What is Jin Shin Do?
Yoga.com Staff 7/3/2002 Jin Shin Do (translated as the way of the compassionate spirit) is derived from acupressure. The technique involves applying gentle fingertip pressure to thirty specific points along the body to release, smooth and balance vital `chi’ energy. Practitioners meditate and try to transfer chi to clients by using knowledge of where energy flows and patterns meet. According to its practitioners, Jin Shin Do pervades all aspects of our being by affecting general muscle tension, improving circulation, balancing emotions and raising the spiritual state of being.
Jin Shin Do is “The Way of the Compassionate Spirit” Jin Shin Do Bodymind Acupressure uses gentle yet deep finger pressure on specific acu-points together with Body Focusing techniques to help release armoring or chronic tension, and balance the Qi or energy. This bodymind approach is a unique synthesis of a traditional Japanese acupressure, classical Chinese acupuncture theory, Reichian segmental theory, Taoist philosophy, Qigong Exercises and western psychotherapy. Jin Shin Do promotes a pleasant trancelike state, in which one can move out of the head and into the body, accessing feelings and inner wisdom. Jin Shin Do is the only acupressure method that works consistently with the “Strange Flows” or “Extraordinary Meridians”. Opening and working with the Extraordinary Meridians subtly rebalances the energy flows between all of the Meridians. Jin Shin Do brings about pleasurable, deep relaxation and increased awareness of both body and psyche. It helps one learn to transform, rather t
Jin Shin Do is a form of therapeutic massage. It was created in the 1970s by practitioner Iona Marsaa Teeguarden. Jin Shin Do is in many ways built off of Jin Shin Jyutsu, and is an integrative massage technique drawing heavily on various modalities of acupressure. Jin Shin Do uses physical pressure, while patients are clothed, combined with energy work, and techniques culled from Ericksonian psychotherapy, to try to open up patients. The concept of armoring is referenced in Jin Shin Do, which has some similarities to the concept in Reichian Orgone therapy. The idea behind Jin Shin Do is to help the patient realize an open flow of an energetic lifeforce, based on the Chinese idea of qi. Jin Shin Do means simply the Way of the Compassionate Spirit, and is a non-judgmental modality that takes positive elements of many different forms of energy and body work to create a powerful healing technique. Jin Shin Do focuses on set pressure points, and different techniques to relieve stress at th
