Vocab Flashcards
The energy of life
Chi
The five elements
Earth, metal, water, wood, and fire
The center of energy in the body, located around the navel, abdomen
Japanese
Hara
2” below navel on abdomen
Chinese
(D)Tan Tien
A synthesis of traditional Japanese acupressure techniques
Helps release physical and emotional tensions
Developed by Iona Teeguarden
JinShinDo
The channels through which energy, or chi, flows in the body. There are 6 pairs which relate to different organs/systems in the body.
Meridian
Chinese
1 thumb width in measure
Cun
Look, listen, ask, touch (TALL)
Tools: tongue reading, pulse, face, organ clock, back shu points
4 diagnostic methods of TCM
Protective Chi energy, associated with lung (letting go)
Wei-Chi
Means made together, well arranged. The classics old Indic literary language, as cultivated from the 4th century BC onward and still used in the ritual of the Northern Buddhist Church.
Sanskrit
A form of Japanese bodywork. Developed from different disciplines of oriental medicine, including acupuncture and herbalism, as well as nutritional and exercise programs.
Works to relax and invigorate the body; making use of the body’s natural energy.
“finger pressure”
Intention is to work slow, even, and rhythmical perpendicular pressure.
Shiatsu
The earliest known oriental textbook.
Still in use today.
The Nei Ching
Meridian or organ-
Solid, stores, produces, generates, transforms, or regulates a substance.
“If you can’t live without it, it’s _”
Female (passive)
The quality of matter and substance, or other words the body.
The anterior surface of the body
Yin
