What’s more powerful, a whisper or a shout? What has more impact, a punch to the gut or an intended and targeted slight? Strength and power, these are two different things.
In this conversation with Bob Quinn we explore the gentle practice of using the Teishin, and the landscape that emerges as we attend both to the quiet sensitive aspect of the nervous system as it manifests in the skin, and our rooted sense of perception and attentiveness to the space we inhabit with our patients
Listen into this discussion on the potency that can arise from stillness and gentle quiet as you traverse ordinary and sacred space while listening through the teishin.
How to sedate a region in excess, e.g., tight low back, with a teishin
Assuming you are right-handed, hold the teishin tip level with the tips of your right index finger and thumb. With your left index finger and thumb create a slight tension in the skin, and on that line of tension, simply touch the teishin tip. Then move to an adjacent area and repeat the sequence of creating skin tension and lightly touching the tip of the teishin to this line of tension. The movements should be rhythmic. Move randomly over the area to be sedated in this fashion. One minute is more than enough for the entire lumbar zone to be treated in this way.
Bob Quinn
I am some sort of fusion between a bodyworker and an acupuncturist. I have studied many styles of acupuncture and numerous bodywork approaches, and in both fields I have wandered ever in the direction of gentler and gentler and yet gentler organizing ideas.
This fusion is seen in my work in Yin Sotai. It contains elements from various of my influences: Trager Bodywork, Feldenkrais ideas, Anat Baniel’s Neuromovement, Koshi Balancing, Engaging Vitality, and traditional Sotai of course.
I am exploring in my work what it might mean to examine further Buckminster Fuller’s idea of trying to accomplish ever more with ever less stimulation. He called this “morewithlessing.”
Get Bob’s book, A User’s Guide to the Teishin and Enshin: A Quiet Revolution in Traditional East Asian Medicine
Here’s an article on the skin science that Bob referred to in the conversation.
