1. Working with the Elderly
Developing the Yin Capacities

This workshop focuses on Shiatsu for the elderly.

There are two aspects to working with elderly people, firstly dealing with the common conditions of old age such as arthritis, chronic pain, loss of balance and loss of muscle tone. We will show specific and practical techniques for dealing with each of these.

But equally important is the skill of helping someone to grow old happily. In Western culture, old age has lost its traditional status and a large segment of older people end up existing in residential homes or being cared for in the home of a relative, having lost responsibility, status and a feeling of being of use to other people. Many old people feel they have nothing left to give to the world.

This is partly the fault of a society which values Yang and Youth and devalues Experience and Wisdom. But it is also the responsibility of the aging person. If they contract into themselves, resent their loss of youth and decline into passivity then it is not surprising that people do not value them.

This course will introduce a method of training for ageing people, which can be started before old age, which develops three Yin capacities: Radiance, Equanimity and Benevolence. These capacities are aspects of the Tai Yin, Shao Yin and Jue Yin energies and do not decline with age. With their development, the ageing person not only is rescued from many of the physical conditions of old age but also grows into a state which is still valued, still useful and still attractive to other people.

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2. Working with Families with Learning Difficulties

This workshop focuses on using Movement Shiatsu to work with children with learning difficulties and their parents.

In England, the term 'Learning Difficulties' encompasses physical disability as well as cognitive problems with learning. But the essential point of my work does not distinguish between the two. I aim to help a child to fully develop as they are, not to become 'normal'. Development is something anyone can do, however disabled, and is a process of self-actualisation. It is something everyone can succeed in. Normality is only measured in terms of the average and, for a disabled person, aiming at normality is aiming at failure.

Parents having children with learning difficulties often have a desire for them to be as normal as possible. This is a natural feeling. But many parents don't realise that the pressure to achieve some measure of normality creates a continual feeling of failure in the child. In fact, children who obviously have no hope of being 'normal', as with Down's Syndrome children, often find life easier because the parents more easily accept them as they are, and give them love and support to develop to their full potential.

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