12/08/2025
✨ New Treatment Alert! ✨
Five Element Shiatsu is now being offered at by our newest team member, Rosie O’Shea M.S. L.Ac., LMT.
•The Five Element Perspective•
The Five Element system - Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water provides a map for understanding movement, emotion, personality, and the cyclical nature of change. In Five Element Shiatsu, each element represents a dynamic expression of body, mind, and spirit. A session explores where an element may be overworking, under-resourced, or out of relationship with the others. This process is gentle, respectful, and rooted in the idea that each person carries an innate healing blueprint that can be accessed through targeted touch and thoughtful listening.
Rather than treating symptoms alone, Five Element Shiatsu seeks to harmonize patterns beneath the surface: how stress is held, where vitality is blocked, how emotions express through the body, and how the nervous system organizes itself. The work is subtle, yet deeply transformative.
•The Influence of Classical Chinese Medicine•
Because this approach is informed by Classical Chinese Medicine, sessions incorporate a high level of diagnostic understanding. Classical theory emphasizes seasonal cycles, constitutional patterns, organ networks, and the unity of body and spirit and provides a rich lens through which the practitioner interprets what the individual is communicating.
Tongue and pulse assessment may be included when helpful, as well as a traditional Hara (abdominal) evaluation, which offers a clear picture of energetic tone and underlying imbalances, as well as strengths. Acupressure points, channel pathways, and classical energetics are selected with precision to address the client’s individual needs.
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