We had a great opportunity to
study
Human Anatomy with a focus on dissection at the University of Hawaii
organized by Japan Shiatsu College. We would like to thank the Japan
Shiatsu College to make this experience possible. The six students,
Lona Leveque,
Toshinori Kotake, Toshiya Masuda, Kanako Saito, Mayumi Koyama, and
Guillaume Nogue,
took part in this great oppourtunity this year, and they reported this
wonderful experience to us as following.
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| Openins
Celemony |
Entrance
for Shiatsu voluntter place
Kiyoshi-sensei, Lone, and Guillume |
Shiatsu
voluntter for Kuakini hospital staff |
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Report on Human Gross Anatomy at
University
of Hawaii
written by Canadian College of
Shiatsu
Therapy students
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| Lone Leveque |
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I
really enjoyed my
trip in Hawaii. The dissection workshop was really interesting. The
teachers were good and competent, as well as very friendly. I really have the feeling that I
learned a
lot during this anatomy dissection. I think everything was well
organized. I did not expect we would have free breakfast and lunch, so
I am quite happy with it. I enjoyed meeeting the students of the Japan
Shiatsu College as well as the one from Hawaii Isen Shiatsu School. I
think it's a great opportunity to meet new people, to learn from each
other and to share nice time together. I enjoyed visiting Hawaii Isen
Shiatsu School. I felt really lucky to receive Shiatsu from him and to
learn so much from him. I really thank all of you for giving me the
opportunity to do this in Hawaii. Like I said I feel extremely lucky to
have done dissection as usually even French medecine students have to
wait more than five years before being allowed to do dessection by
themselves. Thank you again, I am more than happy!!
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| Toshinori Kotake |
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First of all, I would like to thank the
people who had
generously agreed to donate the bodies of their families to the dissection
practice. I
also would like to thank
teachers
who planned this practice and gave
me the opportunity to attend. I thank
all the
people who
were involved.
We, the Canadian team dissected
a male body. The
dissection began with the removal of skin from the back of the arms. It
was
hard to remove the skin from the vein and nerve because the
subcutaneous fat
was thin. When that ended, next we did subcutaneous fat removal. It was
hard
work to separate the nerve and blood vessels while removing the
subcutaneous
fat. The group next to us dissected a female body and it seemed hard to
remove
the subcutaneous fat since females have more fat than males. The thin
nerve was
not as solid as other nerves and easy to cut so we had to pay attention
to not
cut the nerve. The vein was flat with blue purple color and the artery
was red and
it was elastic and tubular. I saw various blood vessels and nerve
encircled and
stretched, and I admired deeply the structure of the human body.
Removing the
fat reveals the muscle membrane. The muscle membrane was a little hard.
Under
the muscle membrane reveals the muscle. I could see the structure of
the
muscle. I was impressed to see the trapezius muscle, deltoid muscle,
latissimus
dorsi and humerus.
On the 2nd day, I wanted to see
the direction and
position of the heart, thickness of the main artery, lungs and
diaphragm etc. Although
I did not understand which were the ventricle and the atrium in the
heart at
the beginning, when the circulation of the blood vessels was confirmed,
I was able
to see which was which. I was also amazed when
I
touched a certain vein valve which prevents blood inversion and
when I touched the lung which felt like a sponge. Muscle contraction in
the rectus
femoris muscle, lateral vastus muscles, intermediate vastus muscles,
medial
vastus muscle, makes legs work and I understood it by looking and
touching it. Also
the sciatic nerve was revealed under the muscle that was composed of a
gluteus
maximus muscle, gluteus medius muscles, and gluteus minimus muscles.
