The Art of Touch

A Unique Journey into the Classical Foundations and Essence of Japanese Bodywork

  •  5 hours

    of video content

  • Zoom

    live sessions

  • Starts 6 Dec 2025

    3 years access

  •  Ebooks

    Included

    A deep dive
    into the roots of
    Japanese Bodywork

    This online course is based on the material from the Japanese Bodywork
    Classics the Ampuku Zukai and the Anma Tebiki; both books are from the late Edo period and have laid the basis for what would later become Shiatsu and Anma.

    In this course, you can learn at your own pace the 30 Ampuku Abdominal Acupressure techniques and the whole body protocols from those Classics. This course will provide you with a series of videos showing all the techniques in detail. You will also have access to detailed text content that can be downloaded as PDFs, and there are audio files that can be downloaded to your computer, phone, or tablet to study at your leisure.

    The course will start on 6 December 2025 and run for 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks, new material, including live Zoom sessions, will be added to the online platform every Saturday. The online platform with all the material will remain available for a period of 3 years.

    What's included?

    • Video
    • Text material
    • Assessments
    • Certificate
    - Whole Bodywork Protocols
    - Over 30 Ampuku Techniques
    - Extra Techniques
    - Inner Practices
    Based on these classics:
    - Ampuku Zukai
    - Anma Tebiki
    - Yōjōkun
    - Shiatsu Ryo Ho

    Philippe Vandenabeele

    Drawing on over thirty years of clinical practice and international Shiatsu teaching, Philippe Vandenabeele developed the Shinzui Shuhō postgraduate program.

    His courses combine his long clinical experience with continued practice and studies in manual therapy, anatomy, and his ongoing research into the roots of Shiatsu and Ampuku.
    Patrick Jones - Course author
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