SEITAI exercises recover sensitivity of the body

SEITAI exercises have different purpose from general exercises.

There are 2 kind of  SEITAI exercises. KATSUGEN UNDO ( spontanious movement to develop extrapyramidal system) and specific SEITAI exercises (movement that is focused on pin point of each blockage).

First I will explain specific SEITAI exercises. Because, in HIROE SEITAI session, therapist will advice to do this exercise, it is for your case, not for general.
During the treatment by hands, body start to show where flow is blocked. That part is insensitive, usually.
So you may not notice that it is the cause of your conscious symptom.
Therapist points out where blockage is, and shows you proper exercise to take it away.

As you continue to do your exercise, you start to feel your body.
Whenever you say to me, " Yes, yes, I can feel..." while you try to do exercise, I feel very happy.
Some clients don't feel in the beginning, I see on his face, "...?...". Then I tell him, " Try for some time."
Even very rigid, insensitive body will be changed surely.
After one blockage is taken away, other parts of the body also start to change.
And your feeling of whole body will become better.
Moreover as you will notice subtle distortion or unbalance, you will be able to adjust it by yourself.

Catching cold is seasonal fine adjustment of sensitive body

If your body can adjust condition (by cathing cold) each time it has small disorder, distortion never be accumulated.

Insensitive body can't catch even cold. Tough body has capasity to store strain.
But sooner or later critical point will come. Often it appears with accident as trigger.
You may think it is by accident. In fact, it is an urgent message from your body.
If you listen, and follow to this final call, you can recover, change direction to more healthy life.
If still you don't hear it, your body stop to speak to you. And suddenly it will break down completely.
Recovering become much more difficult.

Meaning of to be sensitive in SEITAI is this.
Listen to your body's need, it may be not only enough sleeping, taking rest, good foods or good exercises.
Pay attention to your feeling, pleasure and pain.
When you feel sleepy, sleep. When you feel hangry, eat. When you feel to work, work with your best.

The founder of SEITAI, Noguchi says that maintainance of healthy life is to live easily.
I think this 'easy' doesn't mean lazy. It means to follow your feeling, intuition, instinct.
It is same as vital energy, healing power as natural being. 

Continued from the story of lower back pain

1 year ago, this client who had lower back pain didn't get reactive symptom by only one session.
I was not sure how she understood my work, I didn't explain anything. Anyway she became better, and we didn't continue treatment.

This year she got lower back pain again. In fact, since 30 years ago, it has been chronic.
She came to have a treatment. I think she wanted quick cure same as last year.
When I started, I recognized that her body was different from last year. It became more sensitive. not rigid.
And as I thought, immediately she started to go through healing process with reactive pain. It is very severe for her.
I feel very sorry for her, but it is not in my hands. Reaction come from her own body, it is natural healing power. Body is changing, it needs some time, because overwork had been accumulated for many years.

Although she is suffering with pain, I can see her body is getting better day by day.
Her body knows very well that she will move too much with wrong posture, If she doesn't have strong pain. Therefore it is very sensitive to keep complete rest.
This is execution by body's wisdom. When we take it, healing is smooth. Only we need patience to listen to body's voice. 

acute and chronic lower back pain, sciatica

For an explanation about healing process, I metion about a case of lower back pain.

 I want to tell you by this,

-Healing process will keep on advancing, once you receive a treatment, even after1 year.

1 year ago, I treated a woman who had lower back pain.

She said that usually she is very healthy, very strong, her job is physical labor. It is no problem, because she has enough strong body.

I checked her body, and what I read from it is that---

She has enough strong muscles of arms to do physical labor hardly. But muscles of back, especialy lower back is rigid to sustain her arm's work. and lung is weak, because of arm's overwork.

I could see she has habitual lower back problem. And from SEITAI's view, this is not strong body.

muscles are strong, maybe. But SEITAI doesn't consider muscle's strength to be equal with vitality.

Rigid muscle that doesn't have frexibility is brittle. When overwork come to limit, muscle give up to sustain lower back. It is screaming, " Now I can't follow your forcible way to use me. Please stop it.Please!"

If you don't listen this body's appeal, just take anti-symptomatic treatment, this appeal will be weaken.

SEITAI call this " insensitive body".

It seems to be long story.

Today I got stye (rash of eye). It says I use it too much recently.

I wanted to write hurriedly. But body says "no".
ok, I'll write later. see you soon.

