Shiatsu is a Japanese therapeutic technique based on the ancestral foundations of traditional Chinese medicine and Zen philosophy. It views the human being as an organic entity that is an integral part of nature.

Shiatsu is an energetic body approach. According to traditional Oriental thought, meridians are energy lines that connect different parts of the body to each other. Energy blockages and tension points can eventually make us sick. The shiatsu practitioner locates your blockages and tension points in order to correct them and restore the body's energy circulation, which will also promote your self-healing capacities. Shiatsu literally means "finger pressure". This pressure of the fingers (sometimes from the palms of the hands, elbow, knees) is applied to the different meridians, acting on the circulation of energy and initiating a return to balance of body and mind.

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Shiatsu is essentially preventive.  It is best practiced during seasonal changes, from increased activity to the first symptoms of illness, in post-traumatic periods and particularly in periods of stress.