In Italy, as abroad, million people applied to professional shiatsu practitioners to receive an help in the search of an energetic balance, and the amazing aspect is the big portion of pregnant women.

Shiatsu is a handling not-invasive technique recommended to pregnant women, being a great physical and psychical support to the body of pregnant. She, during the nine months, observed her reality transforming interiorly and externally. We have to remember that pregnancy is not a pathology, but a natural and delicate event, in which acted creative and destabilising forces.

The pregnant can pass a state of hard distress and anxiety, besides to all "natural problems", as sciatic ache, loin ache, constipation, haemorrhoids, nausea; in particular constant shiatsu treatment help to come to the labour not physically and psychically exhausted, but with the correct own balance and a good vital energy. During the treatment, the "new life" is not neglected from the shiatsu practitioner, because it's directly involved in the relation through the contact with the pregnant. All this, besides increasing perception between mother and child, helps the "new life" to abandon itself to the state of calm and wellness, produced by the treatment.

The shiatsu treatment, made on women during the first 4 months of pregnancy, is practiced on the futon (treatment mattress) on the floor, laying supine, but since the 5th month it's performed laying on the side o sitting with a correct special supports. During the treatment the practitioner applies pressure on the body with thumbs and hands' palms, being careful with the abdominal areas. The treatment is pleasant and gives a deep sensation of relax and energy.

Shiatsu is absolutely not a therapy for treating pathologies, even less the practitioner doesn't supply doctors, but is a treatment finalised to balance and arouse energetic resources from the deepness of body.