Buongiorno

Hello this is toyoji !! I start Hiroe seitai treatments and exercises in Italy. basically around Milan. but I plan to go other province to open Hiroe seitai exercises work shop. These exercises seem simple but effective.Because you need to bring much awareness for your movement, angle of joints, and  focus on your center. With Hiroe seitai treatment and exercises, you will be not only patient but also practitioner. This is very important to point to solve your problems.If you always depend on something like medicine, treatment from the other, your original healing energy will not active fully. Your great healing energy become lazy. Hiroe seitai treatment will help to activate your spontenious healing energy, and the exercises become great tool to maintain that energy.
for more infomation please check face book- hiroeseitai  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hiroe-Seitai/158778417487974?v=info

Sensitive body get reactive symptoms faster than insensitive body

SEITAI says that good body has good sensitivity to stimulation.
Even though your problem is chronic, when your body is enough sensitive, it will react to stimulation at once.

I'm sorry that I'm writing about only reactive symptoms in these days. Are you bored?
But it is very very important issue in SEITAI.

When you have reactive symptoms, you may feel, "Oops! It became worse than before. Maybe that therapist did big mistake. My body was broken by that manipulation. What can I do now? Who else can recover it?"
PLEASE WAIT FOR A WHILE.
It depends on each case to recover from reactions. only for 1 night, 1 day, or some days.

From my experienses, I can say that good (sensitive) bodies go through healing process quickly and smoothly.
First reactive symptom starts immediately, and will change places, shape, it will go back to previous symptoms.
Finally body shows root cause.

When therapist touchs the point of root cause, clients often feel very painful, but somehow acceptable.
Some feel like surgery. Other feel as if therapist's fingers come in the body very deeply.
In fact, I don't go inside. The point come out to surface of the body, that wanted to be resolved.
Then I take it away to make 'flow'.

Wow, how difficult to express SEITAI's work is!
You may feel that it is too notional.
I can't explain all our techniques to clients, they are so fine, subtle works.

Insensitive bodies take more time to reach this point.
They have resistance or protection against stimulation from outside. Or doubt about treatment and their own natural healing power.
Often this kind of resistance makes treatment more tough and painful.

Another problem is that when you don't trust your own healing power, it doesn't work well.
If you imagine that you may be worse, it becomes true.

If you want to cure the problems earnestly, healing power can awake.
TRUST YOUR OWN HEALING POWER.
This is most important.    

In healing process, reactive symptoms are indispensable

"Recover nature of the body!" It is subtytle of " Catch cold! Get a high temperature!" by master, Imoto.

He says "No destruction, No construction", " without reactive symptoms, healing is not possible."

To make fever down, taking antifeblile is not healing. It is just to push fever inside.
fever is your immune responce, natural healing system.

So that,  taking anti-symptomatic drugs is paradox, burden for your body.
In fact it makes healing process longer. Even if symptoms could dissapear that moment, same  or bigger problem will appear in future sooner or later. Or it will transform, move to other part, accumulated problem will be worse.

It is better to pass reactive symptoms from the beginning ( problem is simpler and easier to solve) rather than later.

This is why, chronic or old problem, the people who used to take much drugs take more time to cure.
They take more time to get and pass reactive symptom.

 Whenever my client got reactive symptom, I feel "bravo!", although he is suffering.
At the same time, I'm embarrassed when he has desperate symptom.
Only I can say, "DON'T WORRY. JUST WAIT FOR AWHILE.  GIVE TIME TO HEALTO YOUR BODY."

In fact, SEITAI considers disease to be trigger for awaking inner healing power.
If you think like this, nothing can frighten you.
SEITAI says "Everything that come out from the body is good!". It is function to evacuate. diarrhea, fever, vomitting sputum, blood, food, nosebleed, cough, sneeze, snivel, rash, pain... all are garbage in the body.

Now can you enjoy cleaning process of your body?
Take enough rest after fever come down. Don't hurry to return to work. Wait for your body's feeling, " I want to move!". It may be only few hours or one day for recovering normal tempereture from lower tempereture.
While tempereture is lower than normal, reconstruction is active inside. you'll get new body.

SEITAI is pagan even in Japan. From every aspect, it is contrary to common sense of  medicines. 

Did you catch cold in this winter already? Good!

"Effect of cold"  It is the tytle of very famous book by Nogichi Haruchika, the founder of SEITAI. (I'm sorry that I don't know correct English tytle.)

" Catch cold! Get a high temerature!"  It is the tytle of earlier book by my teacher, Imoto Kuniaki. (This book was revised with new tytle. I guess publisher might think that this tytle is too much...? I don't know really.)

This is good time to catch cold.

Today a client have gotten fever first time since I started to treat him 2,3 years ago.

As usually he never have fever, for him it is very hard, suffer and worry very much.

But  SEITAI method says only high temperature can make remarkable change of the body.
Cold is good chance to refresh the body.
So that we say "Congratuation!" when our company fortunately catch cold. ( It is not joke)

This client's frame will change remarkably better after this process.
This is what he is just aspiring. (Only 2 days ago he said so to me.) Then his body responded well with his request quickly.
What a great body is!

I'm very happy to hear this news, and looking forward to his transformation. Really.
Please don't worry. ( And please don't take much antifebrile.. if you can...)

