Learn the importance of the Extraordinary Vessels for female clients: understand female cycles from adolesence to maturessence

Do you feel that you could give better support to your female clients at different phases of their life cycle whether or not they are trying to conceive? Would you like to understand how to support your own energies better?

The most effective way to support women's cycles, conception, the whole maternity period and the menopause, is to include work with the Extraordinary Vessels.  All Eight Extraordinary Vessels are important: both the inner family of Girdle (Dai); Penetrating (Chong)  Conception (Ren)  and Governing (Du) Vessels and the Outer Family of Linking and Stepping - Wei and Qiao.

The menstrual cycle offers a valuable tool for understanding the nature of women's energies and how to support them more effectively, especially if we are trying to conceive or going through the changes of the menopause.

As well as deepening your shiatsu, you will learn self care exercises and meditations which will be useful not only for your clients but also you!

What you will learn

• How to integrate the Extraordinary Vessels into your work
• Eastern understandings of adolesence, the menstrual cycle and the menopause
• Relevant Anatomy and Physiology of these gateways in an engaging and practical way
• More about your own connection to your cycles
• How the menstrual cycle begins and then slows down as we move through the menopause and physical, emotional or spiritual issues that these changes bring up,
• How we integrate these changed energies after the menopause and in later life and how to process and support this period
• Breathing, visualisations and exercises as well as practical shiatsu to help you understand the nature of these changes, which will benefit both you and your clients

The importance of the Extraordinary Vessels

Do you have clients coming to you with issues you don't feel you are working with as effectively as you could be? Do you feel that there is some quality of connection you are not quite reaching? This may present especially with issues related to their fertility, sexuality, early childhood experiences. Learning to work with all Eight Extraordinary Vessels will fill in these gaps in your work and transform the way you work with all clients. Living up to their name: they truly are Extraordinary! They help us tap into the creative power and potential of our body on a profound level. You will also discover their transformative effect on you personally as well.

These vessels are not so well known as the 12 channels but are relevant for all clients at all stages of their lives. They regulate fundamental energies, including our ancestral connections and why we are here, to our capacity to be present in each moment and experience the fullness of life as who we are. They are especially connected to our reproductive systems and our sexuality and to how we live through major transitions in life including death. Without them, we are missing out on tapping into fundamental aspects of our being.