18/09/2025
Shiatsu Can Help Release Trauma
Trauma isn’t just in the mind, it gets stored in the body
How Shiatsu Supports Trauma Release
Calms the Nervous System
It helps shift the body from fight/flight/freeze, the sympathetic into rest, digest, safety mode the parasympathetic. It helps lower heart rate, encourages softer breathing and reduces stress hormones.
Releases Physical & Emotional Tension
Long-held muscle tightness, held in fascia and connective tissue, often corresponds to emotional blocks. Gentle pressure and stretching with the skill of a Shiatsu practitioner allows these tension patterns to soften or release.
Offers a Safe, Grounded Touch
For people who’ve experienced trauma, feeling safe in one’s body is essential. Shiatsu’s fully clothed sessions, slow pace, respectful touch help build trust and safety.
Helps Access and Process Emotions
Because memory is not only mental but bodily, Shiatsu can help bring up feelings, sensations, sometimes memories, that haven’t been processed consciously. Healing can begin in this relaxing space where trauma can be explored safely.
Improves Related Conditions
Trauma often shows up in poor sleep, anxiety, somatic (body) symptoms and pain. Studies indicate Shiatsu helps with sleep quality, reducing internal tension, emotional regulation.
Why It Matters
When you release trauma from the body, you’re not just “feeling better” in the short term. It can change how you respond to stress, how safe you feel in your own skin, how you relate to others.
