| Kabbalistic Healing has been practiced in Judaism since | | | | |
| thousands of years. The method involves transmitting | | | | Shiatsu ,(Japanese from shi, meaning finger, and atsu, |
| letters and sacred names that carry healing power. | | | | meaning pressure) is a traditional hands-on therapy |
| According to the Kabbalah, the physical body is made | | | | originating in Japan. There are two main Shiatsu |
| up of letters that carry the flowing energy of the soul, | | | | schools; one based on western anatomical and |
| spirit, and essence. When a person does or thinks | | | | physiological theory and the other based on Traditional |
| negative things those letters are damaged and | | | | Chinese Medicine (TCM). |
| sickness prevails. Sickness is a physical or mental | | | | Based on Shiatsu and adapting it to Jusaism, 15 years |
| expression of the absence of energy in the body. | | | | ago Rabbi Osrad developed the Kabalistic Shiatsu. |
| Kabbalah books indicate specifically which letter | | | | The healer uses his fingers to apply pressure to |
| correlates and can supply energy to which organ. This | | | | energy channels depicted in kabbalistic scriptures. This |
| is the essence of the Kabbalistic practice of healing. | | | | energy structure is called "The Tree of Life." It is made |
| Energy can be supplied to the organs, energy centers | | | | up of ten energy centers (Sfirot) and 22 energy |
| or directly to the soul. By transmitting letters or sacred | | | | channels that conduct the energy between them. |
| names to the organs, the Kabbalistic healer restores | | | | Treating the energy channels allows the energy to |
| the lost energy to the body, and thus heals it. Unlike | | | | flow freely between the centers and the body and |
| Western scientific medicine which only treats the | | | | soul to recover from the illness. The treatment has a |
| external symptoms of the illness, Kabbalistic healing | | | | very powerful effect on the patient, and can be very |
| heals the sickness at the root. | | | | beneficial in treating all kinds of physical ailments, |
| | | | | especially back aches. |
| Kabalistic Shiatsu | | | | |