Most people who come to me for Shiatsu have either had it before and know what they are looking for, or they have tried everything else and are willing to try something different. Both groups are welcome. But I want to explain what Shiatsu actually is, not the marketing version, but the clinical reality because it is genuinely different from what most people expect when they think of massage. What Shiatsu is Shiatsu is a Japanese bodywork modality developed in the early twent

Of all the things I do in a Shiatsu session, Hara work is the one that surprises people most. They come in expecting the back, the shoulders, the neck — the obvious places where they are holding tension. And we do get there. But every session at Enso begins with the Hara: a period of quiet assessment and work on the abdomen, which in Japanese medicine is understood as the body's energetic centre and diagnostic map. Most people have never had their abdomen worked on therapeuti