Today’s episode is about the healing art of shiatsu and why it’s important. I chat with Peter Skrivanic. Peter has been a practitioner of Shiatsu and Reiki for over 20 years. As the former director of the Shiatsu School of Canada, he is now a Doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, whose research focuses on the production and transformation of embodied knowledge in globalizing East Asian medical practices.

He lives in Kyoto, Japan with his family, where in addition to lecturing in universities, he maintains a private clinical practice. He is also a teacher of Komyo Reiki-do, a Japanese Reiki tradition, who runs classes both in Japan and globally. He brings to his Reiki teaching a wealth of clinical experience and an informed understanding of Japanese traditional medical and spiritual healing traditions.

We discuss the following:

1. What shiatsu is, and the different schools of thought

2. How shiatsu has been used as a healing practice in the east and made its way over to the west

3. Why the topic is important

4. The difference between shiatsu verses Reiki

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