Yuri Shimaoka

A session takes ca. 1hour+
incl. pre-talk, session (without talk), after talk
Sliding scale 45-80€

At her studio in Berlin, Wedding (or visit your place, +10€ for travel)
with clothes on

Please prepare comfortable clothes with sleeves, soft pants and warm socks - to maximize the comfort.

Shiatsu is a Japanese holistic manual therapy ca. 100 years old and based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is gentle yet powerful for physical/emotional/mental recovery and improving.

With its non-therapist-dominant and go-as-much-as-welcomed approach, we listen to the information that are stored in the body, acknowledge their whisper and let them transcend together. It is a way to meet different scales of you living in you, and to reflect how to relate with them through your life.
It is suitable for any one who wants to get rid of pain, relax, reflect and process anything together with physical sensation, in need of different hints in their life, interested in receiving artistic input from different realms or states, and more.

Yuri's approach is gentle and highly energetic.

Yuri Shimaoka is a dance artist, ballet teacher, and Shiatsu practitioner from Japan.
As a bodyworker, she received certification as a Shiatsu practitioner from Shiatsu Schule Kreuzberg in Berlin (2023) and giving sessions at her studio and semi public spaces such as in underground parties and activist events. She has a background in numerous somatic body practices, including Family Constellation, Budo (Japanese ancient martial arts), Noguchi Seitai, breath work, energy work and so on, combining each method's ways of listening and aiming tapping into resilient function that our body has.
As a dance artist, her interest lies in tactile deep listening and therapeutic phenomena in subconscious reaction. Through bodywork and dance, she seeks the ambiguous border between cultures, inheritance and ourselves, the extraction of kinesthetic information and the use of it.