Learn techniques to address acute illness, from a pioneer in the field of hospital-based bodywork care.

Diego Sanchez was formerly on the team of Dr. Mehmet Oz, a heart surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where he practiced shiatsu on open-heart surgery patients in the ICU. He also practiced shiatsu on rescue workers at Ground Zero after 9/11, and he has written articles and directed documentaries on the effects of shiatsu and energy bodywork in the hospital environment and for special situations.

In this two-day course, you will learn:

• The needs of the critical illness patient

• Similarities between hospitalized patients, trauma and emergency relief situations

• Precautions

• Special Asian Bodywork techniques to work on a hospital bed

• Useful pressure points (tsubos) to use in critical illness or critical situations

• Grounding techniques to keep the practitioner centered in unfamiliar environments

• How to help the patient ground him/herself in moments of intense pain, or fear

• Appropriate Meridian evaluation techniques for critical illness, surgery, end-of-life patients

• Appropriate posture and internal body mechanics to work on patients in a hospital bed

• How to work around medical equipment

• How to deal with medical staff / emergency rescue workers

• How to face issues about life and death

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• Contact Hours:

  12 NY State, 12 NCBTMB, 12 FL State, 12 NCCAOM pending

• Required Materials:

  2 sheets, 1 towel, pen and paper, comfortable clothing.

• Price:$295.00

• Dates:

  Saturday-Sunday, June 20-21, 2015
  10:00am-5:00pm