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The Meridian Familiesor the Six Divisions or the Six Great Meridians
At one level, we humans are made of bone, muscle, tendon, ligament, fascia, blood, fluids, molecules, atoms and particles. Beyond that we are made up of energy.
Ancient peoples all over the world fashioned models of how this energy is organised, as well as methods to maintain and improve that organisation.
Of these models the one created by the Chinese is well known, at least among Shiatsushi. Like all ancient models, this particular one is based on shamanic wisdom, but underwent a highly sophisticated systematisation that began somewhere around 2000 years before Christ. This process was cemented in the pages of The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine, also known as the Nei Jing. The practices that emerged are based on the channels of energy we call meridians.
We are all very familiar with the classification of the Five Elements (or Five Phases, Five Transformations or whatever name they are known by) as it is widely taught in most shiatsu schools. Five elements, each of them coupling two meridians, each time connecting a Yin and a Yang meridian, with Fire coupling four of them.
In this workshop, his first in Belgium, Chris McAlister – an internationally known shiatsu and qi gong teacher – invites us to shift from the context we are so familiar with and delve deeper into this other, maybe lesser known but yet much older way of looking at the Twelve Meridians.
This way of classifying the twelve meridians is generally known as the Six Divisions or the Six Layers or the Six Greater Meridians. In this system the twelve meridians are not organized around the Elements and not in pairs but grouped according to the Meridian Clock in groups of four thus giving three families that moreover are situated relative to each other: one family dominates the back, one covers the front and one works in between, knitting the other two together both medially and laterally.
The Meridian Families bring everything down to the magical three. From three we get six and from the six, through twelve. Through the twelve, the Ten Thousand Things emerge…
In this workshop Chris McAlister will combine shiatsu theory and practice with Qi Gong exercises.
Not only will he introduce the theory of the Six Great Meridians, he will also explore the three Meridian Families by teaching you how to use and integrate them in your practice as a means for diagnostics and by learning katas for treatment. He will also teach you how to bring this older model into your daily routines of though, reflection and practice.
° Basic knowledge of the twelve meridians is a minimum criterium to participate in this workshop, which means that in general everybody that finished at least the first year of her or his Shiatsu Study can participate.
° Chris McAlister will teach in English. There will be translation into French.
Practical Information -
* Teacher: Chris McAlister
* Dates: 28/02/2025 - 02/03/2025
* Time Table:
daily schedule 9.30-12.30 / 14.00-17.30 (17.00 on Sunday)
* Organizer:
asbl TŌMU, contact:
Muriel Jacobs, +32 (0)476/749866 [email protected], or,
Tom Bruwier, +32 (0)475/450334 [email protected]
* Price:
350€, Early Bird tariff till December 31st,
afterwards you’ll pay 395€.
* To inscribe: https://forms.gle/262hPZphDpfXVqjA6
We would be thrilled to see you there and then!!!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Ban Sen Juku Aikido dojo, Rue de la Glacière 18, 1060 Saint-Gilles, IJskelderstraat 18, 1060 Sint-Gillis, België,City of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
