Zen Shiatsu Chicago

07/16/2025

06/19/2025

06/02/2025

Table Thai Shiatsu I
June 14 - 15, 2025 ::: 10 AM - 5 PM
12 CEs
Registration: https://zenshiatsu.edu/ce/table_thai_shiatsu/

This workshop will include stretching applications using table Shiatsu as its focus. The training’s goal is for the therapists to integrate movement and anatomical specificity into their existing work.

Areas to be Covered:
* Demos of Thai-style stretches in supine/prone/seated/side-lying positions
* Select acupressure points for common imbalances
* Hands-on guided exchanges
* Questions and Answers on incorporating techniques into your existing practice

All participants should come with open minds, flexible attitudes, and loose-fitting clothing.

UPCOMING with Randy Cummins Shiatsu Chicago:
Stretching The Emotions ::: June 23, 2025
Registration: https://zenshiatsu.edu/ce/stretching-the-emotions/

04/25/2025

04/07/2025

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03/14/2025

This training I’m hosting at Zen Shiatsu Chicago is the essence of my work; please join me for:

Shoshin Shiatsu Thai-Shiatsu Fusion - 12 CEs
March 29 -3 0, 2025 :: 10am - 5pm
Register :: https://zenshiatsu.edu/ce/shoshin-shiatsu/

Shoshin Shiatsu Beginner’s Mind is a non-sequence mat based training.

This 2-day training will focus on distilling assessment, providing a synthesis of both energetic and anatomical approaches.

The practitioner will develop awareness around choosing and utilizing suitable techniques, which may include staff and scarf applications.

Each class includes:
* Meditation, Movement & Maka-Ho stretches
* Step-by-step, hands-on instruction & student exchanges
* Techniques in Supine, Prone, Side-Lying, & Seated
* Accessing muscles, meridians, & tsubos

All class demos are recorded and posted for private viewing online

March 29 - 30, 2025 :: 10 am - 5 pm
12 NCBTMB CEs
$300

https://zenshiatsu.edu/ce/shoshin-shiatsu/

03/07/2025

12/04/2024

GRADUATE SUCCESS STORY: Maura Sternberg, Class of 2022

"I originally found Zen Shiatsu Chicago in my search for an integrative and holistic bodywork modality to complement my work in female health. I specialize in postpartum care and wanted to develop my "healing touch." My experience at Zen Shiatsu school was all that and more!

I not only developed a rigorous approach to the health of the body, through an Eastern Medicine lens. I also honed the development of my own meditative and spiritual practices, and cultivated a sense of curiosity and competence that I bring with me to every client I work with. My shiatsu training has become a pillar of my work in female health, helping me support women in healing all manner of complications, from postpartum bleeding to chronic hormonal issues. And, most surprisingly, I have broadened my practice to work with all manner of cases, including men, the elderly, and children.

My shiatsu training has given me the confidence and skillset to feel grounded in my work in the healing arts. I have integrated my bodywork skillset into my work as an herbalist and female health practitioner seamlessly, offering clients a more robust healing experience and continuity of care. I feel deep in my heart that my experience learning shiatsu at Zen Shiatsu Chicago was foundational to my ability to live in my life's purpose, and to serve my community fully. Zen Shiatsu is a style of medicine that prioritizes relationship, tranquility, and is a cornerstone to well-resourced community care.

It is the right fit for anyone hoping to discover more about the healing potential in their own hands!"

- Maura practices shiatsu in Corbett, OR, and is part of the care team at The Womb Room.

11/25/2024

Shiatsu for the Shoulder & Hip
December 5, 2024 Zen Shiatsu Chicago
10am - 5pm
6 CEs

To Register: https://zenshiatsu.edu/ce/shiatsu_for_common_problem_areas/

This training includes:
Anatomical and Meridian Overviews
Specific acupoint location and stimulation techniques
Applied stretches to stimulate entire meridian lines
Guided demos and student exchanges
All attending students will receive a video link of all demos done in class.
All participants should come with open minds, flexible attitudes, and loose-fitting clothing.

11/18/2024

Graduate Success Story! Kathleen Drozd - Class of 2023

The path of becoming a massage therapist was always a potential vocation for me. Bodywork is a skill set that seemed well within my wheelhouse. It wasn't until I experienced shiatsu that this path became more clear.

My life experience and interests consist of a charming blend of environmental studies, organic farming, community and personal care work with people of all ages, Eastern religion and philosophy, and integrated health and wellness. My appetite for all of these things seemed to be beautifully blended and reflected in studying shiatsu and East Asian medical philosophy.

Shiatsu blends the material world - muscles, movement, touch - with the immaterial - emotions, thoughts, Qi. Shiatsu, which is informed by Chinese and Japanese cosmology, recognizes the human as a microcosm of the greater world. Cells nested in organs, organs nested in their systems, individuals nested in families, and families nested in community.

Through practicing shiatsu, I can honor the many levels of being of which we are all a part. I can learn every day more about the intricacies and curiosities of being alive. Plus, I like to help people feel better and happier in their bodies!

The program at Zen Shiatsu Chicago gave me a solid base and framework from which I have continued to grow and develop my practice and my unique style of bodywork.

I am happy to be a shiatsu therapist. It is such an honor to work with each client, supporting them in their goals of wellbeing. It is a privilege to touch others, to be with them on their journey, and to learn and grow alongside everyone.

Every session provides me with more knowledge and experience. Every client is an opportunity to study a unique facet of humanity and apply myself in supporting that client in the particular way that they need.

Kathleen practices at Living Stream Shiatsu, a private practice in Washburn, WI.