In close collaboration with JAPAN SHIATSU COLLEGE, I have founded the organization "Namikoshi Shiatsu Europa" in Madrid, carrying out the will of deceased Tokujiro Namikoshi of spreading Shiatsu all over the world. This organization groups schools and associations of Namikoshi Shiatsu of Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Portugal and Spain. Their activities have the objective of transmitting the knowledge of Namikoshi Shiatsu method.

I would like to emphasize that Shiatsu, because of its essence, transmits the spirit of Japanese and of their culture through the learning, practicing or treatment. Without this deep perception, Shiatsu turns out to be just a digital technique, a method that substitutes acupuncture, putting the fingers over certain points of eastern medicine, then reestablish the flow of energy.

Pitifully, it occurs that people with no medical basic formation pretend to practice this method after two or three weeks of short courses organized by certain eastern medicine centers. For them, Shiatsu is just a business and represents an income.

In my experience I get surprise of deepness and peculiarity of this therapy that has no equal in other therapies such as acupuncture, osteopathy, chiropractic, etc.

Our environment is changing fast, because of our technology like computers or cell phones. This mechanization with a never reached speed thrust a new way of behavior: today everything needs to be fast, everyone is in hurrycfastness is an unquestionable valuecwe can not slow downcbut this constant race is disturbing us and we are getting tiredc

This inducer's phenomenon of physical and psychological stress is hitting deeply to every industrial society of the world, Japanese society included. This sudden change of our lives rhythm is exceeding us and generates many complicated pathologies which treatment is about to explore in western medicine. Shiatsu is a method that could have an eminent position to handle all these "modern" illness which needs therapeutic tools.

"Applying pressures with hands and fingers" seems to be a simple technique and almost primitive, but there is a deep philosophy that lies beyond. We will have to keep on studying how shiatsu, apparently a simple method, produces beneficial effects, how a digital pressure can produce such a relief and such an improvement of the organism? We will have to accept this fact with humbleness, like it is, and try to transmit, for benefit of all Europeans, the principle of this therapy that I consider almost as a Japanese traditional art.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF SHIGERU ONODA

In 1981 he graduates in Japan Shiatsu College, Tokyo, obtaining the official license required to practice Shiatsu in Japan.
In 1984 he moves to Spain, creating his own clinic in Madrid
Since 1994 he is president of Spanish Association of Shiatsu
In 1997 he founded "Escuela Japonesa de Shiatsu" in Madrid
In 2002 he founded "Escuela Japonesa de Shiatsu" in Malaga
Since 2002, he is president of Namikoshi Shiatsu Europa

BOOKS
He published eight texts about Shiatsu therapy directed to countries Spanish influenced also to Portugal and Holland.‚LIBROS