Reply #128: Takes special training. I can recommend it highly. [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

If you have it, it's a good idea to try to arrange for the time after the seesion to be "easy," ideally a quiet time in a natural place. Basically you want a little time for the treatment to "set" - if you rush right back into a high-stress situation you won't have all the benefits. To some extent that's true for acupuncture too, but not to the same extent.

Shiatsu is less for pain and more for anxiety and low energy in my experience. After a session you feel wonderfully relaxed and expanded in the sense of opposition to being all wound up tight in a hunched, anxious state.