Shiatsu treatments in Manchester

Shiatsu can help with many con­di­tions includ­ing back pain, stress, head­aches, migraines, whip­lash injur­ies and neck stiff­ness, joint pain and reduced mobil­ity, men­strual prob­lems, digest­ive prob­lems, astha­matic symp­toms, sports injur­ies and depression.

Arthaketu’s style of shi­atsu is respons­ive — it can involve deep pen­et­rat­ing pres­sure with soft sup­port­ing touch help­ing you to release ten­sion, feel more groun­ded, relaxed, re-vitalised and con­nec­ted to your body and heart.

Arthaketu trained at the Yorkshire school of shi­atsu with Julie Shearn and qual­i­fied as a prac­ti­tioner in July 2003. Since then he has been prac­tising pro­fes­sion­ally in Manchester and Chorlton.

Arthaketu’s interest in shi­atsu came about through want­ing to integ­rate his work with his prac­tice of Buddhism and med­it­a­tion. He wanted a job that was eth­ical and of bene­fit to soci­ety. He also wanted through his Manchester based shi­atsu prac­tice to develop the qual­it­ies that he had already found in med­it­a­tion and Buddhism. The qual­it­ies of groun­ded­ness, kind­ness and aware­ness. He wanted to share these qual­it­ies with others.

What Arthaketu likes about shi­atsu is its diversity. It can be very phys­ical, or very soft. The pres­sure used can be very deep and pen­et­rat­ing or light and gentle. It can involve a lot of move­ment in terms of stretches and rota­tions and it can also be very still.

Shiatsu prac­tice addresses itself to the indi­vidual in the moment. It is deeply relax­ing to receive and can allow us to switch off from the stresses and strains of our day to day life.