Diego Sanchez
Diego will cover how he conducts an intake and a shiatsu, he uses off the body hara diagnosis as well as manual techniques. He has worked in all manor of locations and settings from operating rooms to shiatsu clincs. He will talk about his apporach and demonstrate his technique over zoom.
Diego has been practicing and teaching shiatsu and meditation
for over 20 years.
He specializes in supporting critical illness patients with shiatsu
and shamanic techniques.
He was born and raised in Uruguay but lived in several European countries before moving to New York City. He was there at the time of the attacks on 9-11 and worked at Ground Zero and other locations giving shiatsu to the rescue workers, police and army personnel. He was a member of the staff in Dr Oz’ integrative Medicine Program at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, giving shiatsu to open-heart surgery and organ transplant patients in the Intensive Care Unit.
He worked over 6 years as a volunteer at a support center for
people with cancer, HiV and AIDS as well as in a hospice service in
NYC.
He now lives in Uruguay where he organizes internationally attended
retreats and teaches regularly in Europe and USA.
He speaks Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.
He qualified to be a member of the Register of the Shiatsu
Society of the UK (MRSS), a Diplomate in Asian Bodywork Therapy
(NCCAOM), a Certified Practitioner (C.P.) by AOBTA in the US and is
a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) in the State of New York
Diego’s gifted teaching is based on the experience of thousands of
sessions working with individuals. You can make his experience work
for you with the specific issues you are dealing with.
https://diego-sanchez.com/
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