Diagnostic Plug-In
Practice
Lesson Eleven: Points of Octaval Polarity
Basic polarities
Suggested Sequences
Practice
Lesson Twelve: Full Body
Shiatsu Exercise
Basic Yang Energy
Group—(Governing Vessel/Yáng Qiāomài)
Basic Yin Energy
Group—(Conception Vessel/Yīn Qiāomài)
Yin Organizing Group—(Yīn
Wéimài/Chōngmài)
Yang Organizing Group—(Yáng
Wéimài/Dàimài)
Part III: Meridian Polarity
Lesson One: Composite
Polarity System
Internal/External
Polarities within Composite Polarity System
Polarities of Energy Circulation within the
Polarity System
Internal Polarities of Main
Meridian Groups
Energy Flow of Composite
Polarity
Composite Polarity System
Diurnal Energy Circulation
and the Complete Polarity System
Lesson Two: Meridian
Specific
Structure/Function
Relationships
Adjusting the Organ Meridian Complex
The Seven General Points
How to Balance an Aspect
Lesson Three: Primary Individuation
Process―K/B
Creation, Yang Phase
Yang Phase: Kidney/Bladder―Water Phase
Bladder
Kidney
Lesson Four: PIP Yin Phase―H/SI
Associated Qualities
Blood/Q́ Relation
Symptoms
Small Intestine
Heart Meridian
Heart/Small Intestine
Sequence
Lesson Five: Primary Individuation Process―Practice
Meditation
Suggested Sequence #1
Suggested Sequence #2
Lesson Six: Formative Process (FP)―Yang Phase
Creation of Formative
Process
Formative Process: Yin
Phase; Lung/Large Intestine, Metal
Large Intestine
Lung
Lesson Seven: Formative Process, Yang
Phase; Sp/St Soil
Associated Qualities
Symptoms
Stomach
Spleen
Soil Phase Sequence
Lesson Eight: Formative Process
Practice
Meditation
Suggested Sequence #1
Suggested Sequence #2
Lesson Nine: Organizing Process, Yang
Phase
Creation of Organizing
Process
Organizing Process: Yang Phase; Liver/Gall Bladder Wood
Gall Bladder
Liver
Organizing Process
Lesson Ten: Organizing Process Yin Phase; P/T―Fire
Qualities
Symptoms
Eight Kinds of Body Energy
Pericardium
Triple Heater
Organizing Process:
Sequence
Lesson Eleven: Organizing Process
Practice
Meditation
Suggested Sequence # 1
Suggested Sequence # 2
Comments on the Organizing Process: Shiatsu Style
Suggested Sequence #3
Lesson Twelve: Composite Sequence
Composite Sequence
Part IV
Lesson One
The Nature of Polarity and Meridian Resonance
Functional and Structural
Polarities
Polar Groups of the
Ancestral Meridians
General Characteristics
Lesson Two: Governing
Vessel/Conception Vessel
Governing Vessel or Dūmài (MP: SI3/CP: B62)
Conception Vessel or Rènmài (MP: L7/CP: K6)
Lesson Three: Bridge
Channel―Yīn/Yáng Qiāomài
Yīn Qiāomài
Yáng Qiāomài
Lesson Four: The
Circulating Channel
Governing Vessel
Yáng Qiāomài
Governing Vessel/Yáng Qiāomài Comparison
Conception Vessel
Yīn Qiāomài
Conception Vessel/Yīn
Qiāomài Comparison
Circulating Channel
Sequence
Lesson Five: Chōngmài Organizing Channel
Chōngmài & Dàimài (Binding Channel); Bottom
Yang Phase of Organizing Channel
Chōngmài
Dàimài―Belt Channel
(Encircles Waist)
Lesson Six: Yin and Yáng Wéimài
Yīn Wéimài
Yáng Wéimài
Regulating Channel Sequence
Lesson Seven: The
Organizing Channel
Chōngmài
Yīn Wéimài
Dàimài
Yáng Wéimài
Dàimài/Yáng Wéimài
Comparison
Organizing Channel Sequence
Lesson Eight: The Upper Ancestral Channel
Rènmài
Yīn Wéimài
Yáng Wéimài
Dūmài
Upper Ancestral Channel
Sequence
Lesson Nine: The Lower Ancestral Channel
Yīn Qiāomài
Chōngmài
Dàimài
Yáng Qiāomài
Lower Ancestral Channel
Sequence
Lesson Ten: Organizing and
Circulating the Yang
Dūmài
Dàimài
Yáng Wéimài
Yáng Qiāomài Mo
Suggested Sequence for
Organizing and Circulating the Yang
Lesson Eleven: Organizing and Circulating the Yin
Rènmài
Chōngmài
Yīn Wéimài
Yīn Qiāomài
Suggested Sequence for
Organizing and Circulating the Yin
Lesson Twelve: The Eight Seas
Suggested Sequence
Summary of Trajectories
Part V
Lesson One: Fundamentals of
Polarity
A Complex Polarization of Nothing
Lesser Maze as Octave of
Completed Manifestation
Manifestation of Lesser
Maze as Binomial Cube
Transformation of the Three Primal Forms
Transformational Cycle of
Point, Line, Surface and Sphere
Transformation
The Divine Proportion
Summary
Lesson Two: Structure and
Function
Bagua and Process
Formation
Organ Function
Five Phase Sequences
Five Phase Transformation within the Processes
Homeostatic Relation
between Diurnal and Seasonal Cycles
Seasonal Reduction Cycles
and the Four Structural Polarities
Value of Five Phase Addition to Three
Process Homeostatic Balancing
Lesson Three: Five Phase
Octave Growth/Transformation
Water Nature
The Structural Octave and
the Five Phase Dynamics of Function
Lesson Four: Five Phase
Mechanics
Correspondences of the Five
Phases
Yin-Yang of Five Phases
Dynamic Cycles of the Five
Phases
General Examples of the
Five Phase Cycles
Five Phase Four Needle Treatments
Lesson Five: Kidney/Bladder
KIDNEY
BLADDER
Lesson Six: Heart and Small
Intestine
HEART
Small Intestine
Lesson Seven: Spleen and
Stomach
Spleen
Stomach
Lessen Eight: Lung and
Large Intestine
LUNG
Large Intestine
Lesson Nine: Liver and Gall
Bladder
LIVER
GALL BLADDER
Lesson Ten: Pericardium and Triple Heater
Pericardium
Triple Heater
Part VI
Lesson One: Foundations of Tongue Diagnosis
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