News at the JSHMSC

Monthly Skills-Exchange Gathering

Have you ever wished to gather wit other holistic practioners to discuss issues and exchange your skills? Here is one good opportunity for you.

The JSHMSC is having Skills-Exchange Gathering every second Saturday of the month. Members are welcome to gather aroud 6:00pm for about one hour in the open space of Tokyo Shiatsu Clinic (Located at 2579 Yonge Street).

The first gathering will be held on Saturday April 11 and its focus will be on Shiatsu Treatments.

What is the Japanese Shiatsu & Holistic Medicine Society of Canada (JSHMSC) ?

The JSHMSC is a non-profit organization, which was founded in March 2006 by holistic practitioners people including mainly shiatsu, seitai, anma, aromatherapy, reflexology, thai massage, acupuncturists, and other general holistic practice.


The purpose of the JSHMSC is;

(1) to encourage the development of shiatsu & Holistic Medicine

(2) cooperation and unification of various treatments

(3) to promote interdisciplinary study

(4) to evaluate the general health mankind

(5) to popularize the concept of shiatsu, Holistic Health and Medicine


For Holistic practitioners

The JSHMSC aims to promote a realistic holistic approach to health, help professional in their daily practice, and make available to them, the possibility of meeting and communicating with other practitioners.


For the general public

The JSHMSC promotes a total approach to health, including self-awareness and the development of a self-reliant relationship with Health and Medicine. It introduces the possible treatments available, integrating various “medical perspectives”.

The JSHMSC is an open, flexible organization which strives to include various types of professionals, participating in the development of total, interdisciplinary study, emphasizing actual holistic health care.

* The JSHMSC does not belong to any kind political or religious organization.


What is Holistic Medicine?

The words, “whole”, “relationship”, “connection” and “balance” are now associated with the word, “Holistic”. This concept6 parallels the original philosophy of the Orient.

The JSHMSC defines “Holistic Medicine” as follows;


Definition of Holistic Medicine

1. Holistic Medicine is based on the concept of holistic health.

Human life is regarded as a unity of “body, Mind, Sprit and Chi (Vital Energy)”. Holistic Medicine is based on the total concept of the harmonious whole in relationship to Society, Nature and the Universe.

2. In Holistic Medicine, one’s Natural Healing Power is the main key to recovery.

It is recognized that the Natural Healing Power within each of us is the key to healing. So the basic principal of healing lies in how we can revitalize that Natural Healing Power within the patient.

3. In Holistic Medicine, the Patient is the true healer, while the medical Agent is the helper.

First and foremost, the patient needs to realize his/her natural healing potential. The practitioner is secondary, playing the role of guide and supporter. Patient’s positive attitude toward health is crucial be fore successful treatment can be implemented by a professional.

4. In Holistic Medicine, various ways of treatments are selected and integrated to create the most suitable treatment for the patients.

While recognizing the factual benefit of Orthobox Medicine, various traditional treatments, including Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Japanese Medicine, Indian Ayurvedic Medicine, and other alternative medical approaches, such as Psychotherapy, Naturopathy, Nutrition, and Body Works, are selected and integrated in a harmonious and systematic way to seek the most beneficial treatment for the patients.

5. In Holistic Medicine, self-realization is sought by recognizing deep meaning of illness.

Not looking at a fact like illness, disability, aging and death as an only negative event but recognizing its deep meaning so that self-realization with deeper satisfaction can be emerge in the process of life and death.

Shiatsu

Anma

Seitai

Reflexology

Aromatherapy

Traditional Thai Massage

Acupuncture