Greetings friends,
I am excited to announce that on April 1st of this year, I will be moving Southside Shiatsu to:
2721 E 42nd St # B, Minneapolis, MN
Click for map of the new location!
I will share office space with Pure Point Acupuncture. This is a wonderful and healing space and I look forward to sharing it with a talented Acupuncturist, Lindsey Jorgensen, L. Ac, Dipl O.M.
(Near 27th Ave S and E 42nd St on the 2nd floor above A Baker's Wife - yes it smells great!!!)
Southside Shiatsu Spring Specials:
One hour of Shiatsu for $42 (in honor of my new studio on 42nd St.)
A package of 5 Shiatsu sessions for $200
Included in these specials will be the offer of a dietary/herbal/fasting consultation
These Spring Shiatsu Specials are good for the months of April and May, 2009
Southside Shiatsu Spring 2009 Newsletter:
No matter how arduous the Winter, Spring is always a new beginning. It is a time for cleansing, a time for renewal. Notice the expansive nature, the rising of raw, tender and fierce green shoots.
The element is wood and the organs associated with this green season are the liver and gallbladder. Spring is a Yang time, a time when emotions, like shoots, rapidly rise. When in harmony the liver helps to ensure a smooth flow of emotions and qi (vital energy) throughout the body. When the liver is clogged, as it often is in these modern and overly processed times, energy gets stuck and that gives rise to the emotion anger. When that anger is suppressed and not utilized in a positive way to transform, it can sink down and become depression.
Stagnant liver qi is very, very common in our society. It can be expressed in frustration, irritability, getting 'hot under the collar', headaches. When it reaches the next level the liver yang can rise to become a migraine headache. There are many ways to cool the liver, including Shiatsu, correct diet and utilizing the many herbal allies of Spring.
Eating lightly and seasonally - young spring plants, sprouts and fresh greens help to lighten the load on the Liver. Bitters like Dandelion greens help to get the digestive juices flowing. Sweet and pungent flavored foods help to bring that expansive Spring quality to the interior. Honey mint tea, and pungent herbs such as basil and bay leaf are desirable. Spring is the appropriate season to fast, and often it is recommended to help purify the blood and remove toxins from the body that have built up over the long, sedentary winter.
Spring is the appropriate season to bring raw foods back into the diet. This helps to balance out the rising heat and increased activity of being out doors and soaking in the sun. However, as always, eat raw foods in moderation or you can end up depleting the digestive fires and weaken the Stomach and Spleen energies. People with extreme deficiency signs in the body will not be drawn to raw foods because they require so much energy to digest.
Spring is a wonderful time to cleanse your Gall Bladder.
Gall Bladder Flush
(Healing with Whole Foods - Paul Pitchford/ pg.323):
To get rid of gall bladder stones and other sediment. In the morning and throughout the day eat ONLY apples, 5 Organic Granny Smith (green apples have a higher malic acid content). Water, herbal teas (mildly laxative like Dandelion Root/Chamomile for example) and apple juice are o.k. At bed-time, warm up two-thirds of a cup of virgin olive oil to body temperature and mix in one-third of a cup of fresh lemon juice. Slowly sip the entire mixture, and then immediately go to bed, lying on the right side, with the right leg drawn up. In the morning the Gall Stones should pass in the stool. Only do this for one day!
If you are on medications, or have health complications contact your doctor and consult with her/him before you try this cleanse.
For more information about Shiatsu and it's benefits, visit me at
In Health,
David Miller
Southside Shiatsu
*See previous newsletters here.