A gentle and easy technique with immediate results.

Sotai is the Japanese movement-bodywork therapy developed by Keizo Hashimoto, MD in the early 20th century. It is a gentle neuromuscular technique designed for restoring the body’s structural alignment and free flow of motion.

In Sotai, comfortable active and passive movements are facilitated with gentle counterforce and deepened breathing to release holding patterns in the myofascial tissue. This simple, elegant and effective system alleviates pain and constriction, improves range of motion, and balances structural integrity.

Sotai combines wonderfully with Shiatsu and acupuncture, as well as many other styles of bodywork and movement therapies. Applied within the Chinese medical framework of channel theory, Sotai helps restore the functioning of the sinew channels and supports the circulatory intelligence of the body’s tissue ecology.

This workshop will present the fundamentals of traditional Sotai practice and its application for treating neuromuscular pain, restricted range of motion, and key areas of structural misalignment. Students will learn the basic Sotai procedure for assessing a restricted range of motion and the Sotai technique for rebalancing musculoskeletal tensegrity. Once the basic Sotai technique is learned, it can easily be applied to any movement pattern in the body.

Sotai is effective in helping with:

acute and chronic muscular pain

injury recovery and rehabilitation

postural distortions

structural misalignments

myofascial restrictions

functional fitness: balance, coordination, flexibility

athletic performance

circulatory motions of blood and fluid