Welcome to Three Rivers Shiatsu!
At Three Rivers Shiatsu, you can expect safe, intuitive, professional treatments tailored to your specific needs. There is no client too fragile or too “tough” to benefit from shiatsu. Individualized treatments at Three Rivers Shiatsu are founded on the framework of traditional Chinese medicine, and are aimed at balancing and harmonizing the body, structurally and functionally. Your shiatsu session may include pressure, kneading, tapping, stretching, mobilization of joints, and soothing of the body's energetic meridians to loosen stagnation and harmonize the flow of "ki"(or qi, vital energy) throughout the body. Ki is every breath of air that you inhale into your body that breaks down into internal energy. Clients generally leave feeling both invigorated and deeply relaxed, more at home in their bodies.
In shiatsu, therapy and assessment are one. No oils are used, and therapy is applied through light, comfortable clothing. Most sessions involve treatment of the whole body, including the abdomen.
Shiatsu can be especially effective for chronic conditions, rehabilitation, prevention, and stress-reduction. Here are just a few conditions it may relieve:
headache & migraine
joint & muscle pain & spasm
depression, stress, and emotional imbalances
digestive/gastrointestinal dysfunction
headache & migraine
joint & muscle pain & spasm
depression, stress, and emotional imbalances
digestive/gastrointestinal dysfunction
arthritis
fibromyalgia
low back pain & sciatica
asthma
insomnia
trauma stored in the body ("issues in your tissues")
sports injuries
circulatory conditions
secondary symptoms of cancer treatments
low back pain & sciatica
asthma
insomnia
trauma stored in the body ("issues in your tissues")
sports injuries
circulatory conditions
secondary symptoms of cancer treatments
*shiatsu can be highly beneficial for mother and child during pregnancy
**studies in the UK have shown palliative care patients to respond positively to regular shiatsu therapy, with marked improvements in client energy levels, relaxation, pain relief, confidence, symptom control, clarity of thought, and mobility. (http://www.shiatsusociety.org/public/downloads_public/Shiatsu%20and%20Palliative%20Care.pdf)
About the Practitioner
Jenna Leininger, a Pittsburgh native, is an AOBTA-certified practitioner of American Bodywork Therapy. She graduated from a 750-hour program at the CenterPoint School for Shiatsu Therapy (the only school in the nation that teaches two full-body styles of shiatsu) in Minneapolis, where she studied various therapies originating in China and Japan as well as abdominal Ampuku, Kawaguchi, moxibustion, glass fire cupping, auricular pressing therapy. and guasha.
Jenna Leininger, a Pittsburgh native, is an AOBTA-certified practitioner of American Bodywork Therapy. She graduated from a 750-hour program at the CenterPoint School for Shiatsu Therapy (the only school in the nation that teaches two full-body styles of shiatsu) in Minneapolis, where she studied various therapies originating in China and Japan as well as abdominal Ampuku, Kawaguchi, moxibustion, glass fire cupping, auricular pressing therapy. and guasha.
Therapeutic Techniques:
Shiatsu Anma
Namikoshi Shiatsu
Ota & Goto School Ampuku
Moxibustion, Cupping, and Guasha
Education:
Namikoshi Shiatsu
Ota & Goto School Ampuku
Moxibustion, Cupping, and Guasha
Education:
Centerpoint Shiatsu Therapy Training Program diploma, 2010
B.A. in English Writing, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
B.A. in English Writing, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
Certifications
NM LMT #6891, 2011
Certified Practitioner of Asian Bodywork Therapy, AOBTA, 2010
for more info, visit http://aobta.org/ 