Course Overview

Yin Sotai is a gentle evolution of Sotai, an already gentle East Asian bodywork style that is often combined with acupuncture treatments in Japan. Its founder was Keizo Hashimoto, MD of Sendai, Japan. Both Sotai and Yin Sotai are best understood as indirect methods of bodywork, which is to say that the patient will engage in pleasant movements away from pain and restriction. Yin Sotai is best understood as a sort of neuromuscular re-education for the patient. Often, just incorporating ten minutes of this sort of bodywork with acupuncture can increase its effectiveness tremendously.

Course Objectives

• Participants will understand how to use gentle Yin Sotai movements to dramatically improve their patient outcomes.
• Participants will understand the foundational principles of Yin Sotai and be able to devise their own movements.
• Participants will learn how to conduct a Pattern of Distortion exam.
• Participants will understand how to properly instruct their patients in doing Yin Sotai movements.
• Participants will learn how to think critically about what is happening in a Yin Sotai treatment.

Course Outline

0 hrs - 1 hrsLecture on Yin Sotai

1 hrs - 2.5 hrsYin Sotai recorded demonstration

2.5 hrs - 3 hrsYin Sotai Powerpoint Document & Lecture