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