Shiatsu

Here's a glimpse...

Shiatsu is a discipline of energy rebalancing that is based on theories of eastern philosophy and on technique of Traditional Chinese Medicine, reworked in Japan, especially in the twentieth century, then enriched by Masunaga, about the style that I learned. It uses a manipulation technique that consists in bringing a series of pressures on the body along the meridians, performed mainly with the thumbs, fingers and palms of the hands.

The Masunaga style is also called "Zen Shiatsu", the approach is holistic, considers the person as a whole, and looks, at the same time, the individual psycho-corporeal expressions.

you can get a little idea by reading treatment page.

(for further specific definitions and concepts on Shiatsu I invite you to search in internet, encyclopedias , books , etc. )