What is Amatsu?

​The body is designed to self-heal. It is constantly seeking to move towards greater health and to achieve homeostasis. Amatsu Therapy works with this innate intelligence of the body to help it achieve maximum movement capacity and vitality. Depending on the level of pre-existing toxicity/disharmony in the body, the effect of the treatment will be felt as dramatic or subtle.

 

You do not have to be unwell to benefit from Amatsu – the eastern approach to health is to prevent injury or disease by maintaining the health of the body through regular adjustments, movement practices, breathing exercises and good diet.

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Regular Amatsu Therapy treatments will leave you feeling energised, vital, calm, balanced and with your body's optimal movement capacity restored. As such, there will be less pressure on the nervous system, less pains and aches and more vitality available to live a great life.

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So what is Amatsu Therapy?

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Amatsu Therapy is a modern adaptation of a soft tissue therapy that was used in Japan for thousands of years. It combines principles of osteopathy, cranio-sacral therapy, visceral (organ) manipulation, muscle/soft tissue manipulation and Japanese mobilisation techniques. 

 

​The body is looked at as a whole, each part effecting the other through its connection through a crystalline matrix (fascia). Adjust one part, the effect will be felt globally.

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When viewed this way, the body becomes a self-organised unit comprised of tension and compression forces that are in a constant state of negotiation.  During movement, these forces distribute load throughout the body via the body's proprioceptors, tiny nerve cells located in muscles and tendons that detect movement. Changes in tension or compression in the muscles, tendons and bones through injury, trauma, environmental toxins or even food allergies, are registered locally but their impact is global.

 

Amatsu practitioners are trained to look at the whole body and understand how it operates as an organised whole. Changes to one part of the body effects the whole. A ligament strain in the ankle for example will affect balance. This then has a knock-on effect on the whole body, throwing it out of alignment with each step. ​

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 Amatsu Therapy uses a broad set of tools to understand patterns of dysfunction in the body, locate the origin and make skillful adjustments. There is usually one point in the body, that when skillfully adjusted will kick start the unwinding of an established pattern of dysfunction.

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