Learning-Treatments for the Intermediate Diploma are for you to practise your learning, focussing on your current "learning meridian", points, APP systems and diagnostic methods. Treatments for the Professional Licence training will be more receiver-orientated, where you focus more on their conditions and build up your case-study notes on them.

Remember you are NOT expected to work beyond the level of your current learning so if some of the following notes ask for info you have not yet covered in Tutorials, pass on! These are GUIDANCE NOTES, not rigid requirements. Adapt to your own style and preference.

PARTICIPANT'S NAME & AGE?

LEARNING-TREATMENT DATE:

Which is your LEARNING MERIDIAN for this treatment?

What is the FIRST IMPRESSION you get of this person? [if this is not the first treatment, then you could make a note of their response to the previous treatment, how they might have got on with your recommendations and suggestions. Treat their response as DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION, without judgement or blame if they haven't done anything to share in their self-healing.]

Observe

their most PROMINENT FEATURE?

the HUE of their complexion,

TONE of their voice

how they MOVE.

Question

What COMPLAINTS and CONDITIONS have brought them to your shiatsu mat?

MEDICAL HISTORY?

EXERCISE?

DIET?

DIGESTION?

MENSTRUATION?

SLEEP PATTERNS?

LIFESTYLE? WORK? FUN?

What kind of thing makes them HAPPY/ UPSETS them?

Sexual ENERGY/SATISFACTION levels?

RELATIONSHIPS - partners, parents, siblings,children, friends, colleagues?

PARENTS HEALTH?

Anything else?

When combined with your First Impression, the Looking and Asking Diagnoses outlined above can often give an idea of the person's basic or CONSTITUTION element and the main element of imbalance or CONDITION, offering clues to what suggestions and recommendations you might help them with. What do you think the elements might be for this Participant?

Sensing and Touching Diagnoses lead you towards an appropriate treatment for the Participant as they are in this moment, and sometimes the Back diagnosis gives further insights into long-term imbalances:

What RECOMMENDATIONS/SUGGESTIONS did you make/would have made if you had been asked?

HOW WAS IT FOR YOU?

What did you learn from this treatment?

About your Participant?

About Shiatsu?

About yourself?