Jin Shin the High Touch® Way
Jin Shin is for horses and dogs and cats and everyone, even yourself!
Part Four (excerpt)
After finding comfort in my body, I felt better than I had in twenty years, made me want to learn about bodywork. The word synchronicity wasn’t on my radar back then, and if someone had suggested it, I would have waved them off as ridiculous. But one night, when I got home, there on the kitchen table, lay a flyer from the local community college. I poured a cup of coffee and sat down to page through the enrichment class listings. One was called An Introduction to High TouchÒ Jin Shin[i]. I read the course description: An easy to learn, ancient Japanese healing art, Jin Shin shares the underlying concepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine, TCM. Learn about Qi (CHEE), the life energy that flow through all living things. When Qi flows freely, along energy pathways called meridians, the body is in harmony. Blocked pathways create physical, mental, or emotional dis-harmony resulting in “dis-ease.” Learn to help yourself and the ones you love.
I stared at the brochure. This Jin Shin thing was the energy point-holding technique that Carla showed me to release tension in Peggy’s horse, Tucker, when I cared for while Peggy was away. And, the class was offered on Sunday afternoons, the only possible time I could take it.
[i] My teacher was Casey Wood who studied with Betsy Ruth Dayton, M. Ed., founder and director of the High Touch Institute and the High TouchÒ Network, subsequently, Jin Shin the High TouchÒWay. I later studied with Betsy Ruth Dayton and produced a video about doing Jin Shin with horses and taught workshops in Colorado, Oregon, California, England, and Wales.
After finding comfort in my body, I felt better than I had in twenty years, made me want to learn about bodywork. The word synchronicity wasn’t on my radar back then, and if someone had suggested it, I would have waved them off as ridiculous. But one night, when I got home, there on the kitchen table, lay a flyer from the local community college. I poured a cup of coffee and sat down to page through the enrichment class listings. One was called An Introduction to High TouchÒ Jin Shin[i]. I read the course description: An easy to learn, ancient Japanese healing art, Jin Shin shares the underlying concepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine, TCM. Learn about Qi (CHEE), the life energy that flow through all living things. When Qi flows freely, along energy pathways called meridians, the body is in harmony. Blocked pathways create physical, mental, or emotional dis-harmony resulting in “dis-ease.” Learn to help yourself and the ones you love.
I stared at the brochure. This Jin Shin thing was the energy point-holding technique that Carla showed me to release tension in Peggy’s horse, Tucker, when I cared for while Peggy was away. And, the class was offered on Sunday afternoons, the only possible time I could take it.
[i] My teacher was Casey Wood who studied with Betsy Ruth Dayton, M. Ed., founder and director of the High Touch Institute and the High TouchÒ Network, subsequently, Jin Shin the High TouchÒWay. I later studied with Betsy Ruth Dayton and produced a video about doing Jin Shin with horses and taught workshops in Colorado, Oregon, California, England, and Wales.
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I wrote an article called High Touch Jin Shin – Energy Balancing for Your Horse, that appeared in Natural Horse Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 2 in 2003 -- Acupointers. It also appeared in Linda Tellington-Jones' TTeam Connections Newsletter in the September 2004 issue.
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Jin Shin was the first energy modality I learned. Jin Shin the High Touch® Way is based on the ancient Japanese healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu®presented in the teachings of Betsy Ruth Dayton founder and director of the High Touch Institute and the High Touch® Network.
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