What is the Samurai-programme and what are its benefits?
'Shiatsu for children - Samurai Shiatsu' is a a practical exercise programme specifically developed for children aged five to 12 years, which uses movement and builds multi-sensory perceptiveness. The special exercises promote health and well-being, improve concentration and promote good posture. The programme is clearly structured and designed so that students can perform the exercises independently and effectively after a relatively short time.
Regularly carrying out the programme reduces the build up stress (including test and exam anxiety) and improves concentration. This promotes children's 'self-efficacy', being more able to achieve something with simple tools for themselves and others. The knowledge of being able to help themselves in difficult situations equips the child with the ability and security to act. By giving a treatment to others, the child takes responsibility for the well-being of others and so has the right to ask for their own boundaries to be respected. Trainers encourage children to define their own boundaries in order to experience how these will be respected - a valuable life experience in itself.