They were
flat and thick. It reminded me that shiatsupractors apply pressure on
the sciatic
nerve known as the Namikoshi point. There were four muscles such as
rectus
abdominis muscle, external oblique muscles, internal oblique muscles,
and
transversus abdominis in the front side of the abdomen, and under these
four
muscles revealed a greater omentum which was exactly the same as in the
text
book. Furthermore
the abdomen internal
organs were arranged systematically under the greater omentum and it
was very
interesting. The structure of the muscle of
the limbs had
logicality and interesting as well, and I was absorbed in confirming
the blood
vessel system, nerve, and muscle of the limbs. I learned these subjects
at school;
however, it was always exciting to discover and to see them and touch
them for
real. On the last day, I dissected the brain and touched the cerebrum,
mid
brain, the cerebellum, the diencephalon, brain stem etc. and I was
impressed deeply
by the function of the brain which dominates the human body.
I had trouble with the smell of
the formalin that was
used for the body; however, it was a valuable experience to me and it
was all
because of the guidance from the teachers and the help from the other
students.
Although it was a short period, it was an excellent experience to
understand
deeply about the human body structure and I appreciate the opportunity
to participate
in the practice. Doing the dissection on a real human body was precious
knowledge
that I can’t forget about. It was a very significant
opportunity
for me concerning
in medical treatment as a shiatsupractor to participate in a dissection
practice which is rare in Japan.I
realized that dissecting on a real body is different
from leaning in school. I strongly felt by seeing and touching the
structure
and the real muscle, internal organ, thin nerve and blood vessel that
there is
nothing unnecessary in order to live, and everything has an important
role. I
also confirmed that the structure of the human body is really
complicated and I
felt realistically that the human body is very mysterious. I will not
forget
this experience and what I have learned from it for my future as a
shiatsupractor.
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| Kanako Saitoh |
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Through This wonderful
experience of
doing volunteer Shiatsu at Kuakini hospital in Waikiki and meeting so
many Shiatsu practitioners from Hawaii and Japan, I definitely believe
that healing people with Shiatsu is a very pleasant thing to do as a
career.
People
who work for
long hours such as doctors and nurses need a relaxation because their
muscles were very tight under stressful work environment. I provided
fifteen to twenty minutes Shiatsu treatments to about ten people for
three hours straight. It was not easy but it made me so happy when I
saw them relaxed and their smile on their faces after
treatments.
We already learned anatomy
and
physiology but we learned so much more during the human dissection at
University of Hawaii. First of all, I appreciate that people who
donated their bodied to the university. Moreover we were so fortune to
be invited to the dissection program from Japan Shiatsu College and
University of Hawaii. We apply Shiatsu points on body and now I know
why and how Shiatsu stimulates muscles, blood circulation, nervous
system, digestive system and so on.
I also enjoyed meeting
Shiatsu
practitioners from Hawaii and Japan. I had a wonderful time to exchange
Shiatsu with them and to hear their successful stories. I have learned
Shiatsu almost a year. Although my Shiatsu is not perfect yet, this
opportunity motivated me to continue to improve my Shiatsu more and
more.
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| Guillaume
Nogue |
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Aloha!! Hawaii was GREAT!! It
was an
amazing experience! The whole organization when we were in Honolulu was
very good!! I really enjoyed to go to the hospital for the volunteer
fieldwork and the dissection was really unique experience and a once in
a lifetime opportunity!! It was very well organized and really
professional. It was really interesting to be able to have a new
approach, not only exterior, to the human body. I felt really lucky to
join this trip and have the wonderful opportunity to meet all this
students of Japan and Hawaii and these master of Shiatsu from all over
the world! Thank you very much. Mahalo!!
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| Kiyoshi
sensei with Dr.Schott Lazonoff |
Principal
Indei-sensei of the Hawaii Aisen Shiatsu School (left),
Chairman Kazutami -sensei
(centre), Principal Ishizuka-sensei (right) of the Japan
Shiatsu College |
CCST
team in front of the Hawaii University |
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| CCST team with Onoda-sensei,
the
principal of Shiatsu Japanese School in Spain, and Yuji
Namikoshi-sensei, Head Practitioner of Japan Shiatsu
College |
CCST
team in Italian restaulant |
CCST
team with certificates |
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