Italian branch of HIROE SEITAI opened

about our practitioner, Mr.Toyoji Akiyama

HIROE SEITAI used to give treatments and hold workshops irregularly.

This time Toyoji settled down in Milano city, Italy, he will start treatments and workshops  of  SEITAI exercises continuously.

Toyoji is the most gifted promising therapist.
When he requested to become a pupil of SEITAI,  I was conconvinced of his incomparable talent.

He had a career as a SHIATSU bodyworker and very good reputaion already.

(Usually I don't recieve any bodywork from others, because I guess that real good bodyworker is very rare.
I feel so by my long experiences of teaching. So that, though often people ask me to teach, I refuse it. I mean that SEITAI  techniqueis too difficult and deep to master for general public. At least it is no possible in easy and short lessons. I know that even I am not very good....  In reality, it need certain talent, eagerness and patience. )

As I'd never met better SHIATSU worker than SEITAI, it was a venture to recieve his bodywork for me. But my 'excellent' intuition said, "Maybe he is good...?"

While I was recieving his work first time, I was really wondering, "How can he know SEITAI? although I don't teach anything yet?".
And shock was more.
He can understand and master technique perfectly by watching once only. I didn't need to exprain by words or give training. From the beginning, already he was much better than normal students who strive for many years.
And he followed my self-righteous teaching style fully. I think nobody else could bear it.

I appreciate that I could teach SEITAI to him.
Also I appreciate that he decided to study SEITAI, and be as SEITAI therapist.
I know very well that he is excellent in other therapies. He can use other techniques according to circumstances.

If you know somebody who need sincere therapist with credible method, please recommend him.
contact:  Toyoji Akiyama http://www.facebook.com/  (Milano,Italy)

SEITAI listen your each body's voice, not common knowledge

Everybody is different. Each body has individuality. Each disorder has different cause, because of our individuality. Then, how could common knowledge help your special disorder?

I said that SEITAI way of life is to live naturally.

It doesn't mean "Let's go back to the primitive age!"

It means FOLLOWING YOUR INNER CALL.

Please don't misunderstand. It may not speak by language, "Hey! eat it now. (I'm your guidian angel, believe me..)" no.

Just you may feel that you want to eat it. This is our inner wisdom. nature.

We are accustomed not to listen our natural desire in social life. We started to trust information from others more than our own feeling. You can't recognize which is inner wisdom? which is whisper of bad habit?

But (good news) even your thought doesn't know it, body knows.
SEITAI therapist can ask  your body to show body's request. And just help them to go back to their original nature.
Moreover, once you notice body's voice, it will become louder. There was inside of you!

'KI' is to feel, real existance, even you can't see

FOR WHAT did HIROE SEITAI start this blog?

Since I had started treatment for Westerners, often I was asked "What is SEITAI?" "Do you have web site ( to explain SEITAI)?"

And just I used to answer, "I can't explain by words.."

Because SEITAI method is an extensive system about whole life.

 Let's say " live totally, naturally".

In modern life, we forget how to live naturally.

We are surrounded by too many informations about health and remedy. And we forget to feel by our own sense or instinct.( Maybe our instinct become weaker..?)

You may ask me, "How do you find blockage? What are you doing? How can you say that you make KI flow?"
KI is not a concept. It exist really. But I don't know what it is. It's one of ultimate mysteries of life, or even of universe.

But you can feel it. This sensibility is very important for SEITAI.
And as you go on with SEITAI, your sensibility of your own body and intuition will come back.

Then you forget question. Good! (for me)
But here anyway I'll try to inform about SEITAI as much as I can.
I wish you enjoy it.

SEITAI watch the body as whole, doesn't matter the name of disease

For example, I'm treating some clients who have eye's problems.

cataract, asthenopia, blindness.. names of disease that docters give are all defferent. symptoms and causes too.

But I do same for all cases.

I check whole body where blockage which interfere eyes' function is.

One has blockage near the spine, other has on the chest, or near neck, ribs or around iliac bone.. each case is different.

Just take the blockage away, and make 'KI' flow to eyes.

Location of these blockages seems to be unrelated each other. But for SEITAI therapist they are related.
We don't divide the body as parts.
If we watch the body as whole, problem become easier to understand and solve.

I'm sorry, because I'm Japanese, it's too difficult to write right English.
I wish you don't care. Just I want to tell  the idea of SEITAI.

see you!

What is the meaning of the word,SEITAI?

SEITAI is Japanese word.  It was coined by the founder of SEITAI method, Nogichi Haruchika (1911~1976). Chinese character (kanji) SEI means adjust, TAI means body, so, in a literal sense, SEITAI means adjusting body.

But it has  much more implication. It is difficult to express what SEITAI is in short sentences.

I'll try to do it.

see you soon!