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Book SynopsisThis book considers death and loss within Chinese Medicine and related Taoist models, and offers practical advice and techniques, effective recommendations and appropriate exercises for those working in palliative care, with grieving, frail or dying clients.
Grainger examines the different ways that practitioners might encounter death and loss - including working in end-of-life care, with those facing terminal illness, affected by bereavement, suicide or miscarriage - in the context of different ages, religious and cultural backgrounds, and offers a model for teaching.
Working with Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice is the go-to text for practitioners wishing to improve their expertise and confidence when working with people at a vulnerable time in a respectful, open-hearted and compassionate manner.
Trade ReviewAn invaluable resource for all touch therapists drawn to working at this edge of life. Weaving her own extensive experience together with guidance on every conceivable aspect of the subject, Tamsin Grainger balances poignant case studies with the discipline, self-reflection and professionalism that end-of-life care demands. A truly impressive achievement! -- Nick Pole, Shiatsu teacher and author of Words That Touch: How to ask questions your body can answer (Singing Dragon 2017)
This is a wonderful book, and a gift to any Shiatsu practitioner. In our practice we often encounter grief loss and death (in all its forms). Tamsin has comprehensively researched every conceivable aspect of the subject, from different Shiatsu ways of interpreting grieving behaviour to the differences the practitioner may encounter between working in a hospital or in a hospice. Many moving and memorable case histories illustrate her theme, some her own, some from other practitioners. I loved her use of tables to clarify and explain, in particular one table - how brave, bold and entirely appropriate in Shiatsu literature! - where she lists her experiences of feeling different kinds of Ki movement in receivers' diverse emotional responses to the prospect of death. Her voice is direct, compassionate and honest. I will be learning from and enjoying this book for years to come. -- Carola Beresford-Cooke, author of Shiatsu Theory and Practice
Working With Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice is invaluable for students of Shiatsu as well as for experienced practitioners, whether they work with very sick and dying clients or not. They will benefit from this book's deep insight into the nature of life, its deep challenges and its joy. -- Wilfried Rappenecker, Shiatsu teacher, practitioner and author of Atlas of Shiatsu: The Meridians of Zen Shiatsu
Table of Contents1. Introduction
PART ONE: OVERVIEW OF DEATH AND LOSS
2. Saying Death Out Loud
3. Fear of Death
4. What is Death?
5. Cycle of Life
6. Language and terminology
7. Touch, a Universal Language
8. What we Believe about death
PART TWO - THEORY AND PRACTICAL SHIATSU
9. Ki (The One)
10. Yin Yang (The Two)
11. TCM (The 10,000 Things)
12. The Five Elements
13. Zen Shiatsu
14. Techniques Inspired by Movement Shiatsu
15. Other Shiatsu Styles (Integrating Non-Shiatsu Modalities, Sotai, Seiki, Working with the Light Bodies and Light Body Activation)
16. Chakras
17. Pain
18. Other (Temporal Scanning, Treating One Body Part Through Another, What You Can Do If You Do Not Know What To Do)
19. Working on a Table or Hospital Bed
20. Contraindications
PART THREE
21. Terminal diagnosis
22. Grief
23. Loss
24. Shock
25. Trauma
PART FOUR: THE CLIENT
26. Causes of Death
27. Where we Meet Clients Who are Facing Death or Grieving
28. End-of-life, Palliative Care and Attending a Death
29. The People We Work With
30. Mental Health, Medication and State of Mind
31. Suicide and Assisted Suicide
32. Clients with Different Faiths and Cultural Traditions
PART FIVE: THE PRACTITIONER
33. Facing death
34. Support
35. Referrals and Team Work
36. Practicalities
37. Clients
38. Humanitarian and Voluntary Work
39. Practicing Shiatsu while Facing Death
PART SIX: THE CLIENT-PRACTITIONER RELATIONSHIP
40. Expectations
41. What Obstructs Effective Understanding?
42. Does the Client Know?
43. Giving My Opinion 1 and 2
44. How Useful is it to be Given Advice?
45. Better, not right (text, video link with permission)
46. Reflecting on What we need in Times of Sorrow
47. Developing Inner Strength
48. Listening
49. Love
50. Forgiveness, thanks, apologies, goodbye
PART SEVEN: FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND POST GRADUATE PRACTITIONERS
51. For Teachers
52. For Students and Post Graduate Practitioners
PART EIGHT: PRACTICAL EXERCISES
53. Exercises
a. Qi gong
i. Standing Like A Tree
ii. Wu Chi
iii. Qi gong for the Lungs
iv. The Gathering of Essence and Shen
b. Meditation
i. Separating and refining Meditations A and B
ii. The Lotus Blossom Opens
iii. Loving Kindness meditation
iv. When You Cannot Tell Someone Something Because They Have Died
v. Walking Meditation 1-3
54. Some General Reflection Questions for Practitioners
55. Conclusion
Glossary
Further Reading
References
Appendix A Shiatsu is...
Appendix B
Appendix C Research
