Zen Shiatsu

Shiatsu is a form of massage therapy that originated in the Zen Buddhist monasteries of medieval Japan. The Japanese word Shiatsu literally means “finger-pressure”. The practitioner uses the fingers of the right hand to apply pressure to sensitive acu-points on the body of the recipient. The practitioner’s left hand rests on the recipient’standen, or primary energy center. The purpose is to draw energy from the tanden and re-route it to the acu-point being worked on.

The original purpose of Shiatsu in Zen Buddhism was to bring mind, body and spirit into balance. There was no explicit sexual element to it. However, when Shiatsu became a popular therapy in the second half of the 20th century, it was discovered that many recipients – females in particular – were able to achieve massive whole-body orgasms from finger-pressure alone. Many modern-day practitioners work on internal acu-points as well as the traditional external ones in order to heighten the orgasmic effect. In the photograph above, the fingers of the practitioner’s right hand are working on acu-points inside the recipient’s vagina and anus, while the left hand is drawing energy from the tanden.