Proprioceptive Practice

Proprioceptive Practice, a core aspect of Shiatsu ShinTai, has been an important part of my physical, energetic and spiritual journey over the past few years.

I have more strength and vitality, enhanced awareness of the more subtle perceptions of energy and a greater sense and confidence in my place and purpose in the world. Crucially it has also given me the tools to regulate my energy system. I think it’s such a sadness when energy workers “burn out” or become “drained” doing what they love.

These are internal meditative exercises flowing into spontaneous movement which activate and regulate the energy system. The practice develops our awareness of the inner call towards alignment – physical, energetic and towards our life direction – through attention to our sensations.

“The Information for Alignment is in the Sensation”    Saul Goodman  

The proprioceptive system is part of the nervous system, the physiological mechanism which monitors physical, emotional, and spiritual alignment. As we become proprioceptively aware we start to make adjustments eg posture becomes more functional and we start to make choices around food, relationships and activities which move us towards alignment and healing.

Proprioceptive practice is valuable to bodywork practitioners for health and wellbeing, to enhance energetic perception and to reliably connect with our inner guidance. When we apply touch from a place of proprioceptive awareness the information travels deeper into the body, helping the receiver to connect with their own potential for healing.

This can also be a useful practice for receivers of shiatsu and other bodywork to enhance the effect of treatments and to empower them in making their own healing choices. Cultivating a proprioceptive awareness in the receiver during shiatsu treatments helps them to connect with their own healing potential.

Benefits

• Stress release and relaxation
• Increase energy, enhance flexibility and improve physical strength
• Develop your energetic perception and the extraordinary senses
• Reliably connect to your inner guidance, enhance spiritual alignment and life direction

This practice can be valuable if you are an energy bodyworker, you receive shiatsu or other energy bodywork, practitioners of yoga, Tai Chi, martial arts, dancers. Suitable for everyone, regardless of strength or flexibility.

A certificate of completion will be provided as evidence of Continuing Professional Development required bythe Shiatsu Society UK and other professional regulatory bodies.