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The foundation of my treatment method is Shiatsu and Sotai therapy, which also include complimentary self-care exercises. This involves deep pressure with the thumbs, fingers and palms, assisted stretches and joint mobilizations, as well as structural alignment techniques that involve a more active involvement.

These sessions include assessment, treatment, and instruction and coaching in simple self-care recommendations. These recommendations may include lifestyle adjustments, most specifically regarding postural habits, and suggested corrective exercise routines to maintain between treatment sessions.

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With Shiatsu and Sotai, treatment and assessment are one. Throughout our treatment session, palpating and moving the body reveals to me the weaknesses and antagonistic abnormal tensions that are behind your symptoms better than any normal visual screen can. From this deep hands-on analysis accompanying, the most appropriate self-care exercises can be recommended. When assessment is done with this level of precision, very few exercises are needed. What's more important, in order to maintain the momentum of healing, is consistency.

The self-care exercises draw from the following modalities:
 

• Self-Shiatsu

• Meridian Stretching

• Sotai Exercise

• Natural Movement Training

• Ukemi Foundations

• Functional Range Conditioning

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What makes my approach unique, is the inclusion of retraining our natural movement patterns, along with the more specific therapeutic focus of self-treatment methods, and the more flexibility focus of the mobility methods, together in a perfectly complimentary package.

 

Treatment alone, with any modality amounts to little more than symptom management if you are not including at least a bare minimum self-care routine, which involves a commitment of less than 10 minutes per day of movements that transform your body by means of postural alignment, and restoring natural range of motion. Without addressing the damage that sedentary lifestyles, activities that are harsh on the joints, and habitual self-destructive patterns have on our body through a routine that is focused on your specific imbalances, getting a treatment once or twice per month has but a shadow of the potential to make lasting changes, no matter the modality. Yoga classes, and general training that is not specifically focused on your unique imbalances and condition can feel good, and make some superficial improvements, but will not address your deeper fundamental issues effectively.

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Through movement therapy modalities like Shiatsu & Sotai, Alex can specifically feel the patterns that need to be addressed at a level that a professional who is simply watching you move can not. The combination of movement therapy, and crafting a mobility training program goes deeper than conventional approaches, and Alex's decades of developing his method and his personal practice provides a level of expertise that you won't find anywhere else